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Today I am sharing 5 tools that I absolutely can’t live without as a virtual assistant. These are tools that I use in my business on a daily basis and that I think will be great to be recommended as well, these tools will help you to make your work life so much easier for you to manage.
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My favorite tools that I recommend you have in your online business!
These are a breakdown of the 5 tools that I will be talking about:
- LastPass
- Asana
- Grammarly
- Evernote
- Dropbox
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LastPass is the online tool you must have in your online business!
I was introduced to this tool when I attended a webinar and was so amazed by this software because as the name suggests, it’s a tool that manages and stores all your passwords.
I have to work on numerous clients’ case sensitive information and I really appreciate the invention of using this tool, because I loved it so much I started to use it in my business.
Now you can use it to store strong passwords for your emails, websites that you visit frequently as well as banking information. Use LastPass to help you create strong passwords, and it automatically lets you log in when you visit a saved site from the LastPass vault.
Asana is the online tool you must have in your online business!
Asana does it best! You can use this platform to schedule a specific task. This can cover the week or for the whole month.
Now how can you use Asana in your business? You can manage your personal projects for the day, the week or month, and it does come in handy when you need to have a reminder to do specific tasks for each hour of the day.
Asana is also useful in creating projects and also allows you to collaborate with team members and track the progress of a client’s work, it’s beneficial to use depending if you use it as a personal reminder to keep track of tasks you want to accomplish or to allow your clients to see the progress of their task, when you are completing it.
I highly recommend it, because I know you are living a busy life and you want tools in place to make your life simpler throughout the day.
I should point out that I just really love seeing the unicorn icon when I complete a task, hope you do too.
Grammarly is the online tool you must have in your online business!
Get your Grammar in check with Grammarly From the moment your computer starts, you want to make sure that Grammarly is in place to help you as a second pair of eyes for when you need to send off those email messages, even when you are creating content for your blog.
Now I am not eliminating the fact that you should outsource this task if it’s not a strong point for you, I still get a third opinion from another human being. I do recommend Grammarly because it does check and keep your grammar in place if you are a LadyPreneur on a budget!
Evernote is the online tool you must have in your online business!
You might be wondering what Evernote is and why it will be beneficial to use in your business every day or on a need basis.
Yes, Evernote is a little life savior you can say goodbye to bookmarking when you visit pages in the past and tag pages by search or even label them by notes.
You might be saying how can this come in handy, well back then when you use to bookmark a page, the only way you could search for a page is if you visit that page often or even remember the name!
When using numerous pages per day or even the week, how can you keep track of such pages? This is where Evernote comes in and the beauty is when you do tag and clip a page it stays forever.
Dropbox is the online tool you must have in your online business!
I use Dropbox to save all my clients’ work and information. It’s simple; you can create numerous folders and all Dropbox does is automatically sync and update your clients’ information once you save it in the Dropbox folder on your computer or when you sign into the site.
You will have to create an account with the site in order to save your clients’ information. You can also use Dropbox for even your personal files. This tool will be useful for you because you can, at any time store all your documents, invoices, blog content ideas in Dropbox.
This can also be used to store and back up information on your site if it needs to be saved somewhere. Thought that was hard? Now go through all those information that you have been using for yourself such as files, content, you can even suggest to your clients’ to store their information via this software, and the beauty of it is if you do not need to download such information it can be easily shared via a link.
Now that you have seen my 5 everyday tools that I cannot live without, share in the comments below your must-have tools, and let’s see how these tools can help increase productivity in your business and benefit your clients’ lives.
It was nice of you to stop by.
Until then, happy hiring, and best wishes with your business.
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How did I not know about some of these! Thank you for sharing!
No problem! Thank you.
Ah I’m such a fan of these tools, especially LassPass and Dropbox. No more password nightmares!
Yes LastPass is indeed a life saviour.
Great tools, Juli!
I love Grammarly and Evernote. Dropbox I use sometimes but I’ve gotten more accustomed to using Google Drive. Helps on my Chromebook.
Thanks for sharing!
B
No problem Bren!
I love Grammarly and dropbox! I’ve heard good things about Evernote and Asana, so I’ll probably give them a try.
Good to know Paige, yes Asana and Evernote is a must have!
Great list! I love Evernote! And should probably get Grammarly – need all the help I can get there!
Thank you for commenting Sarah, I am glad my post has helped you in the right direction.
Oh yesss! This post is so timely planning for the new year and what new tools to use. Absolutely need to try LastPass for sure too! Thanks so much for a great post.
Thank you Anna and happy new year to you!
I need to check out Asana. I’ve used Slack before and don’t really love it. Have you tried Basecamp? I hear that’s a good one too. Thanks!
Sarah, I have heard of all of them but to me using Asana so far has worked for me, I am inclined to use other platforms if my clients request this platform. Thanks again for commenting.
Love all of these. Great list!
Thanks Brandi!
I hadn’t heard of most of these so i’m so glad you posted about them! this was super informative and helpful <3 xx paige
Thank you Paige!
Yes, Grammarly is my best find on the internet, love that program!
I am thinking the same as well Monika!
I am always looking for new tools to improve my online presence and become more efficient. These are some good ones. Thank you
No thank you Drea!
These are great tools. Alternatively, I also use Grammer.com and Canva for my online business. Well done
Yes, I love Canva as well. Thanks.
I’m still learning so all this is very useful. I suspect a lot of readers of my blog will be hoping I start using the grammar one.
I sure think so too Phi1, all the best.
Very rightly pointed out. These are the essential online tools required by every blogger.
Thank you Biswa!
I use grammerly, dropbox and evernote but never heard of asana and Lastpass. It looks like these 2 tools can also be very useful. I will give them a try. Thanks for sharing.
No problem Simerbir.
I am big time fan of Grammarly and Evernote, never heard of LastPass before. Great Blog. Thanks for Sharing.
Anchal, we learn new tools at times.
Great tips. I’ve been using Grammerly long before I started blogging.
That’s great Justice.
I’ve had my dropbox for years and years! I love it and have the app for it, too. Grammarly is pretty cool, too, but I’m a grammar nerd as it is- my blogging friends really recommend it, too! It’s a great tool if you need it!
Katie, they do come in handy at times.
Working in SEO for a marketing firm, I can confirm that these are all, especially Grammarly are essential! Thank you!
Thank you Richard!
Thank you for sharing. I have never heard of these. Well drop box I have, but others no. I will check them out.
Good to know that I have shared some tools that you can look into.
Great list! Thank you for sharing! I am the worst when it comes to spelling so Grammarly is a must for me
I am happy that you have found it useful too.
Very useful blogpost. I only use Grammarly, but will check out the other ones! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you both for stopping by.
Great tools, I use dropbox and couldnt imagine life without it!
Same here especially for files and backups.
Very helpful article. I just started monetizing my blog so I am all ears when it comes to improving my stats! 🙂 Thank you for sharing!
Rianna that’s so good to hear, all the best.
Ooo I’ve never heard of Asana! That sounds so useful. Scheduling apps are truly a lifesaver. Thanks a ton for sharing all of these awesome suggestions ♡
No thank you Sara, you will def see what I mean.
I love Evernote, Juli! Goodness, I think I use it everyday, but I don’t think I’ve ever tried the web clipper. I’ll definitely be checking that out.
That’s good to hear Porsha, you should!
Ive only heard of one of these tools but love it I will have to look into the others.
I am appreciative that you will look into it Kiki!
Great info! I did not know about asana. I’m a big fan of dropbox
Thank you Lauren!
These are some great tools for blogging in general. Me being s fairly new blogger, it’s good to find new resources.
Good to hear that Shawniece!
Thanks for sharing this. A friend was looking for some tips. She’ll be happy to read your blog.
Thank you for the share Anshul!
These are great tips! I’m going to check out grammerly right now!
Awesome Emily, let me know how it goes for you.
Great information. This will surely come in handy for me. Thanks
No thank you, Vaishali!
Grammarly is such an important tool for any web-based business, I couldn’t do without it!
Good to hear that you recommend my suggestions as well.
Grammarly is my favorite too!
Way to go Poorna!
This is really helpful! Thanks for sharing!
No problem!
This is a great list. I love the Evernote app. Never tried via desktop. Will have to check that out!
Lara, that’s awesome!
Hey, thanks for sharing this informative blog. Asana and Evernote are new for me, I’ll definitely going to try them.
No problem Koul!
I’ve never heard of lastpass and this is such a huge issue for me. Thanks for sharing these tools.
Geneva, I am so glad that you able to know more about these resources.
I am a big fan of Grammarly, and my girlfriend uses Evernote all the time. I don’t use the others. But I feel as if I should! Thanks.
You should try it out Scott and let me know how it goes.
these are great tools, some of them I already use!! But some I didn’t even know about! thanks! xx Bee
You are right Bee, some of these tools we may not even know exist.
Nice list of tools you have. Do you still have to use Asana if you’re doing everything by yourself?
YuYu I think you know the answer to that question.