Three Digital Tools Small Business Owners Can Use to Stay Organized and Streamline Their Business
It’s no secret that business owners and entrepreneurs often have to wear many hats. Every single piece of the operation has to run smoothly, but it’s often hard to be in so many different places at once.
We’ve found that business owners that invest some time in implementing digital technologies and project management tools can help their entire team get work done faster, smarter and under budget.
Here’s three of the most popular digital tools you can use right now to level the playing field with your competitors and optimize your business.
Asana
To stay on top of all of the moving pieces of a project, there’s no better tool than Asana. Asana is a project management platform popular with small business owners. Its intuitive, user-friendly interface allows you to organize and break up a project into small tasks that can be divided among team members.
Asana also lets you track each stage of a project through real-time updates, reports and deadlines. That’s why business owners who use Asana can avoid scrambling from one fire drill to the next!
Asana also improves collaboration by storing conversations with teammates, vendors, and clients all in one place. You can assign subtasks, create project milestones, set deadlines for tasks and build customized tracking processes so nothing gets lost through the cracks.
Slack
Another indispensable tool for small business owners is Slack—an online platform that broke onto the scene as a single, centralized location for all business communications. Traditional methods for organizing business communication such as email can lead to disjointed, unorganized and sluggish flows of information. In contrast, Slack offers lightning fast communication, enhanced security and can amplify an already efficient organization.
With Slack, it’s easy for you to organize team and individual conversations across multiple channels. Slack revolutionized the way employees talk to one another by offering a range of capabilities, such as messaging, file sharing and video conferencing, that make communication simple and easy.
If your business uses a lot of third party applications, Slack also offers effortless integrations that are quick to create. Slack not only lets you share files, documents and images directly within the platform, but it also allows you to automate and customize work flows through the Workflow Builder tool.
Google Workplace
Lastly, there’s Google Workplace. The best reason to use Google’s suite of versatile and useful apps is that many of your employees will likely already be well-versed in Google Docs, Gmail or other Google apps. On top of that, Google Workplace has video conferencing, access control, shared calendars, customized email addresses and enhanced security protection.
Best of all, you can continue to work offline by enabling offline access through the Google Admin Console dashboard. Simply write, edit and comment in offline mode and then reconnect to the Internet to sync all your changes to the Cloud. You’re also able to collaborate with other team members on the same document in real-time when online. Its collaborative interface allows team members to also work simultaneously on Docs, Sheets and Slides while setting access rules for who can view, edit or share the document.
Conclusion
To be a small business owner requires a lot of commitment and the ability to constantly juggle priorities. You can’t be everywhere all at once, but you can gain control over your business by integrating some of these tools into your systems.
Connect with our team to learn more about other tools you can use to streamline your business.
