What was the first definition of technology that we all studied? Do you remember? Basically technology was something that made our work easier and brought people closer ‘virtually’. This pandemic has made us all ponder over this definition once again. This is the situation where this definition of technology has stood true.

Behind every technology is a proficient team of developers who made their thoughts into reality.  Now, the biggest question asked these days is how can I grow my business or work seamlessly in this pandemic situation? Well, the answer to this problem lies in your hand, to be precise, your mobile! Not only mobile, laptops, tabs, anything that could be used to make connections to others without having to interact physically.

Now we know technology comes with its liabilities and nothing is perfect. Although it cannot fully replace the physical relevance of ourselves, we can counter the situation to a great extent by the latest technologies.

So, How Do Technologies Help Business During Pandemic?

Here we will provide you with almost all the tips and technologies whose benefit can be reaped to maximize your work output. Now how to reap the benefits? Don’t worry! That would be provided as well!

1.)Virtual Meeting Tools

The first thing before starting any work is to form a strategy. You will be needing a meeting of your group members to generate ideas and strategies. To get everyone at the same place, no matter 10s or 100s of employees, we have something called cloud meetings . This virtual platform will help you to get all your co-workers together at one place and plan your ideas. The meeting although virtual, would provide you with everything to minimize your shortcomings of not being present physically. From screen sharing to chatting to Q and A, everything can be done swiftly and seamlessly.

Some of the best cloud meeting platforms are:

• Cisco Webex Meeting

• Zoom Cloud Meeting

• Google Teams

• GoTo Meeting

• Pexip

and many more. Most of the features are free and to avail of some privileged features, you may have to pay some money however the amount isn’t much when seen from a business point of view and is considered nominal.

2.) Business Files Sharing Tools

The data provided by the company are often deemed highly confidential and may be subject to exploitation. Hence a high-security database is needed along with a secured file transfer medium. The data may also be in bulk and hence a technology that could handle such data is required. For these purposes, technology has bestowed us with many tools:

• DropBox Business

• FileCloud

• Citrix Share File

• G Suite Google Drive

• OneDrive for business

Variants under these may be paid or free and are highly secured and used especially for business transactions.

3.) Problem Fixing

Everybody has got this ‘work from home’ paradigm nowadays. Now, working from home may be relaxing, sitting on your computer, and comfortably doing your work. Now, what if you get stuck on some problem? How to get help? Being in the office, makes getting help easier but with no come worker around how to sustain the problem? Technology has the answer even to this problem!

There are a few technologies with the help of which any co-worker or senior can access your laptop remotely and fix the problem that you are enduring. Now you must be thinking,’ accessing my laptop, is this safe’? Well of course it is. The device will be accessed remotely and you will be able to govern each activity that your device is going through. You may abort the action anytime you want! Besides laptops, these technologies also help you connect your laptop to mobiles or vice versa and can be used accordingly.

Some of these applications  that can help you with this are:

• Chrome Remote Desktop

• Team Viewer

• Splashtop Personal

• LogMeIn Pro

• Zoho Assist

• Connectwise Control

4.) Management and Booking

Now the most important aspect of Business has to be discussed, that is, growing and managing the business.

There are several platforms to advertise your products and lure your customers to you. The promotion of business should never stop and for this tech-savvy generation what’s better than digital marketing. There are platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, where a huge public is encountered and all you have to do is present yourself appropriately in front of them. With this lockdown, there is quite a lot of time in hand and people tend to buy things they feel are appealing because of that redundant time. The customers have a temperament to experience something new and you can easily present them with your product’s trial and gain their confidence!

For booking the customers, seats, or checking the availability, there are many applications and even inbuilt features on some websites. Hence a total count of everything can be kept and a perfect graph for your earning and traffic attracted can easily be kept.

We all know that Digital Is The New Normal. Why not make the utmost use of the present technologies and grow your business to the heights. With a technology perspective, there is very little that is lost. Whatever loss can easily be gained back if we know the proper utilization of the technologies. Cloud has been one of the best technologies bestowed to us. From running an application to developing an application, from storing secure data to conducting meetings, everything can be done at one place and that too with ease and minimum effort!