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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....
Social media is transforming the way brands market themselves online. Actually, it’s safe to say that social media has already changed things in a big way.
New platforms have emerged that continue to transform the way we communicate. These changes affect both how brands promote their message, and how their fans respond.
With these new platforms comes a handful of new tools to help social media marketers engage with audiences in creative ways, and to keep track of their efforts. To keep pace with the latest social media trends, it’s time to review and update that tool set, recognizing which tools we should keep, which we should discard and which new tools we can add to supercharge our social media efforts.
Here’s my shortlist of the top social media tools that every marketer should be using in 2016....
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....
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...
GAs 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....
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....
SnagIt is a versatile screen capture tool that lets you take screenshots and create videos of your computer screen, add effects to them and share them with others. SnagIt may appear to be a bit pricey, but the benefits easily outweigh the costs.
If you have recently purchased SnagIt, here are a few tips that can help you get the best out of the tool....
Tools are meant to save your time and extra efforts of doing the same thing, I love tools a lot and can’t see myself breathing digital marketing without tools. Here I have curated the list of 300+ handy tools for all you marketers and tech entrepreneurs to save your time and efforts.
We are always interested to see which of our posts resonate with you. Even though we do plenty of research and planning, there are no guarantees about which topics will get a lot of attention and social shares. So, we check our stats and Analytics and, at this time of year, we like to review the entire year’s posts and see how many shares and links they got.
Today, we are going to give you an exclusive sneak peek into our ten most shared posts of 2014. Are your favorite RazorSocial posts on this list? There has been over 20,000 shares in total from these posts!...
When I go to Disneyland, I race to the famous rides first: Splash Mountain, Matterhorn Bobsleds, and Indiana Jones. They're the biggest and best. But there are many attractions I miss in my sprint for the headliners.
Social networks are like the rides at Disneyland. There are so many social media sites and features that some are bound to slip through the cracks.
Which Facebook, Twitter and the other major social network features have slipped under our noses? Here are 41 tricks and tools for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest and Instagram.
In this collection, we are presenting more than 12 useful online signature maker websites for you. These websites will help you in electronic transactions that are increasing day by day because of the increased trend of business transactions on the internet. Electronic signatures have made it easy to approve online contracts without the fear of having original content being imitated as documents.
The listed websites in this collection let you create your own electronic signature easily without requiring any installation. So here is the complete list after the jump. We hope you will find this collection useful. Do let us know what you think about this compilation....
Are you looking for some new social media tools to add to your arsenal?
Every day, we come across new tools and, each quarter, we write a post where we share some really interesting tools that we have come across. Some of these tools are new, some are in beta and some have been around for a while but we have only recently discovered them.
I’m sure you’ll find something in this list that will help your business!...
...No matter where you are, it’s imperative that you connect with both your customers and employees on the go. To provide excellent customer service, put quality behind your brand, and demonstrate that you are with your customer every step of the way, you and your employees have to connect with them on nearly every level. Local marketing,social media, and content are just a few of the channels you can optimize with tools to stay connected.
In this post, we’ve gathered the top 20 social tools that keep your team alert and on task.
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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....
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/
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....
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....
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.
What tools do you use to get your online marketing work done?
Can you do all the same work of a digital marketer, and do it for free?
The list of tools you use—often referred to as a marketing stack—probably covers a variety of different uses and needs, everything from social media marketing to content to emailand lots more.Is it possible to have all these great tools without paying a cent?
It was a fun challenge to come up with a way to build a $0 marketing stack, to find free alternatives to popular paid tools and services. I’m grateful for all the amazing companies out there that offer such value for so little. Here’s the list I came up with for free alternatives to paid tools. I’d love to know what you think!...
Twitter is chaos, but in the midst of this beautiful mess is a ton of data that if you can understand it. If you ever wanted the complete Twitter toolbox this is the post for you. It's got 80 Twitter tools that can help you do everything you need in this busy social media channel.
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....
Online Voice Recorder is a free simple application which records sound from microphone.
After recording you can trim the sound and save it to your computer.
Via Nik Peachey, Jeff Domansky
Today I have some social media tools recommended by the top marketers in the industry. Here’s four links with tips and tricks to kick start your Monday....
Keeping up on the freshest social media tools and software is a pretty difficult challenge for the average social marketer.
New tools are being released all the time. Old ones are retired or acquired or lose that one key feature you really needed them for. And testing every new option is not realistic.
To help you weed through the options out there for measuring, publishing and monitoring, we reached out to past Social Fresh Conference speakers....
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If you use Gmail, some of these tools will really speed up and enhance your marketing.