Tip 363) useful software and apps for small businesses

Thank you to the members of the group who contributed to this blog, providing recommendations about the best software and apps to help small businesses!
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Camcard is a great app for your phone. It's for scanning business cards, and it's free. Because it's in the cloud, you'll always be able to find someone's card. It stores an image of the card too. You may have to slightly edit address details, but it usually reads phone numbers right first time. 
- Graham from Maplebrook Wills Bristol ​

​Pipedrive is a great CRM. Been using it to keep track of all my leads/contacts, etc. 
- Nathan from Zanshin Films Ltd

Canva for ALL my designs for marketing: e-book creation, brochures, flyers, business cards, webinar slides, AND I only use the FREE version.
- Julie from The Mum Almighty Mindset Coach. 

Trello for organising work, to-do lists, planning. It’s very versatile! 
- Clare Base Marketing

I use Tiny Eye if I need to find the original source of an image online. It's great if you have a low res file but you can't remember where from – you can easily find which stock library it's from! You can also use it to check where/who else has used it already.
- Emma from Emma Jayne Creative

The Chrome extension LOOM is great for recording what you're doing on your desktop, recording yourself with your webcam, or a combination of both. Great if you need to create video content or webinars. 
- Emma from Emma Jayne Creative

Toggl is a great time monitoring app ... You don't know where you're wasting it until you start recording it!
- Sarah from Keyboard Smash

Receipts by Wave ... Really easy way to keep all of your receipts together and logged, and the scanning technology actually works!  
- India from Indie Presence 

Zapier is a great time-saver. If you use cloud-based services from different vendors, everything can feel a little disjointed until you start using Zapier. I'll give you an example: I use cloud-based services for email, help-desk ticketing and CRM, all from different vendors. Adding a new customer to each of these systems can be a pain, but Zapier uses APIs to send your data between each system. So, if I add a new customer to one system, Zapier will take those new customer details and add them to the rest. This is just a simple example of what Zapier can do. We also use it to create follow-up tasks in our CRM when we close a support ticket.
​- Jason from Owen IT solutions