Inside the Briefcase
Business Tools to Help You Become More Organized and Productive
April 28, 2015 No CommentsFeatured article by Kerry Blake, MS Office expert, trainer and lecturer.
Most small business owners will agree that it’s quite difficult to find balance between all there is to do, especially if you must accomplish your tasks within just a few hours.
Thus, remaining focused and on track feels impossible, but the cult of productivity inspires us that we can do it– especially if we have the small business tools that can help us get organized and more productive in our work.
We’ve researched some of the best productivity tools that can help you get the job done in no time. Read on to find out what these tools are:
1. LockedOn
With the help of the managing tool called LockedOn, you’ll soon discover that taking control of your future income and success has never been easy. You can easily manage your properties, clients, tasks, bulk communication, targets, and so much more.
Aside from that, LockedOn is also described as a fully functional, cloud-based real estate database solution. Which only implies that you’ll have the ability to communicate with everyone while managing your resources, through the use of this remarkable app. You can easily manage your action plants, tasks, appointments, and email/MMS/SMS/letter templates.
http://www.lockedon.com/get-started/
2. Any.do/Cal
Most business owners would agree that they usually greet the morning with a long list of tasks. Fortunately, one of the best apps that you can use in order to organize your daily responsibilities, is the Any.do. This app allows you to quickly and easily organize your to-dos for the day. Once you’ve accomplished them, just click “done,” and they’ll be removed from the list. This app will allow you to play around with your tasks so that you can accomplish them on time, even though it seems like your schedule is already jam packed. Additionally, the company behind Any.do also offers an app called Cal. This allows the user to create certain tasks that can be synched with Any.do.
3. Evernote
This app is considered to be the great grandfather of note-taking apps. This product works well on mobile devices and computers– something most business professionals deal with all throughout the day.
It doesn’t matter if you need to keep track of an upcoming business trip, or you just want to share some notes with your colleagues. With Evernote, this can easily be done in just a blink of an eye.
4. HipChat
Business professionals usually struggle on a daily basis to keep up with their ever-growing email messages, and that’s the reason why HipChat was created. This cross-platform tool allows the user to message the entire team or group whenever it’s needed.
Likewise, unlike other private messaging apps, the HipChat doesn’t use server technology in order to work. With your company’s mobile, desktop, and web apps, you can easily participate in a chat your small business has organized. Furthermore, aside from reducing the amount of email messages that should be delivered about your team, the HipChat also promotes communication with one another. No need to worry that your email messages will be left unanswered.
5. Google-Apps
Last, but definitely not least, the Google Apps is one of the productivity tools that’s hard to beat. The collaboration tools, such as: calendar, spreadsheets, and docs are definitely hard to beat. Though, that’s not all, it also has email, storage, and several organization apps. No wonder why a lot of small business owners consider this to be the perfect starter pack.
https://www.google.com.au/intx/en_au/work/apps/business/
There you have it, these are just some of the productivity tools that can help your business become more successful.
Kerry Blake is a MS Office expert, and has been a trainer and lecturer for the past seven years. As he put it, “Most of my articles are inspired by people I meet in class. You can find me writing about technology and cars when I feel I got something to say.”
