Many online resources are available to help small businesses thrive and grow.
Small businesses owners and managers often get caught up in the details of running an enterprise. The manager may not need to hire someone to handle such things, but could use help in some aspects of managing the business. Fortunately, the Internet offers many online resources that help small businesses take care of certain management concerns. The helps may take the form of downloadable applications or ways to share files through the browser. Either way, by providing a quick way to perform tasks, these online resources save small businesses time and money.
Money Matters
Many small businesses outsource their money matters to accountants. If your business is online, there are many tools to help you handle your money. For example, webapps such as Invoice Journal and LiteAccounting can help you create, send and track invoices to any customers. Bootstrap allows you to budget for your business and includes features to help you prepare for tax time.
Time Management
Employees need to be on the same page with the company calendar. There are plenty of tools that allow this. For appointment setting you can use Appointy, a small web application that allows you to set and manage appointments with clients or partners. When Is Good allows a group of people to cooperate in setting the time for a meeting based on when they are free.
Work groups
Different documents and files need to be edited by multiple employees in some cases. Homecourt is one easy way to collaborate on different documents. Google Documents also allows collaboration on files. Yammer acts similar to twitter, giving business people a way to communicate short project updates.
Meetings
Besides using time management apps to set an appointment time, many programs allow meetings to take place remotely. KinetiCast allows businesses to deliver presentations through the browser of someone who is not in the same room as the presenter. 280 Slides is another program that allows free presentation creation. This is similar to Google Documents, which allows the creation and sharing of presentations.
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