Game of Phones: 5 top apps

We check our phones about 85 times a day. Chances are, you’re reading this on one right now – or it won’t be long till you check it again. A staggering 70% of internet traffic now comes from mobile devices.

For any small business owners, rather than a distraction, the smartphone is now their secret weapon. It’s the operating system for your life – your connection to the world, from keeping in touch with colleagues and loved ones to answering any question instantly (thanks, Google), to managing projects, teams, tasks and expenses from anywhere.

We’re witnessing the rise of the smartphone entrepreneur. In fact, Xero asked young entrepreneurs, back in 2014, what the single most important tool for running their business would be in the future. The answer? Smartphones. No surprise, then, that the ‘app economy’ could be worth an eye-watering $6.3trillion by 2021.

Helping grow businesses involves long days, lots of travelling, back-to-back meetings and plenty of challenges. So the ability to manage things remotely, or on the road, is a game-changer that simply didn’t exist a few years ago.

Here’s five apps for people managing a business on-the-go:

• Trello – Task management made simple
• Xero – Accounts in the cloud
• Curve – Simpler business spending
• Wetransfer – Getting files from A to B
• Citymapper – Getting you from A to B

SOURCE: Xero Blog, Matthew Phillips

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