Hey there! 👋

Can I be honest with you? I recently looked at my credit card statement and realized I'm paying for 23 different software subscriptions. Twenty-three. That's more subscriptions than I have pairs of shoes (& I have a lot of shoes!)

The kicker? I actively use maybe a dozen of them. The rest are just sitting there, quietly draining $47 here, $29 there, adding up to what could've been a really nice vacation fund.

So I did something radical - I actually sat down and figured out which tools I need, which ones can talk to each other, and which ones are just expensive digital dust collectors.

We're all drowning in tools that don't play nice together. It's like having a kitchen full of appliances that each need their own special outlet and none of them can be used at the same time.

Your email tool doesn't talk to your CRM. Your content calendar lives in one place while your actual content lives in another. Your client onboarding is a Frankenstein monster of seven different platforms held together with digital duct tape.

And we keep adding more tools because surely THIS one will be the magic solution that makes everything work.

Spoiler alert: it won't.

Here's what I figured out after my subscription intervention:

I made a spreadsheet (you know I love a good spreadsheet) with every single subscription. Then I asked myself three questions:

I canceled 11 subscriptions in one sitting. That's $340/month back in my pocket.

Turns out I was paying for three different tools that all did basically the same thing. I had quite a few tools that record meetings all running simultaneously because I kept going back and forth on which one I wanted to commit to.

This is where things get fun (and a little mind-blowing).

Take your spreadsheet of all your tools and drop it into Claude or ChatGPT. Then ask: "Where do these tools have overlapping features? Which ones are redundant?"

The AI will spot things you'd never notice. Like how your project management tool added AI meeting notes last month, which means you're now paying for two meeting recorders. Or how your email platform quietly rolled out form builders, making that separate form tool unnecessary.

I did this and discovered:

Bonus move: Ask the AI to suggest integration options. Sometimes two tools you love CAN talk to each other through Zapier or Make - you just didn't know it was possible.

Pro tip: Do this quarterly. Tools evolve fast and what was true three months ago might not be true today. Set a calendar reminder to run this check every quarter. It takes 20 minutes and could save you hundreds.

The tools work for you, not the other way around. I turned off 90% of my notifications. I check email three times a day. I batch my content creation.

Your tools should support your workflow, not dictate it.

Before audit: $847/month in subscriptions After audit: $507/month in subscriptions Annual savings: $4,080

That's not counting the time I'm saving by having systems that actually work together instead of fighting with each other.

You don't need more tools. You need the right tools talking to each other properly.

Start with the audit. Cancel the dead weight. Then build systems that actually support how you work, not how some productivity guru says you should work.

Your business will thank you. Your bank account will definitely thank you.

What's the most embarrassing subscription you forgot you were paying for? Mine was a meditation app I used exactly once 😅

💜 Tara

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