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Your company or business particular can catch up, thanks to applications and services online. If you still think your microenterprise, small business or even you as a skilled worker cannot afford to use technology to increase productivity and grow, is wrong.
Begins to take advantage of the options offered by the Internet, through the new generation of web applications, known as Web 2.0, which in some cases can replace the traditional software or equipment traditionally used in the companies.
These applications, which are mostly free of charge, are part of a global trend called Computing in the Cloud, which leads many of the business processes to the Internet. The programs that are not installed in a computer or to the servers in the companies but are used entering a web address from a browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Chrome.
In addition to spare the user software installation in the PC, many of them also offer the data storage, so that not even needs of a hard drive to save the files.
So if you or your small business still believe that the Internet only served to navigate and communicate by e-mail, know the following applications, which may begin to use in a matter of minutes and that not only will allow them to improve or automate various activities, but will also provide them with the possibility of sharing information with their contacts, customers, suppliers or with thousands of people via the Internet.
Google Apps. It is a package of Web applications 2.0, which includes the mail service Gmail, shared calendars Google Calendar, the messaging, and voice Google Talk, all with the domain (the web address) of the company. It also includes the suite of office Google Docs, with the employees can edit documents in equipment, as well as the tool Google Sites, to publish web sites. All the tools are free, although in order to have its web address own must pay about 25 thousand pesos each year.
Salesforce.com. Do you think that with 300G manuals and spreadsheets is adequately managing sales of its business? You can have the same tools that use small large organizations around the world. With Salesforce.com, the option more popular in the field of the management of relationships with customers (MCA) on demand via Internet, you can manage their customer lists and leaflets, control the customer service, respond faster to applications, and purchase orders. There is a personal edition Salesforce.com’s which is free, and you can start with it. If their needs are greatest or grow, can subscribe to a higher edition, equivalent to thousand dollars a month.
Zoho Creator: If your business is based on surveys, polls or databases, you can now save paper and the costs of pollsters and transport. This tool lets you create online forms and applications of databases that feed automatically when the visitors to its web page the due. The best of Zoho Creator is that it is not made for experts.
Basecamphq.com. Is the tool of project management team in more complete and easy to use at present, and has more than 500,000 users in the world, many of them small entrepreneurs, independent workers, lawyers, designers and students. The application allows monitoring of the projects, its advance official, the goals of each team member and much more. The free version allows you to manage a single project at a time, and for companies and users more demanding there are plans monthly between 24 and 149 dollars.
Zoho People. At the time to choose a new employee, no longer has to do so almost at random, based on the recommendation of its neighbors or in an interview traditional. With this application may assess and classify the candidates according to their experience, studies and capabilities. In addition, able to manage the performance of its current employees.
Skype. The application that popularized the Internet telephony. With Skype is possible to communicate with voice calls with customers or suppliers of any part of the world and save on costs of long-distance. It also can use to call a fixed phone international to very low costs.