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Apps Every Small Business Needs
I get asked all the time by small business owners what apps they should be integrating into their business. There are a variety of articles out there talking about the top apps for the year.
Here are the Apps we recommend:
Communication
Slack
This team communication tool gathers group exchanges into one place, making information instantly available and searchable wherever you go. This cloud-based collaboration application began as an internal tool used by a now-defunct online game. SLACK is currently the fastest-growing B2B application, used by over 4 million active users every day.
Loom
Loom is a great way to capture videos to share with your team or clients. It can easily be integrated with Google Chrome and other applications like Trello, Google Docs, Basecamp, JIRA, Dropbox, Salesforce . Any video you record can be watched directly where it is shared.
Email
Google Suite
It is designed for your workplace and has everything you need in one place which makes working with your team a whole lot easier. You can collaborate in real-time with teammates or clients through documents, spreadsheets and slides. The ability to store and share files in the cloud gives you the ability to easily invite others to view, collaborate, and download.
Office 365
Whether you’re working in your office or on the go, you get a familiar, top-of-the-line set of productivity tools. Office applications —always the latest versions—let you create, edit, and share from anywhere in real time. 1 TB of storage per user, HD video, content sharing, shared calendars, and team chat.
CRM
Salesforce
Salesforce was created to take the hassles out of sales, service, marketing, and more with no software and no headaches. It can be integrated with 2,800 different apps. It can streamline processes and workflows with simple point and click power, so you can focus on customers.
Hubspot
HubSpot’s CRM platform has all the tools and integrations you need for marketing, sales, content management, and customer service. Each product in the platform is powerful alone, but the real magic happens when you use them together.
Project Management
Smartsheet
Smartsheet is the only platform that can scale from a single project to end-to-end work management, connecting business on a no-code, cloud-based platform where anyone can create the solution they need — backed by the control and security IT requires. Smartsheet is a software as a service offering for collaboration and work management, developed and marketed by Smartsheet Inc. It is used to assign tasks, track project progress, manage calendars, share documents, and manage other work, using a tabular user interface
Monday
Monday is a project management app that clearly organizes all tasks and boosts team communication. Just create a project, add tasks to the said project, and finally, add steps to each task. As employees complete a task or steps of a task, the status is updated so everyone can easily see where a project or task currently stands. In addition, users can create knowledge bases to store documents and anything else project related.
Trello
Trello is collaboration tool organizes your projects into boards, lists and cards so you can better prioritize work and life. At a single glance you can see what’s being worked on, who’s working on what and where in the process a project is. It makes project management–which can include work assignments, family chores or travel plans–easy and enjoyable.
What apps are you using in your business?
