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The Top 4 Social Media Tools for Your Business—In Order

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Are you hoping to launch a successful social media campaign? The process can be overwhelming: between producing content on a multitude of platforms, publishing at the right times, interacting with followers, and more, it can seem like a full-time job in itself. Aren’t there tools to make it easier? Absolutely—but now the question is, which tools do what?  Some tools are channel-specific, and others can help you manage multiple accounts from one platform (don’t you think it would be convenient to be able to tweet and respond to Facebook comments all in the same place?). Because executing a social media campaign is not an overnight process, the order in which you take your steps matters, too; and some tools are best for helping you with particular milestones. Here are some of the best social media tools, in order from campaign launch to completion:  Hootsuite  Hootsuite is known as a scheduling tool, but it also offers social listening capabilities. If you are a fledgling ...

50+ Top Digital Tools & Software Programs For Marketers & Startups

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Digital marketing, social selling, search engine optimization, financial management, and analytics reporting can be complex and time consuming. It's hard to keep everything organized and optimized, especially if you are a solopreneur or lean startup.  Luckily there are plenty of great free or affordable programs out there that can help you improve your business performance. When used correctly these programs will save you time, money, and frustration while increasing revenue. These apps, subscriptions and software programs can be life-savers. Here are some of the most effective apps and SaaS programs to help your company: CrazyEgg Founded by SEO and digital  marketing expert Neil Patel , CrazyEgg is a nifty tool that lets you track where visitors are scrolling and interacting.  It's based on a heatmap , scroll map, and overlay report insights. Combined with other analytics tools, it provides invaluable information that can help optimize your website and improve conversi...

5 Crucial Characteristics for Startup Survival

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Driven individuals are taking the startup route much more frequently now than ever before. No longer are we seeing the same trend of people working for companies for decades at a time. Competition is fierce as 90% of startups fail within the first year. There is a growing need to be as economical as you can in order to survive.  What sets that last 10% apart from the rest? How can your business be successful without having to take such extreme measures? Here are 5 crucial characteristics of savvy startups : 1. Be Economical  Sometimes there is very little funding for startups but that does not mean that they are destined to fail. It's important to look for free tools and resources that can help your business grow. In a new series I've begun discussing how you can start a digital media startup for only $10. In a very recent article I also went over a helpful list of  5 fantastic free image editing programs .  Another amazing new tool to add to that list of great imag...