As a small business owner, it often feels like you’re being pulled in a million different directions. Depending on your company’s size, you may very well be serving as CEO, CFO, Advertising Director, HR Director, Janitor, Secretary, Customer Service Rep, and every other role that has to be filled day today. Fortunately, there are some tools out there that can help you take your small business to the top.
Slack
Slack is a business tool that allows you to not only communicate on important projects within your company, but you can break those communications down to smaller teams and sub-projects within Slack. Unlike long email chains and mind-numbing group texts, Slack offers the ability to set up different threads within the communications to make sure that side conversations don’t derail the main idea. Price ranges vary from $0 to $12.50 a month, depending on how many features you want to include. If you’re looking for a way to communicate effectively, Slack is definitely worth a look.
GSuite
GSuite, created by Google, is currently being used by well over 3 million businesses. GSuite offers a low-cost option for keeping track of all your business website analytics, set up an email client for marketing campaigns, and even register your domain name. Google has set up a way for you to handle all the day to day technological tasks that will take your business to the top.
Trello
A fully functional tool that compiles your lists, cards, Trello can streamline many of the day-to-day operations of your business into an organized tool that keeps you on track. Trello is primarily aimed at individual use as opposed to the others that can be shared among team members, Trello can help you stay organized for everything from family vacations to lunch appointments to business projects with a tight deadline.
There are certainly more tools out there to help you in your entrepreneurial pursuits. Ultimately, you have to decide what exactly you need out of the small business tool that you’re signing up for. Don’t be afraid to check out the free trials that most of these services offer and test drive them all before you land on the one you want to use to take yourself to the top.