37signals.com – Project management, collaboration, and CRM tools

Posted on February 27, 2008 at 7:22 am

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37signals.com – Project management, collaboration, and CRM tools

One of the best ways to create a profitable business is to have well functioning tools. Organizing customer data, team ideas, schedules, and remote employees can turn into one large headache without the right tools. Most large business owners have to pay an extraordinarily high price to keep everything in working order.

However, if you are small business owner spending big money for these things may not be an option. Thankfully, there are tons of useful and free applications available on the internet. Instead of placing a major dent in your business budget, you can take advantage of what the world wide web has to offer.

37Signals.com is an excellent starting point. They have four great working tools for a growing business. Using the entire suite of applications will not only get your business in order, but you can’t beat the price. There are several paid plans to choose from and you also get to enjoy a 30 day free trial while deciding on the right package for your business.

Basecamp will help you to manage multiple projects with customers or team members. Setting restrictions for users will take just a few moments. The interface is completely simple and easy to operate. Touching base with the latest changes with business projects won’t be such a hassle anymore.

Users will be able to communicate easily and work together to meet a deadline. There will be no more wasteful moments for a business owner trying to get their team up to date on customer projects. Basecamp is a useful tool for organizing projects in an easy to understand manner.

Highrise is a great way to organize customer contact information. Having instant access to a customer’s contact information and contact history will save you from mismanaging important data. Instead of trying to remember your last conversation with a customer, you will be able to refer to the details within this program.

Highrise will help you to set valuable reminders and track your communications with customers. Organizing customer data in one location will prevent you from looking unorganized and unprepared.

Backpack will let you conveniently create your own business intranet. Now employees will have access to the latest changes going on in the company. Setting up a business calendar for all to see will also provide an organized way of reminding employees of upcoming events.

You will have the chance to color code these events according to your personal preferences. Sharing important files can be done quickly from Backpack as well. Being able to have instant access to necessary files will create a more productive work environment. Team members can enjoy sharing multiple ideas with each other and making changes when needed.

Campfire provides its users with real time chatting capability. Waiting for email responses can sometimes be time consuming. Using real time instant messaging not only gets the job done faster, but it will allow you to communicated better with remote employees.

Groups of remote employees will be able to communicate with one another more efficiently with this web based program. The file sharing feature will allow you to quickly share important files with every member without wasting time.

37signals.com offers robust programs at affordable prices. Small business owners will be able to compete with larger companies and increase employee work productivity. Using each one of the previous tools will almost guarantee that a small business can organize itself with ease. Working with the simple interface of each application and user friendly features makes this suite of applications great tools.

This is a guest post by Ms Yokum, a tech enthusiast and blogger.

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2 Responses to “37signals.com – Project management, collaboration, and CRM tools”

software_developer said on : May 22nd, 2008 at 8:33 am

I can recommend these products .. we use some of them

they just do want they should do and nothing more

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