#MarketersToolbox - Project Management Tools
Over the past few years Setup has collected and reviewed marketing tools in a number of categories. From tools that help benefit social media efforts to tools that increase productivity, Setup is on the case to help improve your life as a marketer!
With the right project management tool, team members can easily coordinate on tasks, increase their productivity, and handle complex projects.
Setup selected a few project management platforms that help businesses with managing projects more efficiently. These tools can be used in tandem with a project manager or help a team construct an effective project management plan for day to day actions.
Asana
Asana is a project management application that helps teams stay productive by connecting team members to one another and streamlining the work process. Responsibilities, goals, lists, project status, workflow, and progress can be commented on and monitored by team members to keep everyone on track and on the same page. Asana prides itself on being an agile project management tool and offers multiple features including time tracking; customizable templates; gantt charts; and tabs for budget, portfolio, idea, and resource management. The platform is user-centered design, so it is easy for all team members to use in order to visualize their project standings.
Asana integrates with Zapier, Dossier, TmeCamp, and others.
Trello
Trello is a collaboration tool that helps teams stay organized with detailed boards, lists, and cards. Trello assists teams with project management by allowing team members to track and monitor progress. Tasks can be shared for contribution and commentary to ensure everyone is up-to-date, the kanban system allows for swift production and project flexibility, and the Trello board can organize projects of any size.
Trello integrates with Slack, Google Drive, Freshdesk, and many others.
Monday.com
Monday.com is a project management software with a pleasurable user experience that makes planning, organizing, and tracking work easier. The simple interface visually displays project and task lists to help users collaborate and monitor progress more efficiently.
Monday.com integrates with Dropbox, Zapier, Google Drive and other management tools to make workflow seamless and accessible. In addition to integrations, Monday.com comes with API access for developers to custom code integrations.
Airtable
Just like the previous tools, Airtable is a helpful tool to increase productivity through effective project management and collaborative resources. Airtable’s flexible platform is part spreadsheet and part database to organize the many moving parts of project execution. Data is organized into customizable spreadsheets for commenting, sharing, and attaching/removing files. Airtable offers time, expense, milestone, and cost-to-completion tracking to monitor project speed and success as well.
Users can view their work progress via grid, calendar, kanban, gallery, or form and can organize their workflow using the “Block” feature.
The tool is easily integrated with Dropbox, Evernote and Google Drive.
At the end of the day, the consumer is the one who keeps a company in business - so, their voice is important. Give consumers the ability to speak candidly and openly to the business without any barriers by offering them a survey.
Surveying customers can uncover unknown insights that will lead to better, more efficient procedures. We’ve selected a handful of survey tools that could possibly improve your customer’s experience over time: