Every business owner, entrepreneur and professional has an arsenal of apps and tools that they rely on. Whether you need a way to organize your blog post ideas or you’re trying to invoice clients, there’s an app out there for you.
- FlipBoard: Choose the topics that you’re interested in reading about so FlipBoard can create a custom collection just for you. Send yourself articles you want to read later or “flip” them into magazines for future browsing. As you go along, the app will recommend new topics and publications to follow so you can regularly add to your boards.
- Pocket Analytics: Any owner should be able to find out the status of their business at any moment. Pocket Analytics gives a mobile overview of multiple services, like web analytics.
- Contactually: It can be difficult to keep in touch with everyone in your ever-growing network, which is where this app comes in. You can divide your contacts into segments, set followup schedules for the different categories, and basically make sure that you never lose touch with those important to your career.
- Refresh: If you’ve ever attended a meeting and been embarrassed because you don’t remember anything about the people you’re connecting with, Refresh is a great solution. The app syncs with LinkedIn, Facebook and other services to keep all the information about a person at your fingertips. It even keeps track of past interactions so you never mix one person up with another.
- Sunrise: When you juggle multiple calendars, days can get out of control and confusing. Sunrise will connect all of your calendars seamlessly by syncing with various calendar services. You can stay on task, on top of your schedule, and productive all week-long.
- TrackMaven: It can be tricky to stay ahead of the competition, especially if you’re up against big dogs like Wesley Edens. This app optimizes your content distribution and helps you find marketing opportunities. It will also keep track of your competitors’ content and marketing so you can see how you’re doing in comparison.
- Invoice2Go: With this app, you’ll never forget to send out an invoice again. You can send professional invoices quickly from wherever you are, which means you’ll never have to wait to get a payment because you’re away from your laptop.
- Skitch: If you have existing content, Skitch makes it a breeze to add annotations. This is especially helpful if your position requires you to give a lot of feedback.
- Mint: For years, Mint has been the best tool for managing your money.
- Hootsuite: With everything that Hootsuite does, it’s amazing that the cost is still so low. You can upload a variety of social media profiles for as many clients or team members as you want; post or schedule posts for those profiles; and create streams to keep you on top of any number of things, like updates from followers or keyword searches.
- Box: Keep track of your projects in real-time by storing them in the cloud. This is incredibly helpful if you work with a remote team. Box is also responsive, meaning it will work on any device you use to get access to it.
- IFTTT: Have you ever wanted to get a text message only when it’s going to rain the next day? Or have you ever wanted every Instagram post to automatically go out as a Tweet? With IFTTT, which stands for “If This Then That,” you can create any number of recipes to sync everything at the office and at home, not to mention online.
Doing it all doesn’t mean going it alone 100% of the time. These useful apps will help you get control of your schedule so you can automate as much of your life as possible