Top Communication Tools for Freelancers (2020)

Mitchell Bryson
FreelanceSauce

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An easy, fast, collaborative & cost-effective communication tool is a need of every businesses today. Even for freelancers, it‘s vital while working with their clients remotely. All that you need is a good & reliable internet connection to get the best out of these tools.

There are 100s of free / paid communication tools available today that offers more than just online messaging features such as file management, audio / video calling, time-tracking, project management, invoicing, 3rd party software integrations etc. However, we have curated a list of some great online communications tools based on its features, performance, UX, affordability etc which you can choose from.

ZOOM
https://zoom.us/

It offers a unified cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and group messaging possible using just a single platform.

STRIDE
https://www.stride.com/

It’s a cloud based team communication tool with group messaging, video meetings, and built-in collaboration tools

REDBOOTH
http://redbooth.com/

It’s a web based project management, collaboration & communication platform that’s best fit for any business.

FLOWDOCK
https://www.flowdock.com/

A team collaboration app that offers groups chat & message inbox for teams.

PODIO
https://podio.com/site

A nice, extremely flexible & customizable tool for team collaboration, project management & business process management.

RYVER
https://ryver.com/

An online team communication platform that allows to keep chats, posts & files in one place

MOBILIZE
https://www.mobilize.io/

A SaaS based community management platform that provides CRM, outreach tools, social space for members etc

AZENDOO
https://www.azendoo.com/

A task management solutions whereby teams can plan & share tasks, sync their projects & communicate effectively.

BROSIX
https://www.brosix.com/

An internal communication platform for businesses that’s powerful, secure, private & easy to use.

UBERCONFERENCE
https://www.uberconference.com

The best audio conferencing tool that allows you to setup & join conference calls without PINs

Next is to decide upon the right tool which could differ for each business. Select all those tools from above list that closely meets your business needs. It’s quite possible that you may require more than 1 tool to meet all or most of your requirements.

Get your hands dirty & ask all the stakeholders to contribute during evaluation. Finally see if it’s addressing your team’s problems, helping them to work smartly & increasing overall productivity. Good luck!

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