Every professional or specialist consultant in any area requires a set of essential tools that you will need to work in digital, since this greatly influences the results of the work that you are going to do.
Mainly you, who are a consultant, must have the best resources and tools, to not only carry out your services in a professional way, but also allow you to enjoy order, planning and the benefits that having the right equipment gives you.
Essential tools you will need to work in digital
The essential tools that every consultant or professional needs to work digitally and offer a new experience to customers are the following.
1) Laptop/ computer
Without hesitation, this is the first tool we need to make our work independent, whether online or in person. Having a laptop available gives you the opportunity to work more comfortably without having to be connected to a chair for hours. And although many consultants have a desktop model computer, they will always need a laptop in case it is necessary to move to another workplace or you have an unexpected trip planned, you can take your laptop with you and continue to have your advice and consultancies.
2) Light ring
This is indeed an essential tool that you will need to improve your digital work, and of course it is one of the newest and most innovative so far. Maybe you will say “I don’t need it as a consultant”, and we all need it, it not only helps those who create videos on YouTube or take pictures, but you can improve your consulting times by allowing a bit of light, which will look much more professional.
Have you ever had any advice and the light in the room did not favor you completely? If your answer was yes, boy do you need it!
3) Good Smartphone
For those people who are dedicated to teleworking and, in the same way, face-to-face work, they need to have a good Smartphone that allows them to carry out work, meeting guidelines, calls, messages through it.
It is not essential to obtain the latest Smartphone on sale, no. Simply that it can work for you and without a doubt it adapts to the needs you have.
Some of those needs may focus on:
- Good internal and external memory capacity
- Fast and fast smartphone
- Smartphone size
- Camera and image quality
- Easy to use
You may take other aspects into account, but for consultants, these should be the first characteristics you should consider when obtaining one and integrate it into the essential set of tools you will need to work in digital.
4) Physical agenda
Not everything is technology, it is also important to carry with you a non-technological tool such as an agenda, its use will definitely not go out of style or become something old because it will always be something essential. In other words, it counts as part of the essential tools that you will need to work digitally and in person as well.
In it you can write the ideas that arise in each meeting, the most important aspects to consider to carry out the work. In addition, you do not know exactly when will be the day in which you run out of battery on your computer or your Smartphone and you resort to it.
Essential tools to have on your laptop/computer
1) Trello
Trello is a project management tool that will help you keep your day or week organized no matter how many things you do, which consists of throwing out all your planning or task list and you can move them as you start until you finish them.
It is completely free and you can create a common user by registering on their website and that’s it, you can have it at your disposal. You can also download it to your Smartphone, since it is available for Android and iOS.
2) Google tools (Google docs, google sheets, google drive)
There should be a law for all professionals and consultants to use Google’s essential tools to work digitally, since we love the entire team at Academia de Consultores and they also allow us to work more comfortably to prepare and save documents from the lowest resolution up to the highest.
The best thing is that these tools are added to the moment you decide to create a Gmail email and you can find them when you enter your Gmail and press the menu icon.
3) Dropbox
This tool is incredible for being able to store and save backup copies and in turn offers you to download this application on your Smartphone and computer to work immediately.
4) Slack
Slack is a messenger that works to manage and monitor projects in your company or if you lead small, medium or large groups. You can create different chat windows with a variety of topics to talk about specific topics and keep those important topics in mind. You can also send files such as images and videos.
5) Spotify or YouTube
These music platforms are essential when working, because who said we couldn’t work listening to our favorite music? And if we want to work inspired, we will need it.
Spotify is a paid music platform where you can search for all your favorite songs and activate them when you work.
And YouTube, we all know it, the largest free video platform in the world and you can also use it to search for new learning channels, so you can give it several uses as long as it is to increase your professional growth.
6) Canvas
This is the most comprehensive design tool we know of, as an inexperienced person can become a senior designer in a matter of seconds. This resource will be useful for you to design briefs, cover letters, slides for business meetings, etc.
Always try to present a very elaborate material in terms of design, since that can cause excellent impressions.
7) Veed.io
This is an online video editor that will help you customize, create and design the audiovisual material you have in order to give it a very professional touch.
If you want to quickly edit videos or make an original intro for a business presentation or meeting with your clients, show off with this tool that we know you’ll love.
8) Freepik
Freepik is a very professional bank of images and vectors that offers you quality resources and mockups so that you can use them in your proposals. Even if you want to make a high-quality resume, you only need to place Curriculum and you will get a variety of results to download and that through the Adobe Illustrator tool you can edit it with your personal data, export and that’s it.
It is also useful to look for pre-designed contact card templates so that you only replace your data and you will be able to have a personalized material as a true consultant should do.
These are small details that you should take care of.
9) Flaticon
Bank of icons that will help you further customize all the creative material you have, from proposals, contact cards, slides, etc.
10) Google Hangouts
This incredible Google platform, like the ones we previously showed you, is very useful to facilitate the work of a digital consultant. The particularity of Google Hagouts allows you to organize, plan and remember the most important meetings that every consultant should consider as a priority.
Google Hagouts is an optimal tool that will allow you to have online meetings with all your potential customers, loyal customers or students with a limit of 150 people per meeting.
If you want to get new free resources and templates, we have created a space on our website to drop each of the tools that will facilitate meetings, planning and presentations for clients as a Consultant and digital professional.
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