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About The Author
Kim Phillips is an independent marketing consultant specializing in branding, communication strategy, creative writing and design, online content, email marketing and social media.
Online tools that get us through the day.
Posted in Business Practices, Marketing Tools - 1 Comment
With the first cup of morning coffee in hand, we fire up the PC and, even before checking email, start the day with a whole range of free online tools.
Feedly: Organizes RSS feeds into a magazine-style format, arranged by subject area; keeps notifications of blog posts out of the inbox. Quickly scan for news and inspiration.
Google Alerts: See what has hit the internet in the last 24 hours on topics we’re following.
Diigo: Bookmark the interesting stuff in an intuitive, user-friendly way.
Jing: Capture screen images for sharing, by link, email or post.
Facebook: Check in with friends, post updates for clients.
Bit.ly: Shorten URLs before sharing, save them and organize them.
WordPress: Maintain blogs (like this one) or create stand-alone websites.
Posterous: Make wonderfully simple blog sites for clients…and a personal blog.
Photobucket: Store and share photos and other files, creating unique URLs for each.
Shutterfly: More than a photo-sharing site, this one also lets you maintain a group calendar and message members of the group. Perfect for a private network.
YouSendIt: Send huge files via links instead of clogging an email pipeline.
Wave Accounting: Create professional digital invoices and manage income and expenses.
Google Analytics: Monitor website traffic.
That’s a lot of free stuff. It keeps us organized and up-to-speed with the latest developments. Between the usual office programs, Adobe Creative Suite, website-specific content management systems, and these tools, we can integrate a client’s online–and offline–communications…and occasionally our own.
One last tool that gets us through the day: the Emma email marketing platform. It’s not free, but the cost is nothing compared to the amount of functionality, reporting and awesome service it provides.
Now, back to work.
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Tags: free online tools, lucid marketing, Online Marketing
One Response to Online tools that get us through the day.
Posted On 2011/04/14 at 5:16 pm by Linda Jackson :
Love this post, always looking for ways to organize my information and make it easier to find. As you find new sites like these keep us posted. Have tried Jing and love it!