Project Management Tactics For Your Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs: It’s Never Too Early3/11/2013 Below is a very interesting article that I found written Julie Anne Hoey (ww.projectmanage.com)
If you are a relatively new start up or entrepreneur, you don’t need to worry about implementing project management tactics to your processes yet, right? Wrong. The truth is it’s never too early in a small business to start incorporating project management tactics and methodologies into your workflow and structure…even if it’s just you. When launching a start up, you’re probably in the process of learning a new product or service, or learning how to market it, promote it, etc. Therefore, implementing proper PM tactics are just as important as in any organization, regardless of how much time it has been around and established. In fact, proper project management techniques used in a new start up can be just as crucial. Here are some areas where project management techniques have proven most beneficial for start ups:
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Entrepreneurs & entrepreneurial PM's share many common traits and often have to do more with less hence any free resource is always a great resource. Below is part of the article and a link to the article from Shane Robinson in Forbes about this.
Skype – If you don’t know Skype by now, crawl out of your hole. Download it on your phone because it’s great for communicating over Wi-Fi and especially for communicating with international contractors when you don’t want long-distance charges. Dropbox – Great to have on your phone for three reasons: 1) it allows you to access all your business files in the cloud right from your phone (great for meetings if you forget a presentation for example); 2) cloud storage across your phone and computer is a great way to back up all your files; 3) you can share all files in your Dropbox account with any recipient, without having to email them. Genius Scan – I can’t tell you how much time I used to waste when I first started my business and had to find a Kinkos every time I needed to print, scan and fax documents. This app won’t let you print (obviously), but it will let you take a picture of any document, or string of documents, and then send it to your recipient as a single PDF file, the same way an office scanner would. Another 30-minute trip to Kinkos, or $200 expenditure on a scanner, saved. Splashtop – Download this app, and you can actually get remote access to your computer, right from your phone. Smartr – If you’re big on networking and want a good way to remember when you last kept in touch with someone, then this app is like the analytics for your address book. It’s also an all-in-one location to get calendar events and read email, Facebook messages and Tweets from your contacts as well. Read the complete article Small business owners are on the forefront of entrepreneurship and hence I thought sharing this very useful article by by Nina Anthony would help small business owners and managers.
Task Management Tools: Remember the Milk With this free tool, you can manage tasks from anywhere – via your desktop, your phone, etc. And it integrates with your Google Calendar Evernote is a web-based application that allows you to save your ideas and inspiration. You can record a message, write a note, clip an article or take a picture. It integrates with the iPhone and Android, allowing you to capture your best thoughts on the go. Zotero is an easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It promotes itself as being the only research tool that automatically senses content. You can add PDFs, images, audio and video files, snapshots of web pages to your library and Zotero automatically indexes the full-text content of into a single easily searchable interface. Doodle lets you easily schedule and coordinate meetings and other appointments, free of charge and without registration. Invoicing and Financial Management Tools: Wave is a 100% free (not just a free trial version) accounting app made for small business owners and freelancers. This free alternative to applications like Quickbooks, allows you to create and send professional invoices, track expenses, create reports, and eliminate accounting headaches. Wave was built for non-accountants so it’s super simple to use. But it also includes the kind of tools that you’d expect to pay to use. It’s real double-entry accounting, features bank-caliber 256-bit encryption and security ; there are no usage limits, it integrates with FreshBooks and offers free support and automatic backup. By connecting with your online bank and credit card accounts (optional), you can eliminate hours of tedious manual data entry: your transactions are updated while you sleep, so you’re always up to date. I signed up for this after researching apps for this post! Read the entire article |
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