{"id":1467,"date":"2018-09-29T12:14:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T12:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2018-09-29T12:14:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T12:14:39","slug":"5-free-business-tools-that-smart-entrepreneurs-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/1467\/5-free-business-tools-that-smart-entrepreneurs-love\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Free Business Tools That Smart Entrepreneurs Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did we say &#8220;free?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes indeed. And who doesn&#8217;t love free stuff? Especially when you&#8217;re spending the big bucks trying to operate a profitable business!<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, running a small business is nowhere near free. There are the start-up costs, the overhead, the inventory, the lease, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re a savvy entrepreneur, you&#8217;ll have your eyes peeled for the latest and greatest, without having to saw off your right arm for them. The good news is, there are tons of awesome tools out there that can make running a business easier, and they don&#8217;t have to break the bank again, either.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because they&#8217;re free!<\/p>\n<p>OK, so now that we&#8217;ve piqued your interest with the exciting four-letter F-word (simmer down, now), here are some awesome free business tools that you can use right now for your business without having to spend a penny.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Wrike&#8217;s Project Management<\/h2>\n<p>What business couldn&#8217;t benefit from a little project management? Wrike offers a great tool for free and supports as many as five users, 2 GB of free storage, and as many collaborators as you want.<\/p>\n<p>You can always upgrade for $24.80, which will afford you with all sorts of personalizations and reporting if that&#8217;s what you need. Otherwise, the free version works for your needs, including sharing files, managing tasks. You can also keep tabs on your group&#8217;s ongoings in real time.<\/p>\n<h2>2. join.me&#8217;s Video Conferencing<\/h2>\n<p>Who says you need to book expensive plane tickets just to have meetings face-to-face with clients and partners? With join.me, you can hold quality video conferencing sessions for free.<\/p>\n<p>You can invite as many as 10 participants to join in and share screens.<\/p>\n<h2>3. ConferenceTown&#8217;s Conference Calling<\/h2>\n<p>Join for free and take advantage of the best conference calling tool out there. You can sign up for free today.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll get awesome call quality with all of the features that you could possibly need to host your next conference.<\/p>\n<p>No need to pre-schedule your conference calls or worry about how long your conference runs. ConferenceTown offers great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencetown.com\/\">conference call services<\/a> for all of your business needs.<\/p>\n<h2>4. Buffer&#8217;s Social Media Scheduling<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re running a small business, then you definitely need a social media presence to <a href=\"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/1397\/10-marketing-statistics-that-will-change-the-way-you-promote-your-business\/\">promote your brand<\/a>. And Buffer can help make managing and scheduling your social media marketing and posting a cinch.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\">social media<\/a> scheduling tool can help you share content quickly and conveniently on your favorite social media channels. Not only that, but this tool also lets you use analytics for all of your posts so you can see what&#8217;s working and what isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<h2>5. Wave&#8217;s Accounting<\/h2>\n<p>You obviously need to have some type of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billconerly\/2012\/09\/28\/businesses-lose-money-from-bad-accounting\/\">accounting<\/a> in place to manage your business&#8217;s finances. You can always hire a bookkeeper, but with Wave&#8217;s accounting tool, you can balance the books for free.<\/p>\n<p>This tool will provide you with accounting and reporting functions as well as the ability to create invoices. Heck, you can even scan receipts right into the system with ease!<\/p>\n<h2>Looking For More Free Business Tools?<\/h2>\n<p>If you look hard enough, you can find all sorts of savvy free business tools that you&#8217;ll find highly useful for your small business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/category\/business-posts\/\">Visit UPGifts<\/a> today to find all sorts of helpful info and tools for your business!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s not to like about free stuff?  Watch your business grow when you use these free business tools to get on the fast track with entrepreneurs in the know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upgifs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}