5 amazing online tools for startups

Being an early stage firm is definitely exciting, because you have a unique idea of business which you are implementing. But this comes with loads of challenges. To be able to operate the business with full conviction, it is important that you and your team is technologically strong. To improve work efficiency, here are 5 amazing online tools that for startups.

1) Hootsuite – Website: www.hootsuite.com
With social media becoming an integral part of marketing plans, it is important for a startup to make its presence in the virtual arena. With Hootsuite, one can manage all their social media activities, pages and posts from a single dashboard. The Hootsuite dashboard will allow you to sync all the social media accounts, schedule posts and makes social media marketing easy. You can manage upto 3 accounts using the free version and need to upgrade to a paid plan to add more accounts.

2) Nimble – Website: www.nimble.com
CRM, Customer Relationship Management is of utmost importance, especially for a startup. Nimble provides startups and SMEs with effective options for proper CRM. It gathers information on your customers and team, pulls in information on important calendar dates, contact numbers, email IDs etc and stores it all in one place. This tool has a 15 day free trial version, and after that if you like it, you can always buy the complete version.

3) Trello/ Asana – website: www.trello.com/ www.asana.com
At YoGrad, we have personally used this (Asana) tool, and found it to be one of the handiest tools that any startup can have. This tool allows you to add all your team members over the dashboard, create a project and and then allot them with individual works and deadlines. It is a one stop project management tool, where in you have all the to-do works with information about who is handling which task and deadlines, work calendars and all at one place. The app even sends email reminders to the team before the due dates. The best part about it is, it is a free tool and you also have a mobile version of it, and can be accessed from anywhere.

4) Slack – website: www.slack.com
Still communicating with your team members through WhatsApp and other hand held tools? Well, it’s time to move on and try using this communication tool called slack (Hipchat is another option). It is a web version which allows you to communicate effectively with the members added in that chat list. It allows you to share lists, contacts, images and everything else that you would want to share.

5) Canva – website: www.canva.com
It is important for a startup to have appealing graphics of the information that is put up on different social media sites and presentations. To help make your graphics speak for you, Canva comes handy. Use Canva to convert your ideas into visual treats with ease. Yo u don’t need to be a designer anymore to create great marketing collateral, all you have to do is use canvas and drag and drop the stuff you need. There are lot of colour and design options for one to explore and play with. This is another favourite tool used in our YoGrad’s office .

Survey Monkey, Mailchimp, Dropbox, Gotomeeting are a few others that are really helpful for startups. Do you use any other tools to make your startup life easier? Do share them with thousands of other readers.

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