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My Top 4 Tools for Working Remotely!

In today’s video, I want to share with you my top 4 tools for working remotely. I consider these tools essential and think they’re going to make your life so much easier, so I’m excited to share this list with you. Let’s dive right in.

#1 - Asana

The first of my top 4 tools for working remotely is Asana. Asana is a project management tool that keeps my entire business on track and moving forward. It’s going to allow you to plan out your projects, assign responsibilities to your team members, and track your progress overall. I absolutely love this tool and couldn’t run my online business without it. It’s a huge reason I’ve seen a big increase in my productivity this year, and I highly recommend it. I have a few videos on how to get started and I also have a free roadmap for you which shows you how to get started the right way, so I’ll leave the link for that in the description below.

#2 – Zoom

The next on my list of essential tools for working remotely is Zoom. Zoom is what’s going to allow you to have online meetings, whether that’s one-on-one or group meetings. This tool is fantastic. I use it every time I need to have an online meeting. It’s great because it allows you to keep that face-to-face connection, even though you’re working remotely. I have a video on this one as well, showing you step-by-step exactly how to host an online meeting, so I’ll link to that in the description below.

#3 – Slack

The next on my list of tools for working remotely is one that I haven’t spoken about much on my channel, but it is one that I use every single day, and that is Slack. Slack is an instant-messenger type app, which allows you to keep all business-related conversations in one place. It also takes things to the next level when it comes to organization, because you can organize your conversations into channels.

As you can see, these are the channels that we have in my business. Everything is categorized and everything is searchable as well, so it is much more effective, for example, than using some emails and then Facebook messenger – it’s very easy for a conversation to kind of get all over the place – so you can just keep it all within Slack.

Beyond just business-related conversations, it’s a really fantastic tool for keeping morale up and keeping your team feeling connected, even though you are remote, so I would highly recommend it for that reason as well. You can keep it super fun – we are always sharing funny GIFs in there, keeping connected, and keeping each other laughing during the day.

One thing I want to add to this is that you can also communicate within Asana, so it can get confusing between when you should be using Asana or when you should be using Slack. What I would say to this is, when you need to go back and forth with someone - when you need to have more of a conversation - then you can use Slack. But if you’re just asking a question, or you’re providing an update on a task that has already been decided on and assigned within Asana, then I would keep it there and use the comments within Asana itself. This is actually the best way of keeping things organized, because that is where you are updating things and where you are actually tracking the progress of tasks. So, if you can communicate within Asana, I would, but sometimes there’s reasons that you need to go back-and-forth with your team and chat something out in more detail, so for that I would use Slack. I hope that made sense - if you have any questions about that at all, let me know in the comments below.

#4 - Acuity

Finally, the fourth on my list of essential tools for working remotely is Acuity. Acuity is what’s going to allow you to book any meetings or appointments that you need online and to have clients book in with you as well. This tool is essential because it completely eliminates the need for those back-and-forth emails where you are trying to figure out what time is good for you both to meet. Instead, what you can do is set this up in Acuity, and then you can send this out to people, and they can simply book in your calendar, a time that works for them. Slack also takes care of any time-zone issues, so for any of us working online, this is super convenient. I’m going to do a full tutorial on this tool tomorrow, so if you haven’t yet, make sure to hit Subscribe down below.

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