I have compiled a list of some of the best tools I use to help businesses grow.
Social
These tools encompass everything you need to run successful and cutting edge social campaigns. These tools will make sure you can get your great content to as many people as possible, as efficiently as possible.
Hootsuite
Enhance your social media management with Hootsuite, the leading social media dashboard. Manage multiple networks and profiles and measure your social campaigns.
Measuring and monitoring your web presence has never been easier with these great analytics tools. Heatmaps, behavior flows, demographic data and search standing are just some of the amazing abilities you gain with the use of these tools.
Google Analytics
Get the data you need to make intelligent marketing and business decisions with Google Analytics. Available for websites, apps, and enterprise businesses.
Through Crazy Egg’s heat map and scroll map reports you can get an understanding of how your visitors engage with your website so you can boost your site.
These email tools will help you master the art of the inbox. Split testing, click tracking and text analysis will all help you maximize your click rates.
Hemingway Editor
Hemingway analyzes your text to prevent your sentences from being so dense and complicated that your readers get lost trying to follow.
Get help with tasks and task management with some of these great tools. Organizing, completing, integrating and team task team task managing has never been better.
Mechanical Turk
Need random tasks done? Ask workers to complete HITs – Human Intelligence Tasks – get results using Mechanical Turk.
Infinitely flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Great mobile apps. It’s free. Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details.
Flow is a team task manager that makes it easy to delegate tasks, prioritize … Get instant clarity into who’s doing what, when it’ll be done, and what comes after.
Produce more relevant content with insight into trending content and topics with these services.
Buzzsumo
BuzzSumo has to be the most important tool to use for your content marketing and SEO campaigns. It has the ability to quickly identify what content is working well in sicoal media
HARO provides journalists with a robust database of sources for upcoming stories and daily opportunities for sources to secure valuable media coverage.
Attract new prospects, convert customers, & grow customer value with AdRoll — the retargeting + prospecting platform of choice for over 25000 businesses
Spike Sales Conversion Systems allows you to set up an isolated environment for developing your entire sales strategy. This way you only have to implement changes that are proven to work for your company.
Making sure your teams and clients have clear communication are key. These tools will make sure details don’t get lost in your conversations.
Skype
Download Skype and stay in touch with family and friends for free. Get international calling, free online calls and Skype for Business on desktop and mobile.
Hangouts bring conversations to life with photos, emoji, and even group video calls for free. Connect with friends across computers, Android, and Apple devices.
HipChat is hosted group chat and video chat built for teams. Supercharge real-time collaboration with persistent chat rooms, file sharing, and screen sharing.
Box offers secure content management and collaboration for individuals, teams and businesses, enabling secure file sharing and access to your files online.
These tools will help you design, build and manage your website.
WordPress
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
vzaar is the go to video hosting platform for business. Affordable, customizable & secure. Take control of your content & start making video work for you.
Videopath is an interactive video application that lets you connect web content – websites, photos, videos and CTAs – to specific moments in your video.
Social
These tools encompass everything you need to run successful and cutting edge social campaigns. These tools will make sure you can get your great content to as many people as possible, as efficiently as possible.
Hootsuite
Enhance your social media management with Hootsuite, the leading social media dashboard. Manage multiple networks and profiles and measure your social campaigns.
Sprout Social
Sprout Social is a social media management tool created to help businesses grow their social media presence. Try it free.
Buffer
Buffer makes it super easy to share any page you’re reading. Keep your Buffer topped up and we automagically share them for you through the day.
Viral Heat
Measure your social ROI, identify leads and integrate into existing marketing tools with Viralheat’s unified marketing suite.
Sniply
Sniply adds your custom call-to-action to any page on the web, allowing you to engage your followers through every link you share.
Jarvis
Jarvis is the free robot butler who grows your Twitter and Facebook. Schedule posts to your social media accounts using this simple and free tool.
Analytics
Measuring and monitoring your web presence has never been easier with these great analytics tools. Heatmaps, behavior flows, demographic data and search standing are just some of the amazing abilities you gain with the use of these tools.
Google Analytics
Get the data you need to make intelligent marketing and business decisions with Google Analytics. Available for websites, apps, and enterprise businesses.
Moz
Backed by industry-leading data and the largest community of SEOs on the planet, Moz builds tools that make inbound marketing easy.
Quantcast
Quantcast Corporation is a digital marketing company that provides free audience demographics measurement and delivers real-time advertising.
Crazy Egg
Through Crazy Egg’s heat map and scroll map reports you can get an understanding of how your visitors engage with your website so you can boost your site.
Mouseflow
Mouseflow is the most popular session replay / recording and website heatmap tool.
Kissmetrics
Giving you the knowledge you need to make better decisions. Kissmetrics is a revolutionary person-based analytics platform for your whole team.
Email
These email tools will help you master the art of the inbox. Split testing, click tracking and text analysis will all help you maximize your click rates.
Hemingway Editor
Hemingway analyzes your text to prevent your sentences from being so dense and complicated that your readers get lost trying to follow.
Vero
Automated workflows, real time event tracking and segmentation on all of your data.
Mailchimp
Online email marketing solution to manage subscribers, send emails, and track results. Offers integrations with other programs.
Tasks
Get help with tasks and task management with some of these great tools. Organizing, completing, integrating and team task team task managing has never been better.
Mechanical Turk
Need random tasks done? Ask workers to complete HITs – Human Intelligence Tasks – get results using Mechanical Turk.
If This Then That
IFTTT lets you connect the apps and devices you use every day, such as Amazon Alexa, Facebook, Twitter, Fitbit, Slack, and more.
Trello
Infinitely flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Great mobile apps. It’s free. Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details.
Asana
It’s free to use, simple to get started, and powerful enough to run your entire business. Great for developers.
Flow
Flow is a team task manager that makes it easy to delegate tasks, prioritize … Get instant clarity into who’s doing what, when it’ll be done, and what comes after.
Basecamp
Trusted by millions, Basecamp is the leading web-based project management and collaboration tool. To-dos, files, messages, schedules, and milestones.
Competitive Research
Get the down low on your competitors and industry with these research tools.
Spyfu
Download Your Competitors’ Most Profitable Keywords
and Ads For Paid and Organic Search
Hoovers
Hoover’s proprietary company profiles and industry information.
Adclarity
Optimize Display Advertising campaigns with the AdClarity Marketing Intelligence Tool for Advertisers, Agencies, Publishers and Ad Networks.
Google Trends
See the latest industry trends, data and visualizations from Google. Find out what’s trending near you right now.
Content Search
Produce more relevant content with insight into trending content and topics with these services.
Buzzsumo
BuzzSumo has to be the most important tool to use for your content marketing and SEO campaigns. It has the ability to quickly identify what content is working well in sicoal media
Epicbeat
EpicBeat – Find Trends, Content and Influencers that matter.
Twitter Search
Use Advanced Search to find the latest news and world events faster. Find popular people, hashtags and photos for any topic you can imagine.
PR
Get your brand into the media with great connections and monitoring.
Cision
The leading global provider of PR software and services including content marketing, media monitoring, media list building, distribution and analysis.
HARO
HARO provides journalists with a robust database of sources for upcoming stories and daily opportunities for sources to secure valuable media coverage.
Trendkite
Trendkite helps brands and agencies build a timely, highly accurate and actionable picture of their brands’ media coverage with ease.
Advertising
Increase your traffic with well placed ads on the most effective ad platforms.
Facebook Ads
More than 1.4 billion people use Facebook to connect with what matters to them, and more than 900 million visit every day.
Google Adwords
Advertise locally and attract customers with the products that they’re searching for. Get your pay-per-click ad on Google today with AdWords.
Adroll
Attract new prospects, convert customers, & grow customer value with AdRoll — the retargeting + prospecting platform of choice for over 25000 businesses
User Testing
Optimize your UX to fit your target audience with these user testing tools.
Optimizely
Enterprise-level A/B testing and personalization for the web and mobile apps.
Unbounce
Unbounce lets marketers build, publish and test landing pages without IT or software. A/B testing and lead gen make it a powerful marketing tool.
User Testing
An online usability testing tool that allows to get videos of real people speaking their thoughts as they use websites, mobile apps and prototypes.
Spike SCS
Spike Sales Conversion Systems allows you to set up an isolated environment for developing your entire sales strategy. This way you only have to implement changes that are proven to work for your company.
Communication
Making sure your teams and clients have clear communication are key. These tools will make sure details don’t get lost in your conversations.
Skype
Download Skype and stay in touch with family and friends for free. Get international calling, free online calls and Skype for Business on desktop and mobile.
Slack
Slack brings all your communication together in one place. It’s real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams.
Hangouts
Hangouts bring conversations to life with photos, emoji, and even group video calls for free. Connect with friends across computers, Android, and Apple devices.
Hipchat
HipChat is hosted group chat and video chat built for teams. Supercharge real-time collaboration with persistent chat rooms, file sharing, and screen sharing.
Evernote
Take notes to a new level with Evernote, the productivity app that keeps your projects, ideas, and inspiration handy across all your digital devices.
Voice
Google Voice gives you one number for all your phones, voicemail as easy as email, free US long distance and low rates on international calls.
Storage
Keep your data safe with these powerful cloud storage tools.
Google Drive
Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive.
Dropbox
Dropbox keeps your files safe, synced, and easy to share. Bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and never lose a file again.
Box
Box offers secure content management and collaboration for individuals, teams and businesses, enabling secure file sharing and access to your files online.
Web
These tools will help you design, build and manage your website.
WordPress
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
Shopify
Everything you need to sell. Build your online store with Shopify’s ecommerce software and easily sell in person with Shopify’s iPad POS.
Invisionapp
Transform your Web & Mobile (iOS, Android) designs into clickable, interactive Prototypes and Mockups. Share and Collaborate on them with others.
Name.com
Search & register domain names along with web hosting, website builders, SSL certificates, premium & expiring domain names, and new domains.
Stripe
Stripe is a simple to use credit card processor with a suite of APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
Boast
Boast is solving video testimonial collection once and for all. Start engaging more customers and closing more sales with Boast today.
Video
Integrate these tools into your video strategy to get the most out of every view.
Wistia
Wistia provides professional video hosting with amazing viewer analytics, HD video delivery, and marketing tools to help understand your visitors.
Shopify
vzaar is the go to video hosting platform for business. Affordable, customizable & secure. Take control of your content & start making video work for you.
Videopath
Videopath is an interactive video application that lets you connect web content – websites, photos, videos and CTAs – to specific moments in your video.
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