 What's up everyone so we're almost there to Black Friday and this is the time of the year where I like to purchase and renew all my licenses for plugins and software. The reason why I wanted to bring this video to you right now before Black Friday is because I found three tools recently that I got and I personally got these tools and have been super happy with them. I wanted to share them with you. Now I run a design studio and we build and manage websites for several clients. We do many many projects and our expenses can go up very high. In fact, a few years ago our expenses for plugins and software was over $5,000 a year. I saw that number at the end of the year and I knew I had to reduce this. I had to find a way to cut costs in this area so I started looking at what do we really need and what don't we need and the things that we do need that benefit our business. What can we do and how can we get them in a way that's more cost effective and the best time of the year right now is when everything just goes on sale for Black Friday but you got to keep an eye out for it. You got to keep an eye out for the right tools and that's what I'm doing right now so as I'm finding them I want to bring them to you and this video what I want to do is there are three that I've recently purchased that I've gotten and have added a whole lot of value to my business and I wanted to share them with you because I feel oh my god and I wanted to share them with you because I feel they could add a lot of value to other people's businesses. Now real quick disclaimer a couple of them I am an affiliate but I'm only affiliate for something that I personally use and believe in and it does help the channel there's nothing extra that needs to be done with it and if you do find this is giving value to you please hit the subscribe and like and all that good YouTube stuff. The first one is going to be Fluent CRM and this is the one that I most highly recommend right now. Right now the deal for it is just this is a time to get it and this is a software it's actually a plugin that goes straight to your website. What I've been using this for I have just eliminated Melchim I've just eliminated and in fact before this came out I was looking at other email marketing softwares I was getting ready to go to Active Campaign and I'm looking at the expenses they're not cheap Melchim isn't cheap Active Campaign if you have anything more than 500 subscribers it is it gets pretty pricey so I was looking at them and then I saw Fluent CRM came out and I was just like well okay this is very interesting I got it about a month ago when it was on it was on like one of those new release discounts I grabbed a lifetime deal on it and I have just been blown away with it I've been working on with it almost on a daily basis for the last month getting ready to launch some big campaigns and I felt this plugin this software right now is the time to get it right now it's currently 40% off if you could get a lifetime deal I would strongly suggest getting that even if you're thinking of creating content if you're not doing email marketing right now but you have it in your pipeline you're looking to do it in the future this could be something that could save you a whole lot of money now when I look at Fluent CRM I kind of think of car flows okay they're not the same but the way that I'm comparing them is when car flows came out it came out and it had a really good deal because it was a new product and it was one of those game changing solid products that I feel Fluent CRM is as well and I didn't get car flows when it came out I really regret not picking it up then because now when I got to get it for projects I have to pay the full price so first one my most recommended right now if you are looking to collect emails and do email campaigns is to get Fluent CRM there are a lot of benefits to it one of them no monthly payments like MailChimp or active campaign or any of those other email marketing softwares the other one is all the information and data that you collect from your subscribers are with you they're not going to anyone else you're holding on to all the data so things are even more GDPR compliant it could be more safer for your customers your clients or subscribers it's just all around I like you have it yourself it's yours in your own database all right so that's number one number two we're going to go to mighty themes the reason why I'm putting this inside my top three right now is because this is a new add-on to Elementor that I'm excited about I see a lot of potential and I see something good coming from this one now right now is the best time to get it it's 50% off and you can pick up a lifetime deal on the lifetime deal on the Elementor add-on is the most ideal thing to get now you can't get a bunch of them because they get expensive but you don't need a bunch of add-ons with Elementor with mighty add-ons they're not one of those add-ons that's coming out with 100 widgets and I've fallen into that before I'm not going to call out the add-on I don't want to call it out I'm like putting bad energy out there but I've got on one before and I had like 100 widgets in it I thought it was great I built a couple websites with it but now it's not being maintained it's buggy and I don't want to renew the license every single year I don't want to pay a hundred bucks every single year for it so now I'm like stuck in a situation do I keep paying the hundred dollars so I can update it or do I just remove it and rebuild those sections and I chose to remove it from our client sites and to rebuild the sections and to stick with a few add-ons I like to stick with just a couple that's it because stick them with a couple add-ons for Elementor you keep your expenses down you don't need to renew a bunch of them and that's why I have mighty add-ons in here right now this is a time where you can get it at half the price you can get a lifetime deal for super cheap you never have to worry about about you know the updates is a fall in behind and I know this personally I have been in contact for pretty much all year with the developer the person behind mighty add-ons and I know how active and how involved that he is and his team is that's the reason why as well that I believe in it and I got it for myself I'm going to be using it I know that they have quality code and there's a lot of potential coming from this add-on and that's why it's inside my top three and that's why it's inside my top three right now all right so on to the third one the third one this is going to be short pixel all right short pixel it's an old you know it's an old golden plugin that's been around for a long time but right now it's on AppSumo for a lifetime deal for 49 bucks this is a no-brainer I actually bought this one a couple years ago and one of the parts of our business is we do website maintenance we have maintenance plans and we got clients on our maintenance plans and we add on premium plugins as part of a benefit to our plans and a part of the package and image optimization or even just performance optimization is part of that package I got short pixel for 49 bucks and it works for all of our client sites it's lifetime and I haven't had to pay anything else so that's a no-brainer don't know how long that's going to be on AppSumo for definitely you should get it and that's you know I think that one's for everyone right there definitely you should get the short pixel lifetime deal it's no-brainer all right that's it so I'm going to be looking now for deals for the next few weeks this is a time where I have a checklist things that you know I created a checklist things that I need to get for our business things to make sure that we get and we're good to go and to reduce costs I want to make sure we're not paying tons of money I want to reduce costs I want to get only what's needed and as I get them I'm going to share them with you because you know I want to hook people up I want you guys to see what what I'm using what's helping out myself helping out my company and I want to be able to share that with you so it can help out you and your businesses and if you found this video brought value to you and helped you out please hit the subscribe the support really helps out and I do look forward to bringing more element or a web design related content to you all right thank you