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Most business owners don't launch into their vocational pursuits thinking how much fun it will be to balance the books. Nor do they imagine long, grueling hours of data entry that keep the business running. Try not to picture Ebenezer Scrooge hunched over his ledger by candlelight as you calculate and log the commission of each sale made this week. Yet, such are the realities of keeping a business in good standing. There is a way to avoid some of the tedium, however, if you're willing to turn your accounting app into your personal assistant. The way to do it is to use Zapier in conjunction with any accounting app it supports, such as QuickBooks Online, Xero, Freshbooks, or any other accounting app supported by Zapier . With Zapier, you can create commands so that when one common business action happens, such as "QuickBooks received notification of a payment," it triggers another action automatically, such as "send a thank-you email to the client with the outsta...

Your clients can list their property or indicate interest in buying a house with just a few clicks on their phone. As a real estate agent, you should be able to respond in the same way—whether you're at home, on the road, or at a viewing—without having to dig through your emails to find all the necessary information. Gone are the days where you have to meet in person to review disclosures, fax paperwork for signatures, or call your agents for updates on leads. Today's best real estate software keeps you productive and organized. It helps eliminate manual processes and digitizes information so you can say goodbye to paper pushing. Which apps should you use? In this article, we'll walk you through the 12 best apps for real estate agents that will improve your productivity throughout the entire real estate lifecycle, starting with generating leads and ending with signing paperwork. What Makes a Good Real Estate App? For this roundup, we focused software that would save you...

The best productivity apps for iPhone make possible something that would otherwise be impossible, or they make something you need to do simpler and faster. Imagine being asked, unexpectedly, for a copy of a tax form from last year as proof of address during an important appointment that you traveled many miles to attend. In fact, it happened to me, and thankfully I had a copy of the document I needed saved to a file syncing application, which meant I could pull it up on my phone and show it to the gracious Customs and Border Protection officer who demanded to see it. If that's not productivity by way of efficiency, I don't know what is. Perhaps a more routine example is keeping track of time spent in an off-site meeting so that you can claim it as an expense later. If you have the right time-tracking mobile app, you can record the time on the spot rather than having to estimate it and remember to record it later. The use cases for productivity apps are infinite, and sometimes...

The iPad’s a great way to read eBooks, watch Netflix, play games, and relax in the evenings. It’s also a serious productivity tool—almost a super-thin laptop. With either an iPad or iPad Pro, you can run two apps side-by-side, use keyboard shortcuts with external keyboards, and get work done in a variety of apps. The key is the right apps. I’ve relied on an iPad for years as a backup laptop, doing everything from customer support to web development to detailed writing and editing on an iPad. From that experience and our research, here are 20 of our favorite iPad productivity apps with tools everyone can use to be more productive at work. The Tools to Get Work Done on iPads Your iPad comes with apps to get work done right out of the box. Pages, Keynote, and Numbers form a robust office suite for documents, presentations, and spreadsheets on your iPad. The built-in Mail and Calendar apps sync with G Suite, Office 365, and more—and include keyboard shortcuts like their desktop counterp...