Illuminea Founder Miriam Schwab: 'I Couldn't Do My Job Without...'
Ever wonder what apps and gear busy entrepreneurs use to boost their productivity, stay organized, and maintain their sanity? In our ongoing series, we ask company CEOs, founders, and other influential business folks to reveal their tech essentials.
The entrepreneur: Miriam Schwab, founder of Illuminea and self-proclaimed "app junkie."
The business: Israel-based Illuminea is a WordPress development and online marketing firm.
The tech tools that make her life easier:
"Zoho CRM helps us manage leads, opportunities, quotes, sales orders, contact info. It's way cheaper than Salesforce, and has the features we need to keep the business side rolling.
"Google Apps -- we seriously couldn't function without this. It's got all the great features of Gmail; chat which we use daily for quick communication between the team; and Google Docs for collaborating efficiently on documents.
"Convofy is our latest tool for team collaboration, and we love it! It helps us share information and knowledge, manage tasks, markup and comment on images, and share easily. This is Yammer on steroids, and it works great.
"Dropbox. No need for fancy servers, this helps all team members have the latest versions of files, and from anywhere.
"CCleaner makes it easy to keep your computer running smoothly by cleaning the hard drive and registry files, removing annoying programs from [the] Start [menu], and more."
Specs: See the links above for information about each tool.
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