If you’re working in social media or you’re a solopreneur, you're probably overwhelmed by all the tools available on the market to make your job “easier.” Nevertheless, your objectives depend on them.
A few days ago, I gave a speech at Dojo Bali on the best tools out there which DevMark use to meet the needs of our clients on a daily basis. Find the best of the best below to save yourself the headache of seeking them out amongst all the chaos.
Quuu
If you’re a fan of automation, then Quuu is the answer. You connect your Quuu account with Buffer or Hubspot and all of your Social Media accounts. After that, select your interests from 300 Categories, and Quuu will automatically post the content on your Social Media accounts. No more hours spent online searching for the best content to post.
Followerwonk
Similar to ManageFlitter, you can analyze and optimize your social media growth. The advantage is that you can compare different Twitter accounts or search for people to follow.
Snip.ly
My favorite short link tool on the market; an interesting marketing tool that helps turn content sharing into traffic for your website. The advantage compared with Bit.ly is that at the moment you share a specific link, visitors will see a Call To Action that taking them directly to your website.
Sprout Social
If you’re looking for a more professional alternative to Hootsuite or Buffer than Sprout Social is the answer. We get the best results for our clients when using for scheduled posts. Also, the analytics is super powerful compared to other similar tools on the market.
Push Crew
A service that offers the possibility to send Push Notifications to website and mobile. Get the advantage of a rich feature list with scheduling notifications, segmentation, custom images, and multi-website support. It’s super easy to implement, and they even have a plugin for WordPress. A must for any e-commerce business.
Moqups
A streamlined web app that helps you create and collaborate on wireframes, mockups, diagrams, and prototypes. Easy to use, with all the assets needed to create your mockups for mobile or website.
How Much is Worth
A fun tool if you’re a web developer or an agency, and you don’t know how much your work is worth. Most probably you will need to cut the final estimation in half because I find their valuation too high.
Type Form
If you’re searching for a beautiful alternative to classic forms, then you should definitely try TypeForms. You don’t even need to create it from scratch because there are tons of templates to choose from.
Hotjar
Hotjar is a new and easy way to understand visitor behavior. With a simple HTML code that you added to your website, you have a selection of powerful tools such as heatmaps, video recordings, funnels, and forms. Heatmaps and video recordings top the list of awesome features.
Zopim
If you’re searching for a chat to integrate to your website, then look no further. With the Pro Plan, you can add different agents and teams, customize how you want your chat window to appear, etc.
KingSumo
KingSumo Giveaways is the most cost-effective way to grow your audience by encouraging your visitors to share your giveaway. The more friends who enter, the more entries they earn and the more emails for you. Everyone loves giveaways today!
Hashtagify
Tired of searching for the best hashtags to use in your posts? With this tool, you can find the most shareable hashtags as well as the ones that connect with that specific hashtag.
Tags For Likes
Similar to Hashtagify with the only difference being that you can’t search for hashtags. You have a predefined list based on categories which you can copy paste into your posts. Useful if you download the mobile app for Android or iOS.
BuzzSumo
This is one of the best tools on the market to find influencers or bloggers. It's also a great source of inspiration for blog posts as you can see all posts that are trending.
Anewstip
Anewstip allows you to search for relevant media contacts by what they have written or tweeted. Their database indexes more than 200 million news articles and one billion tweets from more than one million media contacts. A major advantage is that you can pitch directly from the platform.
Woobox
Woobox makes creating beautiful contests, giveaways, and other campaigns easy. For an eCommerce, you can sell more by displaying user posted photos of your products on your website.
SumoRank
A simple tool to analyze the Facebook pages of your competitors, and see what posts get the most engagement.
Infogram
An incredible tool which allows you to create engaging, and aesthetically pleasing infographics.
Mail Tester
Have you ever wondered why your emails are not reaching the inbox of your customers? With this tool can check your spamminess score and take the required actions to fix it.
Sales Handy
Get notified with a desktop notification whenever your sent email has been opened/read by the recipient. See what time your email was read at in the Sales Handy dashboard.
Hunter
When you visit a website, find the email addresses for that domain in just one click. If you install the Chrome Extension, when you visit a profile on LinkedIn, you can use the extension to find the email address instantly.
Quick Email Verification
To avoid sending emails to incorrect addresses, test if the email is valid with this tool.
Thunderclap
Thunderclap is the first crowd-speaking platform. If you reach your supporter goal, Thunderclap will blast out a timed Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr post to all your followers creating a wave of attention.
Headtalker
Similar to Thunderclap, your message is sent when you reach your goal.
AutoPin
The ultimate automation tool for Pinterest. It follows/unfollows, likes, and comments based on specific parameters set by you.
IFTTT
A free web-based service to create chains of simple conditional statements, called applets. An applet is triggered by changes that occur within other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest.
Import
A data extractor for any type of website. For example, if you want to scrape data from a competitor to see how many products they have in a particular category; Import can do that for you.
Linkedeep
Find and bulk connect with like-minded people on similar missions. Define personal messages for your leads when inviting them to your network.
