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what’s workng AWB App Store Open for Business Online marketplace gives small business easy access to the latest tech. Jason Hagey AWB partners with SaaS Markets to give members access to easy-to-use, affordable apps to help manage their small- to medium-sized business. Technology is truly amazing and can do wonders for your small business — if you have time to read all the blogs and stay up on the latest developments. There are programs to help you schedule deliveries, software that manages payroll, apps that help you squeeze every last drop of time from your schedule — or suck away hours as you struggle to get them all set up and properly synced. It’s precisely this mix of promise and peril that led to the founding of SaaS Markets, a San Mateo, Calif.and Dublin-based company that aims to cut through the clutter and help small- and medium-sized businesses make the most of technology. The Association of Washington Business recently joined with SaaS Markets to launch an app store on AWB’s website. AWB members can use the store to quickly and easily find Internetbased apps that will help save time and money, without the at a glance stress of downloading or maintaining programs. The AWB App Store includes The Association of Washington more than 1,300 business appliBusiness recently joined with SaaS cations designed expressly for Markets to launch an app store on small- and medium-sized busiAWB’s website. ness owners. They range from AWB members can use the store admin and office tools to security to quickly and easily find Internetand supply chain programs. based apps that will help save time AWB members can use the and money, without the stress of store to search for trusted, effecdownloading programs. tive apps and then purchase them at a special member rate. The average cost of an app in the Most of the apps cost $15-20 per AWB App Store is $15-$20 per month, and some are free. month, and some are free. Because the a