This week we chat with Tracy Osborn (@tracymakes) as we discuss 15 of the top tools we use to run our businesses. As a followup to a previous, popular tweet, we thought we'd give an update on what tools we continue to use today, as well as share some of the new tools we have started to use. While tools are necessary for founders, it's important to find a good balance between good-enough and perfect when it comes to evaluating which tools to use. As Tracy says in the show, "It's a good lesson for founders because they often want to build something the 'right way' from the start. Many times there are tradeoffs and sometimes you have to use the tool that has constraints so that you can work faster. It might not be perfect, but it gets the job done." Are you using any of the tools we mention in the show or have a tool you think we should use? Let us know in the comments! The top 15 tools we cover 6:04 #1 Calendly vs YouCanBook.me 7:45 #2 Slack: how and why we use it 12:20 #3 How we use Notion for permanent documentation 16:21 #4 Google Drive vs Dropbox for Business 18:42 #5 LastPass for Business 20:05 #6 Dasharoo 21:57 #7 Squadcast.fm & Castos.fm to run this podcast 23.57 #8 Drip & RightMessage for email marketing 25:15 #9 Trello for personal business (vs other task management tools) 26:57 #10 Squarespace for websites 30:35 #11 Voxer push to talk audio vs text messaging 32:52 #12 Keynote for conference talks and eBook PDFs 36:02 #13 Tweetbot vs Twitter.com 38:08 #14 Buffer 39:29 #15 Submittable and Pipedrive 42:20 BONUS: FrontApp for email collaboration Links from the show Tracy Osborn | tracyosborn.com Tracy Osborn on Twitter Rob's tweet on tools used | Twitter Calendly YouCanBook.me Discord Discourse Basecamp Notion Dasharoo Lastpass Sunrise KPI Trello Establishing a High-Performance Productivity Stack with Tracy Osborn | MicroConf on Air Squarespace Voxer Guides: 18 Things SaaS Founders Should Know | Startups For the Rest of Us Zencaster Squadcast Castos

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