Being a small business owner is getting easier these days….you no longer need to download tons of software to operate and monitor everything. Here’s a list of tools that I personally recommend to make your business operations stronger and simplier:

blinksale.com – a tool to help you create professional-looking invoices and track payments. It’s helped me keep by billing straight and even offers a direct link to your paypal account.

Google checkout – this is a great way to accept credit cards from clients and customers without them having to sign up with paypal. It’s easy to set up, send invoices, and process payments.

Rememberthemilk.com – a wonderful tool to help reminder you do things once, weekly, monthly, you name it. I use it to help remind me to backup my computer, marketing tasks, and sending out emails.

Google’s Calendar – what a lifesaver this is! The best part about this calendar is you can share it with other people and coordinate schedules. I love the different views of the daily, weekly, monthly outlook. I even set mine up to be able to show the five day weather forecast.

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