Top 10 Life-Changing Apps and Services for Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses
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4. LinkedIn
No list of business-related apps would be complete without mentioning LinkedIn. The largest professional social media site in the world, LinkedIn’s mobile app lets you network with other professionals, find and recruit new talent, and keep an eye out for potential job opportunities. In additional to individual professional accounts, there are also profiles for companies and groups. LinkedIn is completely free to download and use, with some premium features available at an additional cost.
3. Trello
For startups or businesses that run through a lot of projects, Trello is an easy way to keep track and manage workflow. Tasks are assigned to “cards” that are placed on the Trello board — which you can then add members, comments and attachments to. Managers can furnish each task with deadlines, labels and checklists to make it easy for teams to get information at a glance and collaborate on the go — and when a task is changed or updated, each team member gets a notification via the smartphone app. Trello is a free-to-use app, with certain additional features available via a monthly subscription.
2. Expensify
Nobody likes tracking expenses while on business trips or outings, but Expensify can make it a little easier to bear. Take a picture of a relevant receipt, and the app will automatically pull information from it and add it to an expense report. Alternatively, a debit or credit card can be linked to the app — allowing for expense charge to easily be accounted for. A built-in expense report creator lets you easily put together a professional-looking document. Expensify is $5 per month for team users, and $9 per month for corporate users.
1. MailChimp
Email marketing can be a useful and even essential tool for business and entrepreneurs of all types — and MailChimp makes it an easy medium to break into. Within the app, you can easily build and manage mailing lists, as well as create and send well-designed newsletters and email templates to those lists. MailChimp also gives you statistics and performance reports, so you can tailor emails and newsletter to better fit your audience or customers.
MailChimp is free to use — as long as you’re sending under 12,000 emails a month to fewer than 2,000 subscribers. Any more than that, and the service offers additional service on a pay-as-you-go plan.
