In such a fast-paced digital era, entrepreneurs need to remain on top of their game. Allow me to enlighten you with the “Top 5 Powerful Tools for Entrepreneurs” that I use.
They can help you organize your entrepreneurial lifestyle. There are a number of productivity tools for entrepreneurs you can invest your time in and ensure that your business grows exponentially.
Enjoying an organized email inbox or a swift website experience was never this easy.
With the abundance of such tools and services, you can prioritize your efforts and focus on doing the work that really matters to you.
You can ensure you’re meeting your business goals by streamlining your priorities. Many among these tools are available for free, so you do not have any reason not to give them a shot. Let’s begin.
Top 5 Powerful Tools for Entrepreneurs
1. Trello
Trello is a great project management tool for entrepreneurs. It is a free tool that displays a work board of cards to allow you to organize your to-do priorities with ease.
You can create your own to-do lists and divide the tasks into cards accordingly. By default, every project or task consists of three work columns labeled as To Do, Doing, and Done.
[Editor’s note: You can rename the columns to anything you wish and add as many as you wish. I’m sure there must be a limit, but I haven’t ever hit it and have boards with dozens of columns.
The beginning of the video in this post explains How to Use Trello.]
Easily drag your cards from one column to the other ensuring maximum effectiveness. You will also be able to add comments, upload files, and create checklists on your work board.
Feel free to use this versatile app for carrying out and managing your different tasks. For example, you can:
- organize multiple projects at the same time
- write a book
- create an online course while tracking its progress.
Trello offers a bird’s-eye view on every project that you’re working on, ensuring that you remain efficient while enjoying complete control.
Thanks to its user friendliness and rich feature set, Trello remains one of the more popular project management tools available today for freelancers as well as SMEs.
2. Office Online
Office Online is an essential business tool. Starting from $6 per month, I feel it is the best complete package tool for office work.
Their word feature is by far the best text pad I’ve used. It is a great tool when you’re working on a single project with multiple team members. My favorite feature among many is its advanced accessibility.
You can access your office tools such as slides, docs, excel sheet, online storage, etc., from any location at any time on any device.
Office Online offers an easy-to-use interface and you can enjoy complete control of who can view or edit your content. You have the authority to control the accessibility and privacy of your content.
Authorized team members can proofread and edit the content for everyone else to see. You can chat with each other as well as add or remove comments.
You will also be able to see who is working on the project in real-time which makes it one of the best tools for entrepreneurs.
Furthermore, I use Office Online for all my projects, plans, and proposals. It is a very convenient tool that allows me to share inter-team as well as intra-team information.
Office Online auto-saves your work so you do not have to worry about losing your content. It comes with 1TB additional online storage.
3. X.Ai
X.Ai is an intelligent personal assistant that helps entrepreneurs to schedule and keep track of their meetings and appointments.
With the assistance of X.Ai, you can increase your productivity and focus effectively on the efforts you need to put in to meet your business goals.
This personal assistant ensures that your emails do not remain unanswered. It allows you and your team to reach an agreement concerning meetings or discussions.
X.Ai searches for the best suitable time based on everyone’s availability for a team meet-up.
Moreover, correspondence that comes in from clients can also be processed automatically. Set-up meetings for you with them while you focus on being an awesome entrepreneur.
4. QuickBooks
Another great tool for entrepreneurs, QuickBooks is a popular accounting tool that allows entrepreneurs to keep track of all their income and expenses.
It offers an easy-to-use interface where you can swiftly send invoices to your vendors and suppliers.
QuickBooks ensures the monitoring business transactions with ease. You can automate daily expenses. Moreover, you can also auto-fill parts of your taxes with just a few clicks.
5. InFlow
InFlow is a desktop-based inventory management tool for entrepreneurs that helps them track inventory.
You can fill your customers’ orders, reorder stock, generate purchase orders, and develop customized reports as well.
InFlow is a popular choice when you’re looking for effective tools for entrepreneurs. Its flexible design allows it to fit well with many different businesses and industries.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a wholesaler, retailer, or a manufacturer, InFlow will ensure you manage your inventory with ultimate ease.
Powerful Tools: In Summary
These above-mentioned five tools for entrepreneurs are essential for your business. Every businessman should have them in their arsenal for success.
There are plenty of other productivity tools available for entrepreneurs, however, many among them come at a high price and have a difficult interface.
I personally use these tools daily to manage my tasks. They allow me to remain on top of everything. They never fail to enhance my workflow and improve my processes.
Using these powerful tools will certainly add value to your business. You and your employees can help each other grow your business in amazing ways.
Salman Saleem
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Great compilation of tools for entrepreneurs. I think these will help a business person in growing their business. Looking forward to see more of these compilation. Thanks.
Yes, I do agree that QuickBooks is one of the tools that every entrepreneur should use. Along with the above information, I believe that with cloud-based as well as hosted QuickBooks, it becomes easier for businesses to run effectively. As the users can access their data from any location through any devices, restore it whenever required, and are provided with all-round technical support. Hence along with managing finances, users can enjoy the flexibility using Quickbooks hosting and online.
Hi , I use inflow and it is very good, you are very awesome. thnx for these tools.
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Being a enterpreneur i will surely try this out..I use office online that of great help
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I am using Pluto for task assigning and managing my all wok on it. your information is really awesome. thank you
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Informative article! Low-cost, powerful technology.
Trello is very easy to use. The keep track of everything in a minute.
office365 free online versions Microsoft office.
QuickBooks is used for GST compliant software for small businesses.
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There are so many cool tools around. I use one called Zapier to produce a list of bounced email addresses from my mailing list. I set up a filter in GMail that tags all the bounced addresses, Zapier then collects the email addresses and sticks them in a Google Spreadsheet for me. Once a week I then grab the bad addresses and clean my database. Saves me hours.
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How does OfficeOnline compare to free tools like Google Docs or even LibreOffice? The main issue I have is creating .docx files that don’t end up malformed when sending them to my clients.
Thanks for sharing such a valuable Article. I will definitely use some of these tools and Information in Imprvasing my Website.
Thank you!
I use the office online in my office, its use for a daily routine .Its really powerful.
Indeed… whether you’re running a simple blog or multiple businesses its take proper planning to get the stuff and achieved milestones consistently, you got the beautiful list I didn’t know about some would try soon, Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Hi Salman,
Great list. I use Trello and Quick books which are great tools. Even though I love Trello, I still use pen and paper – can’t beat good old fashioned writing lists!
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You mentioned some of the really nice tools for entepreneur. I have used Trello and it was a good to use for my business purpose.
We love to use these all. A part from Trello (very tricky to use for non-technical peeps like us!).
Great tools anyway! Will be seeing more like this one!
Hello Roohan,
Trello is actually very easy to use if you have someone show you how. Watch the beginning of my video in this post: https://growmap.com/blogger-mastermind/ to learn how.
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Hello Salman,
I appreciate these tools you mentioned. It shows your passion for finding productivity in our daily workload. 4 of these I use personally, except the Office Online, my preference is Google Tools whenever I am on the browser. Thanks for the valuable insights. Keep it up. We love to see more from you.
Another helpful article! In this time and age, this list of tools is highly relevant for every entrepreneur regardless of their business. Having these tools, the workflow and business process as well as communication are made easier. My boyfriend is an independent entrepreneur and wherever he is, even when he is, he can still manage his business. Thank you for summing this up and it’s great to read more of your articles soon. Cheers!
Use full to read and understand to make things easy
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A great piece on information provided thanks alot its too useful. A much needed information.
these tools are really helpful to new entrepreneurs to grow their business.
Thanks for sharing the list. I am an entrepreneur bdstall and these tools are much needed for me. I have recently launched a new website and for that, i must use one of the tools. Thanks again.
Thanks for adding more information & tools in my knowledge with this blog.
Thank you for the valuable insight. I am keen to try trello for tasks as currently i use reminders on my phone. Quickbooks is something I use for accounting and payroll.
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Entrepreneurs have a great chance for their startup business in 2019. App-based on demand business is booming with success. So, if you are going to startup business like uber, Gojek, TaskRabbit then launch your own app for the multi-service platform.
Thanks for the Great article on project management it is very beneficial for entrepreneurs. I am using an inflow tool and liked it a lot because it is easily manageable.
Quick book is really good for business it really helps entrepreneur. Thanks for sharing list of tools that help entrepreneur.
this is the first time I am reading this. the way you explains the things is really great.
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Awesome list! Will definitely try these out!!! 🙂 Thank you for sharing this!
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Hi Salman,
Thanks for sharing the list of these apps. Trello is my favorite of all time as it really helps in being productive and manage my team remotely and effortlessly. I would love to hear what’s your experience with Trello?
Keep doing such awesome work.
Cheers 🙂
Hi Salman,
I just love my QuickBooks, I got the perpetual licence back in the days so I don’t have to pay a monthly fee. Works great and the UI is simple.
Thanks
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Thanks Salma, nice article and these are new list for Entrepreneur. Will give a Try
Thanks for this article. I think that a time-tracking tool should also be on the list. A habit of tracking work hours increases productivity and helps to identify the weak parts of business workflow. I recommend tracking hours with actiTIME.
I was aware of the three. Will use rest of the two soon.
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My business buddy uses “Inflow” on his laptop to manage all his inventories and believe me, that guy really needs it….lol
I would love to use it but am always on the run and on the road. No time to start opening a desktop.
Am a mobile kind of guy so this brings me to my question.
Apart from Inflow, what other similar inventory tool can you “authoritatively recommend” that i use that is in a mobile version???
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Thanks for sharing the list of these tools. I have already use office online and i think it is one of the best tool for entrepreneurs.
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Hi, I also like teamwork for the project and task management.
Hi Salman,
Spot on. Productivity is the most crucial element for anyone actively involved in the business world today. It is also the most abused commodity. Productivity is handicapped due to lack of concentration and focus. This is due to the addiction to the smart phone.
Lack of attention to work is the main reason , why productivity is challenged across the globe right from the front liners to the top management . The urge to steal a look at the smart phone notifications is overwhelming during working hours. Attention itself has become a resource, which has led to an interesting subject called attention economy.
Andrew Sullivan the New York magazine blogger talks about the losing himself in his wonderful essay titled ‘I Used to be a human being’ and his subtitle is still more alarming ‘An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.’. This article is very pertinent as to how technology/smart pone has undermined productivity.
Nevertheless the applications you have suggested makes an interesting list. I would like to add Evernote to that list.
Thank you.
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Hi Salman, I’ve been hearing more and more about Trello – that is something I’ve got to get on my bucket list of tools. I just invested in a video software editing program that was on my list.
I use Google Calender for my tasks but with appointments it can get confusing at times so Trello is something I will take another look at. Love the part about an online course, too!!
Does QuickBooks offer a free trial still?
Thank you!
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I have been using Trello from the past few weeks, it seems good and will try the others too. Thank you for the info.
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Apart from Quickbooks, the rest of the tools are quite new to me; Thank you for upgrading my knowledge.
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Thank you Salma. Valuable Article. And the best part is some of them are free. I will definitely try these tools I am sure these tools will be helpful for my business. Thanks once again for sharing such valuable article.