5 Business Tools and Apps Your Employees Will Love

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Your workforce is the backbone of your

small business. Some may argue that it is
your human resources department, or an
external recruiter that makes it all
possible. While that is certainly open to
debate, one irrefutable fact remains: The
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quality of the people doing the work

determines the quality of an organization.
Developing a quality workforce requires
motivated employees; and motivated
employees are engaged and productive
individuals. Yet while motivation is not the
sole responsibility of an employer, as a
business owner, it pays dividends to do
your part.
One of the best ways to equip your
people is through the use of tools to help
them do their job better, with ease. From
task execution to expense reporting and
more, heres a look at ve business tools
that you, and your employees, will bene t
from:
1.
Bitrix24
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Trello
Trello is a cloud-based project
management software that takes care
of both the big and small things. With
Trello you can record every piece of
information that matters to you
from daily to-dos to business ideas
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Information is stored on cards, and
cards can be organized into
customizable lists that are stored via a
board.
For team-based projects, you can
invite as many people as you like to a
board where members can be
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assigned tasks, add or edit cards,
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mobile-based application that makes

expense reporting faster and easier. It
simpli es the entire process by
centralizing everything from expense
tracking to reimbursement, and lets
users take snapshots of their receipts
on the spot and save a digital copy. If
receipts are scattered everywhere in
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Like
Google Apps, Dropbox, Evernote, for

example you can easily import them
into Expensify with one click.
For individual users, Expensify is free.
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For small companies, the rst two

submitters are free, and every
submitter thereafter is priced at $6
per month. For larger businesses,
after the rst two, submitters cost $11
per user per month. The great thing
about Expensify is their business
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model: a pay-per-activity pricing

strategy, instead of monetization
based on a number of users. This
simply means if nobody submits an
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expense for a month, you pay

nothing.
4.
AnyPerk
After a hard days work, employees
deserve access to quality employee
perks. AnyPerk is a tool to help you
do just that and more you can
reward employees with perks and VIP
treatment. AnyPerk represents over
2,500 small businesses and startups,
giving your company access to
discounts from the top brands across
di erent industries. For a minimum
of ve employees at $5 per month
per employee, employees can
immediately access AnyPerk perks
upon registration.
5.
iDoneThis
As the name suggests, iDoneThis is a
tool that helps employees keep track
of the things theyve accomplished for
the day by responding to an email
reminder. This can help your team
stay on top of larger projects with
many moving pieces, complete daily
to-do lists, and bolster overall
productivity. On the management
side, you receive unprecedented
visibility into whats being done and
what needs to improve, sans the
endless team meetings.
For personal use, iDoneThis is free.
For more features such as visual
graphs, word clouds and organization
tags, iDoneThis Gold is priced at $5
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per month while team subscription

start at $5 per member per month.
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This is a great list for a small
business. Our team of VAs use
Trello and Expensify and theyre all
fantastic and so valuable. Will be
checking out some of the others.
Thanks!
Kim Waugh
Another app worth mentioning here
is Talygen. It is the leading project
management and time tracking app
for employees working in teams. If
you want to boost team output and
keep your employees focused, this is
the app to download.
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