When you run your business online, you are going to need online business software to help you. Take a look at this list of software categories and options to help you grow and expand your business.

Accounting and Finance

Quickbooks: A great program to help you track money that goes in and out of your business. You can attach it to your bank account so it will automatically import transactions.
Microsoft Money: A major competitor to Quickbooks, this program is similar and a great way to track both business and personal transactions.

Word Processing and Office Productivity

Microsoft Office: A well known commercial solution to word processing and other office tasks. This is an expensive program for many small businesses, but often comes installed on computer systems.
OpenOffice: A free open source alternative to Microsoft Office.

Project Management

 

Microsoft Project: A professional project management software by Microsoft.
Basecamp: An online project management and collaboration tool. Subscription based.

Ad Campaign Management

 

OpenTracker: A free open source program to help you track your ad campaigns to see how well each one of them are doing, to help you better spend your advertising budget.

Customer Relationship Management

 

Sales Force: A paid customer relationship management software option.
Zoho CRM: A free, online, customer relationship management software.

Security

 

McAfee: Virus protection and malware defense system to protect your computer.
Norton: Virus protection and malware defense system to protect your computer.

 

Web Design and Development

 

Adobe Dream weaver: A commercial “what you see is what you get” or WYSIWYG design interface. Great for professional designers to save time, as well as beginners.
NVU: A free, open source web design program much like Adobe Dreamweaver.
Microsoft Expression Web: A commercial “what you see is what you get” or WYSIWYG design interface. Great for professional designers to save time, as well as beginners.

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