Comments on: 10 Helpful & Useful Apps for Small Business

By: matterco

matterco — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:46:37 +0000

Another great application for small business is Perq (http://www.perqworks.com). Perq helps create and track employee paid time off (PTO). Perq is integrated with Outlook, Google Calendar, and iCal, Perq helps companies define vacation, sick, and personal time off policies, and Perq makes requesting time away from the office easy.

By: Christopher Altman

Christopher Altman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:46:37 +0000

By: davidlad

davidlad — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:16:05 +0000

You sound like a linux guy! Thanks for the apps..I've been looking for a tool like pidgin for some time (running yum install pidgin in the background) and I seem to be using half the list already.

My favourite app which I found is quite good for mini graphics task is the GIMP...its fast, can do a lot of things and I think it belongs in this list.

I'm currently developing for a property rental site and I have to do some image manipulation which the GIMP has helped with loads of times.

I know a lot of people think the GIMP is complicated but it getting a lot better. A lot of the action is now graphics driven and when you use a linux desktop...it's a must have tool.

By: Pramodh

Pramodh — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:18:21 +0000

An impressive list of tools. I have been using most of them, and cannot do without these for the business. Though I use a few more powerful tools, which I thought the forum would like to take advantage of.

I have been using ScreenJelly for onscreen recording in conjunction with Twitter and it's a very good combination. You can instead just sending your twitter followers to a particular page, can now insert your EXPERTISE by recording the onscreen video.

For collaborating with my team, and getting to interacting and building relationship with our customers, we use Injoos, a social collaboration product. Solves the problem of scattered information, and provides web conference and library / resource centre. This is an integrated product for collaboration – the social way.

By: mattfenn

mattfenn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:49:38 +0000

Great list Joe, like Jarrod I'm using most of these myself!

I would like to add Moobiz http://www.moobiz.com as it covers all of the stuff you would need to run a service based business from crm, project management, estimates, invoices and accounting to email broadcast and even website/ecommerce. All for one price (from £15/month).

Worth checking out!