What would you consider the top 10 cloud apps for small businesses?

Trello.com is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

Great question!

Here are my recommendations:

1. Google Docs — docs.google.com — PowerPoint, Excel and more
2. MailChimp— www.mailchimp.com — Email marketing software
3. Unrabble — www.unrabble.com — Hiring software for busy managers
4. Picnik — www.picnik.com — Free until April; photo-editing for graphics, etc
5. Gmail — www.google.com/gmail — E-mail for small businesses, too.
6. Dropbox — www.dropbox.com — For online file storage
7. YouSendIt — www.yousendit.com — For online file sharing
8. Lemon — www.lemon.com — To keep of receipts
9. GoToMeeting — www.gotomeeting.com — Online conference calls
10. Mint — www.mint.com — Accounting software

I use a variety of simple, but effective cloud based services:

For online storage of documents I use three services. The reason I use all three is due to the convenience of my clients, that may be using any of these:

• Box.net
• Google Docs
• MS Live

I use Skype for international calling as well as their $3.00 a month unlimited calling in the US and Canada. I also use Google Voice. I have that Google Voice is less expensive than Skype for calling to some countries.

I use Go-To-Meeting extensively for working with clients on collaboration. There is also a service called Free Screen Sharing that does a lot of what Go-To-Meeting does if you don’t want to pay a monthly fee.

SalesForce.Com is an excellent service for tracking your customers.

Carbonite and Mozy are excellent services for providing backup of your PCs and Macs.

Steven Olson

I'd like to add a couple of favorites I use every single day. All of which are free or very low cost and make it easy to work virtually..

PDF escape. www.pdfescape.com
Adolix PDF split and Merge program
DocuSign - great for contracts, etc (your signature in the cloud)

What Andrew said!
37signals is commonly used by small businesses as well for collaboration. At Focus, we also use HipChat, which is similar to their Campfire offering.

I agree with Andrew too. Love Skype. Two others that are good
Lunchmeet- great way to make new business contacts
Voxer- for quick walkie talkie conversation with colleagues

Communication tools:
Gmail for managing email (with rapportive extension to manage contacts)
Skype to make calls and IM chat
Hootsuite to manage social media engagement

For tracking project time:
Thrive apps' Solo (designed for freelancer small businesses)

For knowledge management:
Evernote with the voice2note extension
Popplet.com for thinking visually and collaborating with other creatives
Delicious to store links

For data manipulation:
Zoho reports to manage information
Google spreadsheets to present graphs and data

For market research:
Social oomph to track trends and social buzz in any particular business sector

To analyze and improve business systems:
Run my process to map and introduce seamless workflows across the supply chain

Sorry, thats 11. And maybe it is worth adding Best vendor as an app/site tool to compare how well all the available apps are at supporting small business functions!

www.waveaccounting.com is great for new business financial tracking

I've been using/testing:

Google Apps (Docs, Presentation, Forms, etc)
37 Signals (CRM)
Freshbooks (invoicing)
Tungle (Remote Appointment Setting)
Box.Net
Skype
Take the Interview (video interviewing - very cool idea)

That is a great question, and you are not the first one to ask it! We realized this need a couple months ago and we created the GetApp.com Monthly Top 25 Applications (http://www.getapp.com/top-apps), with the most popular business applications in our database.

For january the top 10 are:
1 - Zoho Business Suite
2 - AtTask
3 - Assistly
4 - Mavenlink
5 - Zendesk
6 - Brightpearl
7 - Loc8
8 - Clarizen
9 - Workbooks CRM
10 - TribeHR

Here are some that we both use and recommend at Terametric:

- Dropbox - file sharing
- Google Voice - hosted voice routing
- Get Satisfaction - customer service & feedback
- Google Docs - collaboration
- Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Vertical Response - email marketing
- Nimble, Salesforce.com - contact management & CRM
- Evernote - all purpose document & idea capture & sharing
- Freshbooks - Invoicing

and of course (full disclosure our own product)

- Inbox Influencer (our product) - who to follow on Twitter - www.terametric.com/Influencer

Skype's at the top. Bar none most important. (Cloud, maybe not, but freeware nonetheless).
Google Docs obviously.
Box.net
Evernote
Wordpress.com
Mailchimp
Youtube
Twitter
Basecamp
Yousendit

Some of the most common business applications ripe for migration to the cloud include – QuickBooks accounting software, ACT! CRM Software, Peachtree Accounting Software, MS SQL Server, Windows Server, MS Project, Drake tax software, ProSeries tax software, Lacerte tax software, ATX tax software, etc.
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I use Skype every day and love it.

I also use eFax.com, which is not super exciting but I appreciate that it has prevented me from having to go buy a fax & get a phone line installed at my office (which is at home).

www.mavenlink.com is the best collaborative project management suite.