Top Social Media Tools

Today, with all the internal communication tools available to a workforce, emailing seems almost primitive. Though many organizations still use email, most are trying to reduce the number of emails sent in favor of a simpler, more efficient form of internal communication. Employees are relying more on intranets or enterprise social networks.

Rio Rancho Public Schools has eliminated routine "all staff" emails, such as weekly school bulletin updates, by posting such important news on the intranet. (Here's the RRPS case study.)

Though you might not be ready to eliminate every "all staff" email and all one-on-one emails, you can improve internal communications with these powerful tools:

Even knowing the above stats, it can be remarkably easy to underestimate the power our smartphones hold when it comes to marketing. I mean, I still work on a laptop for most of the day—maybe you do, too.

But beginning in early 2014, internet usage on mobile devices began to exceed desktop usage.

These days, more Google searches take place on mobile devices than on computers in 10 countries, including the U.S.  And Goldman Sachs has predicted that the number of people making purchases on smartphones and tablets will grow to nearly half of all e-commerce by 2018....

In a recent survey by Smart Insights, content marketing was indicated as the top performer for driving commercial results in 2015. Needless to say, it’s becoming more and more imperative for digital marketers to create not only consistent online content, but engaging content as well. And that can be a very daunting and overwhelming process.

The following list includes 8 tools that I find particularly helpful as a content marketer. Each tool tackles a different obstacle: content management, visual content creation, personalizing email outreach, idea generation, scheduling, writing and note-taking, idea organization and content discovery....

See if your data's out there, shut down old accounts, send self-destructing messages, and more

.There’s nothing wrong with having a high profile on the web, but too much of a good thing can lead to plenty of bad things. These tools can help you get stuff done without revealing too much to hackers, marketers, and other assorted snoops....

Powerpoint, Keynote, Haiku Deck if you’re feeling saucy… when it comes to presentations and pitching it often feels as though you’re limited to a few safe choices, meaning that it’s a struggle to engage your audience at conferences or in the board room.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. Even good old Powerpoint can be beautiful, but there’s plenty of other choices out there that will let you sear some eyeballs in your next meeting. I’ve put together some of the most interesting options here....

Marketers have access to a lot of digital tools these days. Here's a list of the top tools to use for marketing automation, digital asset management, social media and more.

As the marketer’s role becomes more data-driven and analytical, they need to master a new set of tools.According to a 2014 survey conducted by the Economist, CMOs said marketing operations, technology, and data analysis were some of the top areas where their organizations need expertise. One CMO told the Economist, “when we hire, we look for people with digital capabilities, who can do things like run a marketing automation platform, a data analytics function, or execute and listen to multiple social media properties.”

Marketers have access to more digital tools than we could possibly list. We’ve targeted some of the most popular tools for automation, analytics,digital asset management, social media management, and other digital technologies modern marketers need to get the job done....

Creating, organizing, publishing and promoting content can take a lot of time. Luckily, there are some great blogging tools that help make the process easier for marketers who want to implement blogging into their content marketing strategy.

We’ve compiled a list of the best blogging tools and here are 10 tools you should be using to pull in your target audience:...

This free tool will analyze your headline to determine the Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) score. As you know, reaching your customers in an deep and emotional way is a key to successful copywriting, and your headline is unquestionably the most important piece of copy you use to reach prospects.

Your headline will be analyzed and scored based on the total number of EMV words it has in relation to the total number of words it contains. This will determine the EMV score of your headline.

In addition to the EMV score, You will find out which emotion inside your customer's your headline most impacts...

Share Tally is the result of a desire to know more. There are more than a few sites that will tell you how many Tweets your blog post received, or how many Likes on Facebook your landing page got - but what about the other social networks? What about the smaller niche voting sites that drive so much targeted traffic? What about the rest?

I got fed up with having to check multiple places to see how my content was fairing in the social world. I decided to build something better, something more robust. Share Tally was born.

Our brain has the ability to be able to process images 60,000 faster than it can text. So the use of visual content is vital as it helps to draw your audience in further.

Using the right images means that readers are more likely to engage, like or share.It therefore goes without saying that when it comes to social media marketing, the use of images or graphics is a must do strategy.  

Most people shy away from using images as they don’t think they have the skills to create stunning shareable images . The good news is that there are plenty of online tools that you can use that will allow you to create great images.  These tools will help you to create professional eye catching visual content that can be used on twitter , facebook, instagram etc.

Below are 10 of the best tools that you can use to create some amazing social media images....