Month: August 2018

 

Content marketing refers to the design of a series of content (it could be movies, games, articles, etc.), attracting potential consumers to watch , reading or interacting, to achieve awareness, or to educate consumers, and finally influence their purchase decision. Getemail has listed 7 tools that are useful for the content marketers, each tool is accord with your different needs. 

1. Stencil (visual content development)

 

This tool for creating social images has a free plan for basic use, its paid plans costs from $8 per month. It’s easy to use, they provide an option to add Chrome extensions. While you see beautiful pictures and wanted to add some design on it, you can edit them right away. With this video below, you may find out how easy it is to edit photos.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI-Yb0Pv9Y0

 

2.    Zuum (competitor analyses)

Zuum is a special website. In addition to monitoring your own website, you can also view the performance of your competitors, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, and Google Analytics integration.

 

       3.  Limber (content marketing automation)

Limber is a platform for you to easily manage content marketing campaigns. For community managers, it provides you the ability to centralize all your customer’s content. Limber propose images for your post on social medias, you may schedule your posts and plan multiple shares to extend the lifetime of your content.

 

4. Intellyo (content marketing automation)

Intellyo helps you identify your target audience, discover topics that interest them, and determine how you can align your content with your audience. Intellyo’s paid plan starts from $12 a month.

 

5. Qualaroo (customer decision analysis)

While having great content in your articles is important , a perfect headline is also essential for attracting readers to click on your topic. Qualaroo is a useful tool that can improve your headline writing, the tool generates headline recommendations based on the analysis of the feedback of customers. While analyzing your headlines, Qualaroo will show you the best choice and the reason why it is the one that can attract the most attention based on their surveys.

 

6. The Brain (mind mapping)

While having the main points in your mind, before starting to write an article, it is important to have a clear mind mapping in order to be organized. Brain EKP is a perfect tool which provides you to create a road map of your thoughts with links and texts.The Brain’s monthly paid service plans starts from $15 a month.

 

7.Dasheroo (analytics)

Dasheroo is a perfect free tool for tracking all of the KPIs of your business in one device. It is simply to create and set up the dashboard with their instructions. Dasheroo integrates with lots of different tools such as Mailchimp, PayPal, Facebook, LinkedIn, Shopify, and so on.

 

Leung Kei

Marketing Responsible Getemail.io

 

email marketing tools:

Moosend

Moosend is a great tool for email marketing. Moosend provides a fully featured email marketing service such as personalized fields, A/B split tests, reporting/analytics, auto-responders and segmentation.

Its interface is easy-to-use with a simple, modern design. With their free plan, you will have access to all of the features except the dedicated IP address, the free trial lasts for three months and the paid plan price starts from $10 after the free trial ends.

 

Cakemail

Cakemail is a email marketing tool made for small businesses, with their relatively simple features and an affordable price, you can easily manage and grow your business.  

 

ActiveTrail

 

ActiveTrail is an “All-in-one” email service tool, it is not simply just an email marketing tool, ActiveTrail offers other solutions such as marketing automation, SMS marketing software and online surveys. Their monthly plan starts from €7 with up to 500 contacts and unlimited emails.

 

DirectIQ

 

DirectIQ is another email service provider for businesses, by few clicks, you may already create your own template. With the free plan, users will have 500 contacts and 2000 sends, the paid plan starts from $12 per month.  

 

Social media managing tools:

Viraltag

Viraltag is a social media tool, it makes automating content sharing much easier. With this tool, it saves a lot of time for scheduling the posts. Viraltag provides a complete social media report to help you measure your success and grow your business.

 

Quuu

Quuu is a third-party platform.By choosing some relevant interest categories that is important to your website and your audience, the tool will automatically forward six related content related to your chosen category every day according to the system. You may also set it automatically to be posted on your Twitter and Facebook through Buffer. Their pricing starts from $19 per month with up to 6 new suggestions per day per profile.

 

Publbox

Publbox is a all-in-one tool for social media. They provide features such as post advisor, smart calendar, analytics tracker and design editor. Their video guides are useful, it clearly showed how it works for a new user. Publbox’s paid plans starts from $9 a month, for 1 user and 5 social media profiles.

 

Combin

Combin is a social media management tool for Instagram. It is simple to use and making instagram marketing much easier. With their free plan, you may manage 1 instagram account, 50 search results for posts and 250 daily actions.

 

SEO tools:

MarketingMiner

MarketingMiner is a dating mining tool for SEO specialists. It is a great tool to get information from your clients by using their keyword analysing tool. You may also use their tools to  analyse your competitors. With MarketingMiner’s free version, you are allowed to do 330 search volume requests or 100 Google queries.

 

Webtexttool

Webtexttool is another useful and affordable SEO tool, it helps you to improve your content and get a better ranking on Google. Their plugin for WordPress is a huge advantage. Webtexttool provides plans start from $19 per month.

 

 

 

There are roughly two types of free CRM software, one is called the  freemium model, the kind of free CRM we mostly see on the market, freemium model CRMs usually limits the number of free plan users, contacts, storage, and extra features. The second type is open source software.

However, most of the CRM products on the market are quite expensive as for small and medium-sized enterprises. Therefore, Getemail recommends 10 free CRM software to help you manage your customers and improve your core competitiveness.

 

1.Free CRM

Free CRM is the best CRM software in some way. Their free version includes 100,000 contacts, and all the basic features. However, the free version can be only used for free during one year, and there is no technical support.

Free CRM’s upgraded version has a relatively nice price for large and medium-sized businesses. The upgrade costs $29.95 per user per month, including more features, more storage, and technical support.

 

2.Raynet

Raynet’s positioning of its own market is an easy-to-use CRM software. Its free version is available for two users, with up to 150 accounts, 50 MB of storage, and customer support.

Raynet’s system interface is well designed, with the “Account Card” feature,you can see at a glance most of the information a customer needs, including how valuable this customer is to your company.

 

3.Interakt

Interakt has a forever free plan which includes 5000 of total leads, 1500 emails per month and free for one user. Their paid plans start from $41 per month with 50,000 of total leads and 3 users.

Interakt is a great tool for small businesses that needs an affordable and all-in-one solution for customer interaction.

 

4.Really Simple Systems

Really Simple Systems is free forever for two users, including 100 accounts , unlimited number of contacts and tasks saved under the account, 100 MB of storage, and complete customers for free Support services.

Really Simple Systems is popular among the market because it is very easy to use , it provides excellent user support. Really Simple Systems is designed for small B2B businesses and it is therefore best suited for small businesses, not large and medium-sized businesses.

 

5.Cloze

Cloze has a smart system for finding and managing relationship between your customers. With Cloze, you can easily analyze conversations and find out how are you related to this customer. Their free plan includes the core features and 25k contacts, the upgraded plan with more features starts from $19.99 a month.

 

6.Lynkos

Lynkos, a powerful CRM system for the small companies and startups who don’t have a lot of budget to invest on a CRM tool , providing a variety of basic functions, available for up to 2 users for the free version. With a free version, Lynkos offers features such as contact management, sales management, project management and automatic lead search.

 

7.Composity

Composity, another CRM designed for small businesses, this simple used CRM tool can be easily managed by people with or without computer skills.

The free plan is available for up to 3 users, 200 CRM contacts and 100MB of storage. However, they do not provide customer support for the free plan users. For small businesses searching for an integrated software solution for an affordable price, Composity is a great option.

 

8. Soffront  

Soffront’s CRM and marketing automation is one of the best in the market, the friendly interface and the complete features has made managing customer information much easier.

Soffront has a free plan, providing 250 contacts per month, basic reports, available for 1 user and basic reports. They do not provide customer service for the free plan.

 

9.eWay CRM

eWay CRM is one of the best CRM designed for Microsoft Outlook. eWay CRM’s free plan has a 200 MB storage limit, available to use on multiple devices and email support. It is useful as users can easily customize their workflows,forms and user permissions.

 

10.Evolumi

Lastly, we have Evolumi, this fast growing company from Sweden provides a wide range of functionalities for . One of the strongest point about Evolumi’s free plan is the unlimited amount of users! Evolumi’s features includes such as contact management, action and task management,insights and email integration.

 

Leung Kei TSANG

Marketing Responsible Getemail.io