Running Your Business
with Online Tools

A Case Study
To Do
Accounting
Mail
Files
Projects
Information Customers
Documents

Usual Suspects
• Outlook
• QuickBooks
• MS Project
• Word, Excel, etc.
• File Cabinets and Hard drives

Build, Buy or Rent
• Custom app building removes you from
your core business
• Buying an app requires your money, your
machine, your troubleshooting, your time
• Rent an app limits features, give control
(and data) to a third party

Backpack
Wrike
Basecamp
Box.net
Freshbooks
Social
Harvest Text
Gmail
Salesforce.com
Google
Zoho Apps

The Good
• Always Available
• Shareable
• Flexible

The Bad
• Not Available Without Internet
• Monthly cost
• Not customizable

Uses
• Calendar
• To Do lists
• Customers
• Projects
• Bills, Invoices
• Information

Calendars
• Google Calendar
• Yahoo Calendar
• MS Live Server

To Do
• Backpack
• Remember the Milk

Customers
• Highrise
• Salesforce.com
• Gmail Contacts

Projects
• Basecamp
• Wrike
• Salesforce.com

Accounting
• Freshbooks
• Quicken/Quickbooks.com
• Harvest

Information
• Google Docs
• Wiki
• Box.net

Questions/Discussion