3 Free Project Management Tools To Keep Your Business & Projects Moving Forward While Traveling

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hey miles Becker here and in this video we're gonna talk about the three tools that I use to keep my projects and my business on track while I travel now if you've been following the videos you know that I was just at a large kind of massive five-day conference in Bangkok followed up by a five day or a five night six-day event in Phuket and I just flew from Phuket to Chiang Mai Thailand today and I just getting settled in it's literally about 8 o'clock 9 o'clock at night and I wanted to cut this video for you because I had this moment of like oh man alright so all that stuff like the dust is finally settling right where am i what do I have going on what was i working on before i flew across the ocean to go to these events you know I'm here in Chiang Mai I've got a few meetings with a few people already lined up here and I'm also doing kind of a little workshop here for some digital nomads in the area but yet I've got a real business right I got to keep that going so this was a perfect time for me to kind of share my insights on what I use now all of these tools are completely free so that's the great part right here and the first tool is super simple I learned this a long time ago it's notepad I keep a notepad file on my desktop of my computer it's titled three things and what I do is I make sure and keep this updated with the three most important things that I'm working on when I shut down for the day so what I mean is I'm in I'm I load up my computer in the morning for example and I open this file and I look and there's the three things that are most important for me for the day I go to work on those and I accomplish these tasks then before I'm done for the day on that day or for the night I go back into this file and I make sure and I update it so I leave myself a breadcrumb for tomorrow with what are the three most important things for me to work on tomorrow and so on and so on I've been using this technique this incredibly like basic technique for years now and I've kept marketing campaigns going I've built very very challenging and complex funnels using this and literally this has been one of the main ways I've grown my business so I added a layer of Technology because this this notepad file is really kind of like me to me right it doesn't expand beyond me my wife and I are business partners we have a fairly large team of about seven or eight people who are all working within our business at this point so that system doesn't work to keep everyone else on track so my project management system that I use is called freed camp fr EE D CA MP freed camp comm it's a free system and what it allows me to do is create projects for the different verticals of my business and then I can add different teammates to these projects and I can add tasks to specific teammates under the specific projects so for example I have like a marketing tap like I have a marketing project in there and I've got a pay-per-click section where my pay-per-click tasks and the ad copy I need and the ad sizes and add shapes I need are all laid out and I'm able to tag or assign those projects and tasks to my ad guy to my to my developer to my designer if you will and to all the different people so we're actually working on a redesign of our main website right now and we have an entire category of tasks and I'm able to go queue up a bunch of tasks for my teammates and my teammates are able to mark them as kind of you know under under like kind of working on them and then they can mark them as completed later and I'm able to follow the progress of these different tasks and it helps us keep these kind of larger scale projects that require input and help and assistance and work from multiple people it allows us to keep that on on really kind of on target and moving forward no matter where I'm at the third and final tool is slack now I use slack instead of Skype for team communication this is where I chat with my team just basic text chats back and forth we have channels that are based on the different parts of our business so we have a customer support channel we have a social media marketing channel we have a development and design channel and then we're able to add mention each other and were able to direct message each other so when there's ever a specific little question that doesn't need an entire post inside of either of our project management systems it's really easy just to go on slack and say hey what did you mean when you said this I'm working on this right now can you help me out with this or take a look at this is this what you were thinking for the ads here's one I can go make the other ten ad sizes as long as you give me a thumbs up on this ad the great thing about slack for me is it integrates with a really nifty app that's on both my laptop and it's all my cell phone so I'm able to check it whether I'm in an airport whether I'm kind of like lounging for the evening you know sitting on the couch it I got my phone there and I hear the notification on my phone I can take a quick look and see if some of my teammates need something from me and I'm able to hop up and get them what they need or sometimes right there on the phone just boom boom boom reply give them the response they need so they can keep things moving forward so that's it those are that's my big trick right a notepad file freed camp and slack are the three real project management systems I use to keep my business moving forward while I travel now as I said I just arrived here in Chiang Mai it's late I've been walking around looking for an apartment all day I'm gonna talk more about that in the coming videos but I do thank you very much for your time I'm gonna call it here with this video leave me a comment below if you use any of these tools or if you try these tools and let me know what you think go ahead and subscribe to the channel so you can get the new videos when they come out and give me a thumbs up if you liked the video thanks again for 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