5 Task Management Tools For Small Business Owners

As a small business owner, you are often required to handle multiple departments and projects simultaneously. Also, in order to make up for skill shortages, managers routinely outsource various components of business and marketing to third party vendors. These challenges call for a unique solution to small business needs and these are not always fulfilled by tools that handle the project management needs of enterprise businesses. In this article, we will take a look at five task management tools that best fit the needs of small businesses.

Hubbion

Hubbion is by far the best suited tool for small business project management. In a small business setup that deals with dozens of third party contractors, your “team” is not fixed since different contractors take care of various facets of a project. Hubbion permits free task management and collaboration with an unlimited number of users. Also, users may segment their projects into unique categories and this lets business owners who handle multiple areas of business (marketing, product development, logistics, etc.) to manage all these projects from under a single dashboard.

Wrike

Wrike is one of the more popular project management tools among small business users, especially freelancers. This is because of the file collaboration features that it offers. However, the free version of the software is only open for a team of up to five members. Paid version of the software starts at $9.80/user/month. If you are looking for features like time tracking and Salesforce integration, then you will need to pick a higher priced version of the tool that costs $24.80/user/month.Advanced features like tailored workspace and user audit reports are available for users at higher plans although small businesses may not need such features.

Basecamp

If you work with dozens of third party contractors, then you could be incurring a lot of costs with tools that charge for every team member. Basecamp is a good alternative among paid tools in that case. Basecamp charges a standard $99/month from teams and this opens the tool to an unlimited number of users and projects within each team. For this price, users can create as many ‘teams’ as they need within the dashboard. Inside each of these ‘teams’, users could create tasks that may be assigned to different people in the team.

Asana

Another tool that is popular among small businesses is Asana. The tool has a basic feature set that is available for free to small teams that are no more than 15 members. But this does not come with features like custom fields, task dependencies and unlimited team member, the last of which is crucial for small businesses working with multiple third party vendors. For such instances, it is a good idea to sign up for their paid version that costs $9.99 per user per month.

Flow

Small businesses that are not bootstrapped may prefer a paid project management tool that has a pricing plan that scales up based on the number of users in the team. Flow is an app that starts at $17 per month for a single user version and steadily goes up to as much as $341 per month for a team size of 50 people. For this price, you get features like unlimited tasks, unlimited public and private projects, unlimited teams, file storage and third party integrations.

About the author

Trott advises small businesses on their market go-to strategy. He may be reached at [email protected]

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