Previously we talked about Dropbox, TeamViewer, Wave Accounting, Bitrix24 and Evernote in our last post. We’ve received quite a lot of views on that blog post itself, so I’ve decided to extend it in this Part 2.
These apps or web applications are supposed to help small business owners to facilitate their daily business processes, increase work efficiency and reduce workloads.
Below are another top 5 picks for our list of useful apps for small business owners.
1. HootSuite
Internet marketers or online entrepreneurs probably heard about this before. HootSuite is the best (in my opinion and experience) social media management tool that you will ever use.
HootSuite allows you to manage your social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn and 30 more social networks in one place. With HootSuite, you no longer need to login to each individual social media account manually to post your updates.
HootSuite has message and post scheduling feature so you can schedule your post to publish on a later date. It is available for Android and Apple devices in the form of mobile app as well, so small business owners can use it on the go.
2. Google Drive
Similar to Dropbox and Box, Google Drive gives you 15Gb of free online storage to save almost any type of files that you have. The 15Gb is shared among your Google Drive, Gmail and also Google Photos.
The advantage of Google Drive? Well it’s hosted by Google, the search engine giant so you probably wouldn’t need to worry about the service availability and loading speed. Another obvious advantages of Google Drive over Dropbox is that you can open up your document, presentation or excel file in the website itself, which is very identical to Microsoft Office online.
You can edit your files online and invite collaborators or your team members to edit it together with you, live. If you are already using Gmail, it’s easier to accommodate to Google Drive as all your contacts will be automatically synchronize over to Google Drive.
Some companies grown so accustomed to Gmail and Google Drive that they actually subscribe to Google Apps for business, which gives you even higher capacity storage as well as better user collaborations.
3. Canva
Need to create a simple poster but do not want to hire a designer? This is where Canva comes to play.
Canva.com is an intuitive online picture editing tool which is amazingly simple to use. You don’t need any good knowledge in design or the software to use it as it has a powerful drag and drop editor and several handy tools that let you crop, resize, or change the background image.
Canva is helpful when you need to create something quick and simple.
However, Canva is not the best solution to cover all your designing needs. If you still need a better designed posters or graphics, consider hiring a full time designer instead.
4. GoToMeeting
Save time and travel expenses with online meeting. No matter who you need to meet up with, be it your colleagues, partners or clients, you can easily start an online meeting with them by using GoToMeeting.
Share your screen and communicate with audio and HD video directly through your web browser itself. Yes there is no need to download any software to bloat up your computer.
GoToMeeting is free for 3 people meeting with no sign-up needed. If you are going to use it for long-term meeting purpose, you can consider to purchase it.
5. Trello
Trello is a great collaboration tool that let you manage your team’s to-do list. It lets you organize anything with your co-workers or partner in a flexible and easy way.
You can use Trello to assign tasks to any members, and each member can invite more people to work on a single task, and mark them as complete after they have completed the assigned tasks.
By using Trello you can cut down a lot of time in email communication as well as tasks assigning and completing checklist. Best of all, Trello is free to use and available in mobile devices as well.
Are you also using some other apps that you find it useful for small business owners? Share it with us!
Sanz Teoh
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