My Top Ten Business Tools

Which business applications do you use?  Are they web based, or local?  Here”s our list.

Top Ten

1. Google Search – what else?
2. Google Mail – works anywhere, great archive capability, unlimited capacity (virtually) and the best Spam management.  Perversely it’s biggest weakness is Search, because of those awful “conversations.
3. WordPress (Self hosted) – I love Posterous for its combination of simplicity and capability but WordPress gives me so much more control, with all those great plugins.
4. Twitter – broadcasting and conversation
5. Clicky – Monitoring and analytics on steroids with a great iPhone app.
6. Google Reader – simple operation, lightweight client for iPhone, interfaces really well with Gruml for a desk top version.
7. Google Docs – for writing, spreadsheets, sharing,  – all the office stuff, including accounting which I do with spreadsheets.
8. Friendfeed – aggregating content, distributing content, search -all work brilliantly simply.
9. Google Sites – for accounting I include documents and spreadsheets in pages and also upload .pdf copies of other documents. Sites makes it really easy to keep everything together.  It’s garbage as a publishing platform.
10. Skype – we have phone numbers in the USA and the UK both of which get routed through to Skype which then passes calls through to cell phones.

Also Ran

• Palringo
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Posterous
• Tumblr
• Streamy
• Evernote
• Google Analytics
• Google Webmaster Tools
• Google Calendar
• Screencast
• Sliderocket
• Picasa
• Tripit
• Disqus
• Wufoo
• Kutano
• Ning
• Delicious
• X Marks
• Ezine Articles
• Lijit
• Knol
• Stumbleupon

And the most important of course is Front Office Box because that’s where we manage our business – all of the above are just tools we use.

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