The key to the success for entrepreneurs will not only depend on a brilliant idea but also on a combination of variables. Above all, it depends on how you manage your resources to face the many challenges that being an entrepreneur entails, including how you manage your time among the multiple activities and responsibilities involved in running a business.
We will show you some useful digital tools for entrepreneurs that will help you optimize your workday while saving your time for innovative ideas and the growth of your project.
Digital Tools for Entrepreneurs
Quipu
This is a very useful application for entrepreneurs that will help you manage administrative tasks such as invoicing or cash flow reports more easily. It allows you to have better control over decision-making and also helps you anticipate how much you will have to pay in taxes for any expenses in real-time.
Alegra
This accounting system, of Colombian origin, is primarily designed for entrepreneurs and has many resources developed to adapt to the countries of Latin America. With Alegra, you can create real-time sales and customer reports, generate tickets and invoices, control available stock, and even create your own online store.
Slack
A specialized tool for managing communications with your team can be Slack. It allows you not only to hold meetings (calls) but also to keep everyone related to your enterprise in one place, encouraging timely communication. Additionally, you can integrate it with other services like Google Calendar, Google Drive, and it features Slackbot, an AI ready to assist you with your doubts in real-time. You can have one-on-one conversations or create channels to manage team information.
Discord
This is another tool that will help you manage communications with your team. Basically, Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP chat service. With this tool, users have the ability to communicate through voice calls, video calls, text messages, or with files and multimedia content in private chats or as part of communities called “servers.”
Asana
It is a web and mobile platform that will help you manage the daily activities of your team. This platform allows project managers to easily coordinate work among multiple teams and projects. By gathering plans, projects, tasks, and communications on a shared platform, you can ensure that all team members have the same information and work in alignment while keeping an updated status of each task.
Brevo
This is a mass mailing platform that allows you to communicate with your customer database easily. With this tool, you can easily design your emails, use your database to segment your audiences, and one of the most important things is sending personalized emails, something that your customers will greatly appreciate.
Google Workspace – Google Suite
Google’s collaborative work platform is very useful; it allows your team to create documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and store them in the cloud where everyone has access and can edit them without any issues. This optimizes work by enabling you to share these files with your team or clients without the need for continuous email exchanges or heavy attachments.
Low-code or no-code tools, Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
These types of tools help us work on the early versions of a project or products with just a few clicks and without much knowledge of programming languages. This will help you as an entrepreneur adapt your prototypes based on market tests without making large financial investments.
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
Having an Enterprise Resource Planning System is indispensable for any entrepreneur. This way, you can plan the resources available to link operations carried out in different areas such as logistics, distribution, inventory control, or human resources, for example. Some examples of ERP are Unit4 or Microsoft Dynamics.
We know that when starting a business, you often have to take care of many activities in all areas yourself, but if you rely on the right platforms, you can scale your project more quickly and organized, and even ensure success. However, don’t forget that the ideal situation is to gradually build your ideal team and start delegating tasks. Are you prepared to start your journey?
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