New Tools for Online Business Collaboration

Starting an online company? It’s not that hard really once you have an excellent grasp of the basic tools or applications you can use to manage the day-to-day operation of the business. There are several FREE and PAID web applications that can help easily get you over the grey-areas of business collaboration and boost the productivity of your workers. Find out more about them below:

DropBox

Storage - can’t get enough of this. If you’re planning to start an online business, it is vital that you share information and files with your workers. Sending messages everyday regarding new tasks to work on and attaching bulky files on your emails is hardly convenient if you are managing more than 20 employees across different time zones. Dropbox solves this problem by giving you 2 Gigabytes of FREE storage (100GB for Premium users) and a nifty little interface that makes Dropbox seem like just another folder on your PC, where you can store away programs and files. Only in this case the documents or software that you share via the Dropbox folder gets shared with your intended recipients or workers. It’s more than just "convenience-in-a-box" - it’s also a miracle product for people who are always on the go, as they can also use the Dropbox service to store files that can be accessed from any computer connected to the internet.

Trillian Astra

Open Communication - one of the foundations of a good business. It’s a fact. Understanding the value of communication, especially for an online company, is important and all necessary measures should be made to enhance the communication lines between managers and the employees. Companies often use different chatting tools to communicate with their employees. Some managers use a private server or a secured chat network to exchange messages. But most rely on FREE alternatives like Yahoo Messenger, Skype, Gtalk or MSN. But the problem with running all these applications is that it can swamp the computer resources and leave very little for the more important business applications to run on. Trillian Astra offers an effective solution, by consolidating all your instant messaging (IM) accounts under one versatile product. It also adds an email service to help you easily get in touch with your workers, if they are not responding via the normal instant messaging services. Although Trillian Astra PRO may cost you a few bucks, it’s all worth it.

ResQTrack

Collaboration - one of the backbones of business productivity. Among the grey-areas encountered by online companies, productivity has always played a BIG factor. It’s never easy to send out instructions to your workers, monitor them to successfully complete their assigned tasks, and create the right channels where they can collaborate. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to effectively and efficiently schedule daily, weekly, or even monthly tasks for your employees, as well as monitor their daily performance, and keep a close tab of their timesheets for salary payments? It would be even better if that same application can be managed online. Add a forum as well, so that everyone in the company can share some quick ideas about the project at hand. Does this sound too good to be true? Not really. ResQTrack offers the features mentioned here. Web based application, online collaboration, work item tracking, timesheet monitoring, company forum, project management, email notifications, and secured user authentication and login system are just a few of the great features inside the NEW ResQTrack Work Item Tracking software. It uses a stylish and a quick-to-learn user interface that managers and workers will really find easy to navigate. And although the software carries a $299-dollars price tag, it’s worth every penny.

Combining the tools listed above - DropBox,Trillian Astra and ResQTrack, you can already start an effective online business. Software Developers who enjoy quick and painless collaboration will really love this setup.

ResQTrack from ResQSoft, Inc.
Your quality work item tracking tool.