Web Based Tools That Can Make Your Business More Profitable

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As businesses have becomes more complex today, successful companies need to use a diversity of tools to increase efficiency in the workplace. Although there are traditional tools such as telephones, fax machines and photocopiers, companies in today’s world should adopt new technologies and use pioneering tools to help their businesses run more efficiently.

For anyone who is operating a small business company, trying to fit in the paperwork around the marketing, sales and accounting is sometimes a little tough. Online billing though makes life of business owner easier so it is a good thought of looking into this. Invoicera is an online billing and invoicing tool which saves a lot of time. You don’t need to waste your time for chasing your receivables. These tools provide your clients more than one choice to decide how/when/with what payment gateway they want to acquire your product. This creates a more proficient user friendly relationship, which can overall improve your business as well as your clientele’s. With these tools, you can also keep track of the time being spend on your client’s project, track expenses of your projects and company, and schedule your invoices and much more.   There are many companies that offer a complete package for such services, which makes life a lot easier than from scratch.

Virtual presentation tools such as DimDim, Adobe Connect etc are a Web conferencing tools that assist you to improve the effectiveness of your business. These tools allow you to organize virtual meetings, which means you can connect with an off-site customers and employees with a computer and an Internet connection. You can “share” the desktop, now with compelling content and interact with others through the computer. This can help your business to run more smoothly, reducing the time for which management and sales teams have to go on being there, thus reducing costs for the company.

There are many email marketing tools you can make use of for your business to become more smoothly, and most of these tools offer a free trial period. E-mail marketing tools such as Mail Chimp, StreamSend etc offer email marketing services that allow you to easily create customized newsletters which you need to send to your clients. Sending newsletters is simple and convenient to keep in touch with customers, to send important product updates, to make deals and create long-term relationships.

There are many project management tools like Basecamp, ActiveCollab etc that can help your business to grow faster. These tools allow you to easily manage project-related tasks in one place. For example, you can define the tasks and deadlines; gather feedback from members of the group and to centralize all information on each project. These tools allow you to treat the internal order, invoices and other finance transactions related projects. Each of them offers a free trial if you want to try and see if they have the right solution for your business.

There are many financial and accounting tools are available over the internet that can help to boost up your business productivity. Each of these enables you to consolidate all your company’s financial operations, saving you time, money and resources. If you are still making use of paper-based financial management systems, you can enhance your company’s efficiencies by switching to a web-based financial management tool like Peach Tree, Mint etc. You will be capable to keep records of all of your internal financial statements, balance sheets and projections, as well as bill and invoice clients.

Customer Relationship Tools permits your business to run more efficiently by providing a way to supervise your sales contacts and track your leads and follow ups. Customer Relationship Tools like Landslide, Highrise etc can assist you to build and sustain long-lasting relationships with your customers, which can lead to boost the sales and profits for your company.

Author Bio: This post is contributed by Andrew Norton. He is editor of bestdesigntuts.com, a blog where one can find all sorts of design information ranging from graphic deign tips to inspirational designs and resources & freebies for creative professionals.