Johnathan Holland

Kirk Simpson has been a mentor to me in my entrepreneurial journey and he truly cares about the user experience and how it benefits the small business owners life. Wave has incredible financial products and anyone using their products should know that the team does everything in their power to give you what you need. Pros: Wave is an awesome accounting software that is free! Cons: The...

Good product that helps you with customer outreach. Emails can be tricky to come by for most companies and it's better than guessing and checking with NAME@COMPANYNAME.COM. Pros: Great tool to capture emails for people that are less responsive on social accounts. Cons: I believe that LinkedIn has forced them out, which was one of our favourite mediums to collect emails from.

If you aren't an organized person Trello allows for easy to see visuals that help keep projects on track. The team at Curexe has specifically used it to organize our bugs, new features, staging and production stages of our development. Pros: Great product for staying organized with your developer team. We execute everything remotely and keep organized with Trello. Cons: It's worked flawlessly...

InVision is a great tool to easily mock up your wire frames and without development cost get them in front of your customers. Pros: It saves us a ton of money not having to hard code our experiments and landing pages. Cons: You need to get used to it in order for it to be efficient.

Basecamp makes it much easier to manage the tasks your remote team is doing in a clean UI so that you get a good view of what is happening in the organizing. Amazing product! Pros: Basecamp is an incredible way for teams to stay organized with their weekly, monthly or longer term tasks/projects. Cons: I found it was better for development to use Trello so the rest of the team is organized in...

We use this mostly to automate our email marketing campaigns by pulling data from our HubSpot CRM into Active Campaign for our email drips. Among a million other things.. amazing product! Pros: Zapier allows for automation with out the complexity or cost of coding. Without it we wouldn't be able to run our efficient sales funnel. Cons: Hard to name any..

Low-cost way to organize your sales funnel and love the integration potential. Pros: HubSpot is great to keep all your client information in one-spot so there is no overlap. Cons: Hard to say.

Loom is great for doing educational videos for content, doing investor full pitches and sending it out instead of sending just a deck, building training processes for your team, doing your vlog videos, and the list goes on. Very valuable product. Pros: I use loom to send investor pitches (at scale) and to build training on our online product for my team. It's incredible! Cons: Hard to find a...

This is one of the most useful products I've ever used for automation. I use it specifically to automate a lot of our sales processes and sales funnel. Pros: Zapier helps you automate a ton of your technology products that makes your business more efficient. Cons: Sometimes it takes a bit doing complex Zaps, but much easier than paying a developer to hard code it.

Overall great product! Pros: Slack is a great communication tool for teams. Especially when you're remote and want to get a message to your team faster than an email. Cons: It can get a bit distracting just like a text message so I tend to shut off notifications when doing a specific task.