7 Steps to Snapchat Success

By Sarah Moore of social media agency Eleven Lights Media.

Contrary to popular belief, Snapchat isn’t just for the teen population trying to escape their Facebook-friending parents.

As of May 2015 there were 100M active users daily and over 77% of them are above the age of 18. As well as this, Snapchat is now boasting 8M daily views equaling that of Facebook (who has a much larger user base). When you consider these statistics, it becomes clear that for the most part, Snapchat incorporates most businesses’ ideal client.

The questions I see flying around right now are – What benefit is Snapchat to me as a blogger? How do I use it effectively without wasting my time? How do you find anyone on the platform?

Essentially what people are asking is – How do I use it for business?

So if you haven’t jumped on Snapchat yet I want to share a few cold, hard facts with you before I answer the above.

1. Snapchat is not a scalable platform.

2. For the most part, the way you use Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or Pinterest can not be applied to Snapchat.

3. It’s difficult to measure ROI. Discoverability (the ability for you to find people and for people to find you) is not as simple as other platforms and really has only been opened up in the last few months with apps such as Ghostcodes.

4. You can’t really run ads on Snapchat yet unless you’ve got a lot of financial capital or at least a decent sized marketing spend ($10k is a good round figure to start with).

5. Finally, the user experience isn’t known for being super user friendly – at least initially until you find familiarity with it.

1:1 Relationship Building

That being said, Snapchat is amazing for building 1:1 relationships.

Yes, this can be time consuming but the return from this can be far more exponential than broadcasting your message elsewhere.

Consider the fact that you can message, call, respond to in-feed snaps, send video, send audio only and easily send photos all from within the app. It’s basically a comprehensive communication tool that can be used no matter what industry you’re in.  

So below, I’d like to give you some tips on how you can use the platform effectively for blogging.  

1. Storytell 

I know it’s on trend at the moment to talk about storytelling but the truth is, this is actually what Snapchat is great for. You have a mixture of image, video and editing capabilities that allow you to tell a story any way you like.

The reason storytelling is vital to your brand is because that’s how we as humans have communicated from the beginning of time. A story is compelling and invites the onlooker to not only discover your world but also to engage in it too in a digestible way.

2. Repurpose

If you create a fun, compelling or informative story make sure you repurpose it elsewhere. Whether it be YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or your blog, don’t let it go to waste.

I’m so passionate about repurposing because I know how busy life gets and repurposing allows you to keep pushing out content and reaching your audience without running yourself into the ground trying to be original and creative every single day.

3. Test + Measure

If you have a new blog post waiting to go out and you’re choosing between titles, consider putting it to your audience and asking them to vote for the best title.
Stringstory often talks about screenshots being the new ‘like’ of Snapchat.

With this in mind, set your audience up and let them know you need some help choosing a title and you need them to snap the one that they like best. Then use the next few snap screens to individually showcase the titles. Change the snap length to 10 seconds to give them the maximum amount of time to read and snap their choice.

Another idea is to create bit.ly links that you ONLY share with your Snapchat followers. This allows you to measure how many are coming to your website and/or blog posts from Snapchat and gives you an idea on the relevancy and return from that audience.

If you sell products or are an ecommerce store I suggest the above bit.ly method also to see your immediate ROI in relation to specific product.

4. Circular Viralocity

Bit of a mouthful, I know. But basically what this means is to use Snapchat to push people to other platforms if you have something going on there.

I watched Gary Vaynerchuk do this a lot during his #AskGaryVee book launch. He would push people to his Instagram account through Snapchat, ask them to write something that they would only know if they had come from Snapchat and they would have the chance to win a book.

What this does is further cement your community by having them see you and engage with you on multiple platforms. Without going too heavily into it, this just means that further down the track it will be easier to sell to them because they have more buy in.

5. Have fun

As cliché and abstract as this sounds, it’s actually imperative that you have fun on the platform. If you don’t, people will see right through it and write you off.

As with any platform, try to avoid being too in-your-face with sales, always give value where possible and engage when time permits so that people know it’s a two way street and not just a broadcasting tool for you.

6. Engage

This is probably one of the most important things you can do on this platform and in my opinion, is what Snapchat is truly designed for.

If you are not willing to engage individually it almost defeats the purpose of being on there in the first place. Because Snapchat is not particularly scalable, you are going to have the most success by interacting with the people that reach out to you.

Personally for me, this has led to ongoing business as well as overseas travel, speaking gigs and most importantly, new friendships.

I’ve reached out to influencers and had responses from them where I know I wouldn’t be able to get that on other platforms because there’s so much more noise. This is good news for those of you looking to guest blog or who have someone in mind to feature a product or engage in influencer marketing.

7. Consistency

As with any platform you have to be consistent in order to adequately measure whether it’s working for you. Figure out what consistency looks like for you and try your best to keep to that.

I know a number of people who have thematic days or choose a theme to define the week in order to help them with their constistency. Currently Ahna Hendrix (CEO of ARCH Digital Agency) is doing this and for the past week has been creating content around the word ‘determination.’ She talks, shares quotes and songs and thoughts positioned around her theme and creates a cohesive week of thematic content.

I share this with you to encourage you to do something similar for yourself so that you don’t get too overwhelmed with creating new content all of the time. Overwhelm is a very real problem in the social media space and we want to avoid that by being organised and making it as easy for ourselves as possible.

These 7 suggestions to me, are the keys to the Snapchat kingdom and if you can master them I truly believe you will not only find success within the platform but you will grow to love creating content this way.

My final suggestion is to give it a go. Often times we let overthinking paralyze us when really we could have spent the same amount of energy just trying it in the first place.

Sarah is the CEO + Founder of Eleven Lights Media, a social media agency. If you want to connect you can find her on Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. She is everywhere (as you might expect) but these are the best ones to connect! 

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How To Delete A Blogger Blog Permanently In 5 Minutes (+ FAQs)

You’re reading this chances are you have made the decision to delete your blogger blog or account.

Blogger is one of the most popular blogging platforms that allows you to create your own blog for free without any charges.

You don’t have to worry about hosting, technical stuff or anything like that. That’s why many people jump over to blogger to start their first blog and that’s absolutely fine.

However, at some point, you realize that you no longer want to maintain it and want to delete your old blogger blog account.

There could be many reasons, you made the mistake with your first blog, you did everything wrong or whatever the reason may be.

So how can you permanently delete your blogger blog or account? This post is going to give you a step by step guide to delete a blogger blog. I also added answers to some most frequently asked questions about deleting a blogger account or a blog to remove any doubts you have.

Warning: Deleting your blog will remove everything including posts and pages.

How to delete a blogger blog permanently?

Step 1: Login to your blogger account using your Gmail.

Step 2: Choose the blog that you want to delete and click the down arrow button as shown in picture.

Step 3: Click on setting button and choose “Other” located at the left side.

Step 5: Click on “delete blog” and this window will pop up.

Step 6: It’s highly recommended download your blog first just in case you decide to move back. Once you’re done click on “Delete this blog”

Now your blogger blog will be deleted. Here’s what you’ll get in your blogger homepage.

You’ll find the list of all your deleted blog over there. You will have 90 days to restore your blog and if you don’t do that it will be removed completely.

Frequently asked questions

Here are some of the most frequently asked questions that I come across on different forums so I decided to write all of them over here to help you out.

Q: How to delete my blogger account permanently after deleting my blog?

You can’t. You need to understand that your blogger account is associated with the Google account and Gmail. You just can’t separate blogger from Google account. Hence, a blogger account can’t be deleted without deleting your gmail account.

If you still want to delete your blogger account permanently simply close your Google account but be careful before taking this final decision.

Q: How to delete blogger blog without logging in?

First thing would be to recover your account if possible. If you don’t remember password then recover your email address from Google accounts.

If nothing works, simply submit the request to Google and they’ll verify if you are the sole owner of the blog and will solve your issue.

Q: How can I delete my blog when I don’t remember my email or can’t log in? 

If you created a blog with an old unknown email and you forgot it. There is no way to gain access to your get blog back. Unfortunately, blogger support does not help in solving ownership issues.

Conclusion

Deleting a blogger blog is easier than you think. However, things might get worse when you forget login details or have no access to your Gmail account.

What was the last time you deleted your blogger blog? Was it easy? Is there’s anything I missed in this post, feel free to let me know in comments.

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How to Become a Professional Speaker when You Have No Leads or Experience

By Emilie Wapnick of Puttylike.

If you’re like most bloggers, you probably have a message that you want to share with the world. Speaking is a great way to expand your reach and connect with people on an emotional level. It can help you grow your community and customer base and lead to incredible career opportunities. Speaking engagements can also pay exceptionally well(!), depending on who your client is.

But how do you get started speaking professionally if you don’t have any connections or leads? What if no one’s inviting you to speak?

Over the last five years, I went from having zero public speaking experience (and zero connections) to speaking at conferences and organizations around the world. I gave a TED talk in 2015, which was a longtime dream of mine.

In this post, I will outline the exact method I used to get my foot in the door and build a speaking career from scratch.

Step 1: “Hire” Yourself

Instead of waiting for someone else to hire you, hire yourself. In other words, book a room.

Most colleges and universities have rooms that you can book for a relatively low fee. Book a room 2-3 months out, and then get to work preparing your presentation and promoting the event.

Step 2: Promote Your Event

Create a page on your website with the details for the event. Make your event free or very inexpensive. I charged $10 for my first seminar and 30 people showed up. This covered the cost of the room and camera rental.

A nominal fee like $10 ensures that the audience is at least somewhat invested. They’re more likely to show up if they’ve already purchased a ticket, and they will take the event more seriously.

Although I don’t recommend doing much free work once your speaking career takes off, making your first event free can take some of the pressure off. If you mess up or it goes terribly, at least you won’t feel like people didn’t get their money’s worth. This can help, psychologically speaking, especially if you’re nervous about the whole ordeal (which I was).

Since this will be a local event, promote it locally as well as online. Make flyers and put them up in any locations where you think your audience might spend time. This approach might feel a little old school (e.g. I used to put flyers up around town when I played in a band in high school), but it can be very effective.

Email local newspapers, community groups and organizations that you think might be interested in your event.

Don’t forget about the digital space. Promote your event on your blog, on social media, and in your newsletter.

Step 3: Record Your Presentation

Borrow or rent a camcorder and ask a friend to record your presentation. You might end up using the footage as promotional material for future events, but more likely, it will serve as some much needed feedback to help improve your speaking.

It can be hard to watch yourself speak. My TED talk has nearly 3 million views at this point, and I think I’ve only actually watched the video once or twice! It’s hard to watch yourself speak without wincing or being overly critical. Try to get through it though, because it can be tremendously beneficial, especially when you’re starting out.

Step 4: Leverage Your First Event

The week following my first seminar, I received an email from one of the schools that I had reached out to. They thought the topic of my seminar would be relevant for their students and wanted to know if I was available to speak at their high school.

I said yes, of course, and nervously told them that my “speaker’s fee” was $1000. (I had no idea what I should have been charging at that time and was honestly terrified of asking for anything…) They offered me $500, and I happily agreed.

After this next gig, I slowly began to receive speaking offers through my website. I was continuing to blog and grow my community, and as that happened, the offers started rolling in. I no longer needed to “book myself,” (unless, of course, I wanted to. There are times when putting on your own event makes the most sense).

Step 5: If Nobody Approaches You, Repeat Steps 1-3 and Increase Your Outreach Efforts

If your first event doesn’t result in any followup speaking offers, simply repeat steps 1-3.

Expand your promotional effort. Experiment with your presentation and speaking techniques. Use these early days as an opportunity to practice the craft of speaking and refine your message.

Set up a speaking page on your website, and include one or two short videos of you speaking. Make sure all of your readers know that you are available for speaking engagements.

Most importantly, keep blogging! As your community grows, more people will begin contacting you to speak.

Step 6: Put Yourself Out There

Once you have a few speaking gigs under your belt, start applying to speak at conferences and events that interest you.

A lot of people ask me how I got to speak at a TEDx event. The answer is ridiculously simple: I applied.

A lot of TEDx events and conferences have open applications. If you’re interested in giving a TED talk, then go for it. What do you have to lose?

At the same time, keep refining your message and learning how to be comfortable on stage through other speaking engagements. And if nobody’s booking you right now, then book yourself. You will learn a heck of a lot and become a better speaker.

Do you want to become a professional speaker? If you’re already speaking, how did you get started?

Emilie Wapnick is the Founder and Creative Director at Puttylike, where she helps multipotentialites (people with many passions and creative pursuits) integrate ALL of their interests into their lives. Unable to settle on a single path herself, Emilie studied music, art, film production and law, graduating from the Law Faculty at McGill University. Her recent TED talk, Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling has been viewed 2.7 million times and translated into 34 languages.

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How to Bring Podcast Listeners From Their Phones to Your Website

by Craig Hewitt of PodcastMotor.

If it seems like everyone’s on their phones these days, it’s because it’s true.

The Pew Research Center says that in 2015, 64% of adults between the ages of 18–29 used their phones at one time or another to listen to music or podcasts.

The podcast hosting service Libsyn confirmed this steady rise. They claim that “of their 2.6 billion podcast downloads in 2014, 63% were requested from mobile devices,” a number which rose from 43% back in 2012.

Most podcast subscribers actually prefer listening to episodes on their mobile devices. Super convenient apps not only download episodes for them, but make it easy to keep up when they’re on-the-go.

However, if you’re a new podcaster, you’re probably a little bummed that all this mobile connecting isn’t increasing traffic to your website.

Why is website traffic important?

The more traffic your website receives, the higher your chances of converting clicks to revenue. Your visitors can click on your ads and sponsor reviews, purchase your ebook or e-course, or subscribe to your email list (which is really another form of currency nowadays).

Plus, when you gain more page views, you’ll be able to charge higher rates for ad space from sponsors.

Today we’ll be sharing our 5 best (and simple) strategies to connect your mobile listeners to your website so you can start converting.

First, Create Awesome Show Notes

Engaging, informative show notes are the first (and easiest!) way to bring listeners over to your website. They will not only prompt listeners to return after each episode, but reading them will also keep visitors on your site longer.

After you create each podcast episode, take time to craft your show notes.

Daniel J. Lewis, award-winning podcaster over at The Audacity to Podcast, suggests writing a short excerpt of your episode that answers the questions:

Why should I read/listen?

What will I get from it?

Lewis recommends answering this question in under 160 characters so you can also use this response in your SEO description field. #Multitasking!

Keep your show notes under 300 words so they’re easy and quick for you to write while still providing value to your listener, who honestly doesn’t have time to read anything longer than that anyway.

All excellent show notes have a few common traits:

• An outline that’s fleshed out with talking points, quotes, and brief summaries
• Time-stamps so readers can quickly scroll to the topic they’re interested in when downloading and listening
• Shareable images to boost social media interaction
• Links to everything mentioned in the episode (books, products, people, etc.)
• Social media links for every guest
• Your social media, subscription, and comment links to make it easy for fans to interact

Don’t forget to link to internal website pages of previous show notes if you mentioned a former guest or past topic. Connecting new visitors to older notes will make it easy for them to read about and download missed episodes, interact with the other media on your site, etc.

Cross Promote Your Show Notes on Social Media

Now that you have a nice chunk of information to pull from, grab the best talking points and quotes from your show notes to share on social media.

Anne Wootton, co-founder and CEO of Pop-Up Archive, a service that transcribes podcasts, and Audiosear.ch, a service that makes podcasts visually searchable, told Wired that:

“Podcasts largely rely on word of mouth. It’s much less common for people to come across an excerpt or a clip on Twitter or on Facebook.”

Sure, you may tweet or post updates about new episodes to get downloads, but next time, try sharing a quote or interesting talking point from the episode to inspire curiosity instead.

“Fundamentally, for audio to become more of a mass medium,” Wootton notes, “shareability and accessibility are crucial.”

Add a link to your show notes at the end of your social media posts rather than one that bypasses your website and goes directly to the download source.

When listeners read your show notes and see how easy it is to share an insightful thought or funny quote, they’ll be more likely to pass it on to their followers, bringing more traffic to your website. Make your episode content easy to share and easy to access and you remove the largest barriers of going viral.

Give Your Listeners Exclusive Visuals

Podcasts create extreme intimacy because your listeners get to hear your voice as if you’re speaking right in front of them. What they don’t typically get is a visual, other than your stellar episode artwork.

Make your website a home for exclusive visuals pertaining to your podcast.

These videos and images should be genuine, off-the-cuff moments similar to what’s going on during your episode, but they should still provide a bit of value for your viewer. Think SnapChat meets LinkedIn (yes, that’s totally possible).

As consultant Melissa Cenker advises, “Instead of using an expensive company to develop a video, just sit in front of your webcam and make a video about issues relevant to your customers.”

Shoot a quick video about a topic you didn’t get to cover during a recent episode, or a picture of an “off-the-record” moment with your guests, as a B-side series for your online fans.

Upload your videos to YouTube and embed them on your website. Out of all social media platforms, YouTube is the king of driving the most engaged traffic, with an average of 2.99 pages per visit, and it even keeps visitors on websites longer.

“The retention rate for visual information can reach 65% versus 10% for text-based information,” one study confirmed.

You may even decide to create preview clips to share on your website a day or two before your episodes air. This will make your website destination number one even before your episodes air!

Take Advantage of Quizzes and Polls

Your website should also have a sense of community. Your target audience should feel comfortable commenting on your show notes with their feedback, asking questions on social media, and interacting with you and other fans of your show.

When you create a fun quiz or interactive poll on your website and direct listeners to check it out via social media, it says that you care about what your audience has to say. You’re curious about their opinions and want to know who they are.

And really, who doesn’t love a quiz or poll that’s all about their opinion? You’ll increase engagement and provide ice-breakers for other fans to connect online in no time.

Additionally, the answers to these quizzes and polls may provide more insight about your target audience’s likes and dislikes than you may initially realize. This could be valuable feedback to steer your episodes and marketing efforts.

Keep Updating Your Website With Relevant Content

According to Forbes, when Neil Patel of QuickSprout started posting six times a week (instead of five), he saw blog traffic increase by 18.6%, proving that blogging more really does drive traffic to your site.

Entrepreneur mentions a different experiment with even better results:

“We increased our blogging from twice per week to over 10 posts per week. The result was a 300 percent increase in traffic in just two months.”

Now, you don’t have to start posting every few hours, but you should get into the habit of posting content on your website at least three times per week.

If you have a weekly podcast, you’ll already have your show notes to update your website. Now you just need two more posts that will be interesting to your target audience and keep your website fresh in keyword search results.

“You need to give people a reason to come back to your site,” says Mike Sprouse, chief marketing officer at Epic Media Group in New York.

When you post more often on your website—and promote this new content on social media—you’ll see traffic take a sharp turn skyward.

It doesn’t matter if your subscribers follow you on Facebook and like all of your Instagram selfies if they’re not going to your website to generate revenue for you.

Make your website a hub of exclusive content, engaging show notes, and interactive fans. When your mobile listeners start hearing about all the content you’re providing for free on your website, they’re sure to join in on the fun ASAP.

Craig is the founder of PodcastMotor, a full service, concierge podcast editing and production service.  They take all the hard work out of podcasting so you can focus on creating great content.

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How to Consistently Publish Great Content While On The Go

By Natalie Sisson.

Imagine watching the setting sun silhouetting the Eiffel tower, while you’re sipping your cappuccino at the quaint little cafe on the street corner.

Suddenly you decide to take out your iPhone, capture the magical sunset, and send it out to your followers on Instagram with an inspiring quote. And while you’re at it, you decide to make it the header image for your next blog post too.

That’s what I love most about being a location independent entrepreneur — the freedom to explore the world, connect with my audience whenever I want, and work on my business, all at the same time.

All it takes is a smartphone and a wifi connection and you too can be sitting at that cafe in Paris and talking to your Virtual Assistant about uploading the next blog post on your website.

It’s not just a smartphone, it’s a business investment

If you are a digital nomad like me, I’m sure you love gadgets and technology too. After all, they allow us the freedom to work from anywhere, and stay connected no matter what.

I’m all about minimalism, but I don’t compromise when it comes to my phone or laptop. I see them as an investment in my business and know that having the best devices and technology to manage my business will pay off in the future.

But it wasn’t until my business got flushed down the toilet (literally), when I dropped my perfectly good iPhone 6 Plus in the cafe’s restroom in Lisbon, that I realized how much we’ve come to rely on technology.

Luckily, I didn’t lose anything important and I was super glad to have everything synced and backed up to iCloud. I managed to recover all of my data, photos, videos and notes.

But I had to start from scratch on my replacement iPhone, when it came to setting up the apps that I used. It gave me a great opportunity to evaluate which apps I actually needed and used on a regular basis to run my business.

Since publishing content and interacting with my audience is a huge component of my business, those were the apps I downloaded first.

I want to show you which smartphone apps I love and recommend, and exactly how I use them to stay productive and publish content consistently while I’m on the road.

The best smartphone apps to track and publish content consistently

1. Google Apps – for all your online business needs

A few years ago I started paying for Google Apps to have my own professional Gmail in addition to using Google Calendar, Google Analytics and Google Drive, which are integral to my business.

Google Drive makes it really easy to share documents and presentations with other members of my team. It is a fantastic tool for collaborating on blog posts for example.

Like this very blog post. I had my team research and come up with ideas and put them in a Google Doc, which they shared with me through a secure link that Google Drive creates.

And I was able to pick it up later (after I was done playing World Championship Ultimate Frisbee), and write the post itself.

Google Drive also saves everything to the cloud, so you don’t have to worry about losing your data. Even if your laptop breaks or phone gets stolen (which, by the way, also happened to me in Portugal, last year).

I still can not believe how easy to use the free Google Drive app is for editing and sharing documents even on my iPhone, the fact that it is free is even more reason to love it.

2. Dropbox – for cloud storage and sharing large files

When it comes to cloud storage and sharing, nothing beats Dropbox (even though there a ton of competitors these days).

I publish my Suitcase Entrepreneur podcast every week and have close to 300 episodes now. If you have ever tried podcasting, you know it’s not as easy as it sounds to get set up.

Aside from actually scheduling interviews with guests and recording the episode, it has to go through the audio post production, audio transcription which gets turned into show notes, plus linking to all the resources mentioned in the podcast and publishing.

And I can’t imagine doing that without  the aid of Dropbox. All I have to do is upload the recorded podcast episode to my specific ‘Unedited’ Podcast folder on Dropbox, and my podcast editor automatically gets a notification it’s ready to edit.

Via a specific Asana task set up my Virtual Assistant can also then get to work following my SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for getting the episode ready for uploading to iTunes and on my blog.

Dropbox works really well when it comes to large files (which Google Drive doesn’t deal with very well), like audio and video clips, and has become an indispensable tool in my business. And it’s free to get started with.

3. Evernote – for noting down ideas for content topics

If you’re a regular on Problogger, I’m sure you’ve seen this post on using Evernote among others. It has become the quintessential notepad for digital nomads, like myself.

It’s essentially the place I dump all my brilliant ideas, and any interesting articles, videos or podcasts I come across that will further my learning or curiosity on a topic, or add to my upcoming content editorial calendar.

I have a few note books setup for various areas of my business such as my new Freedom Plan book I’m writing, my Right2Freedom.com research, as well as ways to improve my online blog and podcast. I clip articles or write notes that go into these specific notebooks.

I also use tags extensively so I can search on keywords whenever I need to find the information in a note I’ve taken.

I also put scheduled timers on the more important notes so that Evernote sends me a notification to my email or through the desktop or mobile app to revisit that note, so that it doesn’t get filed away into obscurity, never to be revisited again.

Evernote works really well for you creative types who have a million ideas a day. You can even create an ideas file that you review each week to look at which of your many ideas you can actually consider moving forward into something tangible.

It’s also a brilliant tool if you write many blog posts to gather your research, ideas, quotes and resources into one note that you can turn into a draft post and finesse online or offline.

4. Lastpass – the last password you will ever need

As you might have guessed by now, it’s not just me who’s working on the content for my website. I’ve got designers, WordPress experts, and a VA, who work with me to make sure that the highest quality content gets published consistently, week after week.

This means at least 3-5 different people need access to tools and software that I need to run my business.

Even if you are a solopreneur, you will likely be using different tools to run your business as well as a bunch of different websites and software.

I do not know of a single person who doesn’t juggle at least half a dozen passwords to manage all these different tools and sites.

That’s where Lastpass comes to your rescue. It’s a free software that allows you to store all your passwords securely. All you need to remember is one universal password for logging into the software and it takes care of the rest.

That’s why it’s called Lastpass. And on my iPhone, I don’t even need to remember this one password, as I can use the fingerprint scanner to log in.

Lastpass also gives me the freedom to share my passwords with my team members securely, which means they can’t actually see my password but can still use it to log in to the tools and softwares I use..

So, if you’re still storing your passwords in a text file somewhere, or worse, using the same password on every site, I urge you to give Lastpass a try.

5. Asana – for organizations and project management

If you’re a blogger, you know how indispensable an editorial calendar is for publishing content consistently. I use Google calendar to for setting up my editorial calendar, but it is really cumbersome to look at and it’s hard to get an overall idea of all the topics I’ll be covering.

That is why I also have a version of it on Asana that gives me an overview of what topics I will be covering every month along with what topics need to be published every single week. My team members also have access to it in Asana and I can update them on the individual tasks that need to get done.

The Asana iPhone app lets me keep track of all the projects I’ve got going on, and lets me manage my team, even if I don’t have access to my Macbook. It is one of the best free tools I’ve ever used to simplify my projects, help me plan my days and weeks, manage my team and organize my business.

I would say, on average I save between 2-4 hours per week using Asana to set my own daily tasks as well as those of my team, instead of using emails and other tools to streamline every activity.

If productivity and project management is becoming a bottleneck in your business, Asana can solve almost all of your problems. I am such a huge fan of Asana that I even wrote a mega post describing exactly how I use Asana in my business.

If you want to give Asana a try (which you should, because it’s awesome and free), you can read my mega post here to get set up in just a few minutes.

6. Slack – for communicating with my team

When a simple messaging app is valued at $3.8 billion, you know there must be some substance behind all the hype. And when the Problogger team also starts using Slack, you know that it must be solid.

I started using Slack recently and I can tell you that it has been brilliant at streamlining the communication within my team. It has eliminated all the back and forth on email and it integrates perfectly with Google Drive and Dropbox, so we no longer have to scroll through our inbox to find links to the shared files and documents.

As great as Gmail is, there’s just something about Slack that makes it fun and easy to talk with my team members. Between Asana and Slack, I have everything I need to manage my business, projects, and team.

The location independent dream is real

As a location independent entrepreneur I love going off on adventures and exploring new places (69 countries and counting!), but not at the cost of my audience, community and my day-to-day business operations

The fact that I can use my iPhone to set up and manage my projects, communicate and collaborate seamlessly with my team, and publish content consistently for my audience just blows my mind. Between my Macbook, iPhone 6s plus, and iPad Air 2 (and the internet, of course) I have everything I need to run my business from anywhere in the world.

If you want to know the rest of the key tools and apps I use as a digital nomad then you can download my ‘The Definitive List of Tools to Run Your Business From Anywhere’ toolkit.

Natalie Sisson is an Amazon No #1 bestselling author of The Suitcase Entrepreneur, podcaster, speaker and adventurer who believes everybody has the right to choose freedom in business and adventure in life. She’s on a mission to ensure 1,000,000+ entrepreneurs do just that by 2020 over at the SuitcaseEntrepreneur.com.
Born in New Zealand Natalie’s built her multiple six figure business from her laptop over the last 6 years while living out of her suitcase, traveling to 69 countries and she’s dedicated to teaching others how to build a profitable online business by selling their knowledge, skills and expertise in a way that supports their ideal lifestyle and gives them true freedom through her Freedom Plan program.

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