If you’re running your own business, you know a thing or two about juggling — working top-speed on numerous projects while trying to find enough hours in the day to get everything done. So when you hear about apps that promise to streamline your life, making quick work of tedious, but necessary, tasks or helping you to get your team on the same page, it’s reasonable to believe you’d be interested.
Let’s take a closer look at some of the latest productivity-boosting apps on the market and learn more about how they can help overtaxed entrepreneurs regain two of the most valuable commodities — time and sanity.
CloudApp.
How it helps entrepreneurs: If you’ve ever seen a “wall of text” email and silently groaned, you’re not alone. No one likes getting ridiculously long emails, but sometimes an email has to be long to get your point across, right? Not anymore.
With CloudApp, you can quickly and easily capture anything on your computer — a file, image, screenshot or even an HD screen recording giving verbal and visual instructions on an upcoming project. You can share them through a short link, completely obliterating the need to type a lengthy email or load a cumbersome attachment. You can keep unauthorized users from inadvertently accessing your content by adding password protection. And you can determine if your recipient has viewed or shared your link, courtesy of the app’s built-in analytics.
Sorc’d.
How it helps entrepreneurs: If you’re feeling frustrated because you know you have the information/research/data somewhere in your files but can’t remember exactly where it is, you’re not alone. According to SINTEF, 90 percent of the world’s data has been created in the last two years and 62 percent of professionals say that their work quality suffers because they can’t sort information fast enough.
Sorc’d helps entrepreneurs quickly pull together pitch decks, investor decks and competitive research. By letting you easily gather, store, organize and get back to the source of snippets of online content you find interesting, Sorc’d lets you spend more time building and selling and less time searching and re-searching for information. Integration with Google Docs and Microsoft Office makes it easy to add Sorc’d information to your report, memo, spreadsheet or presentation.
Timely.
How it helps entrepreneurs: An app designed for entrepreneurs who make a living one appointment at a time, Timely is more than just your standard appointment scheduling app. Timely lets you manage your entire business while allowing customers to directly schedule appointments. Owners of small businesses such as salons and fitness professionals can manage their schedules via Timely’s mobile…