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May 2017

Top Digital Marketing Tools in 2017

By | Digital Marketing

I am often asked what tools we are using with our business and for our clients. These are great tools for small to mid-size businesses. Most of the tools below are free or charge a minimal fee. Of course, you don’t need all of them. With over 5000 digital marketing tools, it can get overwhelming. Let me know if you have a tool that you love that we should add to the list. Thank you for visiting.

 

Video and Visuals

Pixabay free images

Pexels free images

Librestock to search over 40 free images sites

PicMonkey image editor

Ripl images with movement

Lumyer images with movement

Canva to create images

Animoto for slideshow videos

Adobe Spark for videos and images

 

Social Media Management

Hootsuite

Buffer

CoSchedule

*remember to schedule Facebook posts in Facebook not through a 3rd party tool

 

LinkedIn

Hunter Chrome extension for finding email addresses

 

Instagram

Repost app for sharing other people’s post

Upload images from your desktop-Chrome extension click on Ctrl-Shift-I and click on the device mode icon 

 

Twitter

Tweetdeck

Analytics.twitter.com for data

Followerwonk for searching bios

Quick tweet Chrome extension for managing multiple twitter accounts

 

Facebook

BeLive.tv for live streaming

 

Content Discovery

Tweetdeck

Feedly

Buzzsumo

Answer the Public -love this for content ideas

 

Email Marketing

Mailchimp

Emma

Aweber

 

Inbound Marketing

Hubspot

Infusionsoft

ClickFunnels

 

 Website

Google analytics

WordPress

WP Live Chat

Google PageSpeed test 

 

SEO

Moz

SemRush

SpyFu

Yoast for WordPress

 

Podcast

Go to eonfire.com for all things podcasting. John Lee Dumas shares the mother load of who, what, when and how on podcasting. Thank you John!

 

Webinar

GoToWebinar

WebEx

Join.me

Zoom

 

Other must have business tools

Mile IQ for tracking business mileage

Schedule Once or Calendly for online scheduling

Quickbooks or Freshbooks for invoicing

Loom or Screenflow for recording your screen

Google alerts to monitor you, your business and competitors

Truecaller app to block spam callers

StayFocused limiting the amount of time that you can spend on time-wasting websites. (Not that any of us ever get distracted. Look squirrel!)

Email signature generator by Hubspot

Waze app for live navigation and traffic alerts

Screenshots -Jing by TechSmith

Google docs for sharing and tracking documents and files

 

Wow, I didn’t realize how many tools we have been using. Hope you find this list helpful.