Small business owners do not need to spend truckloads of money on keeping their computers updated with all kinds of software. But to achieve the kind of functionality that a bunch of business software can provide, small business owners can simply make use of the following plugins that are easily available through the Google Chrome app store.
1. Gmail Offline
If you are based in a place that has little or limited internet connectivity, you can use the Gmail Offline beta plugin. The app helps you queue actions, sync messages, archive, respond and read emails when an internet connection isn’t available.
2. Evernote
Evernote is a note clipper service that allows users to save tasks, add notes and organize all kinds of information within the browser.
3. Mint
Mint.com is a financial management app that allows you to track spending and saving with ease.
4. Poll Daddy
Poll Daddy allows users to create customer service surveys though quizzes surveys and polls.
5. Tweet Deck
To track important real-time conversations, power users, marketers and publishers need to use the plugin TweetDeck. The plugin allows users to tweet through multiple accounts, link to stores and share photos easily.
6. Weebly
For a web builder plugin, Weebly is incredibly user-friendly and totally free. To maintain a professional feel on the site, you can also get features like cloud hosting and integrated domain registration.
7. Prezi
Web-based presentation maker Prezi allows you to spread all your slides onto a blank space and thus you can pick and choose the ones that you want on a slideshow as you go along.
8. Screen Capture
If you have ever tried to capture a screen through PC tools alone, you definitely haven’t tried the Screen Capture that comes as a plugin for Google chrome. The plugin allows you to capture a selected part of the browser screen or to capture the entire webpage easily in a JPG format.
9. Cacoo
Online drawing tool Cacoo is perfect for creating network charts, Unified Modeling Language, wire frames and sites maps. Real time multiple edit features allows many people to collaborate on a project too.
10. Ge.tt
To get access to real-time sharing, Ge.tt is a great file-sharing service that is available as a plugin for Google Chrome. The service allows you get important info about a file download as well as send files from a website through email despite a large size.