Small businesses today are faced with limited budgets, small teams and lots of work. Many cloud apps have been created to help you become more productive on a daily basis. Follow these slides for descriptions of each and how they can help you.

1. Productivity Enhancement
Tools in the Cloud

2. Small Businesses Need Efficiency
• SMBs today are faced with limited budgets, small
teams and LOTS of work to do
• Ever find yourself asking “How can I ever get enough
done each day to be effective here at my job?”
• Fortunately, many cloud applications have been
developed to help you become more productive on a
daily basis

3. Is the Cloud Disruptive?
• Moving to any new application can be a disruptive
process
– Finding applications that have a winning benefit to
counteract the disruption is key
• If you find the right tools, they can transform your
company

4. Google Apps
• The first office productivity
tool is Google Apps
– Free web-based tool which
over 3 million businesses to
date are using
• Applications include:
– Gmail
– Docs
– Calendar
– Contacts
– Sites
– Chat
– Picture sharing (Picasa)
• All apps are stored on the
web
– No internal storage costs
– Excellent online collaboration
tools
– Access from any device,
anywhere, at any time

5. Salesforce.com
• Salesforce.com is a
leading CRM tool based
on the web
– Allows businesses to lower
costs and drive up business
benefits
• Recently released
Salesforce Chatter
– Internal social network to
create a relationship-based
experience similar to
Facebook

6. Zoho
• Zoho is another CRM tool
which offers a suite of
collaboration,
productivity and business
applications including:
– Chat
– Docs
– Mail
– Meetings
– Invoices
– Marketplace
– Reports
– Calendar
• Based completely on the
web – requires nothing
but a browser

7. QuickBooks Online Edition
• QuickBooks Online allows you
to easily create invoices, pay
bills and track expenses
• Manage expenses efficiently
with zero storage space
required
• Use same security standards as
leading banks, so you don’t
need to worry about your
financial data getting leaked

8. Evernote
• Evernote is a web-based tool
where you can virtually save
your ideas
– Access it via a mobile device, tablet
or computer
– Real-time syncing
• Evernote is especially desirable
for bloggers, copywriters and
even music artists

9. Google Apps Marketplace
• Inside the marketplace is a slew of applications,
many of which are productivity-focused
• Visit their productivity section where there are 20
apps, including TripIT

10. MindMeister
• MindMeister is a brainstorming app that acts as an open
collaborative mind mapping tool
– Can be shared within a team or organization
• Simultaneously work on mind maps with friends and
colleagues virtually
– See their ideas as they are recorded
• Great tool for teams that work virtually and need to plan
strategies, content and workflow ideas, etc.

11. Protect Your Productivity
• While your data is generally safe from being lost on
the web, you cannot ever be too safe
• Having a backup copy of all this data is always a good
idea
– Don’t risk losing hours worth of work due to one small
mistake
• Backupify currently supports Google Apps backup
and plans to backup many of these apps in the future