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
Hunter Chrome extension for finding email addresses
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 
Tweetdeck
Analytics.twitter.com for data
Followerwonk for searching bios
Quick tweet Chrome extension for managing multiple twitter accounts
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
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.
