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Customizing images can be tough, especially if you want to make the edits from your phone. Today, we share an app that allows you to edit images directly on your mobile phone or tablet, for free!

In a world where everything is digital, a physical representation of your brand can be tough to create. Today, James and Sean discuss StickerMule and how they help you create custom stickers for your brand.

Consistent follow up (or lack thereof) plagues most entrepreneurs. Most CRM solutions are extremely expensive and adds a ton of unnecessary features. Join James and Sean as they discuss a solution that enables entrepreneurs to follow up with emails like clockwork, Followup CC!

Webinars are being touted as the new way to print easy money. Problem is they take a ton of inertia to push forward... and sometimes a ton of cash. Join James and Sean as they break down exactly how you can use some great apps to create an amazing webinar for your business.

We all know how important it is to measure your website's effectiveness with Google Analytics. Problem is, most of us have no idea what we're looking at when we're staring at the metrics each month. Today, James and Sean talk about Quill Engage, a reporting tool that interprets and summarizes your Google Analytics numbers.

Good web design is one of those must haves in 2015. A solid landing page that converts well should be the final destination of any Facebook or social media ad buy. Today, James and Sean share about LeadPages (and their awesome tools LeadBoxes and LeadDigits) and how you can consistently produce great pages.

Email ping pong is the worst. You need to schedule that sales call, but you really don’t have time to go back and forth with someone to find a day & time that works for both of you. Today, James and Sean talk about Calendly, a solution to take the control back and easily manage your schedule.

Ever have a specific question that Google can’t even answer? Stop asking search engines and start asking real people. James and Sean discuss the variety of ways to use Quora, from market research to reputation management.

Most accounting software is really hard to use. Today, James and Sean discuss Wave, a free tool that helps you send invoices and manage your accounts receivable from an easy-to-use dashboard.

As a business owner, keeping track of your company’s books can be incredibly painful. Scouring through your bank statements, reconciling expenses from months ago…the number crunching can make you rip your hair out. Today James and Sean discuss why Bench.co will take all of your bookkeeping headaches away.

Sales prospecting should be a constant in any business. Quality prospecting though, takes a real investment in brainpower and energy and slows down many entrepreneurs. James and Sean discuss a done for you leads solution called LeadFuze.

Tired of getting inaccurate transcriptions? Transcriptions are great for helping you source your audio content into usable written content on your blog. James and Sean discuss how to get professional transcripts without all the usual hassles by using Rev.

There’s so much good content to read online that it makes it tough to keep up. Even when you subscribe to a blog, it takes a lot of time just to sift through your email inbox to find it. James and Sean discuss how Feedly gives you an easy interface to keep up with all your favorite blogs in one place.

Don’t menial, repetitive, time-consuming yet essential tasks always slow you down? There are so many ways to streamline different tasks that you as the business owner should not be doing. James and Sean unpack how Upwork freelancers make your you so much more productive.

Publishing and promoting your blog post could be an arduous task that could take you away from actually creating content. The more you are ahead of your schedule, the more you’re going to ensure that your content strategy is consistent. Learn how CoSchedule could make things easier for you when it comes to content and social scheduling.

One of the toughest things about creating content is making it visually appealing. It takes skills that aren't learned overnight and a trained eye to keep a tight constraint on your brands image. James and Sean discuss a service that offers beautiful images made by professionals at a great price.

Want to get more Twitter followers the most efficient way? Getting a lot people to follow you on Twitter isn't tough, but it can be extremely time consuming. Sean and James talk about how Crowdfire can help grow your following with a tap of a finger and a little planning.

What if I told you there was another reality. A reality where everything only cost five dollars. Voice-overs, Logo Design, Song Jingles, every gig only cost five dollars. Join us to as we discuss Fiverr and see just how far down the rabbit hole goes.

Paying people is one of those necessary evils in life, but it should never be a complicated process. Today we review an app that allows you to pay your friends, contractors and even your ex all from your phone. James and Sean review how to pay and get payed with Venmo.

Automation, accessibility, syncing, sharing, and collaboration is the strength of cloud storage. With so many online storage providers these days, finding the best one for your needs could be a problematic task. Aside from sharing, editing, and commenting on documents, see how Google Drive allows many features unavailable with other apps.

SEO is actually the Latin word for confusing, hard to understand internet rule system... It certainly feels that way sometimes, but the WordPress plugin Yoast SEO is an amazing tool to get the basics down while keeping your sanity. James and Sean review why its such an easy plugin to use and why its so important to focus on SEO.

Your blog posts shouldn't look like a novel; taken up by an overabundance of text. While visual content is sometimes tough to produce, Click to Tweet is an awesome way to add a variety of imagery to a post. See why this free WordPress plugin from CoSchedule is one of Sweet Fish's favorite tools.

How in the world can you only use 140 characters to create a social update with a link in it? You need a link shortener in order to save precious space, make your update more visually appealing and track your links performance! Bitly is your free and easy-to-use solution for link shortening on your desktop or mobile device.

Ever spend an hour trying and re-trying to get a WordPress edit just right, only to have it look no better when you're done with it (or worse, break something else). Entrepreneurs can now rejoice with an affordable, no-hassle way to get your minor WordPress edits completed: WP Curve. Hear the guys breakdown just why this is a must have productized service.

The guys discuss a few strategies for how to use surveys to help you better understand your staff, stakeholders and your customers and just how Survey Monkey helps you accomplish it all.

Imagine your email marketing. Now imagine your email marketing without all of the hassles: Enter Drip. James and Sean discuss what awesome marketing automation actually looks, discussing some of their favorite, built-in features from Drip.