BUSINESS RESOURCES
BUSINESS RESOURCES
🛠️ The daily grind. Being an entrepreneur sometimes means being the “CEO" - Chief Everything Officer. Behind every great business, there are great systems.
Here are some resources to help you manage the day-to-day operations of your business. Now go get to work!
“YOU DO NOT RISE TO THE LEVEL OF YOUR GOALS, YOU FALL TO THE LEVEL OF YOUR SYSTEMS”
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OPERATIONS AND SYSTEMS
STARTING A BUSINESS
SCORE.ORG’S STARTUP ROADMAP - Templates, trainings and guidance for starting a new small business
POINT OF SALE (POS) SYSTEMS
LIGHTSPEED (FORMERLY SHOPKEEP) - Point of sale for retail, restaurants and golf.
CLOVER - Point of sale system that is customizable and scalable as you grow.
SQUARE - Easy and free to get started and easy to take on-the-go. Integrates into tons of different platforms.
TOAST - POS originally designed for food services like restaurants and food trucks, but now offers a retail system as well.
TEAM COMMUNICATION & hiring
CLICKUP - Project management app for team collaboration, communication and pretty much anything you want your entire team to be working on.
MONDAY - Workflow platform that streamlines communication and delegation across your business.
TOPTAL - Hire the top 3 percent of freelance software developers, designers, marketing experts, management consultants (and more) in the world.
FREEUP - Hire pre-vetted freelancers and virtual assistants
TRAINUAL - Onboarding, training and operations made easy. Stop repeating yourself over and over and over!
SCORE.ORG - Personnel and Hiring resources including e-guides, recorded webinars and more
PAYROLL AND EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
GUSTO - Payroll, HR and employee benefits. Simple to onboard employees, easy to understand user-interface and automatic filings for local, state and federal.
GUIDELINE - Affordable 401(k) Plans and IRAs for small businesses. Easy to integrate into many payroll platforms.
RIPPLING - Workforce management system that combines payroll, HR, IT, benefits and more.
JUSTWORKS - Payroll, benefits and compliance all in one system.
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM) SYSTEMS
SALESFORCE - Highly customizable and highly scalable, Salesforce helps you nurture your relationships with your clients in every area of your business
HUBSPOT CRM - Userfriendly interface and free to start, easily manage your customers across multiple platforms
PIPEDRIVE - Sales-focused CRM that helps you visualize the sales process
INSURANCE
🙋🏻♂️ Check with your home and auto insurance agent to see who they recommend for business insurance. Your local Chamber of Commerce could be a great help too. They may be able to help get multiple quotes!
NEXT Insurance - Tailored business insurance, zero hassle. Small business insurance quotes online
THE HARTFORD - Highly customizable, comprehensive coverage options and have a strong reputation for customer service
HISCOX - Particularly well regarded for micro businesses and independent contractors. Fully online services and quick quotes.
OFFICE OPERATIONS
CAMSCANNER - SUPER useful tool that converts file types, scans documents to text and more
BORING STUFF - They handle back office operations so that you can do what you love!
SHOEBOXED - Receipt scanning and expense tracking app
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AI APPS for small business - You will see additional ai apps sprinkled around thehubnorth.com!
CHATGPT (OPEN AI) - All-in-one user-friendly assistant for brainstorming, content creation, technical troubleshooting and more. Free version is good, paid versions are more robust
PERPLEXITY AI - An AI “research and answer engine” that goes way beyond Google. If you want the most up to date, cited research information, the free Perplexity AI is awesome. Paid versions go even deeper into research
HEYGEN - An AI video generator where you just type your script and it creates a professional-looking video using AI avatars (or even your own face, if you want).
CLAUDE.AI - An AI assistant similar to ChatGPT and others, but is more conversational. Great for content creation and brainstorming; however, each chat starts new and does not recall previous conversations. Also, I 💛 Claude.
CHATBASE.CO - AI chatbots for your website. Easy to setup and update as needed. Have you chatted with The Hub’s chatbot? I made him with Chatbase.co and I’m really happy with him!