I know I'm always curious about what tools and resources others use to organize and run their creative small businesses, private teaching studio, and life in general. 

From email management to web hosting, graphic design to music notation, digital file storage to online course hosting, the tools and apps you see listed on this page are ones I personally use, love, and recommend.

This one’s for you, the small business owner.

*Disclosure: I get commissions for purchases made through links on this page.

Organization & Productivity

TickTick

The simple, no-frills task management tool I use to organize my to-do lists and recurring tasks.

Milanote

A web-based tool for organizing creative projects into beautiful visual boards. I use Milanote to organize creative projects, pull together inspiration and resources, and plan editorial content. Learn more in this post.

Zapier

A tool that connects apps you use and automates certain tasks for you. It's sort of like having a virtual assistant, which is awesome.

Planoly

A visual planning tool for scheduling and automating Instagram posts. I use it to batch-upload photos, write captions,
add hashtags, and schedule content.

Business

Squarespace

The easy-to-use website builder and hosting platform I use for my site. No coding is required!

Flodesk

The email marketing and automation tool that’s built for creative small businesses. This is the tool I use to send my email newsletters and deliver digital download content. Save 50% off your first year!

Podia

A simple, well-designed, and easy-to-use platform for teaching online courses, workshops, and webinars, and delivering digital downloads. Read more about
why I chose this platform here.

Dropbox

A digital file-storage system, great for sharing resources with my students!

Payhip

A great platform for selling digital and physical products, courses, memberships, and services (it’s what I use for the Musician & Co. Shop).

Wave Invoicing

The free online invoicing tool and bookkeeping software I use to create, send, and manage my monthly studio invoices.

GOOGLE WORKSPACE / Drive

From email hosting/management to a place to store and organize course files, email list sign-ups, surveys, analytics, website copy, and virtual piano-teaching activities, it's safe to say that my business/life runs on Google.

Adobe Illustrator

I use Illustrator to create all the graphics and images you see around this site: blog post graphics, icons, logos, header images, resource library graphics, and more.
(Teachers and students save up to 60%!)

Tonic Site Shop Templates

Award-winning, designer website templates (for Showit) with built-in copywriting strategy and conversion-based design. Save 15% with code MUSICIAN.

The Boutique Lawyer

Accessible, affordable digital contract templates for creative entrepreneurs and online business owners written and peer-reviewed by real lawyers. Save 10% on all templates with code MUSICIAN.

Music

Sheet Music Plus

My go-to for sheet music, anthems, instrumental music, and so much more. I love that they have so many digital downloads available—no shipping costs or waiting for music to arrive in the mail!

MuseScore

A free, robust music notation software, perfect for writing out last-minute hymn transpositions, handbell descants, flute obbligatos, and student compositions, just to name a few of the ways I've used it lately.

Financial

Betterment

Described as a “smart money manager,” this online investing tool covers everything from retirement savings to everyday checking/savings accounts. I love that my investment portfolio is automatically managed and diversified for maximum returns.

Note: I’m a client of Betterment. If you fund an account, we could both receive a promotional offer. My views may not be representative so take a look at the reviews at the App Store and Google Play Store.

Wave

A free invoicing tool and accounting suite. Great for making recurring invoices and keeping track of bookkeeping.

H+R Block at Home (Premium)

The DIY tax software we use to file our taxes each year.

Life

Rakuten

A free and easy way to earn cashback on
your everyday purchases.

HelloFresh

A flexible meal-kit-delivery service featuring weekly selections of unique recipes and pre-measured ingredients shipped right to your doorstep. Our favorite at-home date night! Save $100 >>

One Love Organics

My favorite line of organic skincare.
Save $5 on your first order >>

Amazon Prime

From fast shipping to music streaming to
TV and movies, Amazon Prime has it all.

Books

Looking for book recommendations? Here’s my book list from the past few years. You’ll find everything from business to relationships, health & lifestyle, personal & intellectual, spiritual, fiction, and nonfiction/memoir.

Mint Mobile

Read more about how we quadrupled our monthly data and cut our cell phone bill in half by switching from Verizon to Mint Mobile. Get your first month free!