Email marketing tools compared for a beginner: what actually matters
Deliverability, automation, price as you grow — plus a decision checklist.
Read the guide →Pick the right software for your small business. In plain language.
Plain-language guides for beginners: email, websites, courses, automation, and the full software stack — tested and explained simply, from an iPad.
Start here
Five guides that take you from zero to a working software stack.
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Control versus convenience, search basics, and a decision checklist.
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Hosted platforms vs self-hosted vs marketplaces, owning the student list, and a decision checklist.
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What to automate, how to start with one task, and a decision checklist.
Read the guide →A first-software-stack checklist for a new online business
The five jobs (website, email, payments, analytics, backup), a launch-day checklist, and a first-month checklist.
Read the guide →The software stack, in one place
A new online business needs five jobs covered: a website where people find you, email to stay in touch, payments to take money, analytics to see what is happening, and a safe place for your files — plus a backup habit. The first-software-stack checklist puts them together in the order to set them up, with nothing extra until you need it.
What this site is
SaaSPad is a small guide site for people picking software for a small online business. The angle is practical: this site itself is built and run from an iPad Pro, with an iPhone for mobile checks, and no home computer anywhere in the process. Every guide explains what to do, what it costs to keep, and what to check before you pay. Prices change, so where a price would normally appear, the guides tell you to check the current price on the provider's site.
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