Free Project Management Tool & Syncs With I Phone

I’m starting a 30 day challenge that Social Media Club South Florida started today, and which I am happy to announce that I am one of the new board members. I launched VizRED earlier this year with my business partner, Lee Hodson, but have not had much time to blog because my work as a Social Media Consultant in Miami incorporates teaching clients how to blog and create their publishing platform through WordPress.

Unfortunately, what I teach is not shown here as much lately because of time crunch and I find is the biggest challenge for anyone I consult with. I will discuss this topic in more detail in another post. I also have a personal bilingual inspirational blog, Mi Caminar which makes it even harder to keep up with all my publishing. But because I have been blogging for 4 years, I am happy to take on this challenge to share some great tips I have learned throughout the years. I also have a social media blog, Blanca Stella.com which I started in 2009 where I shared a lot of the happenings with the grass roots social media community in South Florida.

So I am diving into this 30 day challenge, because I really do love blogging! I am going to be sharing tips any small business or individual can use.

To start off, we all need to get organized with our projects, right?  I found Trello to be an easy to manage cloud software which syncs to my I Phone. I use it mainly for keeping track of my leads and proposals that I send out. It is not a full fledged CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software. You can use it for tasks or many other creative ideas. Basically, what you do is create boards and even  upload pictures to it online or from your I Phone. Whatever you add to your Iphone automatically syncs to your boards when you later log in from your laptop or desktop. This is my favorite feature! I mean, how many times do you forget to jot down a contact when you are out?

For example, in my business which I also send out proposals for Website Development, I organize them something like this:

-People to contact (You can separate into several boards, like “People Who contacted me” “People I met at events” etc..

-Proposals to send out

-Proposals sent to follow up

-Websites to finish

-Social Media Training to set up

-Contacts interested, follow up later

What I love about it is the visual that helps me to focus and easily move the boards around by dragging and dropping. You can also add other people to your account and assign tasks to the team. and it is totally free! If you try it out, let me know how you are using it so maybe I can get more ideas;)

By the way, I believe I found this great tool from Mark and Ryan on their  New Tech Community Facebook page. Thanks guys!

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