Creator's Toolkit
As content creators, it is important to use tools that make our lives easier. Below you will find a list of digital tools (paid and free) that will help you create content and strengthen your brand online.
Productivity & Management
Notion is an application that allows you to document ideas, manage projects, or even manage an entire organization - and do it exactly as it suits you. I use it to manage all my projects (personal or business), customer management, product development and more.
The Notion template that I developed specifically for creating and managing content. The content lab includes templates for Instagram posts, YouTube videos, podcast episodes, newsletters and more. Everything in one place, organized and easy to use!
Video & Captions
DaVinci Resolve is software for editing videos on a computer. Allows editing, adding effects, animation and sound processing. There is a free version that allows above and beyond the above that we need to create great videos for social networks.
Inshot allows you to edit video clips together, add color and sound effects, transitions and even offers a crazy variety of stickers that you can add to videos. The app is very convenient and relatively easy to learn.
Design & Editing
Figma is the software I use to design all my carousels on Instagram. This is web software for designing digital products, such as websites, apps, video covers, and more, which also enables collaborative work.
There is also a local application version for PC and Macbook.
A site that allows photo editing on the browser that looks like a Photoshop clone. And the best part? This site is completely free. The site supports popular image formats, as well as PSD, AI, XD, sketch, PDF, XCF, RAW and more.
Web service for automatically deleting background from photos and videos. If you create content for YouTube, for example, and edit photos into videos without a background, this is a perfect tool for you that can save a lot of time.
Stock Footage & Icons
Stock service for paid photos and videos on a monthly subscription basis. Offers a wide variety of images and videos, plus After Effects templates and WordPress templates. An equal site for every creator.
Depositphotos is, as the name suggests, a platform for purchasing high-quality images. Under the subscription you can purchase still images, illustrations, vectors and videos together (depending on the type of subscription). Excellent for creating a personal brand with ready-made icons.
Unsplash is a website that offers high-resolution images that you can use for free, including for commercial use. The photos are taken by professional photographers, so these are quality photos!
A huge collection of icons and vector illustrations. That's it, nothing special. Ha, if you use pictures - you should check the usage license. Some icons (most) require credit if used.
Huge collection of icons and illustrations in image (PNG) or vector (EPS) format. The coolest part about this repository is that there are icon packs and animated illustrations and also divided illustrations into separate objects that you can animate yourself.
Podcasts
Anchor is Spotify's free solution for podcasters. The platform allows you to record, store and distribute podcasts for free - including monetization. Recording on the Anchor site is quite simple with basic editing settings.
Podbean is a podcast hosting platform. The platform offers podcast advertising and monetization services and 5 hours of recording and 100GB of bandwidth per month in the free package. The button below will give you a first month gift💙
Riverside is a platform for recording studio-quality podcasts and videos (yes, really) from wherever we are. The platform records the video locally for all participants and connects the recording together, so that we have a quality video with clean and professional sound.
Wavve is a platform that turns your podcast, recording or audiobook into cool, short videos to share on social networks.
Background Music
Storyblocks is a fixed price subscription service that provides unlimited music downloads, flexible licensing with a light and fun interface. I use this service almost exclusively for all the music and special effects I add to my videos.
Mailing Lists & Automation
MailerLite is a convenient and simple tool for building a mailing list. The system allows you to build automations for email series, sort the subscribers by groups and tags and track campaigns - including a connection to Google Analytics. The free version allows you to build a list of up to 1,000 subscribers, completely enough for those who are just starting to build an email distribution list.
I use Manychat to create different processes to easily market my products on Facebook and Instagram. This is a tool for creating chatbots and automations on Meta's platforms (Facebook page, Instagram profile and WhatsApp business).
short.io makes it possible to shorten links using our domain. You can refer to external articles, campaigns, videos and more and avoid a long and ugly link (particularly relevant for social media or WhatsApp/Messenger campaigns) by using a special link with our domain. The user experience is relatively easy to use and there is a free route that will suit many business owners.
Similar to short.io, the bitly site allows you to shorten links and give them your own name only without customizing the domain. If you want to use a custom domain, you will pay $8 per month in the smallest package. Although it is paid, but unlike short.io, Bitly allows you to work with analytics and manage campaigns.
Wordpress, blogs & Ecommerce
Elementor (the company) created a website building platform; Pages, templates, lead management, popups and more. Elementor Cloud (the platform) allows you to build a website quickly with the help of kits or custom construction, including storage at a fixed price - and all on the good and well-known WordPress system.
AccessiBe is an accessibility system incorporating artificial intelligence that performs all accessibility operations according to the Website Accessibility Law level AA completely automatically, meaning that no additional intervention is needed to make it accessible the site.
Must-Haves WordPress plugins
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Domain & Hosting
An excellent site for purchasing domains for websites at very cheap prices. The site offers over 500 different extensions for each domain, so instead of using the generic extension com. or co.il. You can use the domain in a smarter way that suits the brand and the site we are building, such as kaktusdesign.studio or pokemon.game.
uPress is a great Israeli hosting company, with excellent and fast service. Especially convenient for people new to the field who want managed WordPress hosting. Yopers also offers a variety of premium add-ons along with the package, which can Save us a lot of money every year (in $).
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SiteGround are the most loved hosting (by reviews) in the world. They are not the cheapest but give excellent performance. The company is recommended by WordPress themselves as a good and secure choice and their customer service is excellent. With 24/7 chat, and phone and ticket support. Suitable for people with some technical sense.
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