Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Britney Saunders and welcome to Big Business. This
Speaker 1: is one of my bonus episodes. Be sure to catch
Speaker 1: my main episodes on Monday. But today is Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: I'm here with a bonus episode. Today, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be sharing with you some of my favorite apps that
Speaker 1: I couldn't live without in my life but also in
Speaker 1: my business.
Speaker 2: So pull your notes out on your phone.
Speaker 1: You're going to want to write these down because you're
Speaker 1: going to want to get these things. Okay, you heard
Speaker 1: it from me first. How many have I got? One, two, three, four?
Speaker 1: I'm going to say five. I'm going to chuck a
Speaker 1: little one on the end there for you.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So app number one, which actually is an app, but
Speaker 1: I use it on the web. It's a lot better
Speaker 1: on the web than we use it on our laptops,
Speaker 1: is a app or website called Miller Note m l
Speaker 1: Anote Miller Note. If I didn't have miler Note, I
Speaker 1: don't know how he would run our business. To put
Speaker 1: it simply, Miller Notes is live like a digital whiteboard.
Speaker 1: It is very visual and you can use it individually
Speaker 1: and you can create Millanote boards they're called boards with
Speaker 1: your entire team, so it's interactive, So myself and all
Speaker 1: of my staff are on our Millanote account. You can
Speaker 1: then have your own private little areas. You can have
Speaker 1: big shared boards. It's like if a whiteboard was on
Speaker 1: your computer. You can drop photos on there, you can
Speaker 1: have to do lists on there, you can write comments
Speaker 1: to people, you can tag people.
Speaker 2: It's just the best, and it.
Speaker 1: Is so so visual, and it's how we run our
Speaker 1: entire business. We plan everything on Milanoe, from our photoshoot
Speaker 1: run sheets to our collection drops. We plan it all
Speaker 1: out and it's just it's so good. It makes everything organized.
Speaker 1: It's all in the one spot, and I just I
Speaker 1: couldn't live without it. And every time it's also very
Speaker 1: like a visually appealing like you can make it really cute,
Speaker 1: like it's really customizable. And every time just say, like
Speaker 1: on my stories or in a video of ours, someone's
Speaker 1: seen it and they go, what's that, because like they
Speaker 1: see it on our screen, They're like, what's that thing?
Speaker 2: It looks so organized.
Speaker 1: It's great if you want to be organized, It's just
Speaker 1: like a visually appealing whiteboard. And I can't stress to
Speaker 1: you enough, especially if you have a business, you need
Speaker 1: to get Milanoe. I found out about it honestly probably
Speaker 1: four years ago, like that's how long we've been using it.
Speaker 1: You just pay a monthly subscription, I think, and it's
Speaker 1: just the best. So just type Millane into Google. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm not sponsored by any of these people, but if
Speaker 1: you want to sponsor me, here I am. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Millane runs our business and I couldn't live without it.
Speaker 1: That was my stomach and my throat. This is a
Speaker 1: bonus episode. Just leave it in there, all right. The
Speaker 1: next app that I can't live without? And again it's
Speaker 1: an app, but it's also a website or going back
Speaker 1: to Milanoe. By the way, you can download the app
Speaker 1: for Millane on your phone, but it's nowhere near as
Speaker 1: good as.
Speaker 2: Using it on the computer.
Speaker 1: I just thought I would point that out, a big
Speaker 1: one that I'm sure every business owner out there already
Speaker 1: loves and uses. And again, we couldn't run our business
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for this one. Canva Canva Canva Canva
Speaker 1: c a n va for any of you that don't know.
Speaker 1: Did you know that Canva is Australian owned and founded
Speaker 1: by a female.
Speaker 2: Which is so cool. It's honestly taking over.
Speaker 1: I feel like all of your graphic designers out there
Speaker 1: are gonna absolutely hate me. But Canva is taking the
Speaker 1: fuck over from the other programs that are also amazing,
Speaker 1: like you're Adobe Suite.
Speaker 2: For those of you.
Speaker 1: Who don't know, Canva is just making graphics and everything simplified.
Speaker 1: You don't need to learn how to use a big
Speaker 1: fancy program to use Canva. It is graphics made simple.
Speaker 1: We use it for everything, all of our email marketing,
Speaker 1: like our edms that we send out every single week.
Speaker 1: They're all designed in Canva and imboarded straight into Clavio.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Klavio or Clavio as well. I guess
Speaker 1: that's another little app that I couldn't live without. That's
Speaker 1: what we use for our email marketing platform, Klavio, Klavio.
Speaker 1: I don't know the right way to say it begins
Speaker 1: with a K, but yeah, Camba. Any graphics that we
Speaker 1: need for our stores. If we're doing a sale and
Speaker 1: we want to make a little graphic image. We make
Speaker 1: up all of our staff on boarding, welcome packs and
Speaker 1: you know, PDFs and everything, we make it all in Canva.
Speaker 1: It's just fucking fantastic. Couldn't recommend it any higher you
Speaker 1: need Canver if you have a business, we just pay
Speaker 1: for a pro account so that you get all the fonts.
Speaker 1: There's thousands of fonts, there's thousands of images. And the
Speaker 1: cool thing is like the library in Canva, Like you
Speaker 1: can type in grass background, like if you need a
Speaker 1: photo of grass, Like there's thousands of photos in there
Speaker 1: for you to use. It's not like with other programs
Speaker 1: where we have to go and find a photo and
Speaker 1: then import it in there. Like, It's got libraries of everything, fonts, colors, shapes, graphics.
Speaker 2: It's just the best and I couldn't live without it.
Speaker 3: Hello, it's producers. And here I have a little tip.
Speaker 3: You can also do your resumes on Canvas and that's
Speaker 3: how I've done my resume for the last few years now, yep,
Speaker 3: and honestly changed everything for me in terms of like
Speaker 3: how to for business interviews or get my documents in order.
Speaker 3: It's like I cannot rate the program.
Speaker 1: And the cool thing with Canber as well as it's
Speaker 1: got templates for everything, so you can go on Canva
Speaker 1: top resume.
Speaker 3: Yeah, can change like the template colors and everything. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what you want.
Speaker 1: It's fucking great, Like I'm sure there's heaps more in
Speaker 1: canvas that we don't use as well, Like there's to
Speaker 1: do lists, schedules.
Speaker 3: I've made, like radio backgrounds and imaging your canvas everything.
Speaker 1: It's great if you don't have canva, you need it
Speaker 1: for your business or even for your personal life. Honestly,
Speaker 1: you can do invitations like you can type in wedding invitations,
Speaker 1: party invitations, anything.
Speaker 2: I fucking love it.
Speaker 1: The next two apps are video editing apps for your iPhone,
Speaker 1: so they're actual apps. We use two, and I kind
Speaker 1: of like one more than the other, but they are
Speaker 1: literally the same. So fun fact, I'm sure everyone would
Speaker 1: know this, but all of the content that you see
Speaker 1: on our fate social media and my social media, everything
Speaker 1: is filmed on iPhone. We do not use professional videography
Speaker 1: cameras for anything. Everything is iPhone. I think that's the
Speaker 1: coolest thing ever. And we edit all of our so
Speaker 1: we shoot all of our content on our camera roll.
Speaker 1: It's another good tip for all of you business owners
Speaker 1: out there. Don't ever film in Instagram or TikTok. You
Speaker 1: know how it allows you to film in there. It
Speaker 1: kind of feels easier film everything on your camera roll.
Speaker 1: It's going to be the best quality and you've got
Speaker 1: it there forever, whereas if you film in Instagram and
Speaker 1: post it, it's kind of gone.
Speaker 2: You know, you don't have the raw footage.
Speaker 1: So the two apps that we use to edit, my
Speaker 1: personal favorite is called in shot just all one word,
Speaker 1: really easy to edit. It's just like cutting and shopping
Speaker 1: and pasting and adjusting the volume. The great thing about
Speaker 1: these apps as well is you can generate the captions
Speaker 1: on there, so you'll like press auto generate captions. It'll
Speaker 1: go through the whole video and put the captions on
Speaker 1: it for you. And the other app that we use
Speaker 1: to edit is called cap Cut. In Shot and cap
Speaker 1: cut they're essentially the same. I just prefer in Shot,
Speaker 1: but I know capcut has a lot more cool features
Speaker 1: and like quirky editing features. But they're two great apps,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure they both have like a free version,
Speaker 1: and then you can also upgrade to the pro one
Speaker 1: as well and get a few more features. The next
Speaker 1: one that I have for you is a content scheduling
Speaker 1: app which is called Planally plan only it's.
Speaker 2: Just an iPhone app.
Speaker 1: And once we've edited all of our videos and stuff
Speaker 1: in inshot or cap cut.
Speaker 2: We then chuck it into Planally.
Speaker 1: You link it to your Instagram account so that it
Speaker 1: kind of lays out your feed, and then you can
Speaker 1: schedule in all of your social media posts. Because we're
Speaker 1: doing multiple posts a day, and because we shoot our
Speaker 1: collections far ahead and stuff, we're not just like editing
Speaker 1: something and posting it straight away. We might edit something
Speaker 1: but it's not coming out until next weeks. Then we'll
Speaker 1: schedule the post in for next Wednesday night at six o'clock.
Speaker 2: Let's say.
Speaker 1: My one piece of advice is though with any scheduling app,
Speaker 1: you can jump on the app store and search Instagram
Speaker 1: scheduling app can use any of them. We just use Planeally.
Speaker 1: Do not get that app to automatically post your content
Speaker 1: for you. I've tried that because you can literally set
Speaker 1: it up yep six o'clock on Wednesday, and it will
Speaker 1: post it to your Instagram account for you. And when
Speaker 1: doing that, we noticed the videos get no views. It's
Speaker 1: almost like Instagram can tell that it's been posted by
Speaker 1: a third party. So what we do instead is we
Speaker 1: scheduling all of our posts and the app gives you
Speaker 1: a reminder like six o'clock goes ding if fate has
Speaker 1: a scheduled post, then all you do is quickly jump
Speaker 1: into planey and manually post it yourself from there. So
Speaker 1: there's a little hot take for you because I don't
Speaker 1: know the apps can do it for you, but it
Speaker 1: hinders the performance. So always make sure you're manually doing
Speaker 1: the post. And then the last one, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a lot more apps, but I feel like I'm sharing
Speaker 1: with you the best ones that we use.
Speaker 2: The last one, I feel like it's a no brainer.
Speaker 2: It is Shopify.
Speaker 1: That is the web platform that we use for our website.
Speaker 2: It is a Shopify store.
Speaker 1: You can completely build and customize your website yourself with Shopify.
Speaker 2: I feel like all of these are an AD.
Speaker 1: I swear none of these are an AD. These are
Speaker 1: all things that I genuinely pay for. We use Shopify
Speaker 1: as our web host and it's just great. You can
Speaker 1: fully customize your own website. It's very overwhelming to begin
Speaker 1: with to get your website looking the way that you want.
Speaker 1: And then it's great because you can go back in
Speaker 1: and edit your website whenever you want. Whereas if you
Speaker 1: have someone build your website for you, then you're going
Speaker 1: to have to contact that person every time you want
Speaker 1: to change a banner, whereas Shopify makes it really easy
Speaker 1: and I couldn't recommend it more, especially if you have
Speaker 1: a product based business. It's just fantastic. So those are
Speaker 1: my apps, slash websites. There's a whole lot more, And
Speaker 1: maybe you have an app that I don't have yet
Speaker 1: and you might want to let me know about it,
Speaker 1: So feel free to send in on my Big Business
Speaker 1: podcast DMS. What are your favorite apps that you use
Speaker 1: for your business? Is there something that you just can't
Speaker 1: live without? Because all these ones I've told you about today,
Speaker 1: I simply cannot live without. So if you don't have
Speaker 1: any of these and you do get them, I hope
Speaker 1: you enjoy them. I definitely do, and they help me
Speaker 1: run my business every single day. And that's it for
Speaker 1: this week's bonus episode of Big Business