Marketing Tools

Ultimate List of Marketing Tools

You’re usually just an internet address away from a useful marketing tool to help you up your game and make work come easier or better. On the first Friday of each month on social media, we highlight five new tools, tips, and resources to help you be more productive, write better, become sharper, and crank out killer marketing campaigns. We’re keeping a running list here, so be sure to check back as each list grows.

We don’t throw out a recommendation unless we’ve personally used something, so rest assured this list has been vetted, and these are our top marketing tools.

Productivity

Tools

  • Make hybrid meetings more engaging with Slido
  • Clock how long an email will take to read with Summarly (Check out your Chrome Add-Ons!)
  • Transcribe recorded interviews
  • Melon makes it easy to live stream
  • Graduate from cloud storage to creative ops with Air
  • Augment your video meetings with Prezi video
  • Curate and organize your favorite website content with Feedly
  • Userway: No one has time to refactor their site code in order to ensure ADA compliance. Use Userway!
  • Make a visual sitemap easily with Gloomaps
  • Give feedback on PDFs, websites, and more with Markup.io
  • Transcribe, caption, or subtitle videos quicker with Rev
  • Pretty Funnels helps you visualize, plan, and optimize your digital marketing funnels in a web builder
  • AngryTools provides free online web development tools (like an image cropper and color scheme generator, to name just two)
  • Mixmax brings sales engagement into Gmail
  • Turn tweets into LinkedIn carousels with Taplio
  • Optimize your Tweets with Birdy.so
  • Convert file formats with OnlineConverter
  • Bypass paywalls with 12ft.io
  • Pump up your influencer marketing with HypeTrain
  • Discover new AI tools with Futurepedia
  • Find micro-influencers with Minisocial
  • Transform your presentations into engaging lessons with Pear Deck
  • Create video clips quickly with Concatible
  • Sign PDFs secretly with JustSign
  • Upgrade your link in bio
  • Create your own free email signature
  • Enhance your images
  • Bring your website to life with animated logos and graphics
  • Let Magic Studio help you create amazing product photos
  • Easily make a GIF
  • AI music composer
  • Convert articles into reels

Copywriting

  • Identify (and then fix) clichés in your writing
  • Convert your documents to audio files so you can listen anytime with Natural Readers
  • Summarize and analyze long text with Resoomer
  • Scrivener for all writers who want to stay (more) organized
  • 10 Minute Mail: Free, temporary emails – saves you time and potential spam hitting your inbox
  • WordTune makes your words work for you with this clever AI-powered app
  • Create editorial guidelines with this template
  • Save these resources for writing by Iain Broome
  • Find the right type of word that starts, ends, or has the right letter in it with WordMom
  • Replace ‘very’ in your vocab with Lose the Very
  • Use Glimpse to make Google Trends even more powerful
  • Use AI to create content (for nonprofits specifically)
  • See the emojis that best relate to your chosen word or phrase
  • Find a better word

Inspiration

Design

  • Remove unwanted elements of an image
  • Accessible Color Palette Builder: Need colors for an upcoming project? Look no further!
  • Milkshake websites for when you say “link in bio”
  • Yokshi to help manage and distribute your official logo to partners, members, or affiliates. I’ve just started to implement this for a client and it’s easy peasy all while protecting your brand
  • AppSumo email badges – think pretty email signatures
  • Create infographics with Infogram. And check out one I made here.
  • Add a countdown to your newsletters with Easytimer. (Should we countdown to spring together?)
  • Unscreen eliminates the need for a green screen and replaces video backgrounds in one click
  • Poet.so creates beautiful images of past tweets
  • Symbols.com makes it easy to share emojis from your computer
  • Supershots takes screenshots look so much better
  • Image file too big? Compress it with Imagator
  • Want to see how your webpage will look like on mobile? Use Mobile Moxie
  • Find free color tools and graphic generators on fffuel.co
  • Generate design mockups with Pika—no Photoshop required!
  • Make your images clickable
  • Create customizable mockups with Shots
  • Make animated, motion content with Jitter
  • Discover design principles and methods
  • Create QR codes with your own images
  • Choose a color (and find its name)
  • Build beautiful emails without code
  • Use AI to create ads
  • Make images with MidJourney
  • Find icons and photos
  • Create your own unique images
  • Test out different fonts

Professional Development