SOLOPRENEUR: Self-Employability in Remote Regions of Europe

ICT Tools and resources for Solopreneurship


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 Title
ICT Tools and resources for Solopreneurship

 Keywords
ICT tools, finance, networking, CRM, business management

 Author
IWS

 Languages
English

 Objectives/goals
In this course, we will introduce some basic ICT skills for solopreneurs. We will present some interesting tools to help you manage your company.


 Description
This course gives you some interesting tips on which ICT tools can be used to improve your daily business management. We present them and explain how to apply them to our business. They are organized in 4 main areas (ICT tools for accounting and finance, for marketing and networking, for business management and for CRM management) in order to give you a thorough view of software available.

 Contents in bullet points
Unit 1: ICT tools for finance and accounting • All-in-One Unit 2: ICT tools for marketing and networking • Contact Management • Social Media • Blogging tools Unit 3: ICT tools for business management • Business management Unit 4: ICT tools for Customer • CRM management


 Contents


 ICT TOOLS AND RESOURCES FOR SOLOPRENEURSHIP

ICT tools for finance and accounting


  All-in-One

An online application where you can create invoices, connect to your bank, act on real-time reports, record purchase invoices.

   

It is a cloud app, which you can access from your desktop, phone or tablet, wherever you are, and where you can make invoices, organize expenses, log your hours and put them onto an invoice automatically.
Xero
Create invoices, work from phone, can create purchase orders, manage your bills.

    

Keeps everything organized in one place, connect to your bank account and manage your receipts.


ICT tools for marketing and networking


  Contact Management

Create tasks and activities, track activity history, contact search, and bulk email
 


  Social Media

OptinMonster is a powerful tool that lets you engage visitors at the right moment
Social intelligence tool that helps you to discover new target audiences
Twitter tool that helps you get more followers, finds users interested in your topics
Suite of tools for making decisions based on your followers
Protects your social media accounts against hackers  
Analyze and optimize your twitter, suggesting users for you to grow your database
Can create quizzes, contest, promotions and analytics features
It shows you who interacted with your content and where.

 

 



  Blogging tools

Improve the loading speed in your blog
WordPress plugin, that allows you to insert ads right from your dashboard.
Website where you can search inside flickr.
– Find out what’s working wrong in your website with their heatmap.


ICT tools for business management


  Business management

- You can streamline your processes, store and share files, share feedback and can be used by Android and iOS. 

- Intuitive user interface, focused on communication and real-time updates, built-in time tracking and billing, sync tasks with any calendar.

-You can manage clients, vendors and partners, create invoices, send emails, all in one place

- Automate business workflows, online document storage, it can connect multiple apps. 

- It manages Work plan, track time for bills, quotes, invoices and contacts.

- Can create invoices in seconds, visualize and organize your data, use pre-delivered

Odoo

- Work with dashboards, real time communication, unique framework with strong technical foundations

 



ICT tools for Customer Relationship management


  CRM management

- It is a CRM tool, where you have standard features like costumers’ email, but you can also design a website and implement search engine optimization.

- It is focused on supporting sales opportunities, integrated with social media and it has a mobile app.

- It is more focused on lead conversion than customer support, perfect solution for supporting your sales team.

- It’s centered on a sales and marketing analysis tool, integrated with CRM tools.

- It’s a big app, with a lot of tools, it is like having all CRM apps in one.

- It needs no installation, updating in real time, interactive and fully customizable dashboards.

- It offers customized CRM for your enterprise.

- It offers time scheduling and appointments system. You can also have billing and payment-processing mechanism



 Results

All-in-One β€’ Sage Accounting – An online application where you can create invoices, connect to your bank, act on real-time reports, record purchase invoices. https://www.sage.com/en-us/sage-business-cloud/accounting/ β€’ FreshBooks – It is a cloud app, which you can access from your desktop, phone or tablet, wherever you are, and where you can make invoices, organize expenses, log your hours and put them onto an invoice automatically. https://www.freshbooks.com/ β€’ Xero – Create invoices, work from phone, can create purchase orders, manage your bills. https://www.xero.com/ β€’ QuickBooks Online – Keeps everything organized in one place, connect to your bank account and manage your receipts. https://www.freshbooks.com/ Contact Management β€’ myBeeHyve – Create tasks and activities, track activity history, contact search, and bulk email https://app.mybeehyve.com/signup β€’ OptinMonster – OptinMonster is a powerful tool that lets you engage visitors at the right moment. https://optinmonster.com/pricing/ β€’ Audiense – Social intelligence tool that helps you to discover new target audiences. https://audiense.com/ β€’ Tweepi – Twitter tool that helps you get more followers, finds users interested in your topics https://tweepi.com/ β€’ Socialbakers – Suite of tools for making decisions based on your followers https://www.socialbakers.com/ β€’ ZeroFOX – Protects your social media accounts against hackers https://www.zerofox.com β€’ Followerwonk – Analyze and optimize your twitter, suggesting users for you to grow your database. https://followerwonk.com/ β€’ Agora Pulse – Can create quizzes, contest, promotions and analytics features. https://www.agorapulse.com/ β€’ Facebook Analytics – It shows you who interacted with your content and where. https://analytics.facebook.com/ Blogging Tools β€’ StackPath – Improve the loading speed in your blog https://www.stackpath.com/ β€’ OIO Publisher – WordPress plugin, that allows you to insert ads right from your dashboard. http://www.oiopublisher.com/ β€’ Compfight – Website where you can search inside flickr. compfight.com β€’ Crazy Egg – Find out what’s working wrong in your website with their heatmap. https://www.crazyegg.com/ Business management β€’ ProofHub – You can streamline your processes, store and share files, share feedback and can be used by Android and iOS . https://www.proofhub.com/ β€’ Todo.vu – Intuitive user interface, focused on communication and real-time updates, built-in time tracking and billing, sync tasks with any calendar. https://todo.vu/ β€’ StudioCloud – You can manage clients, vendors and partners, create invoices, send emails, all in one place http://studiocloud.com/ β€’ Zoho One – Automate business workflows, online document storage, it can connect multiple apps. https://www.zoho.com/ β€’ Scoro – It manages Work plan, track time for bills, quotes, invoices and contacts. https://www.scoro.com/ β€’ iBE.net – Can create invoices in seconds, visualize and organize your data, use pre-delivered https://www.ibe.net/ β€’ Odoo – Work with dashboards, real time communication, unique framework with strong technical foundations https://www.odoo.com/ CRM management β€’ HubSpot – It is a crm tool, where you have standard features like costumers’ email, but you can also design a website and implement search engine optimization. https://www.hubspot.com/products/crm β€’ Salesforce Sales Cloud – It is focused on supporting sales opportunities, integrated with social media and it has a mobile app. https://www.salesforce.com/products/sales-cloud/overview/ β€’ Zoho CRM – It is more focused on lead conversion than customer support, perfect solution for supporting your sales team. https://www.zoho.com/crm/ β€’ Infusionsoft – It offers time scheduling and appointments system, you can also have billing and payment-processing mechanism www.infusionsoft.com β€’ Hatchbuck – Is centered on a sales and marketing analysis tool, integrated with CRM tools. https://www.hubspot.com/products/crm β€’ NetSuite CRM+ – It’s a big app, with a lot of tools, it is like having all CRM apps in one. https://www.netsuite.com/portal/products/crm.shtml β€’ Sublime CRM – It needs no installation, updating in real time, interactive and fully customizable dashboards http://www.sublimecrm.com/index.php β€’ LeadMaster CRM Services – It offers customized CRM for your enterprise https://www.leadmaster.com/

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