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10 Awesome Apps for Small Businesses
Sep 25th
With the help of great apps, a small business can turn into a big business in short order!
(Okay, that’s not the whole truth. You also need customers, a profitable business model, a great team, and a few dozen other stars in alignment for all of that to happen. But still, the apps are helpful. Below are ten that are awesome.)
We’re told that once upon a time, people used to meet in person to transact business and to collaborate. We think that’s probably just a myth, but just in case there are people actually still meeting in meatspace, we wanted to highlight WebEx. WebEx is an app that lets you hold slick videoconferences in HD.
It’s better than real life!
If you try to send a big file through email, you’re going to get a bounceback notice. (Email systems have their limits, after all.) With Dropbox, however, you can upload big files and share them easily and securely with anyone. You can also setup automatic folder uploads so that your own files are always backed up. That way, your next virus or crash won’t destroy your business, just your computer.
Since we’re being digital elitists in this post, we’ll go ahead and say it: business cards? Actual business cards? Ew.
If you’re someone who feels the same way, but who can’t avoid taking business cards here and there, CardMunch is for you. It convers the cards directly into LinkedIn contacts through your smartphone.
Then you can toss that little card in the trash, where it belongs.
Do you constantly forget things that you need to get done? Do you wish you could take notes conveniently? Evernote is the answer.
Not only can you jot down notes and schedule reminders, but you can also share things easily, create markups, search, and do lots more. Evernote is just too darn helpful to ignore.
If you travel a lot, and administration of travel details is getting out of hand, TripIt can make things a lot easier. Just forward your confirmation emails to TripIt, and an itinerary for your trip will be created automatically. It’s much easier than cutting and pasting things into calendar apps and losing details like customer service numbers or trip IDs.
If your business is based on hourly billing, or you’d like a cleaner solution than timesheets for your employees, Toggl gets it done. With Toggl, you can easily push start and stop on different tasks, type in descriptions, and get an automatic record of what you did, how long it took, and how the day was otherwise spent.
The gold standard for taking payments with your mobile device. You download the app, plug in the Square, and your customers can swipe their plastic all day long. The cost is a straightforward 2.75% fee, a small price to pay for instantaneous payments from anywhere.
Conferences and industry events are all about networking. With Bizzabo, you can see who is at your event and propose a meetup, making the whole process a lot more valuable and efficient. Why wonder if there are relevant contacts at an event when Bizzabo can let you directly browse the people that are there from your mobile device?
The world’s most popular business applications, on your mobile device. ‘Nuff said.
But wait, that’s only 9 apps. What’s the 10th?
Bizness Apps, of course!
If your business hasn’t published a simple, cost-effective mobile app and website yet, you’re missing out on an essential opportunity. Going mobile is simply no longer an option. The world (i.e. your customers) has gone mobile and we all need to follow suit.
Go mobile before the competition does, and their market share will soon be your market share!
5 Great Free Productivity Apps for Android
May 3rd
Today’s stressed-out, Type-A workers need all the help they can get, as they rush from one project to the next. Unfortunately, the apps below won’t make you folks any less stressed (we know that’s impossible), but they will make you more productive.
If you’re going to burn yourself out, you might as well at least get something done, right?
1. Google Drive
The ultimate solution for cloud-based document collaboration and sharing, plus a load of other powerful features. Not only will this app let you access your Google Drive files, but you can actually edit documents and spreadsheets, view pdfs, share items with your contacts, and do tons of other stuff.
It’s a pretty powerful solution when you’re not at your computer, but you need something to take the place of Microsoft Office. It’s doubtful that you can conveniently perform highly complex actions, but for quick-and-dirty editing and sharing, it’s a totally functional tool.
2. Evernote
The gold standard for note taking.
Evernote is not just for jotting down a few words here and there, though – you can sync notes across devices, share lists, access notes remotely, record voice reminders, and generally keep on top of your To-Do items in every way. It’s won a tidy pile of awards and accolades, and it’s totally free. Just download it, already!
3. CamCard Free
Business cards are riding slowly into the sunset in many places and industries, replaced by their virtual equivalents. But until they’re completely retired, it can still be helpful to have a way to capture the data on them, and integrate it with your electronic contacts lists.
Enter CamCard Free.
With CamCard, you take a picture of a business card, and the information on the card will be pushed to your address books (iPhone, Gmail, Exchange accounts, etc.)
Older folks tend to be the most powerful folks in an industry. And they’re the ones most likely to hand you a business card. The next time they do, don’t look at it with disgust. Just take it, smile, and CamCard it. Then throw it out.
It’s the best of both worlds.
4. Voice Recorder
“Wait, did he say don’t use blue in the graphics, or did he say he wanted blue in the graphics? Ah well, no prob. Lemme just pull up the recording.”
Thanks, Voice Recorder!
Not only can you record meetings, calls, interviews, lectures, or simple notes to yourself, but Voice Recorder also sends them automatically to your Gmail account as attachments for easy access from any device later on. The recordings are searchable by title and date, and if you’re feeling creative, can also be used as ringtones.
For a grand total of $0, it’s hard to see how you could go wrong, here.
5. Dropbox
If you need to share files easily, even big ones, this is your app. And Dropbox isn’t just for sharing with others. With auto-uploading folders on your computer, you can save files on your desktop, and have them automatically appear in the cloud for access later from your Dropbox app.
It’s a smooth-functioning, go-anywhere solution that basically lets you ensure that files are never stranded on a particular device or with a particular team member.
Neat, huh?
