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Best Calendar Apps for Appointment and Meeting Booking

Best Calendar Apps for Appointment and Meeting Booking

Since I’ve moved out of London, I’m expanding Red Desk’s customer and contact base to Buckinghamshire, where I now live. I’ve been attending a couple of networking groups (shout out to Aylesbury Business Buzz and Aylesbury Business Connected) and I’m booking in follow-up meetings. A few of my new contacts have been using calendar apps for appointment and meeting bookings.  I’ve listed a few to consider if you are looking to automate your appointment bookings.

 

Calendly

If you are finding yourself going back and forth with people trying to find a convenient time for a meeting then perhaps it is time you tried Calendly. You can sign up for free with Google or Microsoft. The free option is great for testing out this appointment scheduling app.  You can connect it to one calendar (Google, Microsoft 365, Outlook etc), one event type (15 minute catch up call, 1:1 hour meeting etc), embed scheduling into your website and much more. If you decide to roll it out to your team or you require a more complex set up then the next tier up will cost you $10 a month and this allows you unlimited calendars, unlimited event types, appointment reminders, 24/7 live chat support and more. You can see the pricing and levels of membership here.

 

You Can Book Me

YouCanBookMe is trusted by 1 million plus users worldwide and boasts big brands like Randstad and Shopify amongst its customers. It can eliminate manual tasks and it can provide automated video links, CRM updates and follow ups. It can seamlessly integrate into so many services that you already use like Google Calendar, Zoom and Stripe.  Sign up for a free plan and enjoy a powerful booking page with your own text and logo, cancellation and rescheduling links, the opportunity to set prices and take payments, and integrate it into one calendar.  Once you are up to speed, you can try their paid plan for free on a 14-day trial.  At the end, you can either upgrade for £9 a month or revert to their free plan.

 

Doodle

You might be familiar with Doodle polls which very quickly gathers your group’s availability and allows you to book your social or event effectively.  However there is much more to Doodle that just polls. With Doodle you can save time, increase productivity, improve organization, give yourself greater flexibility and provide improved communication.  Whether you are an entrepreneur, a freelancer, in sales or recruitment, Doodle has a plan suitable for you.  Plans prices range from $0 –  $8.95 per month, per user.  Each plan includes unlimited polls!

 

Microsoft Bookings

If you are a Microsoft user then you might have access to Microsoft Bookings.  You can customise appointment details and booking requirements.  As you may have guessed, Bookings is integrated with your Microsoft 365 calendar.  If you are a Teams user then Bookings will appear as an app within Teams.  You can create calendars, assign staff, schedule new appointments and meet online without leaving Teams.  The beauty with Bookings is that you will be able to create as many calendars as you like, each with its own unique setup.

 

There are so many more calendar apps for appointment and meeting booking out there.  If you’ve found one that you can’t live without then we’d love to hear about it.  Do get in touch by emailing mel@reddesk.co.uk.

 

New Client: Georgia Holleran and The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need

New Client: Georgia Holleran and The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need

We’re proud to introduce our new client Georgia Holleran and her book The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need!  During the coming months we’ll be working with Georgia to help her find podcasts guest spots, bookshops where she can talk about her book and events where she can run workshops using the techniques discussed in the book.

Here’s a bit about Georgia:

2022 was the toughest year of Georgia Holleran’s life, but she came through it unscathed, strong and even thankful. After 40 years of devouring self-help products and continually searching for answers to her life struggles, but encountering nothing but disappointment, frustration and despair, she suddenly discovered herself to be a pretty capable and confident person.

But she didn’t know why she was so bulletproof. How did she get to be so calm, resilient, resourceful and level-headed, even in crisis? Was it age? Wisdom? Luck? If she had known years back what was going to make this difference in her, could she have got there quicker?

But then it all began to make sense …

Georgia Holleran has spent her life researching how we can make the best of our time on this planet, without letting ourselves get in the way. Her background is in the arts, education, neuro-linguistic programming, cognitive hypnotherapy and a research Masters. This book summarises the best she has learned … so far.

Georgia explains: “Having spent 40 years restlessly searching for the ‘one thing’ I could focus on in my life, it dawned on me, in my 50s, that maybe I should have found it by now. This caused me to notice that my addiction to self-help products was part of the problem: the relentless hope to disappointment to hope cycle is generated by an industry that feeds on insecurity and optimism.

The catalyst came when I spent most of 2022 caring for my dying parents and then sorting out their affairs after their deaths. I noticed that, even though I was experiencing the most trying and emotionally charged year of my life, I was calm, capable and very much in control of the whole situation.

I examined how I had weathered the emotional storm and noticed I used many techniques that I had been taught and picked up since I was in my late twenties. It’s like they all came together when I needed them. Without me even remembering what to do and how to do it.

My book is my knowledge distilled and explained. As I wrote it, I realised the ONE THING that was missing. It was the key thing that, if not flagged up, renders ALL self-help products ineffective. Needless to say, the self-feeding self-help industry does not flag this up. So I decided to.

If you want to know more then why not be part of Georgia’s Community.  She is actively looking for The First 100 members who want to give her some solid feedback and results using her book: The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need.

If you would like to her to:

WORK WITH YOU PERSONALLY, to help understand what you’d like to achieve.
TEACH YOU EVERYTHING from The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need.
CREATE RESOURCES to further clarify anything you want help with.
GUARANTEE you’ll start to see your life and future in a very different way.

Just drop her a line here and let’s chat.

We’re very much looking forward to supporting Georgia with her project.  Keep an eye for our Red Desk social media posts with requests and see how you can help us make this book a hit!

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