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4 What Mobile Can Do For Your Business

8 Mobile Apps Save Time & Money 291 owner hours saved per year per small business million owner hours saved annually for small businesses Based on our estimates,* if all employer firms with fewer than 20 workers were to take advantage of mobile apps, an estimated 1.2 billion owner hours could be saved annually. *SBE Council "Mobile App" survey conducted by TechnoMetrica, April 21-27, 2011

9 Mobile Apps Save Time & Money Based on average pay for employees in small businesses, on a per firm basis, these time savings come out to an estimated: $275 per week $14,317 per year *SBE Council "Mobile App" survey conducted by TechnoMetrica, April 21-27, 2011

10 Mobile Apps for Business Stay connected Work together Get stuff done

11 Google Apps for Businesses Calendar Gmail Alternative to Word, Excel, PowerPoint Google Voice Google Translate

12 Google Drive (Docs) Store, Create, Share and Edit Documents

13 GoogleVoice Telephone services Conference calls Transcribes voic to text Rings all phones at once

14 Google+ New social media platform Circles, internal social media Hangouts

15 Evernote Keep track of ideas, projects, & collaborate Plan marketing events Streamline team communications

16 Evernote Business 12/12

17 Slideshark/Softmaker PowerPoint presentations

18 Dragon Dictation Speak texts and s Set up calendar events Reads your messages

19 Zoho CRM Manage your customers and leads

20 Zoho CRM $0 Free for 3 users Lead management Accounts & Contacts Sales Opportunities Social CRM Reports & Dashboards Web Forms

21 Square On-the-go mobile-payments Charges 2.75% per transaction Funds deposit in your account

22 FlightTrack Real time flight information Time & gate change alerts

23 Expensify Track expenses & bank accounts Log mileage, meals & other business costs Scan receipts Generate expense reports

24 Buffer Social media content manager Schedule social media posts Easily clip web content

25 LastPass Securely store passwords

26 ShareSquare Mobilize your website

27 Mobile Scanner Scan your documents into pdfs

28 Ted Talks Learning and inspiration on the go

29 The future Ubuntu A PC in your pocket

30 Questions?

32 Get Your Camera Phones Out

33 Links Google Voice ml# ShareSquare converts website to mobile site for free Evernote ps-stories/ Google Goggles

34 Identified by Gartner Group

39 In the Future Business Week p.? IBM wants to put a watson in your pocket IBM Watson Siri turbo-charged Learning app after it s been told enough times which answers are accurate, Watson eventually develops an expertise Plans to add image recognition capability so Watson can respond to real-world input such as an xray Focuses on the business user and complex questions

46 Evernote Business Support small business users keep track of ideas, projects, and collaborate with teammates in Evernote Evernote for Marketing I ve been using Evernote to capture and create for years, but recently, I ve realized its huge potential for distribution. Evernote is the most cost effective marketing tool I use and it has allowed me to completely streamline my process. Lately, I ve been obsessed with Evernote s sharing features. At my company: We create Shared Notebooks for all of our events. It s easy for me to be out in the field and drop something into Evernote and know that anyone that has access to it will see it. I also love the ability to share something with my Twitter and Facebook networks, straight from my Evernote account. I love that I can use one tool to do so many different things. [Learn about sharing from Evernote] I use Evernote for document storage. I store all of my documents in Evernote, where I can easily edit them, export them as PDFs and drop the edited version right back into the note, where it will always be available to me. I use Evernote as my distribution tool. I m able to send s to my team right from my Evernote account, which makes the communication flow extremely efficient and effective. My office is completely paperless. I rely on my Doxie scanner and Shoeboxed (a service for digitizing paper and saving it to your Evernote account) for helping me process paper and then get rid of it.

47 Pageonce Compiles all of your financial information in one place Pay your bills E-bill statements

48 Coffee Break If you re one of those entrepreneurs, like me, who sometimes gets into the zone and barely remembers to eat lunch, now there s an app to remind you. Studies show your brain becomes less effective if you don t break every 90 minutes, so schedule your day with the Coffee Break app. Imagine your Mac shutting down to tell you that you ve been sitting in front of the screen too long and need a break. This app features a mechanism that refuses to do anything else for you until you rest your eyes, grab some lunch or get some fresh air. 99 cents

49 Scheduling Apps *10/12 Inc. p. 48 next on the agenda, John Brandon Tech Trends Google Now great if you spend a lot of time on the road Loaded on Android 4.1 phones Downloadable to Smartphones, Tablets Works w/google Calendar, Maps & Searches Free Location-based On Android phones can touch Google search bar on home screen to see cards w/timely info Weather forecast Bus route information Meeting reminders include map, directions, drive time estimate After 2 days software got smarter each morning, provided estimated driving time from my hotel to dt Denver. As I headed back to my hotel around dinnertime, it pulled up cards w/details on nearby restaurants, including links to a map, directions & reviews Cue if you need a scheduler that works w/a variety of programs iphones Works w/20+ mobile apps including Gmail Basic version free; Premium version is $4.99/mo. Not location-based Organizes daily schedule by scanning info in linked apps on your phone. Can choose from 12+ apps including Gmail, Google Calendar, OpenTable (for dinner reservations). For $4.99, can link to business-friendly apps like Salesforce & Evernote When I added an appt w/a Denver start-up to my Google calendar, it appeared on my Cue schedule in about 10 minutes, along w/the location and the name of the marketing director who ed the meeting invite. When I received a Fed-Ex shpping confirmation in Gmail, the tracking No. and a link to FedEx.com popped up on my schedule. Cue handles flight confirmations the same way (doesn t have maps and real-time traffic updates like Google Now)

50 HR Apps

51 Recruiterbox recruitment software screens resumes, manages recruiting & tracks applicants. It helps you minimize the time spent on the administrative tasks of managing the hiring process and more time actually hiring. It s an easy online app that lets you receive all your resumes in one place and track candidates progress throughout the application stages.

52 Task Management Apps

53 Asana

4 ways to grow your small business with Salesforce CRM

4 ways to grow your small business with Salesforce CRM Contents Executive Summary... 2 Make everyone more productive... 2 Customize: Make Salesforce CRM work the way you do... 2 Organize: Centralize your