No matter where you are in developing your business’ inbound strategy, there’s always a need to be better at communicating and organizing, especially when the internal emails start piling up.
In conjunction with the best resources for social media management, the following are some of the best apps for your team to become as efficient and organized as possible.
Evernote
Cost: $0-$12 per user per month
What it’s for: Ultimately, Evernote is used to increase productivity, whether personally or for business. It helps you and your team to be better organized.
How to use it: Use Evernote to take notes, organize notes into notebooks, share content with coworkers, and manage projects.
Features: Everything in Evernote is searchable, so it’s easy to find previously shared information. You can also share notes with coworkers and set reminders. Evernote offers different features for different types of businesses or departments: sales, creative, and research.
Best Uses: Evernote is best used to share and organize content for project management.
Slack
Cost: $0-$15 per user per month
What it’s for: Slack is the ultimate tool to streamline communication (even the NASA folks who sent robots to Mars use Slack). It eliminates unnecessary emails and creates an archive of messages and content sent.
How to use it: Organize team messages and projects through channels, like “Instagram Content Ideas.” You can share files, send group messages, and privately message your team members.
Features: Slack not only keeps messaging tidy, but it keeps it fun. Typing “/“ into a message brings up a lot of hidden features, like GIF files. It also integrates apps, so you can use Google Hangouts to video call or have a channel for calendar updates that connects to Google Calendar.
Best Uses: Slack can help any business, especially ones in constant contact with team members and businesses when information gets lost with too many emails.
Pocket:
Cost: Free
What it’s for: Pocket is a simple app that keeps links and content in one place.
How to use it: Have Pocket on your browser and save content online easily.
Features: It’s integrated with over 1500 apps. You can also pin pocket icon to your browser’s bookmarks to easily save links, similar to how you pin to Pinterest.
Best Uses: You can use Pocket to keep everything in one place and to save any content you like.
Wunderlist:
Cost: $4.99 per user per month or $49.99 per user per year
What it’s for: Wunderlist’s motto is “Your team, synchronized.” Its main appeal is to centralize communication in the business setting.
How to use it: It’s extremely helpful with managing tasks. You can create a project, assign team members, create actionable to-do tasks to break down projects, and set reminders. For project managers, you can supervise employee workloads by assigning specific tasks and due dates.
Features: Create lists to assign to-dos, create reminders from email, use hashtags to add more context, and comment on content posted.
Best uses: Wunderlist is helpful for managers to put projects and employee workloads into perspective. It’s also an easy way to assign tasks and oversee projects’ progress.
Remember the Milk:
Cost: $39.99 a year per person
What it’s for: RTM is a catch-all for every to-do task, subtask, and event reminder.
How to use it: If you have a lot of to-dos, it will remind you based on priority, day, or location so that you don’t forget anything.
Features: An easy feature of RTM is smart add reminders, which is similar to Apple’s calendar where you can type all the information into a field and an event is created. The app is integrated with Gmail, Google Calendar, Twitter, Evernote, and more.
Best uses: For the small-business owner, manager, or employee that have too many things to remember and need constant reminders to make sure tasks get finished.
Organization is key when you’re business is growing, especially when managing your online presence. With so much content online, whether on a website, a social media platform, or emails, you can utilize these apps to manage your digital strategy. You can save content for your team to look at or assign tasks to your employees for your inbound projects.