What's the one tool or app you absolutely can't run your business without? Whether it's for sales, scheduling, content, or keeping your sanity... drop your must-have in the comments! I'm always curious what keeps everyone running smoothly!
I'll start, mine is actually 2 apps that keeps me from going insane putting up products.
Photoroom: I use photoroom daily for background removal of our product items, it is fast and does a great job removing backgrounds. It gives you more control, editing flexibility, and access to your entire file system. It's perfect for sellers who post on multiple platforms and want branded, polished photos.
side note: I like PhotoStudio, but it is limited, I does a good job removing backgrounds but it stops there. I store my photos in specific folders and PhotoStudio only gives you access to the photo library.
ChatGPT: This has been a timesaver for me, with so many items we put up, I use to find myself just staring at the description section trying to figure out how to describe an item. ChatGPT takes that away. Every description sounds polished and friendly, It will add keyword content to help with SEO.
It remembers my preferences so I don't have to remember them for myself, for instance: ChatGPT knows if I include shorts in my description it will automatically put in the Key Features shorts have Elastic pull-up waist or if I include romper it knows to include snaps on the bottom for easy diaper changing.
It takes a little while to setup your preferences, but when you do life is much easier and you can add or change preferences at anytime.
So what app or apps help you make it through the day?
Scrivener is a writing application, and not free. Not something strictly for social media content or procedural writing. It's meant for any writing but usually used for writing manuscripts and screenplays and such. It lets you compile into different formats for submission and publication.
It's a little tricky getting used to and moving around in, but there's tutorials and walk-through videos that help. Once you get familiar with it, there's actually a lot of customizations within the program and then also as add-ons. I haven't played around with that too much yet.
I'm not sure how popular Scrivener is now since there are other applications that can do the same, but it also had close ties to NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) a 25+ year old non profit that would run an event in November to encourage writers with consistency they can accomplish their dreams. 30 days to 50,000 words. Even if you "fell short" you'd see great progress and it was overall a very positive movement until it stepped into 2 major controversies with AI & a moderator so NaNoWriMo shut down earlier this year.
I like Scrivener specifically because it's an actual program (like back in the day, download a program on your computer) it's not all cloud-based like everything else is with apps. And it was a one-time payment to buy, not a month subscription or anything like that. There are some drawbacks to it tho because if my harddrive crashes there goes all my work with it, so a lot of Scrivener users save their work to a cloud drive or dropbox (if you have iOS you have to have dropbox).
Also because it's stuck on my computer, I can't just switch devices (like to a tablet) and keep writing. I bought both a windows license and a mac license, but that means it's also two separate programs so to switch devices and keep writing I'd have to use something like dropbox to transfer the manuscript over. I'm always on my laptop though so I haven't experienced that. Also Scrivener has an iphone app but not an android app, I only have an android phone, so I don't know what it's like on mobile.
The bundle is ~$95 but I waited until I found a coupon and got it for ~$76. It doesn't ever really 'go on sale' that I've seen, but there's occasionally influencers who will have promos coupons for it. Not sure if that's still going to happen since NaNoWriMo is gone tho. But if you only need one license it's about ~$60. These are one-time payments, not monthly, so I saw it as worth it for what I got.
Can be obvious and say Square haha. With two venues, the ability to check on them live and quickly is a bonus.
Facebook, and a group scanner I pay for to scan for keywords. Being a tourist destination, when people say "what should I do around here" and I can be Johnny on the spot, makes life great.
Haha thanks! I have been as slack on the socials as I am here, so i hope you/she got somee indication of what I do haha
Apple Numbers is by far the application I spend the most time in. 100s of spreadsheets with all our business plans and sales and scheduling etc.
maybe a distant second in time used if we aren't talking about websites or apps like Safari is ChatGPT. That will grow over time to get closer to Numbers.
