In this day and age technology is key. So if you can find ways to utilise technology to make your business more efficient, more innovative, more successful and heck just a bit more fun – why wouldn’t you give them a try. So here is 10 free marketing tools for you to take for a test drive;
- Hootsuite – allows you to manage multiple social media sites in one social media platform. Who wouldn’t want the ability to regularly schedule your posts ahead of time across your different social media channels to keep your social media sites fresh and dynamic.
- UberSuggest – a free tool that suggests keyword ideas to help target your marketing efforts.
- Survey Monkey – Survey Monkey is great for putting together a quick customer or employee survey or even a short survey to gather some market research.
- Wufoo – a useful form building tool. That is easy to use and allows you to create and host quick forms online.
- Mail Chimp – start sending professional looking email campaigns to current customers, prospects, business contacts straight away, in this easy to use free mailing system that also handles testing and unsubscribes.
- Wordle – create funky looking word clouds to spice up your reports and presentations
- Portent – a quick tool for generating fun new content ideas for your blogs or articles.
- Google Analytics – every website should be linked up to Google Analytics. It is a marketing must to be able to measure and review your marketing activities regularly to optimise your marketing efforts and your Return On Investment (ROI)
- Tweepz – a cool tool for finding influential people on Twitter. Helping you find the right people to follow
- HubSpot’s Marketing Web Grader – get a quick no-nonsense check and report of how your business is doing with your web and online marketing.
One of the things I love about the internet is that there is so many great new tools being created every day to help make your business life easier and more interesting. These 10 just barely scratch the surface of all the amazing online tools available but hopefully it introduces you to at least one new one. So next time you are about to start a manual project or process do a quick search to see what is around or better yet set aside some regular time for your own professional development and exploration of the latest and greatest online tools.
