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🧰 Make Every Website Visit Count
Published about 10 hours ago • 5 min read
🧰 Smart tools. Useful tips. Weekly.
Hola friend 👋,
I’m Josep. Each week, I hunt down practical tools and productivity hacks to help digital doers like you do more with less effort.
This week: turn more website visitors into real conversations.
A polished website that gives visitors nowhere to go is a missed opportunity. Your site should earn trust, offer a clear next step, and keep the conversation moving when people are not ready to buy.
Hostinger helps you build a professional lead-generation site and follow up by email. Senja adds the proof people look for with testimonials. Cal.com then gives interested visitors a simple way to book a call.
Plus: a cheerful microlearning app, a simple Project Inbox system, and a reminder to back up hosted AI projects.
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EAZYCHAT
A greeting doesn’t get anyone closer to buying.
EazyChat is an AI agent that checks your connected catalog, recommends a product that matches what the shopper asked for, and shares a link to buy it. It also resolves routine support requests, qualifies leads, and hands off to your team with the conversation intact. Plans start at $29.99 per user per month.
Hostinger does a ton of things, but today’s bundle is for anyone whose website looks good but still lets interested visitors disappear. Hostinger Lead Generation brings the site and follow-up into one place, so you can start turning clicks into contacts.
Its AI Builder can create a website or web app from a prompt. You can then refine it without getting lost in complicated software. Hostinger Reach (their AI email marketing platform) handles brand-aligned email campaigns, list building, automations, and analytics.
The useful part is the flow: someone finds your site, leaves their details, and you have a simple way to keep in touch by email. That is much less fragmented than stitching several beginner tools together.
Sadly, no free plan, but it’s still quite affordable – especially if you commit to 48 months. It also comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can try it out with peace of mind. And since it includes an email marketing platform, your fee may increase as your subscriber list grows, just like with any other email marketing solution.
A glowing customer message does nothing for your next visitor when it is buried in a DM or lost in a Google Drive screenshot folder. Senja turns that scattered praise into proof people can actually see.
Collect text or video testimonials, import existing reviews, then reuse the strongest quotes as website widgets, social graphics, Walls of Love, or even create case-study material. Then, before someone decides to get in touch, they can see what real customers say.
The free plan supports up to 15 testimonials. Paid plans remove Senja branding and allow unlimited collection – sadly, it’s not the most affordable tool, as paid plans start at $24 a month (paid annually).
🛠️ Alternative to: Testimonial.to, Trustmary, Endorsal
Your website has earned a visitor’s trust. Don’t make them email back and forth just to find a time to chat with you.
Cal.com lets ready-to-talk visitors book a discovery call without leaving your site. Connect your calendars, choose your available hours, then embed a booking page directly on the site.
The free plan includes unlimited event types and calendars, along with integrations and payment options. That’s generous for a solo operator. The trade-off is that it can take longer to set up than a simpler scheduling tool – read more about it here.
Start small. Create one clear option, such as “30-minute discovery call,” and make it the obvious next step after your services or testimonials so you can convert leads into paying customers.
If your default break is opening the same social media again and again… Nibble is a much ‘more productive’ detour.
It packs interactive three-to-ten-minute lessons into a couple of dozen topics (music, food, math…). Expect quizzes, games, videos, audio, and even chats with historical figures. With 650+ lessons, it suits a coffee break, queue, or short commute.
Just don’t mistake it for a full course on a topic, it’s not. The app is designed to satisfy your curiosity, not make you an expert in ancient Rome. Pricing varies by platform and subscription length, so check the renewal terms before subscribing.
A cheerful alternative to another refresh of the same old feeds.
💰 From $4.17/month | No free plan available & prices vary
⚡This Week’s Productivity Hack
Have you ever opened a new AI chat and had to explain the client, objective, tone, and previous decisions all over again?
The solution… Give every project its own AI project workspace.
Create one permanent workspace for each ongoing project – e.g. accounting, sales, ticket handling, content updates, etc. Think of it as a project home base where your AI assistant can find the context it needs, and you can better organize your workflow.
Create a project and add the following:
A short brief explaining the goal, audience, and desired output
Important files, examples, research, and links
Instructions about tone, formatting, and things to avoid
Previous chats and decisions you may need again
Anything else the AI may need to know to produce better outputs
You can build this with ChatGPT Projects, Claude, or even a dedicated Google Drive folder the AI assistant can access.
Keep related work inside that space and update the instructions whenever something important changes. You’ll spend less time repeating yourself, and the AI will give more consistent answers for the project.
🍿 Plot Twist of the Week
You build a client portal in an AI app builder. Everything works. Then you get the email: the platform is shutting down in days.
That was reality for Bud users. Figma bought the team behind the vibe-coding app, formerly known as Orchids. So Bud and Orchids were set to shut down on July, and users had to migrate their projects in 11 days (source).
Hosted AI tools are rented workshops: great for building, terrible places to store the only copy of your work. Export your code, prompts, files, and client projects regularly, because “the platform is shutting down” is not a great backup plan.
That’s it for this week. Thanks for reading! Next time: a practical stack for turning promising discovery calls into paid projects.
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