5 Tools For Solopreneurs To Launch Their Own Offline Business

There is a lot of expert advice online about launching your own business. While a lot of this is targeted at online businesses, there is not a lot of information available for solopreneur professionals or skilled traders. Given that nearly 46 percent of such business owners are under the age of 45, it presents a huge opportunity for these young traders to scale their business up with the help of cloud based tools. In this article, we will take you through five tools that solopreneurs can deploy to launch a successful offline business.

Synup

YellowPages and telephone directories are passé. Customers today find their service providers online with the help of Google or other platforms like Yelp and Facebook. Not only should an accountant or baker ensure that their business is listed across all these different platforms, they must also actively manage their online reputation by engaging with unhappy customers who may leave a negative review for your business. A tool like Synup can help you actively manage all your local listings from one dashboard and also manage your business reputation from across all these different platforms.

Tradify

Managing appointments, scheduling your workers and invoicing your corporate clients can be a hassle for any small business owner. This can be all the more painful for a skilled trader who also has the greater responsibility of commuting to their client locations to serve them. A tool like Tradify can be handy for traders like electricians and plumbers who want an easy way to manage their appointments and scheduling.

PandaDoc

Solopreneurs spend a lot of time each month in negotiating prices with their clients. This is because each task is unique and professionals who take the shortest time to complete a task often tend to charge higher hourly prices. This can get especially tricky for those of you who deal with dozens of new clients each week. A tool like PandaDoc can help skilled business owners seamlessly scale their business by automating their quotation management. If you focus on corporate customers, you may also make use of the tool’s integration with HubSpot and Salesforce to seamlessly send quotes to customers acquired through market outreach.

Juggernaut

On-demand apps like Uber have disrupted the way consumers seek services. This has also contributed towards a greater consolidation among service providers. Uber-like on demand apps are being born every day in different industries including skilled trades like plumbing and welding. If you are one such entrepreneur looking at consolidating the service providers in your geography, then Juggernaut is a tool that can help you quickly build an Uber-like on-demand service for your customers. The tool lets consumers to schedule services in advance, monitor provider movements and also make the payment from within the app interface.

Roubler

It is difficult for service providers who charge by the hour to scale up without hiring additional workers. This is however a double-edged sword since hiring workers would also contribute to more time wasted in handling their schedules and more importantly payroll. Roubler is a tool that helps businesses handle all the HR functions of a growing business from one interface. This includes managing recruitment, onboarding new employees, scheduling their appointments, tracking attendance and finally handling their payroll.

Are you a solopreneur with a growing business? What other tools do you make use of to make your business more efficient? Share your tools in the comments below.