Top Social Media Tools

Instead of sacrificing sleep and leisure time, the answer to your growing responsibilities is to be more productive. And that boils down to two major adjustments to your work day: a) minimizing the time spent on tasks; and b) performing those tasks better and more efficiently, so you earn greater results for less time investment.

The following 50 tools are designed to boost your productivity on everything from contact management to social media analytics. But with productivity in mind, remember that while all these tools are helpful to marketers, you should focus on only those that offer real value to your day. After all, an unneeded productivity tool is the antithesis of productive....

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.

And 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."...