Time gets scarce with all the things you have to do for your business. You have to prepare documents, compute, write reports, correspond with distant people and you can’t avoid travel. That’s why you’ll need a smart phone with mobile business apps. They will let you do your job on-the-go and save time as you perform multiple tasks at once. Here are some of the important phone apps that you must have for your business:
Communication Tools
Basically, phones are equipped with features such as SMS text messaging, calling, emailing and voice mailing. They are essential for overseas correspondence between you, business partners and interested parties.
However, current technologies are taking these communication tools to the next level. Now, you don’t need a wired internet connection and a web cam for online conferencing. The Blackberry has Cisco’s WebEx Meeting center while the iPhone has an online conferencing app. These programs allow you to share documents and view slideshow presentations through handheld devices. There can be multiple participants in an instant, and you can select roles as presenter or viewer. The actions of the presenter will automatically be viewed by participants around the globe.
Organizers
Good mobile business apps can also turn your phones into powerful organizers. For example, the Pocket Informant app is better than built-in calendars and notes app of smart phones. It can organize complex and webbed schedules, and view a timeslot with its corresponding emails, attachments and notes. Another cool app is ReQall, which is a calendar program. You can create entries on your to-do notes and calendars through simple voice commands.
Basic Office Ads
It is quite inconvenient to carry a laptop anywhere, so it’s better to have your office tools accessible through your pockets. Your smart phone must have a shared suite such as the Windows Mobile operating system. The OS allows you to use native versions of Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Alternatively, non-Windows phones can use QuickOffice and Documents to Go of DataViz to view office documents.
Website Integration
If you are using a website to transact with your clients and prospects, you may have parts of it that gather information such as electronic survey forms and “contact admin” sections. The information inputted by users will then be forwarded to your email for later viewing. There are also cloud apps that allow you to directly retrieve this information through your mobile phones.
Mobile business apps are very convenient because they automatically adjust web pages into a format compatible for small-screen viewing. You can even manage the content of your websites wirelessly and without a laptop through these smart phones.
