Work more efficiently with these tools

Losing track of things, not reaching out to your colleagues, creating scary designs for social media — thanks to innovative tools, the days are gone. These make your everyday life easier, even as a founder.

Losing track of things, not reaching out to your colleagues, creating scary designs for social media — thanks to innovative tools, the days are gone. These make your everyday life easier, even as a founder. We are introducing you to a variety of the little helpers today.

Project Planning

Do you manage projects as a team and want to make sure that everyone knows what they should do and when? We have exciting tools for that:

  1. Asana: Whether it's individual tasks or large projects, Asana organizes your work so everyone knows what, why, and how to do it.
  2. Trello: Collaborate, manage projects, and achieve new levels of productivity together. Whether in a high-rise office or working from home, your team has their very own way of working — and Trello is here to help.
  3. Basecamp: Basecamp is more than just a project management tool — it's a better way to work. Teams that move to Basecamp are more productive and organized. You communicate better and need fewer meetings. And they're much more efficient than before.

Collaborative Working

Working together digitally and getting creative is now very easy, for example with the four tools:

  1. Slack: Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It's faster, more organized, and more secure than email.
  2. GDrive: Easy and secure access to all content. You can save, share, and collaborate on files and folders from any device.
  3. Notion: Notion is the all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
  4. MIRO: Miro is a fast, free, and easy-to-use online whiteboard that lets you collaborate with others anytime, anywhere.

CRM

CRM is the abbreviation of customer relationship management and is important in sales. Perhaps one of these services will help you with this in the future:

  1. HubSpot: Whether you want to generate more leads, speed up sales, organize your contact database, or provide a better customer experience, HubSpot has the right software to grow your business.
  2. Pipedrive: The all-in-one sales platform for more sales. The first CRM developed by salespeople for salespeople. Take your business to the next level. Pipedrive has plenty of features to prioritize deals, track performance, and forecast revenue.
  3. Freshworks: Delight your customers with an effortless omnichannel service. Have meaningful conversations every day—across every channel and with every customer.

Marketing/Sales

  1. Mailchimp: With comprehensive features and ease of use, Mailchimp's marketing platform helps you reach your customers and move your business forward.
  2. Google Analytics: With Google Analytics, you can measure your advertising ROI and track Flash, video, and social networking sites and applications.

Social media/design

Social media is time-consuming — these tools help you get more out of that time:

  1. Canva: Now anyone can be a designer. Create with custom templates and create designs with a team. Share designs anywhere and get them professionally printed anytime.
  2. Falcon: The platform for every type of social media marketer. With Falcon, you can be a content wizard, a team whisperer, an analytics geek, a customer hero, and a strategy guru.

surveys

  1. Typeform: There is a better way to ask.

Many of these tools and software offer you a free trial period or freemium version (with fewer features). It is best to find out about the conditions in advance. If you're part of our StartPort program, you can redeem the special deals and credits we've negotiated with the providers. Just write to us. 🙂

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