Top 10 Life-Changing Apps and Services for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses

We all know that running a business — any business — is hard. Whether you’re a startup CEO, independent entrepreneur, or the owner and only employee of a small business, just managing the day-to-day can be a challenge.

Luckily, these apps and services can make life a little easier for you and your team.

10. Slack

Communication can be tricky, especially when managing a team of remote workers. Slack makes the process easier with an intuitive and powerful messaging and collaboration platform. Instant message conversations can be organized into private or public channels, and the app makes it easy to bring documents and other files into the workflow. The platform also automatically archives messages, notifications and files — so you can easily pull up a past conversation with a powerful search tool.

Slack is free to try, with additional features and controls available for a set monthly price. The app is available to download in the Mac app store.

9. Mint

Finances are the lifeblood of any business, and Mint makes it easy for you to keep track of them. Mint is an all-in-one money management, bill payment, credit score monitoring, budgeting and investing platform. The app lets you get track and pay bills, account-related alerts, schedule payments, and more — all from within the app. Additionally, you can add multiple bank or credit accounts, so you have can keep tabs on all of your money, without switching between various banking apps.

Mint is free in the App Store, or via browser.

8. Pocket Analytics

In our increasingly internet-reliant age, many businesses live and die by the quality of their websites. But analytics and metrics, which can be key to website success, are spread out and hard to understand. That’s where Pocket Analytics comes in. The apps pulls data and metrics from a variety of tracking systems — Google Analytics, Facebook Insights, StatCounter and Bitly, to name a few — and organizes them into easy-to-use and customizable dashboards. For more complicated tracking, you can create multiple dashboards and label them accordingly.