You Get What You Pay For
"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price"- Warren Buffet
It's also far better to adopt a wonderful app at a fair price than a fair app at a wonderful price.
Or a free app that sucks the time and efficiency out of your business rather than enhancing it.
My most expensive app is not one that does many tasks for me.
But what it does for me is wonderful.
What it does for my clients’ experience is wonderful.
Which makes it worth every penny.
Here are my six favourite apps and what they do for my business, in alphabetical order.
CRM, onboarding and re-engagement
Online automagical meeting scheduler
Google Workspace backups and super fun email toys (PDF folders, text snippets)
Bookkeeping client work and project management
Squarespace
E-commerce site, mail campaigns and website
Form builder
Three of these apps I technically don’t need.
17Hats could cover off most of my form building and what it doesn’t I could use Google Forms for free.
It could also take care of my scheduling needs and my client work & communications.
It has these features baked in and they are actually quite robust.
I have complex scheduling needs with a few different business models in play and some paid vs free to book needs. Acuity handles this beautifully.
Financial Cents gives me a more robust client work experience - with high-level task completion visibility, ability to add notes & time budgets at all levels of tasks & subtasks as well as scheduled client tasks & uploads.
There is no end-user form-filling experience more engaging than Typeform.
The wonderful thing about these apps is not how much they do for me, but how much I love the way they do it.
This means I am happy to pay for them even though I could use other apps in my stack with no extra payout.
These apps are kinda like chips - inexpensive, plain chips are pretty yummy and would do the trick for a salty, crunchy craving.
But I don’t love them like Miss Vickie’s…
So what’s my most expensive monthly subscription app?
Typeform
It’s also my favourite one to play in.
I can live without it. My business day would be fine, but sometimes you need an app that’s slick and fun - to have for the sheer joy of it.
Fill out this form and you will see why I love it. Make sure you fill in your name and company, as well as try out different answers on question 10.
One final thought…
Free is free.
Sometimes the free app plans may be all you need to get your work done, but is it all you need to create true ROI both in terms of money AND efficiency?
I would love to help you adopt technology you love in your business.
Let’s “simplify, techify, solve” your business.
These are half to 3-hour meetings where we can solve a problem, discuss an app or have a quicky one-time conversation about a topic of your choosing.
