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Google makes the Chrome browser and Google makes Gmail. Naturally, the Chrome Web Store has some excellent extensions to improve your Gmail experience. But it also has several that you don’t need. Let’s sift the gems from the mud.
Note: The extensions in this list work only with Gmail. If you prefer the time-saving Inbox by Gmail, there are separate extensions for that.
Inbox by Gmail is Google's most recent approach to email organization and management. It can give you a simpler email workflow. Find out if Inbox by Gmail can be the better choice for you.
ActiveInbox: Send Mails Later and Manage Email Tasks
If you’re a Gmail power user, this is the best extension you can install. But be warned, ActiveInbox is free for a one month trial, after which it costs $50 per year....
With all these tools to choose from, how can you stay on top of the latest and greatest? As part of our State of Social Media 2016 campaign, we’ve scoured Product Hunt for the latest trending social media tools and created a list of 21 products for marketers and teams to try in 2017. Keep reading to see the full list, or click over to the Product Hunt collection with all of 2017’s best social media tools....
Looking for effective ways to streamline your social media marketing tasks?
Have you heard of IFTTT applets?
Applets let you automate social media posting tasks so you can spend more time engaging with your audience.
In this article, you’ll discover how to automate a variety of social media tasks with IFTTT applets....
Me In a Nutshell is a free, fast, easy way to create a unique personal profile with text, images or both based on a variety of your own social media profiles. The example here is based on my Twitter profile adn created in 30 seconds with just a few clicks. You can do the same at Me In a Nutshell https://www.meinanutshell.com
Robin Good writes: Meinanutshell is a web app which allows you to create a dynamic personal profile page by continuosly gathering key information and images from your preferred social media accounts and composing them onto a customizable one-page layout.100% free. My comment: "I haven't seen anything as simple as Meinanutshell to create a good-looking personal profile page that can be also customized." Recommended. Try it out now: https://www.meinanutshell.com/
In the past, I’ve discussed a variety of ways for businesses to improve their reach through social media. From step-by-step marketing guides to advertising-based posts, I have done it all.
This time around, I want to discuss 13 tools that can make or break your social media marketing strategy. With the right tools on your side, the sky’s the limit. Without these, however, you will be facing an uphill battle.
Here are 13 tools you need to learn before going “all in” with your social media strategy...
The social media analytics compass contains the most essential areas that you need to monitor for your social media channels.
It’s not possible to monitor everything across every channel due to limitations of the tool and it’s not essential to monitor everything depending on the business.
From this compass pick out what’s important for your business and identify a relevant tool to provide the relevant reports. Let’s look at each section of your compass (Note: you will need to differentiate between paid and unpaid)....
As a marketer, you’re pulled in a million directions at once. Explain this new tool, write next week’s tweets, negotiate a vendor contract, code and send out this email — the possibilities are endless. One second you’re creative and the next analytical. How can you be expected to keep your head above water with changing priorities and each day looking different than the last?
I’ve been on an endless journey to discover the best tools and tactics to help me be more productive, focused, and thrive day-to-day. At NewsCred, I’m frequently asked what the icons in my toolbar are or what a specific program/extension is, so I figured if these tools can help a few co-workers, hopefully they can help you as well. I’ve included a link to each tool below, a Windows equivalent where appropriate (I’m on a Macbook), and a description of how it can help....
In online marketing, having the right analytics tools and software can make a major difference. A good program can save you time and help demonstrate the value of your work to supervisors or clients.
Over the last couple of months, while preparing the syllabus for my next UC San Diego class and doing research for clients, I compiled and reviewed an extensive list of analytics programs for SEO and social media. I’m sharing what resulted in this column....
Content promotion takes a lot of time.
In many cases, it takes longer than it does to create the content itself.
This means efficiency is key.
And to achieve efficiency, as well as consistent results from your promotion efforts, you need tools.
Tools help automate boring, repetitive tasks and give you insight into the relevant data by helping you analyze it.
Tools are what this post is all about.
I’ve put together a list of 15 tools that can help you promote content more effectively....
Social media analytic tools are essential for any Brand to measure always the impact on your activity , for competitor analysis and know always Customer needs and inquiry. Consumers and businesses alike have something to learn from just about all of your social media interactions.
How many people did your post reach? What sort of links do your followers like best? Does anything you do online even matter?
The rise of social media has been accompanied by the creation of tools to that analyze the impact of most of your social media activities.
Here are 50 top social media analytical tools to help your business....
When people ask, “what are the best social media tools I should be using to be a better social media marketer?” I have difficulty answering. The truth is, it depends greatly on how savvy you are — some tools would be too complex and give you too much information to sift through, for example, if you are a new user.
So I’ve made a list of 16 different tools in four major social media marketing categories and organized them by level. Some people might not be the same level across the chart, though. In building a website, they might not have any problem putting together a brand new self-hosted WordPress site, but be at a loss to create an image. But the chart will give you an overall sense of where you should be, and how to improve using these new tools....
Only 28 percent of marketers use Instagram. That means 72 percent are missing out on great opportunities.
These 10 Instagram tools and apps will help you make the most of your Instagram efforts, whether you're creating captivating posts, monitoring your Instagram analytics or converting your Instagram followers to customers:...
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Does this sound familiar to you at all? I used to log in to each and every individual social platform to compose new posts, check what’s happening in my streams, follow up on conversations and follower requests, and attempt to manually perform all other bits of social media management that was on my plate.Then, I switched to using tools, and my productivity has soared. Maximizing your time as a social media manager or business owner is crucial for social media growth and effectiveness. I’d love to share my 6 favorite tools for helping you along in that journey....
You may have heard of “growth driven design,” the idea that a website project is ongoing, much like a marketing strategy. It’s the model that we use at SparkReaction for all of our client website projects. Why? Because it works to drive long-term value on a web project. You don’t let your website gather dust until its next redesign. Instead, you continually monitor performance and react to the data. That means making frequent improvements — and you’ll have a website that’s always performing at its best. Here’s a mix of tools we use and recommend to monitor website performance. Incorporate them into your web workflow, and you’ll keep growing and improving your online presence....
The social media world is a fascinating one. Every so often, a new social media platform emerges to capture our attention (Peach) or become part of our daily lives (Snapchat). The social media tools landscape can be just as fascinating — and robust! With all these tools to choose from, how can you stay on top of the latest and greatest? As part of our State of Social Media 2016 campaign, we’ve scoured Product Hunt for the latest trending social media tools and created a list of 21 products for marketers and teams to try in 2017.Keep reading to see the full list, or click over to the Product Hunt collection with all of 2017’s best social media tools....
There are hundreds upon hundreds of tools to choose from. For example, here’s a list of 75 content marketing tools that you should absolutely review.
But, here’s what you may not realize: there are many ways to use each tool. For this reason, it’s imperative that you spend the appropriate amount of time examining and experimenting with each one.
In this post, I’m going to discuss the finer details of five top online marketing tools. For each one, I’ll give you a better idea of how you can use it to your advantage.
Remember, accessing an online marketing tool is just the start. If you truly want to achieve top results, you must know how to use it. Here we go!
So if you want to be more productive throughout the day, you're better off relegating certain activities to certain times, and devoting yourself to doing those activities at those times. tAnd to make sure you get the right things done at the right times of day, you can lean on a plethora of different free or relatively cheap apps and tools. (After all, some things are better together.) Below, I've collected some of the highest-rated and often-recommended productivity apps for each part of the day. Check 'em out, and find your "and."...
Whether you’re using social media to build awareness for your business, to drive leads to your sales force or anything else in between, it’s important to be familiar with all of the social media platforms at your disposal.
With that in mind, below is a list of the top 52 social media platforms. They’re broken into 3 categories — social media platforms that help you network (like LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.); social media platforms that help you promote (like YouTube, blogs, etc.); and social media platforms that help you share (like Buffer, Hootsuite, etc.).
Ready? Here goes....
According to Skyword and Researchscape International's survey of 190 U.S. marketers from large enterprises, 58% of respondents say they adopted new technology in the past year. In fact, 21% of respondents say their department works with 11 or more technology providers. Design software (52%), social media monitoring (51%), and analytics (47%) are some of the most popular solutions marketers say their teams use.
But the road to implementing new technology can be an uphill climb. For 29% of respondents, it takes four to six months to fully integrate new technologies. Restructuring one's team can help marketing departments optimize their technological potential. According to the study, 38% of respondents say they reorganized their team in the past year. And those who did were nearly three times as likely to invest in technology within the past three months as those who did not (24% versus 9%).
To better establish your own organization's mar-tech bearings, check out the infographic....
Listen first! is the first step in almost all advice on creating a social media strategy. To listen effectively you need to choose the right tool. There’s certainly no shortage of choice. Back in 2009 (and updated since) Smart Insights created a comparison of 36 of the best-known online reputation monitoring tools including free and paid.
It seems the choice now is even more bewildering. A November 2015 comparison of social media monitoring tools by Ideya Ltd shows that there are at least 242 tools now available. However, the number of new tools has decreased. Of these sevices, 187 are paid, with the remainder free or using a combined model....
HappyGrumpy is a new way of conducting polls. It is accurate, rapid and free. You can design and execute sophisticated polls in seconds, then start sampling and tracking public views.
If you need to poll or monitor public opinion, you should start using HappyGrumpy now.
You can monitor public reaction by the hour, day, week or month.
You simply enter your poll subjects, (e.g. person, topic, corporation, product, brand, issue, geography etc.), click go and your poll will execute, save and track statistics over time. You can even download the data or share using social media.
You can do this instantly, (Account Analyzer, Brand Analyzer) just enter your account, subject, issue or brand and see the results in seconds or set up a continuous poll (My Social Polls) which will track your poll day by day.
But I’m going to assume that you have at least a decent grasp of how to manage your team and content strategy.
Instead, I want to focus on the second main point – tools.
I’m going to share with you 15 tools that can help you create better content as a team, while minimizing the chance of mistakes.
You definitely won’t need all of them, but you’ll probably want to use at least one from each of the four main classes of tools.
Overwhelmed by insurmountable tasks, projects, email, clients and social media?
In this post I share 9 Life-Saving Tools that will systemize your business.
These tools automate the tasks that were weighing me down.. leaving me to be more productive and focus on what I NEED to work on, by freeing up my time. They can systemize your business too.
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If you use Gmail, some of these tools will really speed up and enhance your marketing.