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The Most Essential Tools for Entrepreneurs
01 de February de 2022
If you want to be an entrepreneur, you need to be bold and brave. Venturing into a new business is one of the biggest challenges you will face as a professional: it involves facing risks, uncertainty and endless obstacles. However, you’re not alone on this journey. Luckily, the experience of other entrepreneurs can serve you as a guide, as if it were the stern light of a boat that’s ahead of you. And even though the best way to learn is by one’s own experiences, following the steps of others who’ve chosen this path can give us clues on how to avoid mistakes and help us benefit from their success.
We’ve been following the experience of those entrepreneurs we admire and we’ve taken notes. We’ve gathered all their favourite tools and apps and put them in our list — tools and apps that make their work much easier and the challenges they face much more bearable. If you’re planning to become an entrepreneur, it will be in your best interest to keep these around:
Tools: Name Mesh - Wordoid - Logaster - Freshbooks
(Banner: Baptising Your Company)
Basically, naming your business. The name is what’s going to make your product and brand recognisable. These apps can be of great help as they can suggest names starting from words of your choice. Maybe you won’t find the final name with this tool, but it will surely help you find new ideas. There are also some that help you find whether the name you have in mind is available as a domain.
Tools: Asana - Trello - Slack - Any.do
(Banner: Project Management and Teamwork)
It’s not the first time we emphasise the importance of teamwork and we’re ready to give you some tips on how to make it easier. These are some of the tools that will help you avoid some of the most common mistakes when working on projects with teams. These tools allow you to assign different responsibilities, tasks and deadlines, and to visualise the state and progress of different projects.
Tools: Billin - Calculadora freelance - Calculadora Freela
Know your worth. Putting a price on your work and time can be hard. You don’t want to charge less than you deserve, but you don’t want to charge too much and have clients reject you. In order to find a more accurate number, you can always use freelance calculators. Being able to quantify labour, benefit percentages and time spent in meetings are some of the benefits we can get from these tools.
Tools: Bistrix - Zendesk - Suma CRM - Hubspot
(Banner: Customer Relationship Management)
Having a good relationship with your clients is key, no matter the business. Remember that it’s easier to have happy clients and have them coming back than to attract new ones. That’s why it’s also important to use every tool at your disposal in order to achieve this goal. These tools help you improve communications, store data, analyse your client’s behavioural patterns, and much more.
Tools: MailChimp - Hootsuite - SEMrush - Pricing
(Banner: Web Positioning)
We all know about the importance of being well positioned on the internet. A good image on social networks can make your journey an easier one. In order to do this, you can either get help from specialised agencies or try it out yourself with the help of different apps. You can organise marketing email campaigns without any previous knowledge thanks to MailChimp, programme a month’s posts in one day thanks to Hootsuite, or analyse the keywords of your business in order to better position yourself thanks to SEMrush.
Tools: Stratpad - LivePLan - Leanspots (Banner: Business Analytics)
(Banner: Banner Business Analytics)
One of the most important things to bear in mind if you want to grow, is knowing yourself. And this is also true in the world of business. Reports on all the data that’s been gathered from your business regarding sales, expenses, client satisfaction or product quality, will help you find mistakes on time and move in the right direction. And, luckily for us all, there are tools that can help us with this too.