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Not long ago, I had lunch with a fellow entrepreneur who is truly a superwoman. She\u2019s building a great company in a much-needed sector. She\u2019s super smart and a great CEO. She mentioned that she was spending way too much time reviewing and approving expenses submitted by her employees. It was a drain on her time and something she really didn\u2019t like doing. I asked which expense platform she was using and was surprised when she told me she wasn\u2019t using one. Her employees submit expense forms and receipts directly to her monthly. I ran through a list of platform names, and while she\u2019d heard of a couple, it hadn\u2019t occurred to her that one might be a fit for her needs. I strongly recommended that she check out two of my favorites and assured her that using one would change her life.<\/span><\/p>\n

That conversation got me thinking about how we, as entrepreneurs, can be laser-focused on growing our businesses yet overlook opportunities to leverage technology to run them more efficiently. According to recent studies<\/a>, nearly half of all small businesses fail to leverage technology effectively, significantly hurting their productivity. The key reason for this is simple: we don\u2019t know what we don\u2019t know. It can be easy to get so used to keeping our heads down and doing things the way we\u2019ve always done them that we forget to come up for air now and then and explore whether there might be new and better ways of doing them. Finding better, easier, faster ways of doing things is critical to scaling a business. Leveraging productivity software is a vital way to do this.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the site timelyapp.com<\/a>, there are four types of productivity software. Productivity software that:<\/span><\/p>\n