Innovation Issue MADE Magazine | Page 41

MADEXXX MADEINC TÁVE ($22-$44/month, tave.com) Táve is an American business management software mobile application company, headquartered in Alpharetta, that helps improve time management and organization. Táve started as a simple tool to help the company’s founder and wife stay on the same page as they managed their photography business. Today, the company’s software offers lead tracking, questionnaires, contracts, online booking, workflows, automations and calendars. MAILCHIMP ($0-$199/month, mailchimp.com) MailChimp is an American marketing automation platform and an email marketing service headquartered in Atlanta. Since 2001, the company has helped businesses find audiences, engage customers and build brands. Features of the platform include e-commerce integrations, email automation, social media advertising, website landing pages, design templates and Google Analytics. The platform integrates with well-known companies including Salesforce, Eventbrite, Twitter, Facebook, Shopify and SurveyMonkey. SLACK ($0-$15/month, slack.com) Slack is a Canadian cloud-based company, headquartered in San Francisco, offering team collaboration tools and services. The name is an acronym for “Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge. Slack offers persistent chat rooms, called channels, which are organized by topic, as well as private groups and direct messaging that includes emojis. All content inside Slack is searchable, including files, conversations and people. DROPBOX ($0-$20/month, dropbox.com) Dropbox is an American file hosting service company headquartered in San Francisco. The company offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Dropbox can create a special folder on the user’s computer, the contents of which are then synchronized to Dropbox’s servers and to other computers and devices that the user has installed Dropbox on, keeping the same files up-to-date on all devices. INNOVATION ISSUE 41