5 time-saving apps for business owners and entrepreneurs

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Jim Rohn once said, "Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time." Running a business can easily consume your life if you let it. That’s why we’ve put together this list of great, time-saving apps that will help you streamline your business and maximize profit.

1. Zoom

Zoom has become such a popular app for video conferencing that many people simply refer to the act as "Zooming." Zoom makes it possible to meet with students, employees, and executives around the world with high-definition video, chat, voice, and content sharing. The app can be accessed on mobile devices, laptops, desktop computers, phones, and conference room systems, making it an extremely flexible tool. With the optional add-ons, you can host up to 1,000 participants in the same meeting, and conversations can take place in one-to-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many formats.

2. Mobile Scanning Apps

Jesse Shera was once quoted as saying, “The paperless society is about as plausible as the paperless bathroom.” While many documents are shared in digital format in the modern business world, there can still be a distressing amount of old-fashioned paperwork to deal with. Mobile scanning apps make it easy to digitize paper documents and share them from your smartphone. Adobe Scan has automatic text recognition capability, and you can save your documents in multiple formats, including PDFs and JPEGs. It uses advanced image technology to automatically detect borders and sharpen text and it can remove marks, creases and even erase coffee stains.

3. Microsoft 365

Bill Gates once said, “There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs, but there’s no one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.” Whether that is true or not, there is no denying that Microsoft has been the titan of office productivity suites since there was such a thing as an office productivity suite. 

This cloud-based version takes all the many features of MS Office and makes them accessible from anywhere. This tool can help you create documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and emails. Most people know how to use it, and even many competitors' apps are compatible with it. 

4. Plaid

You need to set up a payment system that’ll work well—both for you and for your customers. Integrating an API to retrieve bank account balance information allows you to avoid expensive credit card fees, while your customers get peace of mind knowing they have the funds available to make a payment.

5. HotelTonight

One of Yogi Berra's famous quotes is, "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else." If your travel plans have ever turned into a travel nightmare, you probably know what he means. HotelTonight is designed to take some of the pain out of having to make last-minute travel changes. 

One thing almost all business owners and entrepreneurs have in common is that there never seems to be enough hours in the day. These apps can't give you more time, but they can help you make better use of the time you have.

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