Some Tools To Help You With Your Business

By Gaby Ndongo (2 mins read)

The recent Entrepreneur Thursday session at UJ’s Doornfontein campus shined light on useful tools to help business owners run their entities.

They were suggested by Marang Marekimane – a Business Strategist for SMEs – and Elize Brassell, founder of Ezabekwa Group which is an incubator programme.

Take a look at them:

Business planning

• Lean Business: https://leanbusinessplatform.com

Competence

To get education and work experience, check out

• Coursera (online courses): coursera.org
• Udacity (online courses): udacity.com
• MindTools (online courses): mindtools.com
• Blinkist (audio content): blinkist.com

Operations/project, management/communication

• Slack: https://slack.com/
• com: https://monday.com
• Trello: https://trello.com/
• Process Streets: process.st

Virtual assistance/marketing

• For social media, use analytics to understand audience and buyers
• Hootsuite (to maintain social media accounts): https://hootsuite.com/
• Canva (for all posters, etc.): canva.com

Sales

• YOCO (card payments): yoco.co.za

Networking

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com
• Meetups: meetup.com

Financials

• WaveApps (invoicing and payments): waveapps.com
• Add-A-Bit (saving pockets): https://addabit.com/home

Human resources

Giraffe (for hiring people): www.giraffe.co.za

RELATED STORY: UJ Entrepreneur Thursday Kicks Off 

Reporting by Gaby Ndongo.

Feature image: Start up.

Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels.