Resources & Tools for Pakistani Professionals

The goal with these resources is to help you get to the next level in your Career and scale into a Small Business.

These resources will help you if:

• You are a Freelancer and want to transition to a Services Business
• You are an Agency and want to provide better value to your customers
• You are an employee looking to scale up

No matter the case, I will be building tools and resources for you to succeed with confidence.

My go to tool for recording client calls and reviewing my own performance. Call recording is a must if you are in any client facing role. This tool makes it as simple as 1 2 3.

It’s mostly free to use, and free forever, I have over 500 calls recorded using Fathom.Video meeting recorder.

Some of my favorite features are the AI summaries that make revisiting discussions easy, instant shareable link, no need to wait for video to encode like it would on Google Meet native recording, and transcript management is very easy, one click copy option is available.

Writing is the number one skill you can get better at in any domain. The average person reads at the level of a fifth grader. Tools like Hemingway App are critical as training wheels to become a better, clearer writer.

See as you begin to write, you will often use long sentences, hard to read paragraphs, unnecessary adjectives – list goes on. And sometimes its fine if the intent is there, but most of the times, its not. Hemmingway coaches you to write simpler and over time you will naturally write what most will like reading.

I probably use this tool the most on a daily basis. To verify everything I am putting out there in text. It makes me a better writer, and can make you one as well. Try Hemming way today, bookmark it, and paste everything before you push publish on it. Try to aim for a grade 7 at least for most content types.

If you manage client projects, Basecamp is the best tool to use. It has a feature set built for client facing roles and companies.

With easy to manage permissions, you are in full control as to what the client sees vs what you see – making it easier than ever to manage multiple projects.

Best of all, every project is restricted in its environment, making it very simple to scale up or down as needed with templates and checklists.

Checkout Basecamp here.

Trust me, recording videos can save you 100s of hours of mindless and pointless meetings.

But besides that, the habit of recording video can improve your communication skills, and allow you to improve your presentation retrospectively. Forcing yourself to watch your own recordings is the best way to be better at just being a better communicator.

Loom is my go to tool for recording quick shareable videos, try it today, it’s worth it. Their paid sub is also worth it if you can fit in your workflow.

So here’s the straight fact – Notion is really slow. BUT it is still the best tool for archiving and managing your knowledge and life respectively. There is no equal when it comes to the flexibility a tool like Notion provides.

Learn to use their databases feature and you will have limitless control over everything. Make use of sorting and filters to create views to organize your data better.

I use Notion to manage content ideas, notes, archive knowledge, media lists, and so much more. Try Notion today at this link.

Here’s one thing I do not recommend a cookie cutter ‘we do everything’ app for – a Task tracker / To Do list app.

To Dos and tasks need to be taken seriously to be effective, and to be taken seriously they need to be in their dedicated spot.

Microsoft To Do (previously Wunderlist) is the best to do App out there to get s*** done. No fancy bells and whistles, a feature full, to-the-point To Do list app, get it here.

Life is a one big Project. And hence every now and then – one needs a kanban board.

Don’t know what a kanban board is? Doesn’t matter. What you need to know is that it’s the best way to visualize progress of large tasks.

And nothing makes it easier to Kanban than Trello, try it today at this link. Next time you have a huge task at your hand, break it down, put it on the board, and chunkify your progress – trust me, it works.

Braintrust has become one my favorite professional networks to be part of. Not only do they have high quality jobs, they also have an active and thriving community.

I would recommend anyone to be part of the group and spend some time networking here.

I run the Freelancing space in there, if you join, come say hi.

There’s a solid chance you will find me online on Discord. Why?
It is the best place to be to network in small communities, follow what you love, and talk to like minded people.

Highly recommend signing up on Discord and finding some decent servers, including ours striving to be the best Professional Discord Server in Pakistan.