https://www.brooksconkle.com/transferwise

We previously used Quickbooks (nothing wrong with it, it's the 500 lb. gorilla).
But... we run mutliple small LLCs, and I was going to have to pay a subscription fee for EACH company.
With Wave, it's free for all of my companies --- they just charge for any add-on features you might need -- bookkeeping, invoicing, payroll services, etc.

I found this online savings back and signed up. Their rates are almost that of CD's (but it's just a simple savings so you can transfer $ in and out).
They also have $5M in FDIC insurance.
I wrote an article about Wealthfront and savings accounts here.
For some bonus reading, you may also like my personal finance rules.

If you want to start a podcast, first, here's my cheat sheet.
But Buzzsprout is who I recommend. They make it so easy. Basically, you upload your MP3 files and click a few buttons. They send it out to Spotify, Apple, etc.

I moved all major sites over to this WordPress web host in 2022. I love them because of the service. They answer their chat in less than 60 seconds.
It's like having a developer on your team. Plus, the hosting speed and reliability is great. We use for our email service also.
In this article, I talk about us moving from Bluehost to WPX and why we did it.

E-commerce basically runs the e-commerce internet (behind Amazon). There are thousands of online stores run by independent entrepreneurs doing $hundreds/mo to $millions/mo --- We just it to run our simple store here.

Want to start a print on demand shop? This is a great option (we use it for BePositiveWithUs that runs on Shopify).
Their software can tie to Shopify or Etsy.
Basically when an order comes in, YOU don't have to have t-shirts (or hundreds of other printed items). Instea, Printful will print it right there (on demand) and ship it to the customer on your behalf.
They're basically you're business partner!

I use this tool daily (since it launched in November 2022). I use as a creative personal assistant --- I get title ideas, brand ideas, summarize items, etc.
Here are 30 uses cases that I recorded a while back. [upgraded to Chat GPT Plus in 2023].

Testing this out in 2023. It's been great so far. What makes it different/unique is that it takes your video and transcribes it.
So instead of you editing from a video clip, you edit based on the text -- so can cut lines, remove vocal fillers, etc.
They keep adding features (just recently is one that makes it look like your are staring at the camera and not your notes -- creepy but cool).

This tool can literally be your entire production studio for creating videos (or livestreams) --- intros, outros, music, images, graphics, etc.
You can do all of this while recording.
You can livestream with the tool, but often, we use it to record offline and just use some of those features so that we don't have to do them in post-production.

(formerly Screencast-o-matic --- rebranded in 2023)
This tool is very affordable (they have a free option) and I still use it for...
Taking screenshots and editing them, recordinng videos to be used for training, and also recording and editing simple screenshare videos.
I use it in addition to Descript.

https://www.brooksconkle.com/generatepress

We switched ALL of our websites to this Wordpress theme in 2022 after lots of research --- it's fast and has great support.
It's perfect for modern age websites as speed and user experience become more and more imporant.
We previously used the Divi Theme (it's incredibly easy because of its builder, but it was slow and I didn't feel they were changing with the times fast enough.

https://www.brooksconkle.com/elegantthemes

I was using my google calendar to track when softwares were expiring. I thought about building out some sort of solution and then I found this.
It's a really simple tool but does the trick!