We love all the new apps coming out lately. And we love the ones we have been using for years. Here’s Follow Your Arrow’s favorite apps list:
- HootSuite – Hootsuite is a great application for posting to social media on a regular basis. It allows you to post across many different platforms. Just remember though: you still need to log in to social media applications and interact! Listening is even more important than posting!
- Tweetdeck – Tweetdeck is for Twitter. It’s a great application for organizing tweets, mentions, etc. Twitter posts move so quickly. And Tweetdeck allows you to keep up.
- Evernote – Evernote is a great note taking application. It allows for sharing across different devices. And allows you to attach different files.
- MileIQ – MileIQ allows you to track mileage and easily categorize it as personal mileage or business mileage for tax reasons.
- Gusto – Gusto is an online program for tracking payroll. It is simple and inexpensive.
- DropBox – We love DropBox. You can get it free or upgrade for a small amount yearly. DropBox is a great way to share files (especially big ones) to others or other devices.
- Wunderlist – This is great for ‘to do list’ for task management.
- Team Viewer – It’s a software for internet based remote access. So I can share my screen with my team even if they are on the other side of the state.
- Slack – Slack is a collaboration tool. It’s a great way to communicate between different teams and different team members (without worrying about an email getting lost).
- Skype – Skype is a great tool to have conversations if in person isn’t possible.
- Mail Chimp – Mail Chimp is an email service that is free. If you upgrade, the cost will depend on the number of contacts you have in the system.
- Aweber – Aweber is also an email service. I like the AB split testing they offer. Aweber has a 30 day free trial, then starts at $19/month (and goes up depending on the number of contacts).
- Polaris Office – Great app that allows you to pull up Microsoft Office applications.
- Log Me In – Great remote access program
- Insightly – good CRM (customer relationship management) tool for small business
- 17Hats – good CRM that has email service attached.
- Echosign – Need signatures online (instead of in person)? Echosign can make any document into an online signing document. This is great for any business that does not require a ‘wet signature.’
- BaseCamp – This is a project management tool for tracking the progress and keeping everyone in the loop.
- LeadPages – We love leadpages for creating landing pages. The best part? They have great analytics in order to optimize your lead page (and get better results).