5 Great Web Apps Business Owners NEED to Know About Technology is changing our businesses and the demands for the rapid management and accomplishment of tasks and daily goals is higher than ever. However this is driving higher workloads and strain to business owners which eventually leads to information overload, missing key communications and engaging in way too much multi-tasking. Eventually this may lead to a decrease in effectiveness and a constant increasing demand in completing mundane, routine tasks.
Fortunately with the huge variety of productivity apps that can be put to work we can also use technology to manage our routines, schedules and responsibilities in an orderly fashion. Let’s look at 5 of my personal favourite web apps for my business – while not a criteria for selection, it’s worth mentioning these are all free in their basic forms. Inbox by Google Emails are the biggest drain on any business owner’s precious time. Amongst the hundreds of emails a business owner will receive each day, only a handful will actually require immediate attention. The disease which is the CC email is only going to get worse as everyone seems to want to copy the boss into every damn email!
Inbox by Google changes the way you handle emails, with the ability to filter and group any particular set of emails, which is really nice as you no longer have to delete promo emails or file away your travel details and purchases. But by far the best feature is being able to ‘snooze’ emails to be addressed at a later time or date with the option of ‘someday’.