The best thing about running a business on your own is that even if you’re the only employee, you’re never alone. People have come before you and walked the same path as you, so people have an idea of what you need, which means they’ve gone off and invented tools you can now use. These tools may be a little hard to find up front, but once you do find them and you take advantage of them, there’s no going back. Here are just a couple of tools you might find handy when you’re starting up your business.
WordPress
Not everyone who is starting a website actually knows how to create that website, and of course, that’s okay. What’s not okay is just not creating one because you don’t think you know how to do it. Instead, invest a few hours of learning time into WordPress. WordPress can help you not only deal with your website, but your blog, too. You can also install Google Analytics on any WordPress website to help track all of the important behind-the-scenes action that you should know about so you know what you should be investing in when it comes to portions of your website.
BaseCamp
The best way to describe BaseCamp is to call it a forum, but it’s not really a forum. Users do sign up and start threads, but these threads are divided up into subcategories. These subcategories are handy because it means you can have several projects running at the same time that don’t interfere with one another, and you can have separate to-do lists for each and every one. There’s no end to the usefulness of this tool when it comes to working in a team.
