Apr 11

Top 10 Affordable Tools for Small Business Owners – #5 LogMeIn

We begin the top half of my list with LogMeIn, a free website application that lets you access your remote desktop from any computer with an internet connection, anywhere in the world.  Who hasn’t been in an important meeting or with a potential client and forgot an important document or wished they could share a particular email?  LogMeIn is like sitting in front of your own PC without actually having to sit in front of your PC (or Mac). I love using it to work on my office PC while sitting in my living room, using my laptop.  It eliminates the need to have an installation of things like QuickBooks on two machines and then having to sync the data files, etc. LogMeIn Free gives you basic remote access to your PC or Mac over the web. “Stay connected no matter where you are for free”.

The Pro version ($9.99/month or $69.95/annually) lets you print from your remote computer to a local printer as well as hear sounds from your remote PC. You can even share files with Pro as if your remote PC/Mac were a server! To top all this off, there are even apps for your iPhone (free) or Android ($29.99) – I’m not sure of the reason for the huge pricing gap here, but even so…the 30 bucks is a small investment for the powerful tool you get. Check it out today and Happy Remoting!!

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Apr 09

Top 10 Affordable Tools for Small Business Owners – #6 ezPDF Reader

Top 10 Small Business Tools ezPDF Reader

ezPDF Reader for Android showing annotation features

Okay, so you’ve created some nifty PDFs to share with your clients or colleagues.  Now you’d like to add annotations or highlighting to your PDF documents.  With ezPDF Reader by Unidocs (for Android and iPhone, $3.99), you can do that as well as insert virtual sticky notes, underline, strikethrough, draw shapes, append images, complete forms and more.  What a handy little tool!

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Apr 02

Top 10 Affordable Tools for Small Business Owners – #7 ScanToPDF

Top 10 Affordable Tools for Small Business Owners #7My post comes a little later than usual today as I have been recovering from a minor procedure.  I am feeling pretty well and am happy to highlight for you all this handy little tool for converting your paper documents to PDF files – it has all the features you need to make a PDF and then email it…but wait, there’s more!

  • Define your PDF page size (A4, Legal, Letter, etc.)
  • Enhance images to produce top quality PDFs
  • Crop images before creating your PDF
  • Change the sequence of your pages
  • Add or delete pages in your existing ScanToPDF Mobile PDFs
  • Rotate pages clockwise and counter-clockwise
  • Add PDF Tags for document indexing – (Author, Title, Keywords, Subject)

Mobile version currently available FREE for Android; iPhone version coming soon for $2.00.  Full version also available for your PC.

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Mar 30

Top 10 Affordable Tools for Small Business Owners – #8 GroupMe

Send out a text message to your best clients regarding upcoming specials, promotions and news or just keep in touch with colleagues about an upcoming event. With GroupMe, you populate your groups with people already in your contacts, then you can send and receive messages using your data connection. Any time you have a weak connection, you can switch to SMS, so you never miss a message!

You can also start discussions in Open Groups by directing a topic towards your GroupMe contacts, or send it out on your social networks and see who joins. Find Open Groups from your contacts using the Discover tab.

You can even take private conversations aside with Direct Messaging, add photos, submit your location with any message you send and see all group members on a map. What an excellent way to market to small, targeted groups or keep up-to-the-minute with team members!

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Available for all smartphone platforms, FREE.

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Mar 28

Top 10 Affordable Tools for Small Business Owners – #9 NeatReceipts

Sick of paper clutter? Is that pile of receipts, documents, business cards and what-have-you beginning to take on a life of its own like the Trash Heap on the Fraggles?? 

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Then this “neat” little tool might be just the thing for you!  It’s more than just a scanner – it’s an entire system that will help you get – and stay organized.

NeatReceipts is available for Mac and PC, supports both Quicken and QuickBooks, and its Smart Scan technology automatically categorizes your scanned documents for you into the electronic folders you’ve set up for it.  You will be able to search your scanned documents using keywords.  You can even convert your documents into PDF format.

At around $140, it’s an investment, but the headaches, hassle and mess it’ll save you makes it well worth it.

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