Today I have some tools help entrepreneurs improve their productivity online. Here’s four links with tips and tricks to kick start your work week.

Running a solo business online is the new office of today, especially for emerging entrepreneurs and small business owners. By utilizing into the right resources you can greatly improve your efficiency. There are several ways to make your venture work for you by taking advantage of these great tools. Let me know how these work for you!

1) Make fun .Gifs for social media – EzGif.com

Create, edit and share interactive .Gifs on Facebook and Twitter. EzGif.com is a fun way to reach your community and encourage sharing. Choose to transform a business video, image, or edit an existing image all for free. Add to your images from their list of special effects, text quotes, optimization and more.

2) Create projects with others online – Padlet

Visually work on your project to create maps, social media graphics, product designs and more. Padlet provides a beautiful platform to creatively team up on inspirational ideas for your business and brand campaigns. The app easily views on smaller mobile devices in addition to computers. Personalize your account while inviting others in on this fun and innovate way to stay focused and creative.

3) Secure business transactions – SecureDocs

Store and share confidential information in a secure, remote environment. SecureDocs will help you keep critical customer and financial data under wraps while protecting you from hackers. This is a great tool to use to store your tax documents, payment information, legal files, and more.

4) Learn about your business impact – Cision

Connect with influencers and distribute meaningful stories to your audience. Cision provides in-depth insight on the performance of your business and how it is being viewed by your community. Their precise analytics software measures your brand’s bottom line and helps you focus on the right things in order to move your business forward. Features include media monitoring, relationship management, audience research, and analytics reports. In today’s virtual environment it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on what is trending and being said about your industry and business online.

Hopefully you will find these tools for entrepreneurs useful to your online growth strategy. Are there any that you would like to add as well?

Have fun with these tips and tools.

Wishing you a FAN-tastic week!

Susan