Business Productivity Tools
Featured Articles:
Top 10 Tools to TurboCharge Your
Business Productivity
by: Donna Gunter
If I asked my clients about their most valuable
commodity, without a doubt they would tell me that it's their time.
Many are solopreneurs and are wearing the hats of CEO, CFO, Director
of Marketing, Director of Sales, and IT Director, just to name a
few. When they discover a product or service that helps them reclaim
time, they feel they've hit the mother load, as time is money to
them.
I love to find new technology or new services
that help automate my business or enhances my productivity and makes
the daily chores easier and faster. How many more clients could you
follow up with and add to your business if you freed up 30 minutes,
60 minutes, or as much as 2 hours a day? Here are my top 10 tools
that I use to turbocharge my productivity:
1. AcqURL: AcqURL makes managing a moderate to
massive amount of bookmarks very easy. You create any number of
categories in which to file your favorites, and adding a favorite
website is as easy as clicking a button. http://www.acqurl.com
2. AddressGrabber Business: Address Grabber
Business helps small business owners capture names and addresses
from sources like email signatures, web sites or documents into a
chosen database (ACT, Excel, Outlook, etc.) in just one click.
http://www.addressgrabber.com
3. Argali White and Yellow: Argali White and
Yellow searches multiple telephone and email directories so you
don't have to. The found listings are combined, formatted in uniform
way and displayed as if they came from one integrated metadirectory.
You can also do a reverse search for a phone number and search for
area codes. And, the program updates itself with any new listings
every time you open it. Both a free version and a paid version are
available for download. http://www.argali.com
4. Evernote: With EverNote you can easily store
and quickly access typed and handwritten memos, webpage excerpts,
emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches,
documents and more! A free version or a 30-day trial of the paid
version is available for download.
http://www.evernote.com/en/downloads/
5. GotoMyPC: Need access to your files but
don't want to drag your laptop with you on vacation or on a business
trip? A subscription to GotoMyPC.com will enable you to log into
your office computer and retrieve whatever you need, just as though
you were sitting in front of it. A free 30-day trial is available
for download. http://www.gotomypc.com
6. MaxEmail: I bought a fax machine and it sat
unopened on the floor of my office for over a month, and I
eventually returned it. Why? Because MaxEmail, www.maxemail.com lets
me send a receive faxes through the Internet/email and made my need
for a fax machine obsolete. The faxes arrive in PDF format, so you
can easily share you faxes with others as needed.
7. Practice Pay Solutions Merchant Account: If
you're not taking credit cards in your business, you're missing out
on sales. The coolest feature that they offer in this service is the
ability to do batch uploads of charges, so if you have a number of
clients on retainer that you invoice every month, you can simply
create a spreadsheet and batch upload the data rather than entering
each client's information individually.
http://www.profcs.com/app/aftrack.asp?afid=127926
8. Roboform: This program is the top-rated
password manager and web form filler that completely automates
password entering and form filling. You'll never have to remember a
password again! I maintain both my passwords and user info and that
of my clients in this program. http://www.roboform.com
9. Tidy Start Menu: As time goes by, the list
of the programs in the Start Menu becomes too long. As a result,
each time you want to launch a program, it takes too much time to
find it in the menu. The "Tidy Start Menu" program will help you to
put the menu in order and make your work comfortable. Thus, after
using the program, you will have a compact menu, which will contain
nothing but categories' names and you'll have no trouble finding a
necessary program. A freeware version and paid version are available
for download. http://www.tidystartmenu.com/index.shtml
10. XDrive: Xdrive is your personal hard drive
on the Internet. Whether you are managing files for yourself or your
business, Xdrive enables you to store, access, share, and backup
your files anytime, anywhere. You can also send others a link to a
file that's too large to send through email. http://www.xdrive.com
Copyright 2005 Donna Gunter
About The Author
Donna Gunter
Online Business Coach Donna Gunter helps self-employed professionals make more profit in less time online. To sign up for more FREE tips like these and claim your FREE ebook, TurboCharge Your Productivity: 50 + Tools To Help You Automate Your Business and Make More Profit in Less Time Online!, visit her site at http://www.OnlineBizCoachingCompany.com.