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What Mobile Can Do For Your Business

Mobile Apps Save Time & Money

291 owner hours saved per year per small business

372.8 million owner hours saved annually for small businesses

“Based on our estimates,* if all employer firms with fewer than 20 workers were to take advantage of mobile apps, an estimated 1.2 billion owner hours could be saved annually.”

*SBE Council "Mobile App" survey conducted by TechnoMetrica, April 21-27, 2011

Based on average pay for employees

in small businesses, on a per firm basis, these time savings come out to an estimated: $275 per week $14,317 per year

*SBE Council "Mobile App" survey conducted by TechnoMetrica, April 21-27, 2011

Mobile Apps Save Time & Money

Mobile Apps for Business

Stay connected Work together Get stuff done

Google Apps for Businesses

Calendar Gmail Alternative to Word, Excel, PowerPoint Google Voice Google Translate

Google Drive (Docs) Store, Create, Share and Edit Documents

GoogleVoice Telephone services Conference calls Transcribes voicemail to text Rings all phones at once

Google+

New social media platform Circles, internal social media Hangouts

Evernote Keep track of ideas, projects, & collaborate Plan marketing events Streamline team communications

Evernote Business 12/12

Slideshark/Softmaker

PowerPoint presentations

Dragon Dictation Speak texts and emails Set up calendar events Reads your messages

Zoho CRM

Manage your customers and leads

Zoho CRM $0 Free for 3 users Lead management Accounts & Contacts Sales Opportunities Social CRM Reports & Dashboards Web Forms

Square On-the-go mobile-payments Charges 2.75% per transaction Funds deposit in your account

FlightTrack

Real time flight information Time & gate change alerts

Expensify Track expenses & bank accounts Log mileage, meals & other business costs Scan receipts Generate expense reports

Buffer Social media content manager Schedule social media posts Easily clip web content

LastPass

Securely store passwords

ShareSquare

Mobilize your website

Mobile Scanner

“Scan” your documents into pdfs

Ted Talks

Learning and inspiration on the go

The future… Ubuntu

A PC in your pocket

Questions?

Get Your Camera Phones Out

Links Google Voice http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html# ShareSquare – converts website to mobile site for free http://getsharesquare.com/ Evernote http://blog.evernote.com/business/category/tips-stories/ Google Goggles http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text

Identified by Gartner Group

In the Future Business Week 9-17-12 p. ? “IBM wants to put a watson in your pocket”

IBM Watson – Siri turbo-charged Learning app – “after it’s been told enough

times which answers are accurate, Watson eventually develops an expertise”

Plans to add image recognition capability so Watson can respond to real-world input such as an xray

Focuses on the business user and complex questions

Evernote Business Support small business users keep track of ideas, projects, and collaborate with teammates in

Evernote Evernote for Marketing http://blog.evernote.com/business/ I’ve been using Evernote to capture and create for years, but recently, I’ve realized its

huge potential for distribution. Evernote is the most cost effective marketing tool I use and it has allowed me to completely streamline my process. Lately, I’ve been obsessed with Evernote’s sharing features. At my company:

We create Shared Notebooks for all of our events. It’s easy for me to be out in the field and drop something into Evernote and know that anyone that has access to it will see it. I also love the ability to share something with my Twitter and Facebook networks, straight from my Evernote account. I love that I can use one tool to do so many different things. [Learn about sharing from Evernote]

I use Evernote for document storage. I store all of my documents in Evernote, where I can easily edit them, export them as PDFs and drop the edited version right back into the note, where it will always be available to me.

I use Evernote as my distribution tool. I’m able to send emails to my team right from my Evernote account, which makes the communication flow extremely efficient and effective.

My office is completely paperless. I rely on my Doxie scanner and Shoeboxed (a service for digitizing paper and saving it to your Evernote account) for helping me process paper and then get rid of it.

Pageonce Compiles all of your financial information in

one place Pay your bills E-bill statements

Coffee Break If you’re one of those entrepreneurs, like me, who sometimes gets into “the zone” and barely remembers to eat lunch, now there’s an app to remind you. Studies show your brain becomes less effective if you don’t break every 90 minutes, so schedule your day with the Coffee Break app. Imagine your Mac shutting down to tell you that you’ve been sitting in front of the screen too long and need a break. This app features a mechanism that refuses to do anything else for you until you rest your eyes, grab some lunch or get some fresh air. 99 cents

Scheduling Apps *10/12 Inc. p. 48 “next on the agenda”, John Brandon Tech Trends

Google Now – great if you spend a lot of time on the road Loaded on Android 4.1 phones Downloadable to Smartphones, Tablets Works w/Google Calendar, Maps & Searches Free Location-based On Android phones can touch Google search bar on home screen to see “cards” w/timely info

○ Weather forecast ○ Bus route information ○ Meeting reminders include map, directions, drive time estimate

After 2 days software got smarter – each morning, provided estimated driving time from my hotel to dt Denver. As I headed back to my hotel around dinnertime, it pulled up cards w/details on nearby restaurants, including links to a map, directions & reviews

Cue – if you need a scheduler that works w/a variety of programs iPhones Works w/20+ mobile apps including Gmail Basic version free; Premium version is $4.99/mo. Not location-based Organizes daily schedule by scanning info in linked apps on your phone. Can choose from 12+ apps including

Gmail, Google Calendar, OpenTable (for dinner reservations). For $4.99, can link to business-friendly apps like Salesforce & Evernote

When I added an appt w/a Denver start-up to my Google calendar, it appeared on my Cue schedule in about 10 minutes, along w/the location and the name of the marketing director who emailed the meeting invite. When I received a Fed-Ex shpping confirmation in Gmail, the tracking No. and a link to FedEx.com popped up on my schedule. Cue handles flight confirmations the same way (doesn’t have maps and real-time traffic updates like Google Now)

HR Apps

Recruiterbox

recruitment software screens resumes, manages recruiting & tracks applicants. It helps you minimize the time spent on the administrative tasks of “managing” the hiring process and more time actually hiring. It’s an easy online app that lets you receive all your resumes in one place and track candidates’ progress throughout the application stages.

Task Management Apps

Asana http://asana.com/(video)