If it weren’t for these tools, our online shop wouldn’t exist.
Bold statement, but it’s true.
If we had to spend all of our time manually doing all of these tasks that these 12 tools do for us, we would have no time to create our Elementor WordPress themes for all of you.
All of these tools make it possible for us to run our online business smoothly and effectively.
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1 | SendOwl
SendOwl is what we use to sell our digital products (Elementor WordPress themes). SendOwl handles the payment process (customers can use a credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay, or even Bitcoin), upsell, abandonment cart, and automatically sends the customer an email with the digital product download. So easy!
2 | MailerLite
To send our email newsletters, delivering freebies, and automate the nurture sequence, we use MailerLite. We’ve also love Flodesk.
Learn more about MailerLite now
3 | Planoly
We use Planoly to schedule our Instagram posts to go out. We love Planoly because it has a calendar viewing option, a grid preview, and has great analytics so you can see which posts get the most engagement, likes, and more.
4 | Tailwind
This Pinterest scheduling tool saves us so much time! We use it to schedule our pins in bulk and it will automatically pin them to the boards we want them shared on schedule so they don’t go out all at the same time. Tailwind also analyzes our best pinning times. It’s fabulous and very reasonably priced!
5 | SocialBee
Automate your social media posting with our SocialBee, so you can continue to drive traffic back to your website. You can organize content in categories, repost your top evergreen content to drive more engagement to your high-performing content, and save even more time.
Learn more about SocialBee now
6 | HotJar
HotJar is an amazing tool that you can use to understand where visitors use your website by showing heat maps.
This can be extremely useful information that you can use to turn more visitors into customers. CrazyEgg is another great option.
7 | Google Analytics
The ultimate tool to measure your website analytics! Google Analytics is an amazing free resource that every online business owner should be using.
Learn more about Google Analytics now
8 | Feedly
Feedly helps us schedule our Twitter and Pinterest content to go out. Feedly is an aggregator where you can put all of the blogs and websites you visit frequently into one place where you can read.
9 | Zapier
Zapier is an amazing app that you can use to automate tasks between web applications, saving us hours of time.
Previously we used Zapier to zap the emails of people who purchased a Bluchic WordPress theme into our old email marketing account. This way, our customer’s emails are automatically added to our email list!
10 | IFTTT
We’ve used IFTTT to send our Instagram posts directly to Facebook and Twitter (update 2021: Planoly has the option to auto-post to Twitter and Facebook). It’s similar to Zapier in that you set up “recipes” of automation for your business.
11 | Haute Stock
Want to know our secret for creating stunning visuals that help us sell more? It’s Haute Stock, One of our absolute favorite stock photography membership! You can view our giant round-up of styled stock photography here. And guess what?! You can save 15% when you use code: bluchic
Learn more about Haute Stock now
12 | Freshdesk
We used to use Freshdesk to support our customers when they have questions or issues with implementing our WordPress themes.
Learn more about Freshdesk now
Final Thoughts
Looking for the perfect new theme for your online shop? Check out ChicShop, our WordPress theme built for online shop owners!
