Sharing Some Tools

I stepped in this month to Host Our local Live Your Legend Meetup of creatives in Austin, Texas, and I shared some tools there that could help other people with their personal projects. 

This month's meeting had 3 people show up. We had Roy Hughes​, Kaylyn Morgan​, and myself. Both Roy and Kaylin are in the app building business and have a few apps in the app store.

A short list below.

1. For book launch, you can use www.booklaunch.io
    
2. For writing your book, you can use www.pressbooks.com, or www.scrivener.com
    
3. To edit your book, you can use www.grammarly.com
   
   
4. To sell your products right out of your website, you can use www.gumroad.com
   
   
5. To promote your work by sharing it on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites, you can use www.sumome.com
   
   
6. To collect emails/sign ups on your website, to create a contact form that can be placed anywhere on your site, or check your site's heat maps so you know where folks are clicking the most, check out www.sumome.com
   
   
7. To create an automated series of emails that go out when someone signs up on your website, check out www.gumroad.com and www.mailchimp.com.
   
   
8. To sign online documents if you were to hire someone for a freelance gig or sign a document with a client check out www.docusign.com or www.rightsignature.com
   
   
9. To sell packages or products and still get the contact information of folks who buy from you, use www.gumroad.com. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and others do not give your that information.

After this we also took sometime to fine tune our thoughts on what our messages are for each of our projects and make it connect with the right people.

Individually, Roy is a musician and currently has songs on Soundcloud you can check out here: https://soundcloud.com/royestel

Kaylyn has a blog she co-runs with her daughter, a new mom, about the experience of new moms. You can check it out at www.mrsweetie.com and she is also fine-tuning her message for her lead blog “Awesome at any age.” It's focused on health and wellness.

As you already know, I am working on my upcoming book on how to start a small project right in your neighborhood that involves you learning from folks in your neighborhood who are already doing something you'd like to learn about. 

Thanks, everybody, and all the best.

PS: If you know of other tools that we could use, please let us know in the comments.