Who Runs the World or Nashville at Least?

“Who Runs the World? Girls!” Beyonce sings. “This is a man’s world, but it wouldn’t be nothing without a woman or a girl,” legend James Brown Croons. Two songs by two different artists pay homage to women in a positive way.

Nashville, TN population just slightly under 600,000 - Suburban Stats. Of those there are approximately 300,000 women living in Tennessee. Imagine if each one had a dream to start a business for themselves or partner with other women to start a business. Richie Bernardo of WalletHub ranked Nashville as one of the Best Women-Owned Business locations.

Is now the time to start a business? Need assistance with a business currently owned? There are many mobile applications that can assist women with starting their own business or maintain the daily grind of managing a business.

Evernote is a mobile application that uses cloud storage and assists the user with keeping on task. It may be accessed via mobile application or web browser. This application can keep an entrepreneur on top of their to-do list in a timely fashion with its reminder alerts. Evernote Helps with connection of Sprout Social provides social media assistance to those who wish to automate some of their responses to client and followers tweets.

Finances can be a burden to any entrepreneur. In 2017, a mobile device is seldom far for a businesswoman’s reach. Smartphones now have the capability to hold more data and with a data plan the user has access to just about all of their files and accounts. Expensify is a financial application that keeps both one’s finances and expenses in one place. Get on top of the new features of what is coming in 2018 with Expensify. The conference will be held on April 21, 2018.

Even solopreneurs have a team. What is the one word that teams must do in order to stay abreast of their pending projects? Communication. #Slack is a cloud-based application that works like a calendar/instant message service. Getting the whole team in a meeting may be a challenge, #Slack provides a stream of the discussions on the different projects a business may have going. As long as all users have internet access, everyone can share files and documents amongst the team. This will keep all members on the same page, same goal. Slack Facebook page even provides examples of how some of their clients utilize the application to best move a project forward. There are many possibilities for small business to big corporate ones.

All three mobile applications have the ability to assist women entrepreneurs in their endeavors to build and keep a successful business. This is just a few on a lengthy list of cloud-based applications geared to entrepreneurs. What are some of the business apps that are among your must have list? Send them to Women In Nashville or tweet @lashea_britt.