Best Tools for Small Business and Non Profits

What product to choose as a startup or non-profits with limited resource? I found a great article from bestvendor.

In summary, dream package is a group of

  • Google Apps (Email)
  • QuickBooks (Accounting)
  • Google Analytics (Web Analytics)
  • SalesForce (CRM)
  • Adobe CS5 (Website Design)
  • DropBox (Storage/Backup/Virtualisation) *
  • PayPal (Payment Processting)

In Productivity,

  • BaseCamp (Project Management) / Trello *
  • EverNote (Note Taking)
  • Google Docs (Collaboration/Wiki) *
  • Google Voice & Ring Central (Phone System)

In Development,

  • Jira & BugZilla(Bug Tracking) *
  • MySQL (Database)
  • Eclipse & Visual Studio (IDE)
  • Rails & .Net (Framework) *
  • Textmate (Text Editor) *
  • RSPEC & JUnit & Selenium (Testing Framework) *
  • GIT & SVN (Version Control) *
In Web Operations,
  • Amazon, Rack Space, Go Daddy (Web Hosting) *
  • Magento, Self-Made, Shopify (eCommerce Platform)

To see more detail go to vestvendor.

ref : http://blog.bestvendor.com/2011/07/survey-results-the-startups-toolkit/

List up is easy, but getting the most out of tools is require a lot of effort. The elements which has * is the ones that can be meaningful for the personal productivity purpose as an web specialist. In other words, many of those are popular but only some use it efficiently and in detail.

  • Good to research : BaseCamp, Jira & BugZilla, Rails, RSPEC & JNuit, GIT
  • Good to utilise in detail : DropBox, Google Docs

Google Analytics Dashboard Setting

This is the function rolled out several month ago, called Dashboard.

It seems straightforward and easy to set and use for skimming web traffic of any site. The basic idea of my dashboard is Who > How > What.

The first column is about Who, the second is for How, and the last is about What.

This way of view make our life easy, because it gives us a big picture in a single page. I like it.
google analytics dashboard setting