6 Productivity Apps for Small Businesses

Ready to rocket the momentum of your small business? It’s time to rethink your time management strategies for your small business. These productivity apps enable small business owners to leverage technology to get more done in less time, make massive strides in progress, and amp up revenues and net income in fewer hours…

1. Dragon Dictation

Appolicious names Dragon Dictation as one of ‘5 Essential Small Business Productivity Apps’. Dragon allows small business owners to dictate short messages on the fly to avoid all the stopping and starting, having to take more time out to brainstorm all over again, and the hassle of navigating a thousand post-it notes. Some complain this app is a little glitchy, but others rank it as the best app they’ve got.

2. Trello

Trello is a cloud based project management service that makes collaborating with multiple employees and remote contractors a breeze. It allows managers to easily store and share files in the cloud, track progress and productivity, and effortlessly delegate tasks.

3. Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media management tool that offers easy management of multiple profiles and platforms from one dashboard. This is an especially powerful tool for the growing ranks of online marketing agencies, providing streamlined publishing and reporting for clients. Hootsuite might have been around for a little while already, but isn’t being used by all the small businesses that should be adopting it.

4. Facebook Ads Manager

This might not be the type of ‘revolutionary’ productivity app expected to be found in a list like this, yet has rapidly emerged as one of the most powerful tools available to small business owners in the last few months. Thanks to new PPC advertising and promoted post options, as well as being able to automate adding new likes, this app can help solo entrepreneurs and bootstrapping CEOs to slash the overheard of hiring an outside social media marketing agency and put their budgets directly into generating results to maximize marketing ROI.

5. Creative Cloud

Whether it is composing print marketing materials, formatting an entire magazine, creating graphics or touching up photos for websites and blogs, small business owners find design can be expensive and managing too many outside workers a nightmare. The launch of Adobe Creative Cloud changes all that. Vanity Fair uses it, and G-Code Magazine’s recent report on how to ‘Awesomize Website Photography’ explains that for only around $50 a month small business owners can get thousands of dollars in software like illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Lightroom 5. Then design your own masterpieces or at least speed up the process with easier collaboration.

6. Click-To-Call

By combining toll free numbers and Google Adwords’ extensions, small business owners can save on third party services and generate their own high converting inbound pone leads; often for less than $1. So ditch calling and embrace business technology to ensure only spending time talking to hot prospects that really want what you have to offer, and want it now.