As a small business owner who works from home I am feeling very blessed right now!  My business allows me to connect with clients worldwide using simple online technology.  But I realise it’s not as easy for all businesses to switch their business online and I want to help you in any way I can.  Wether you are a yoga teacher, a therapist or a photographer there is opportunity for you to implement simple steps online to help support your business, customers, clients and patients during these challenging and uncertain times.  One thing I have is vast knowledge of the online market place and I want to help and support you with the simple steps you can take.

So where to get started!  First up focus on what you want to achieve, is it that you want to run your yoga or fitness class online and deliver it to the whole class remotely online?  or do you want to use pre recorded videos to deliver to them so they can do their exercise in their own time.

If you are a coach or consultant do you need a two way live video conversation or are you going to work through a series of questions and respond in writing or via video?

Have a think about how you are currently working and what you could actually make possible for your clients and customers online and how you can best serve your community!

First up is my online toolkit

These are all the tools I use in my business and with clients to help them connect with communities…

(you won’t need to use them all they are here as a central resouce to help you speed up locating what you need)

If you want a way to connect with your clients and online community video gives you amazing scope to do this, wether it’s a simple video from your phone or more advanced edited video there’s a multitude of brilliant tools to help you make awesome videos to communicate your message without much expense or effort.

Screencast

Loom

Photo booth for mac users and movai for the pc

Scheduling Online Appointments

There are lots of online scheduling tools but my personal favourites are:

Calendly and

Acuity Scheduling

both platforms can be used stand alone where you can simply share links or easily integrated with yor website too!

Online Events

For those of you needing to move events online, you can use the group video tools or record video and documents to share online.

When taking payments, these can be done through a booking system like

acuity or calendly or even using

Eventbrite

Then you can connect with your clients or community using video or live streaming direct with social media, or using a third party app that allows you to have multiple screens so you can flip between you and others and have the ability to share a screen too!  The platform I use is Belive

or you can live stream across multiple platforms using restream.

and if the thought of going live online scares the pants off you – there are a few tips here: FACEBOOK LIVE SCARES THE PANTS OFF ME!

Creating Images To Use Online

I am a BIG lover of canva!

Canva allows you to made graphics, social posts, ebooks, presentations and social stories, you can take a look here:  Canva.com

You can access a FREE canva class by the lovely Vicki Nicolson Brand Strategist and Stylist here: CREATE IN CANVA

Communicating on Social How People Can Work With You

Vicki Nicolson has created this amazing FREE bundle for you to use online, it includes 20 templates to help you to connect with and inform your community.

FREE SOCIAL MEDIA WORK FROM HOME BUNDLE

Combatting the curves balls and build your inner happy

I get how hard it can be to combat some of the curve balls life throws our way and I’m a big believer in using mindset reframing tools to help us shift or mood and build our own inner happy!  I have 7 free tools you can grab here:

7 FREE MindSet Reframing Tools 

How To Videos!…

I am currently recording ‘how to’ videos to help you.. I would love any feedback so please let me know in the comments below or by emailing me naomi@happyhearthq.com 

Here’s the first one…