Want to save time, stay organized, and run your affiliate program like a pro…without losing your mind? These are the tools that keep me organized, sane, and have helped us scale multi-million dollar programs.
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Want to save time, stay organized and run your affiliate program like a pro without losing your mind. Today I’m going to share the tools that keep me organized and sane and have helped us to scale multiple multimillion dollar affiliate programs.
Let’s get started. So I get asked about this all the time. I get like, what, what tools do I use? And as I was thinking about, you know, we’re on like, this is like the How have I not done an episode about this? I’ve been doing the podcast for nearly 10 years and obviously if, if I had done one nine years ago, a lot of the tools would have changed. So it works out. But I’m like, how have I not done an episode all about the tools that I use? The thing is, I have tested probably, I don’t want to exaggerate, I’ll say 300 tools over the past nearly 20 years.
Actually, as I’m recording this, it’s almost exactly 20 years now. Yeah, 3, 400, maybe as many as 500 tools. And I mean I’ve just tested so many and I’ve used probably a solid 60 or 70. Now of course some of those are outdated, like Skype, you know, that’s about to be outdated. Not that I’ve used that in nearly a decade, but there was a time where I had a lot of Skype conversations with affiliates. So I’ve used a ton. I’ve tried, you know, probably 30 or 40 in the past year that I don’t use now because I didn’t like them. And so I’m not going to talk about tracking just enough.
I’m not talking about different tracking tools. There are so many good ones out there. I’m biased, as you probably know. But there are, you know, there’s a dozen really good ones out there and so I’m not going to talk about those. I use a few for different clients that are on different networks or different softwares.
But you know, some of these things that I’m going to share, they are, they’re, they are game changers that you’ve probably never heard of. Most are pretty standard tools though, kind of like those Everyday, I don’t know, like the everyday heroes, you know, they saved me three minutes here, five minutes there, two minutes there. @ the end of the week I’ve saved an hour or I’ve, I’ve been more efficient and you know, you add these up and some of these, you know, together, these tools save me five to eight hours.
That’s a day. That’s a day that I can either, you know, use and get ahead. It’s a day I can take off, spend with my family, all of those things. So most of these are pretty, pretty common, you know, nothing fanc about them, but it’s good to get a look at the toolkit every now and again before we jump into them.
All of the links or most of the links, I may forget a couple as I go through because I’ve got an outline, but I guarantee I’m gonna think of at least four as I’m recording. So most of these will be found in the show notes, the links. And if you want to see all of my favorite tools, you can see them at mattmcwiams.com toolbox I’ve got a bunch listed there. So I’ve divided them up into categories. I think I’ve got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 categories here. Actually, no, it looks like we’ve got four.
Yeah, five categories. So five different categories here, starting with communication tools. So how do I communicate with affiliates? First, I want to talk about email. I do not use an email tool like Mailchimp or AWeber or Kit. I love Kit, for example. I use Kit. I recommend Kit. If you are setting up an email list, your affiliate list is not an email list. And here’s the reason.
Number one, if they, you know, if they’re an affiliate, they’re a customer and an affiliate and they unsubscribe from your customer emails. This happened years ago. They’re not going to get them, you know, they’re not going to get the emails. This happened years ago where we had like 200 affiliates in this program.
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And I’m looking at the logs. This is after I’ve worked with them for like four months. I mean this is just a decade ago. And they used infusionsoft. And I realized that this email was only sent to 163 people. I’m like, why was it only said to 163? What the heck is going on? They didn’t mean to unsubscribe from the affiliate emails.
They only wanted to unsubscribe from the consumer facing emails. So we avoid this. We do not use a service like that. We just, we found that, you know, I don’t know, it also removes the like the personalness, the personality person and I don’t, it removes the personalness of the emails and, and it’s just find it, I don’t know, it’s just very limiting for us. We’re reliant on, you know, their servers to make sure that the emails get sent and things like that.
So what we use is GMAs and GMAs, I absolutely love it is the best tool I have used personally. It’s a mail merge tool and I think over the past 10 years or so I’ve used four or five different ones. The ones I can remember I’ve used easy mail merge. It was great but it required you to use Outlook and that kind of sucks when you’re, especially when you’re working with multiple clients so you had to use Outlook.
I’ve used yet another mail merge I really liked yet we called it yam yet another mail merge. Y a m M I really liked it and in fact I think I talked about it. I was looking for a random link the other day and I found a link like episode 140 like seven, eight years ago where I talked about yet another mail merge and how much I loved it. I did at that time. It was the best one that I could find at that time until I discovered GMask. And I’ve been using GMask since right at the end of 2020. And I just love it because you basically just compose emails in Gmail. You format them and you send them. It’s super easy, you don’t need to know any HTML, all that stuff.
Super easy to do like follow up emails and you know, with, with like recruiting emails where maybe I’m sending it to 2,000 affiliates. What I used to have to do was do things like, you know, set up 20 different, you know, sheets or tabs on the spreadsheet and schedule With GMAs I can just say send 100 a day. And it also, the other thing I love about it is it’ll space them out. So you can say like space them out every five to 10 minutes and it sends them at like an irregular interval that makes it look a little bit more natural so you’re less likely to get marked as spam.
So for emails I use gmask. I freaking love it. I cannot recommend it enough. So definitely go check that out in the show notes. As far as like other communication, I Use every imaginable app. I’ve got everyone on my computer and everyone on my phone. I’ve got. Just taking a quick look here. I’ve got voxer. I’ve got WhatsApp. You may haven’t had a WhatsApp conversation in a month.
I haven’t had a Voxer conversation in probably four months. But occasionally, you know, I use them. I have Google Meet on here because sometimes affiliates want to meet there. Instead of Zoom, you know, Instagram for DMs, I don’t use it personally. Facebook for DMs. Let’s see, we’ve got, I mean, you name it, I use it pretty much.
Those are the main ones. I’m trying to think if there’s any others. Telegram. I’ve got Telegram on here specifically for communicating with like two affiliates who use it. So point being, you use what they use like anything. If you have an affiliate who prefers WhatsApp, use WhatsApp. If you have an affiliate who prefers, you know, Instagram dms. Use Instagram dms. Get over the fact that you don’t want to use, you know, IG for, you know, looking at people’s pretty lives and all that. Okay, that’s fine. Use it specifically for. For dms for mass texting. And this is something we’ve only started doing here in the last year. We don’t do it often, but about once every month.
If we have a really big promo for an affiliate program and we send out an email and we want to make sure everybody got it, we’ll send out a text to everybody whose phone number we have, which is usually 96% of the affiliates, and we’ll send out a text and basically say, hey, just sent you an email. Go check it out, here’s the details, blah, blah, blah.
If you have any questions, let me know. And we love doing it periodically because then it gives them a chance to reply and be like, why didn’t get the email? Oh really? Why not? Oh, your email address. We, you know, when you signed up for the program, use the wrong email address. Great thing about that is what are the odds that they use the wrong email and phone number? So I usually account for that by sending out not a mass text, but a personal text early on right away saying, hey, I sent you a welcome email yesterday.
Just want to make sure you got it. That allows us to kind of head off any problems like, I’m not getting your emails. Was it because the email was wrong? Is it because your server is marking it as spam? Is it putting it in the promo tab and you’re, you know, cool, let’s move it out of the promo tab, let’s move it out of spam. Which means our deliverability is going to be better not only for them, but for everybody in the future. And so we use, the one we use is Community. As far as the tool we use, community link, it’s community.com. i don’t have an affiliate link for that one, unfortunately.
But you know, Community, we love it. I just love, you know, I love that you can schedule messages. I love that, you know, like people can sign up. We use, we use a few different services. Just depends on what we’re using it for. Like I said, typically, you know, if it’s just like welcoming them to the program, I’ll just text them, you know, from my phone and say, hey, welcome to the program. Wanted to make sure you got that email. But we do like Community a lot, so that’s my favorite tool there. Intra team, you know, with all of our clients, we love Slack. You’re probably already using Slack again, it’s better than, you know, doing any other from what I’ve seen.
Better than any other tool out there. Project management, we use Asana. You know, it’s again, there’s Trello, there’s a couple of others. The biggest reason we use Asana, frankly, I don’t know that there’s. There’s one better and we already have everything in it, even if something’s 5%, 10% better. There was something that came around about three, two, three years ago. I forget what it was called, but it was a new tool and we were like, we really like some of the features and a lot of cool people that I’m friends with were using it and it honestly, we found that it was 5 to It was just too much of a pain in the b*** for affiliate recruiting. I mentioned, you know, as far as like the tools we use gmask is the big one because that allows us to. When we have a list of five or six thousand, you know, potential affiliates, we can manage that all through GMAs reaching out there. And then we don’t really use any tools for DMing.
I just haven’t found any that work well that work any better than actually just spending five minutes DMing people or having a VA do the initial reach out. That’s typically what we do. And then we just do it through the, you know, the IG or the Facebook interface or whatever we’re using. As far as the actual like messages, I use my own templates. So I have those affiliate recruiting templates. The link for those are in the show notes. You can actually get my best recruiting template completely for free. And I use them because they work. And typically when I reach out to an affiliate, a prospective affiliate, the message will be some variation, pretty close to what I’ve done in the past and you know, I’ve talked about before.
But we’ll send eight to 12 messages to a prospective affiliate before we finally give up on them for a period of time, you know, if they don’t reply at all. And typically the first two or three are very in line with our templates. And then we’ll try one on the fourth one, third, fourth, fifth. Somewhere in there we’ll try a new one. It might be a crazy one, it might be just, you know, a 10 or 20% tweak and we’ll see what kind of result do we get compared to the templates. And every now and again we find one that works.
So when you get the templates, what you’re getting is, you know, our best 10 or 15 templates, the ones that are currently working. It’s only about once a year that we find a new one that works. I mean, I’ve been doing this 20 years, so statistically, you know, they’re pretty dialed in. In the early days when I would create these templates, you know, I only had like three and then we found one that worked better and so we added that and then eventually we had like 15 templates and then we got a 16th that were better.
So we just deleted the worst one from there. But yeah, we use our own templates because they work. Same thing with activating affiliates. We use my, activating my activation templates. If I want to activate affiliates, which I do all the time, I’m using my own templates. Same is true for writing emails. You know, what tools do I use to write emails? I use my, my affiliate Email template. So I’ve got a link to that, to all of those templates in the show notes.
I use them because they are proven. The affiliate email template is something I created back in 2013, I believe after writing affiliate emails for eight years and I finally went, wait a minute, I’m basically writing the same thing over and over. But I’m, I feel like I’m reinventing the wheel every time.
Why don’t I create a template? So lastly on this, I’m actually curious. I’d love to hear from you by the way. I’m curious if you would be interested in a tool that helped you write emails to your affiliates or DMs or any type of message to your affiliates. So if you’re interested, text me at 260-217-4619 and just tell me you’re interested in that tool. It’s something I’m considering creating and I want to make sure, you know. So I’m doing a little market testing right now. So if you’re, you know, let me know either way. Actually, if you’re not interested, just text me and say, hey, just want to let you know I’m not interested in that. That way I know. So kind of I can compare like 20 people say they’re not interested and 100 say they’re interested. Well, that’s a pretty good sign.
This is going to be a good tool that I, you know, quite frankly should make and offer to people. So let me know about that if you’re interested one way or the other. Alright, so that’s communication, the second thing, and this ties in with communication, but it’s specifically around creative and content. So images, you know, content for affiliates, like swipe, copy and stuff. The first tool I use is Canva. I’m in Canva at least once a day creating some sort of an affiliate graphic or a Facebook group graphic, you know, something for a post that I’m doing that want to, you know, want to catch their attention.
A lot of times I use chat GPT as well for, for the images and that’s something that prior to about a year ago, probably from like 2016, our team that did that stuff and it was a part time, you know, we didn’t need, wasn’t a huge demand, but I had a graphic designer and then honestly with the tools now, I felt like it would take me three to five minutes to explain what I wanted and approve. You know, look at the Graphic, give feedback. We’ll look at the second version, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Right. And go through all that. So I was spending 15 minutes a day, 75 minutes a week roughly on graphics as it was. I Now spend maybe 90 minutes a week and I’m doing it all myself. And that’s just the reality of the world we live in.
You know, know when it comes to like a lot of these one off requests, it’s, it actually has reached the point where it is almost as easy to do it yourself. And so for me, you know, looking at what we were spending per hour, you know, it’s not a, it’s not worth like if it took me two and a half hours instead of an hour and a half, I probably would still be worth having a graphic designer who spends 75. You know, I spend 75 minutes helping them and you know, cost me like 50 bucks. Right? That’s about the point where it’d be worth it. But based on the time that I was spending and what it was costing us financially, it’s actually just a lot easier to do it myself.
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And the other thing is like, yeah, maybe it’s taking me an extra 10 to Whereas I felt like before I was on their time, like if they would message me at 3 o’clock and I needed the graphic by end of day, I felt like I had to drop what I was doing and look at it. It usually wasn’t one graphic, it was like five graphics. But I have to look at them and sign off on them or give them feedback by 3:30. And so I had to drop what I was doing. So again it’s, it’s worth it for me. So I use Canva for that, a little bit of chat GPT, you know, for creating certain images for swipe copy and onboarding docs and resource centers, we typically use Google Docs.
We also do build affiliate portals. So again if you’re interested in getting an affiliate portal built, they look really nice. Like ours are really pretty and they make everything, they’re right there for the affiliate. So we sometimes use Google Docs but a lot of times we’ll build an affiliate portal for our clients. So if you’re interested in that, you can just text me at 260-217-4619 and just say hey, you know, I’m interested in getting an affiliate portal built. They’re just beautiful and they make it for the affiliate. It’s like everything’s right there.
I mentioned Asana earlier for any planning promo timelines, you know, keeping our team on task. Like what do I need to do? You know, just making sure that okay, we have like for instance next week we have a big promo coming up for an affiliate. So tomorrow I have a task due. I saw because I just looked at my task list in Asana. I have a fact, I’m recording this podcast a day early because I looked at my task list for tomorrow and saw that I have this podcast episode due. And I’m like, you know what, I can get that done today.
I’ve got a little time today that I wasn’t planning on having because I’m meeting canceled. I’ll record a podcast episode. Well, one of the things on my list tomorrow is write this email. So I’ve planned that out typically a month in advance what I’m going to write and send to affiliates and kind of like what promos are we going to do, etc. Etc. In terms of affiliate promo plans, you know how we do it, and I’ve shared this before, but I’ll walk you through it quickly is we use Google sheets and you can see how all this is done if you go to mattmcwaims.com affplan affplan. We’ll put that in the show notes as well. We’ll show you exactly how we do it there.
But I create this promo plan day by day promo plan for any promo for an affiliate and we then clone it. I have a VA who goes in and clones the the sheet. You know, let’s say there’s 500 affiliates. We won’t do it 500 times, but we’ll do it for like the top 100. They’ll clone it like a hundred times and name it. So then let’s say your name is Sally Smith. You would get a Google sheet that says Sally Smith promo, something like that. And we’ll send that to the affiliate. That link will just become a link in the GMASK spreadsheet. So it’ll be in the Google sheet with all the affiliates.
The links to their promo sheet will be there. And then what we’ll do is we’ll create like a six month promo sheet. You know, six months of promos. We’ll have all the tabs down there and then we can just update that promo sheet so it stays the same for them every time. The sheet itself, it’s really, really cool how we do it. And then for the, you know, for the other 400 affiliates in this example we have a generic one that’s the same sheet but and at the top it says like to use this, make a copy and save it to your own Google Drive and then you can use it.
So again, if you want to get a template for that, there’s a link in the show notes to our affiliate promo plan that you can download and use. As far as just tools that are, I don’t know how else to categorize them so I just call them automation tools. Time saving tools. There’s three. I didn’t really know where else to put these so I put them, you know, here because they all kind of fit that time saving automation thing. The first one is Zapier. This is basically any repetitive task we will automate. We will use Zapier for anything that is repetitive. So for example, we have one when a new affiliate signs up, I get an alert in Slack that says we have a new affiliate.
It also sends the welcome email, it assigns them a tag in the CRM and then it sets an asana task that says reach out to them. So two days after they sign up they get an automated but it’s personally sent so I can actually look at their profile and say oh my gosh, you know, I put a personal note in there. But it’s automated in the sense of they’re always going to get that two business days after they sign up. Actually it’s just two way that we had to set up the zap. It’s two days, but so if I have a task due on a Sunday, I’ll just do it on Monday. But that’s, that’s all set up by Zapier so we don’t have to manually go into Asana and assign me a task to send them an email in two days and not to do any of that. So Zapier can take care of all of that. It’s really, really simple to use.
Other one is calendly so any one on one affiliate meetings. It’s great when Kevin, who’s my assistant can go back and forth with somebody, but sometimes it’s easier to be like here’s my link, just go pick a time. Meet Edgar is one that we use for scheduling social posts. So the great thing about this is with like talking about affiliate promos, if you follow me on X or Facebook, a lot of those are scheduled months in advance and the ones we use for X, for example, are through Meet Edgar because they’re just, it’s so easy to use and you can schedule them, you don’t have to worry about them all Right.
So part four is all about finding affiliates. This is one. If I had recorded this episode six months ago, I would be sharing something very different. You know, the tools that I use to find affiliates. But over the past few months I’ve been creating a tool for myself actually and something I emailed about, if you’re on my email list, I emailed a couple of, I don’t know, a couple weeks ago about. But it’s basically an AI tool that does all the stuff that I’ve manually done for 20 years or paid VAs to do for 20 years. It goes out and it finds affiliates.
Now how does it do that? Well, number one, you can, for example, if you want to find all of your competitors, affiliates and let’s just say you are, you sell. I’m looking at my desk here and I have an empty bottle of Buy. If you don’t know what Buy is, it’s typically fruit flavored, caffeinated, antioxidant, electrolyte, blah, blah, blah stuff, right?
I drink them because they have caffeine. It’s a good little 2pm Pick me up. That’s not coffee or tea because that gets old after a while. They’re fruit flavored and they’re super yummy. The Zambia Bing cherry is my favorite, in case you’re wondering. So let’s say I’m Buy. I’m the affiliate manager for Buy. Who are the competitors for Buy?You know, I can think of like, you know, it’s other relatively healthy, you know, drinks, right? So energy drinks and stuff like that. So I’m going to, I’m just, I don’t, can’t think of an energy drink company that’s not Red Bull right now that’s relatively healthy. So let’s just say I want to go out and find all the affiliates.
It’s not a competitor, but I’ll find all the affiliates for Poppy. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to look up Poppy in this tool. And when I use this tool to, you know, find affiliates, what it’s doing is it’s like it’s trying to find affiliate. Okay, has this page ever mentioned the word poppy? If so, did it use an affiliate link? And we trained it on how to identify, you know, the hundreds of different ways that it could possibly be an affiliate link. And so it will go out and it’ll find these affiliates or it’ll find affiliates based on keywords, it’ll find all that, all that kind of stuff.
It has their name, their contact information, all that stuff. And it literally takes what used to be a five, six step process and turns it into one step. So I’m thinking about making this available. This is another one of those tools. I’m like, I know I’m using it, but selling a tool like this is very different from creating it for myself because obviously then we have to consider every use case and there’s customer service and maybe you get it, you know, you break it and we have to fix that because whereas I might just be like, I know a trick around that, you know, no, we gotta fix it for customers.
So I’m considering making it, but I’m not committed to making yet. So I would love to gauge your interest. I’m just gauging interest. Would you be interested in trying it? If you’re interested, text me at 260-217-4619 and and just again, or even if you’re not interested, text me and let me know you’re not interested. Because that would be good market feedback as well. So something we’re only going to create if we have a pretty high level of interest. All right. The final, and the final section is just kind of like the, I don’t know, like random, random other tools.
Kind of like the bonus tools, the unexpected things that I, you know, when I was, I was just trying to go through and think of different things that I use. And you know, these are like the tools I didn’t really expect to love. But honestly, I cannot, I don’t know how I function without them. So no particular order, just a few here. The first one is Vimeo screen recording. I love it. There are tons of screen recording apps. There’s loom.
I guess that’s the only one I can think of. There’s loom, there’s other ones. I use Vimeo and the very simple reason I use it is because it puts it in our Vimeo library. And we’ve just got like, you know, anytime I need to record a quick video and show affiliates how to do something, it’s super awesome. The other thing is, like I mentioned earlier, when I do, when I do like strategy sessions with affiliates, what I’ll do is I will take the, I’ll take that, the, the Google sheet that I mentioned, which again I shared the URL earlier for a promo plan. And I’ll take that and I’ll basically have it on my screen.
I’ll do a zoom call with them and be like here and we’ll fill in the calendar together. Well, for those other 400, what they get is actually me doing a Vimeo video. That is just the generic plan. So I’m going through a generic promo plan for them, kind of filling it out and I’m telling them things like, hey, if Tuesday doesn’t work, just move it to Wednesday, you know, click on the Google sheet and you can update it.
Well, then we save that as a Vimeo video and we’re able to clone that for the different affiliates if we, you know, if we want to. So it just makes it really easy. I love it. Again, it’s just a simple Vimeo link, bada boom, bada bang. It’s easy to later on if there’s maybe a video that I want to remain accessible by me but don’t want anybody else to access, we can just mark it as private. You know, I can, I can save it for later. Don’t have to re record. So there’s some things I love about Vimeo. Again, there may be other tools, but that’s the one that works best for us.
For testing affiliate links, I love using the Brave browser because it removes all the tracking and so it’s just super easy for me just to click on the Brave browser and test affiliate links like crazy and make sure that, you know, we’re giving it a fresh clean test. So that’s, that’s what we use and it works really well. Yeah, you could use an incognito browser and stuff like that, but I’ve just found that Brave is easier and faster for me.
Spotify playlist. This is one I will tell you anytime I’ve got to do any kind of focus work, especially as like I’m so easily distracted. I have ADD and it is so easy for me to get distracted. Like I’m supposed to be writing an email. It’s just something where I have to focus for 15 minutes consecutively. Sometimes I have to focus for an hour. But I’m saying like, even just 15 minutes is like, oh, I’m gonna go post on Facebook. I want to go do this. You know, I go to Facebook to, we’ve all done this, right?
I open Facebook specifically to post in a Facebook group for my affiliates. And then I see a post and I get sidetracked. And next thing you know, I’m in a three minute debate with somebody like, oh my gosh, what did I just do? Why am I doing this and not working? So for me, there’s a couple of playlists I have on Spotify. Movie soundtracks are a big one. My others let me pull it up here. It’s called Alpha Waves, I think is what it’s called Alpha Brainwaves. So if you search Alpha Brainwaves, you’ll see it’s like purple. It’s like a purple brain. I mean, again, so good. So helpful for late nights during launches.
My favorite thing, because I don’t use the computer after 6, 15 very often, but when I’m running a big launch, I typically will get on for a half hour, 45 minutes at night, sometime around, you know, 9, 10 o’clock after we put the kids to bed. And something I started using about five or six years ago, it’s called Flux. It just dims the screen, removes the blue light so it doesn’t disrupt my sleep. I still want to get a good night’s sleep. I don’t want to be up till 2 in the morning.
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I just want to be working till 10:30. And that has been a huge help for me. And then the last one, I just added this today because I just used it today for a new client who’s like, hey, what do we need to do for our affiliate terms and conditions? And I’m like, I got you covered. I’m already working on it. I am tweaking the template that we use for our TNC T’s and C’s. I guess this is a template that we use for all of our clients. I’m going to have terms and conditions to you by the end of the day. And I got them to them. So if you need a TNC template, we use it all the time for our clients.
I’ve got the link in the show notes to grab those affiliate program terms and conditions. So I didn’t want to forget to include that simply because I literally was just using a couple of hours ago. So as we wrap up here, like, here’s the thing. The tools don’t matter so much. What matters is you. You can use it on yet another mail merge. That’s fine. There’s probably another mail merge tool that’s just as good as gmask. I don’t know about. But you know what, you could go Google Search or you could just use GMAs, trust me and use GMAs. It’ll work great.
The same is true for any of those. You don’t have to use the Alpha Brainwaves playlist, but it works for me. Works for a lot of people who have add, you know, you don’t have to use Community. There’s dozens of other stuff. If you don’t have any affiliates who are using Voxer, don’t have Voxer if you don’t want to. You don’t have to use Canva. You don’t have to use any of these tools.
Zapier, whatever. But if you thought like, you know what, that’d be really cool. They use Zapier. So it could do those things. Then use it if you think it’d be cool. If you work nights sometimes on your computer, use Flux, use Vimeo, use whatever. So I’ve got links to a bunch of those in the show notes. Here’s the thing. If there’s one thing that you heard today that you went, that’s a good tool. That sounds like what I need. Go test it out. Test it out right now, today. Start trying it out.
Try it out for a week. If it doesn’t work for you, don’t use it anymore. Easy as that. Same with the templates and all those things. Try them out, see if they work for you. Last thing I’d love to hear from you. If you’ve got a favorite tool DME like I’m always looking for, you know, selfish reason for doing this episode. I’m going to share my tools with you because I’d love to hear from you because I guarantee you I’m going to learn from at least one person a new tool that I need to be using. So text me anytime at 260-217-4619 and let me know what’s your favorite tool, what’s something you’ve been trying out that you’re loving. So let me know that. Make sure if you haven’t yet that you hit subscribe so you don’t miss the next episode.
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