Jenise Fryatt
Here is a list of content marketing tools that improve the speed, efficiency and effectiveness of my work. Please add yours!
I am a recently converted Buffer fanatic. This app alone allows me to create and schedule social media posts at the click of a button; handle many social media accounts; work with several team members; create useful analytics reports on all my social media activity.
Before Buffer I used Hootsuite for years to manage my social media marketing activity. I still use it and like it for certain thing (see below.)
But the pre-chosen time slots, Buffer toolbar button and superior analytics won me over. And the excellent customer service on the rare occasions when I've had problems with this app, has kept me loyal.
I use Google Hangouts several times per week and I know I've only scratched the surface of how it can be employed in content marketing.
As a Google product it interfaces well with other Google products. Starting a hangout is easy and up to 10 people participate. There are tools to make your hangouts look more professional. Broadcast hangouts provide excellent opportunities for creating video content that can be embedded on your website.
Even if all you want to do is have a video call with someone, it's a great choice for reliability and quality.
No blogging platform I have used has come close to WordPress's user-friendliness, flexibility and customization options.
Others come close, but none include all the features that WordPress has.
Some of my favorites: the ability to keep posts in draft form; the ability to post any size photo; plugins that allow you to improve SEO, tweet old posts, add in-text pre-written tweets.
All you need to run effective campaigns. Cutting edge technology - Intuitive drag & drop template editor & marketing automation features.
No other tool has allowed me to amplify my blog posts and connect with influencers in my niche as well as Triberr has.
The concept is simple: provide an easy way for online content creators to band together with others in their niche and share each others posts on social media.
Triberr does this and more. I highly recommend it to any blogger looking to make the most of social media as a tool for content marketing.
Top-Notch Curated News
I just discovered Newsana recently and it has already become one of my favorite ways to find top-notch content to share on social media.
Newsana was founded in 2012 by journalists seeking to help people filter online news more effectively.
Members of the site vote for and share content, which drives higher distribution and exposure within the community.
You choose the topics you want to follow.
Though I've switched to Buffer for most of my social media post creation, scheduling and analytics, I still use Hootsuite to monitor my various social media streams and occasional create posts that I transfer to Buffer.
Until Buffer adds stream creation to its list of features, I will probably continue to use Hootsuite for monitoring.
Skype is my go-to tool for video calls when the person I want to chat with isn't familiar with Google Hangouts.
Like Hangouts, it allows you to video chat with several people at once (though this is a premium feature.)
One thing it does that Hangouts doesn't do is allow you to make calls to phone lines via your computer. I have found this to be a very handy (and economical) way to make business calls.
When conducting research, I've found it extremely useful to record interviews conducted over Skype, with the Garage Band app on my Mac.
Discover Niche Content to Share on Social Media
With the demise of iGoogle and Google Feed Reader I needed a replacement RSS reader to help me find content to curate and share on social media.
Feedly has been an excellent substitute. This platform easily lets you discover sources of quality content, follow and read everything those sources publish with ease and organize everything in one place.
My Go-To Source for Blog Photos
I like Photo Pin because it makes finding free images for my blog posts and crediting the photographers very easy.
It draws from Flickr Creative Commons photos and provides pre-formatted attribution links.
We, the marketers, get little help from our friends related to content marketing. Content marketing is one of the best processes of developing and sharing content, including images, videos, blogs post to maintain customers.
Take our free YouTube audit to help your business improve their online presence within content marketing. With this tool we take every aspect you could think of affecting your video content and tailor against your sector to explore what you could be creating to increase engagement and sales conversions.
I've been using Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) for years to create reports, research papers and more.
Features I like: easy interaction with GMail; ability to collaborate on documents in real time; user-friendly.
FreshBooks is quick and user friendly. I create all my invoices on it and send them directly from the site to my clients.
Plan, create, review, approve, and automatically publish your content all in one cloud-based platform.
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