Small Business, Big Data: How to Get Your Startup More Organized

If you're on the cusp of starting your own business, you have to get all your ducks in a row. The business plan, budget, and marketing strategy all need to be in place. But do you have the best tools for staying organized? Even if you aren’t the most Type-A personality, you can improve your startup organization. Here are exceptional tools to help with your management skills.

SohoOS
As opposed to other profit zapping technological solutions you see, SohoOS is an effective and efficient business management solution for creating invoices, tracking inventory, and managing customer relationships. For its return, SohoOS comes at an affordable price. You can use their site to store documents, create a marketing plan, and track sales leads. There's a free version and one with a monthly fee that adds additional templates and storage.

Expensify
Regardless of your ability to develop an app or produce video, the chances that you have any acumen in accounting is unlikely. This is a critical component of any business. Expensify can help you track, manage, and record business expenses. You can import financial statements, create reports, and upload receipts as well. The mobile app lets you scan and add documents making it a complete package.

PressKing
PressKing lets entrepreneurs distribute press releases to a contact list of close to 200,000. You will also be able to get your messages to your social media community and through email. How many contacts you want to reach out to will determine the pricing, but it starts around $50 for a press release to 500 bloggers and journalists.

GroSocial
GroSocial is a Facebook marketing resource and its staff identifies relevant business opportunities and will show you how to market promotions, announcements, sales, new products, and even contests through your Facebook page. You can also use their stock template to enhance Twitter backgrounds.

Outright
Outright.com is a business focused organizer that lets you import bank records and credit card transactions. It generates a range of reports for profit and loss presentation. Outright simplifies tax preparation, taking sales and expenses and automatically organizing the info into IRS categories.

Zoho Site24x7
No business can afford to disregard the significance of a website. Zoho is a user-friendly solution for tracking your site's performance. It will let you know if the site is up or down. The platform will inform you if a group of customers inexplicably stop visiting. It also has the ability to monitor your site's security and email server.

Vital Records Control

This service is great for startups that produce a lot of paper statements and client files. You definitely don’t want any of them to be left lying around, and having file cabinets full can become cluttered quickly. Use their storage and imaging to get your documents all into once place, and the Vital Records Control shredding services make sure your files are never placed in the wrong hands.

With these tools in your arsenal, expect to keep your startup organized and being able to manage a roadmap for meeting your business's long-term goals.

About the author

Brooke Chaplan is a freelance writer and blogger. She lives and works out of her home in Los Lunas, New Mexico. She loves the outdoors and spends most of her time hiking, biking, and gardening. For more information, contact Brooke via Facebook at facebook.com/brooke.chaplan or Twitter @BrookeChaplan

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