{"id":597,"date":"2013-02-22T17:14:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2013-02-22T17:14:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:14:57","slug":"mobile-apps-can-make-it-easier-to-run-your-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/mobile-apps-can-make-it-easier-to-run-your-small-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile apps can make it easier to run your small business"},"content":{"rendered":"
Does your small business depend on mobile devices and the apps <\/a>that are making them a powerful business tool? A recent survey of small business owners indicates that 72 percent use them on smartphones and tablets to run their business and 38 percent say they couldn\u2019t survive \u2013 or it would be a major challenge to survive \u2013 without apps.<\/p>\n Apps benefit your small business <\/strong><\/p>\n Apps give you a lot of mileage when it comes to running your business. They are less expensive than computer software packages and they run on mobile devices, which cost less than desktops and laptops. Today\u2019s mobile devices also have superior battery life so you can depend on access to your apps when you need them.<\/p>\n Many apps also run on multiple mobile platforms \u2013 \u00a0iOS, Android, Windows Phone or Blackberry OS.\u00a0 Purchase the app once and you can run it on all your devices at a significant cost savings compared to buying software to run on a single computer.<\/p>\n Mobile apps also save you time. In a survey <\/a>of over 300 small businesses commissioned by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council<\/a> (SBE Council), owners indicate that mobile apps save them an average of 5.6 hours (a median of 4 hours) a week. Mobile apps save their employees an average of 11.3 hours (a median of 5 hours) each week.<\/p>\n Talk about an abundance of riches! There are over 500,000 apps in the Apple Store alone. You might be asking where to begin in choosing ones to help run your small business. Here are some suggestions to get started:<\/p>\n These are just some of the many examples of useful apps to help run your business. What apps are indispensable to running your small business that you would add to the list?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does your small business depend on mobile devices and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[510],"tags":[396,637,580,571,572],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/b>Choose among the thousands of app offerings<\/strong><\/p>\n
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