Productivity Zone

There's PayPal, but they have their problems with some types of businesses. What's a person to do if they want to make it easier for their clients to pay them? We look at Stripe and InstaPay as two options for accepting online payments.

These days, having any sort of blog or social media post without an image is like leaving the house without your pants. But still images are so commonplace. The real social media trendsetters are including video in their posts. We'll take a look at sources for stock video in case you're not an undiscovered Scorsese.

What is Hazel? If don't know then this podcast is for you! Glen is going to give us the "wow" factor of Hazel and Kimba will cover part 2 of Evernote. Evernote is fabulous!

Kimba launches the first of a two-parter on all the goodness that is Evernote. It's a great app with tons of features, and we still are just hitting the main abilities even with two parts. Meanwhile, Glen delves into how easy it is to create an ebook from your blog posts with a service/plugin called Beacon.

Hard to believe, but Glen and Kimba actually agree on the best video apps available. They cover all devices and price ranges. Get their take on ScreenFlow, Capto, Camtasia and Filmic Pro.

What if you could have any of over 2000 books reduced to a summary of key points you could read or listen to in 15 minutes? That's Blinkist and they're a huge timesaver when it comes to learning new information. I like to think of them as CliffsNotes for books you actually want to read but don't have time.

Announcements this week from Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat. Kimba discovers Venngage, an infographic creation tool. Glen looks at SignUpGenius for simplifying scheduling signups for tasks, event staffing, carpool schedules, you name it.

Finally! Glen explains how Zapier can be used to tie together two or more web services/applications to automate your business workflow. Ever wanted to get an SMS when a client pays their bill? How about automatically adding new Freshbooks clients to your Hubspot CRM account? Zapier is the glue that connects these services. Kimba takes a new look at LinkedIn.

So you have something to sell, either physical or digital. Where do you go to set up your online shop? This week, Glen gives you his top 5 ways to get your product out the door and money in your pocket. It's a longer episode, but there's a lot of info in it.

Kimba offers up this weeks latest and greatest new stuff available in the social media world.

Instagram added the ability to include up to 10 photos in one share. Kimba explains how to do it. Cloud storage has been around for a while now, and Dropbox was one of the first players in this market. Lately, they've added some new features that bring even more value to their service. We give you the rundown on the basics and what's been added.

Hemingway is nice, clean writing app that aims to provide "distraction free writing" and simplify some other aspects of crafting the written word. How does it measure up? Give a listen to this podcast for our take on it. Kimba delights us with insights into color theory and how it affects how we feel about stuff.