Sunday, February 9, 2014

6 Indispensable Small Business Apps

You’ve got a business to run. Time is a commodity you cannot afford to waste. You want tools that don’t just have the cool factor but are actually going to become an indispensable part of your daily work flow. So here are six apps that have more than just a pretty interface. They will make your necessary but time-sucking tasks simple and streamlined-giving you the flexibility to build your business into the global force you have envisioned it to be! 

Shopify 
You don't need to have any technical or design experience to easily create a beautiful online store. And with Shopify you can set up an uber simple and sleek ecommerce presence.

Simply choose a stylish website design, easily customize your online store, add products, and you're pretty much ready to accept payments. 
Whether you already have products, are looking to sell digital goods or are interested in drop shipping — Shopify has a complete solution for you.

FormMobi 
Does the thought of filling out forms and entering daily data make you want to openly weep? With FormMobi, you can create and deploy custom forms from your smartphone.

The app makes the process of data coordination amongst your team more efficient and nearly fool-proof.

Users are able to log into a form’s base to create forms by dragging and dropping data elements such as billing addresses, dates, costs, and names into a form building area. Users can save the data to a cloud where it can be picked up by other members of their team when they log in via their Apple or Android devices.

IFTTT 
This rather awesome free app is an indispensable addition to your business tool belt. The “If This Then That” set up lets you create actions to be taken if a certain event happens. Want to keep an eye on your competitors in the next town over? Set an IFTTT recipe to email you a digest of their blog posts, which you can review while you're getting ready for bed each night. We explored this app in great detail here: here 
Audio Memo 
Audio Memos is a voice recorder for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It almost seems too simple given the clean interface / But its ease of use is the reason you will find yourself using it all the time. It has many features including voice-activated recording, slider, quality control, volume meter, volume boost, volume normalizing that will add to its shareability with your team. 

Audio Memos has been recognised as "The Best Voice Recording App for iPhone" by Life Hacker. And AppAdvice says “Audio Memos is just loaded with tons of amazing features that are implemented in an easy and natural way... a great full featured audio recorder".

Remember The Milk 
In the top heavy to do list sector of apps, Remember the Milk continues to stand out not least because the cross-platform app is handy for divvying up to-do lists between different groups in remote locations.

Its incredible simplicity makes for easy navigation and it’s support of natural language input ( as opposed to clicking a bunch of boxes o drop-downs) allows you to make lists as you would the old-fashioned way: on the back of a grocery store receipt. 

Remember the Milk has a free option and a pro account, so you can go either way. 

Square Register 
So you want to accept payments on the fly? Square Register accepts credit cards and you pay just 2.75% per swipe. You can also access your funds in 1-2 business days with no monthly fees, commitments, or surprises. Another nifty feature is that you can track payment activity, update your register, and find out what’s selling and what isn’t with simple charts. And an option that I think is super is that you can send receipts to your customers via text message or email!

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