If you are a Nigerian Business owner, you need to see this:

As technology becomes an integral part of our daily lives, the era when it was compulsory to do business from a brick and mortar location is fast becoming extinct. The rise of the digital era has led to what experts today call ‘the on demand economy’ – where consumers expect and demand an almost instant or very fast fulfillment of their needs. This has led to the rise of eCommerce which has revolutionized how we buy and sell today.

Nowadays, if your business is not online, it’s only a matter of time before that business slowly disappears. Even corporate organizations who saw no need for Digital Marketing in the past now have an online presence outsourcing online marketing to agencies like us while they concentrate on their core business offering.

As a small business owner, in order to survive in the fast chancing and highly competitive business world of today, you have to continuously and proactively stay abreast of marketing trends in your industry and adapt to new market conditions.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a chef or you run a restaurant. Even an event planner, a makeup artiste, a fashion designer or you run an e-commerce store owner can use these tools to optimize their business.

These 3 free tools will simplify your business process and improve the quality of your service delivery. It may even help you run your business from anywhere in the world. It doesn’t matter if you’re a Nigerian business owner vacationing in Dubai. With the power of the internet, you can serve clients beyond your city/country. You can be in Lagos, Abuja, Uyo, Owerri & Port Harcourt and service clients in Warri, Asaba, Kaduna or Taraba. So long as you have an internet connection, business should always go on. Are you ready? These tools come in no particular order of recommendation. Here they are:

GOOGLE SHEETS

With Google sheets you can create records, edit and collaborate with your staff via your laptop, android phone or tablet anywhere and anytime. All you need is a gmail account and an internet connection. With Google sheets, you can also work offline and it will automatically update when you’re connected again to the internet.
Why I personally love spreadsheet is you don’t have to worry about loosing your work as everything is automatically and you can just login to access it anytime in the future. Plus you can track and know the last person who edited it (this encourages proper accountability).
If you are wondering how to use spreadsheet in your business, here are a few things you can do with it. You You can create a budget, automate a formula, record sales, track inventory, store customer data or visualize information. Get sterted using Google sheets >> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/.

See the 2 more tools here >> http://delurgeconsulting.com/blog/3-free-tools-you-need-to-run-your-business-from-anywhere-in-the-world/