Google Apps are the perfect software suite to get your business going for 3 big reasons.

1. Communication

Google Apps are about communation. Effective and easy communications is critical to all businesses especially startups. You need to be able to easily communicate with your team, vendors, press, leads and clients. Having email, instant messaging and shared calendars keeps everyone on the same page.

2. Web Based

Google Apps are webbased. Nothing to download or install. Works on any computer with a web browser and internet. You can be up and running within minutes.

3. Price

Google Apps are free. Conserving cash is critical to a brand new business. Think really hard about any expenditure that is not going to directly contribute to a sale.

Here is what Google has to say about their web application suite:

"Google Apps for Your Domain lets you offer private-labeled email, IM and calendar accounts to all of your users, so they can share ideas and work more effectively. These services are all unified by the start page, a new addition to this service, a unique, dynamic page where your users can preview their inboxes and calendars, browse content and links that you choose, search the web, and further customize the page to their liking. You can also design and publish web pages for your domain.

It's all free* and everything is hosted by Google. No hardware or software required."

Sign up for Google Apps here

So, I signed up our Disaster Preparedness Kits for Condo Dwellers business up.

2 minutes later, I received a disapointing email from Google.

"Hello Michael,

  Thanks for your interest in Google Apps for Your Domain. Unfortunately, we are not able to invite your domain condoark.com into the beta at this time, because you have reached the maximum number of domains per administrator. If we increase this limit, we'll let you know by email.

Sincerely,
The Google Team"

Disapointed, I decided to just forward emails received at CondoArk.com to my personal Gmail Account.