Useful Digital Marketing Tools
There’s a wealth of options for digital marketing tools that can make your life easier. It can be a bit overwhelming so here’s a short list of tools and applications I’ve used successfully in the past.
Please go and check them out and start saving time and money today.
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Working From Home Tools
Just getting used to working from home, with family, and screaming kids in the background? Krisp will allow you to use any internal or external microphone and cut out all the background noise! They have free minutes each month, but the pro version is only a few dollars per month - an absolute steal.
Social Warfare is a really fast social media sharing plugin for WordPress. This came highly recommended on one of the top SEO courses I've been on due to the light weight of it and fast code.
Relay That is a fast way to generate all sorts of marketing images and collateral when you want something fast, and may not have a designer on board. Many image types are handled from social media banners, blog post featured images to advertising banners such as leaderboards and medium rectangles.
Canva
Canva is a great tool to create design collateral as well. They have an inbuilt stock photo library and can help you create everything from banner ads, book mockups through to infographics. Canva for Work steps that up a bit allowing you to upload brand assets for reuse throughout your team.
Email Marketing Tools
ActiveCampaign
The flock of sheep will go and set up a mail campaign with MailChimp. Why? Largely because it’s free, but really it’s a freemium product as you need a paid account to get the best features like marketing automation.If you want to take your email marketing to the next level, sign up for Active Campaign which is taking digital marketers by storm. Apart from the huge difference in automation workflows, Active Campaign charges by the contact, not the contact within a list. AC uses tags to differentiate customers and their stages which is far more advanced than Mailchimp. Mailchimp is playing catch up on this.
Facebook Marketing
Shortstack
Shortstack is one of the leaders in Facebook marketing app suites. From photo contests to the more basic apps, sign up here and make your life easier.
Heyo Marketing Suite for Facebook.
Ensure your competitions are mobile friendly and capture all the right data. It’s a no brainer – don’t try and implement this stuff yourself. Always remember to use the mobile friendly addresses during your promotions!
Hosting
Do you have a WordPress website? Cheap hosting isn’t always the best, but you can have affordable, and good.
WpEngine
Ensure your competitions are mobile friendly and capture all the right data. It’s a no brainer – don’t try and implement this stuff yourself. Always remember to use the mobile friendly addresses during your promotions!
SiteGround
Ensure your competitions are mobile friendly and capture all the right data. It’s a no brainer – don’t try and implement this stuff yourself. Always remember to use the mobile friendly addresses during your promotions!
User Feedback – Heatmaps, Polls and Surveys
Lucky Orange
Lucky Orange is a good, cost effective website addition to give you heatmaps, polls and user surveys.Running paid traffic but they’re not converting? Find out why.Let me know if you’d like help installing this and interpreting the feedback.
Video Resources
Want to run a video ad but don’t have the resources, or do you just want a specific type of video clip?
Check out Videoblocks for some great stock video footage.
I hope the resources above help you elevate your digital marketing today.
Note : For some of the links above I may get a referral commission. You won’t pay any more, and in some circumstances you may even pay less than you will by going direct. I wouldn’t recommend any service that I haven’t used or has been recommended by other experts I trust. Believe me I’ve went round the hoops before of doing all the research and going through all the overwhelm so save yourself the time and hassle.