Ryan Hinricher an entrepreneur, realtor, and VP of Marketing for IT Niche, a custom web development firm, writes about finding solace in 37signals tools and Backpack in particular.
Backpack has changed my life. Backpack is essentially online storage, but becomes more than that. A personal intranet, a business intranet, and so much more. Backpack allows you to create pages within an account for projects or even something you are just trying to keep track of. I'm using it for both my online real estate investment company, The Feol-Hinricher Companies and my web development company, IT Niche. I'm able to use this extremely affordable system to manage small projects, allow people to collaborate, image files, create lists, assign tasks, edit and share calendars and more...I think this is an excellent solution for small companies and start ups.I've been able to lose a lot of paper by imaging; contracts, leases, proposals, and any important document you can image. I created a page for a research project, a page for a family trip, and a page for every web development project my web development company is working on. It is super easy to use (plenty of demos), and is accessible from anywhere...Check it out. This increased my company efficiencies BIGTIME.
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