These days, with the amount of technology that is easily available to many, starting up a business has become something anyone can do. All it takes is an idea, some determination, and some organisation. The idea and determination is up to the individual, but the organisation can be made easy when using the right types of apps and services.
We spoke to TechQuarters, who have been providing IT Support for Small Business Solutions for over a decade now. Over the years they’ve see plenty of start-ups, and worked to support all kinds of apps and services for their customers. They have given us some of their picks for apps that you can download to your phone right now, and get started on launching your business.
Fiverr – recruit freelancers
A start-up can easily be one person with a great idea – but often the work becomes easier when you have others working with you. You don’t need to go about hiring people with Fiverr; simply search for a gig and you can connect with hundreds of professionals to get the work you needed done at an affordable price. For example, perhaps you need IT help but do not yet have the budget for outsourced IT support, you could look on Fiverr for an IT specialist to help with smaller tasks.
Asana: Teamwork in one place
Perhaps you’ve launched your start-up and have a team working with you; you need to think about how you will organise your employees. With Asana, building teams, creating projects, assigning tasks and setting delivery dates can all be managed on the same platform. Asana is highly configurable and is a great way to not only monitor your team’s progress, but get your team collaborating and working together.
Microsoft Teams
When you have a team, its very important that they are communicating frequently and easily with one another – there are few better services for this than Microsoft Teams.
TechQuarters are a trusted Microsoft Partner, and they use Microsoft Teams extensively in their own organisation, and as a Managed Services Provider London businesses come to for technology advice, they have also helped many of their customers to adopt it. Teams unifies all the most important communication channels into one platform – it has instant messaging, telephony, and several types of video communication all built in.
Billdu – invoicing made easy
Perhaps you have a core team of collaborators that help you deliver against your business goals; but perhaps you don’t have anyone dedicated to doing your accounts – you can do it yourself with Billdu. This app enables you to generate invoices, scan receipts and bills to make expense tracking easier, and even provide customers with estimates and quotes. It’s an easy way to learn and take control of your accounting in the early days of running your business.