Whether your team works remotely or side to side, minimizing inessential inbox chaos is a constant challenge startups face. Fortunately, there are now countless resources dedicated to fixing this problem. (Actually Asking people to stop sending you does not seem to be an option.)
Learn what tools are best paris for entrepreneurs who rely on email 24/7, I asked 11 founders Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the question:
what's your favorite Web tool for streamlining internal email between the team members and why is it better than the rest
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Their favorites are below.
1. Flowdock
We use Flowdock as a hybrid tool. It works both as a private messaging application and a group discussion of solution. We find it greatly reduces down on internal e-mails, and it often gets an answer back in seconds instead of minutes or hours. It also supports file sharing, so that we can share ideas and screenshots easily when communicating remotely ideas.
- Patrick Conley, Automation Heroes
2. Redbooth
We tested on Redbooth, and we really liked the way notifications work on projects. Instead buckle everyone in the discussion, we can keep the e-mails to a minimum.
My daily digest email gives me a good overview of moving parts, and it zeros on what needs to be done without having to read 100 emails.
- Kelly Azevedo, She's Got Systems
3. Basecamp
The Platform Basecamp is fairly intuitive, and it allows you to keep all necessary documents and team communication in one place for each project. You can also apply email notifications that go to your team members if something important is updated.
Many may be lost in the emails back and forth, it's nice to have a good project management system like Basecamp to organize everything.
- Andy Karuza, Brandbuddee
4. P2 on WordPress
P2 is a great theme for WordPress that we use for internal communication. Instead of sending emails to the team, everyone makes posts on the blog. In this way, all our communications are public and searchable. It keeps us on the same page and reminds us why we took past decisions.
- Wade Foster, Zapier
5. Evernote and Yammer
We share notes and messages via Evernote, and it greatly reduces the need send attachments. Yammer is for non-emergency commercial communications such as social events and other announcements. We really like the "Like" feature in Yammer -. Each "like" records an email
- Ryan Buckley, scripted, Inc.
6. Atlassian products
In my view, the e- internal mails are treated wonderfully by Gmail. For other communications, Atlassian has a wide range of products I am very partial - ie JIRA and HipChat. The integration of both Gmail is also superb.
- Daniel Wesley, Creditloan.com
7. HipChat
HipChat is the best chat business customer there. By engaging in chat rooms and one-on-one chats, we are able to keep conversations on email. Chat is always faster and more action than email.
- Adam Lieb, Duxter
8. Skype
Skype is great for sending messages that must be known immediately, but require not the formality of checking your email. Each employee has a copy of Skype, and we have set up discussion groups divided into departments, so that any employee can send a message to an employee or department.
Everyone knows Skype. It is easy to use, and best of all, it is free relative to HipChat or other instant messaging applications.
- Liam Martin, Staff.com
9. iDoneThis
All team members send a complete list of what they worked that day to iDoneThis. The software then compiles these lists and sends a report on the team the following morning. Back-and-forth email is significantly reduced when everyone can easily keep abreast of the progress of the entire team.
- Laura Roeder, LKR Social Media
10. Google Hangouts and Adium
We use email for things that do not require an immediate response . We use Google Hangouts for our real-time communication. It works inside Gmail and Google, but it also works with any Jabber-compatible client.
We use Adium for Mac to keep it attached to the other. It keeps a lot of noise in our inboxes.
- Jared Brown, Hubstaff
11. Help Scout
Help Scout is a great tool to keep our team on the same page. It is basically a way for a team of two or more people sharing the same inbox and delegate to the competent services.
It allows you to streamline specific requests to other, add private notes on the client / case, keep track of the previous history with people and more. It is a good way to prevent things from slipping through the cracks.
- Heidi Allstop, Spill