Hedge is by far my favorite software tool for video. Gone are the days of slow manual transfers and worrying about transfer errors. Hedge is super fast, and follows best-practices for ensuring your media is safe and secured.

Read our Complete Media Backup Workflow featuring Hedge

HoneyBook is an absolute game changer for creative business owners, who do direct client project booking. It’s well designed and keeps everything simple while taking out a lot of the tedious tasks of preparing quotes and contracts. Another neat feature is the community building aspect of the platform, touting “Community Over Competition”. With over 50,000 creatives, you’ll often see local lead sharing and collaboration offers. When I switched, I moved all my email templates, quotes, and contracts over and made very few changes to them – however, my lead engagement shot up immensely and I’m spending much less time following up with leads.

Read: 10 Reasons Why I Switched to HoneyBook

Freshbooks is one of my favorite accounting tools to run a small business. Accounting and invoicing is the bane of my existence as a business owner, but oh so necessary. I love Freshbooks because it simplifies the entire process and makes keeping track of expenses a lot less painful. On the client end, invoices are easy to view and pay online and the software will even handle the follow-up process to make sure clients don’t forget about you.

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