The business world isn’t what it was 10 years ago and it won’t be the same as it is now in the next 10 years. To stay ahead, you need to be adaptable and evolve with the times if you want your business to stay strong like those of entrepreneurs like Anik Singal who’ve been leading their niche for more than 10 years.
Fortunately for you, technology has ensured you don’t have to stretch yourself too thin working on what’s important and also on what’s mundane. With the productivity apps on this list, the little things can be easily dealt with and the big things can receive your full attention. Here are apps the new age of businessmen and women put to use to optimise their business days.
HelloSign
This app provides an easy to use tool for processing contracts and other agreements when on the move. With it, you can view and sign a document without being anywhere near a printer, or your office. No need to print, sign or scan. Just sign, seal, and send with your fingertip.
Wave
You can create and forward necessary invoices, and receipts with this app in little time. It also efficiently tracks income and expenses, and has a tool for scanning receipts or bank documents. Other features include; direct bank data imports, customizable charts of accounts, invoicing and expense tracking.
Accompany
This is a productivity app that is useful for carrying out research and preparing for meetings. The app syncs with your online accounts and examines personal data to provide you pertinent information on parties at your meeting, but they have to be on your contacts list. Sounds like a creepy app but it’s nonetheless useful.
Slack
It’s a cloud-based team communication tool that gathers all exchanges between you and your team in one place for future reference.
Basecamp
An easy to use app that keeps track of your multiple ongoing projects and their due dates.
Reeder
An entrepreneur needs to stay updated round the clock about the happenings and ongoing trends in the world. Reeder helps make this not just possible, but also easy and efficient. With it you can stay updated with your favourite blogs or websites because it syncs with Google Reader and allows you view all your favourite content in one location on a smooth and clean interface. It works on computers and mobile devices.
Outright
This app helps those who don’t enjoy accounting or inventory by using its awesome accounting software to do their bookkeeping.
QuestionUp
This is an app that helps boost your creativity by providing you a host of problems to browse through and solve. The app’s goal is to stimulate you by making you solve difficult problems, and thus inspire you to do what entrepreneurs do best – creating and providing solutions/services to satisfy the needs of people.
Salesforce1
With this app you can stay in touch with your clients and manage your business with just your smartphone. All your customers’ information is integrated into the app and you can use it operate a client-centred business such as; sales, marketing, customer service etc. The insight the app provides makes satisfying a customer’s pertinent needs wholly possible.
Square
Great app that allows you process credit card payments from Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express at a low rate.
Box
With box, you can share files securely and communicate with members of your team, customers and other vested parties. Creating, editing, communicating and reviewing documents with other users in real time is all possible with this app.