Marketing Automation Tools for Business<\/span><\/h1>\nBuffer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nThis is a social media scheduling tool that has a wonderful way of analyzing social media posts. At a quick glance, you can see how your social media posts are engaging and simply re-buffer the content that your audience likes with a simple click. It automatically has a schedule set that you can follow or set up your own schedule. Buffer also has an extension to buffer any articles you like and would like to share on social media. Love that it helps schedule a variety of social media networks including Pinterest and Instagram. It’s very easy to use and you can have a team help buffer content into your queue with their awesome plan.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nCoSchedule<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nWe’ve mentioned CoSchedule in our top blogging tool list for their headline analyzer<\/a> but CoSchedule does so much more for marketing. It’s an all-in-one tool based on a cross-functional marketing calendar to organize: social media content, blog content, email marketing campaigns, project collaborations with teams, and analytics. Pretty powerful tool!<\/p>\n![\"CoSchedule_Dashboard\"](\"https:\/\/getstencil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CoSchedule_Dashboard-1024x570.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nMeetEdgar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nMeetEdgar is a social media scheduling tool that recycles evergreen content into categories and schedules posts out the way you want to with your audience. Very easy to use and they’re working on getting Pinterest and Instagram posting capabilities.<\/p>\n
Missinglettr<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nThis automation tool is pretty awesome to share blog\u00a0content! You don’t have to really think about copy for your social media posts because it automatically does it for you. It grabs quotes and images from the actual blog post to include in the social media post. It also includes hashtags that are rated in popularity. Each blog post gets a 12-month campaign automatically. All you have to do adjust any hashtags, copy, or image. You can also adjust the branding settings to your brand color<\/a> for a consistent brand look.<\/p>\nMake Automation Apps Work for YOU<\/h2>\n
IFTTT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nIf This Then That helps create applets that bring services together to create a new experience. This tool is helpful for regular daily tasks that are annoyingly tedious. There are so many recipes you can try. You can tell it to save emails in Gmail with a specific subject to be sent to your Slack or you can automatically save the tweets that you like to be sent to Pocket so you can read them later. There are so many possibilities! Many of the services they have are home-related like Philips Hue lighting, connecting Alexa to talk with your Neato vacuum, and get the weather sent to your Gmail Calendar. If you can better organize your home, you can get more stuff done for work or vice versa.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nZapier<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nIn Zapier, you can create workflow\u00a0ideas with app integrations that are called Zaps. This is a mighty tool to set up every workflow you can think of.\u00a0 You can connect your Feedly articles to your Buffer queue or connect your new tweets to your LinkedIn company profile. I personally have Typeform responses to Trello<\/a> and Instagram posts to Buffer. There are very unique ways to make your content work for you.<\/p>\n![\"Zapier](\"https:\/\/getstencil.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/zapier-apps-1024x641.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nCollaboration Project Management Apps<\/span><\/h3>\nAsana<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nThis project collaboration tool helps a team stay on task with checklists and calendars. Marketing campaigns and product launches are all mapped out for team members. People who use Asana love it when they get a flying unicorn across the screen when they check a task off a list. I must say there is something definitely satisfying about unicorns in general but imagine getting work done with a celebratory unicorn. That’s a celebration right there!<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nTrello<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nYou can use Trello for content management and project management for your business. It’s a visual platform to organize thoughts into neat lists and cards. Think of all your ideas on sticky notes arranged in order but on your computer. It’s easy to use and collaborate with a team where ideas can flow!<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nAsana and Trello are both absolutely great but built for different types of people. From what I’ve encountered with colleagues, you’re either Team Asana or Team Trello but\u00a0not both!<\/p>\n
Calendaring Apps<\/span><\/h4>\nAcuity<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nIn every business there are meetings and the biggest hassle is scheduling them. There used to be lots of back and forth emails but that’s not the case anymore. Acuity does an amazing job connecting with your calendar and allowing people to schedule directly via email or Facebook. You can also embed it into your website, sell gift certificates for sessions, and provide intake forms to make the best out of your meeting.<\/p>\n
Calendly<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nThis calendaring app works very well and the user experience is enjoyable. No more back and forth emails and lots of ways to embed, integrate, and automate leads with this tool.<\/p>\n
These two tools are very similar and powerful, the main difference is the user-interface and how you’d like to display your calendar. One uses circles for dates and the other is calendar-like.<\/p>\n
Financial Tool for Business<\/span><\/h5>\nQuickbooks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nGet your income, expenses, pay employees, manage taxes, and reporting all done in one place. If you have a product business, it manages inventory as well. The automation part of this type of tool is where it communicates with your banking companies for account information. No need to look for account numbers or routing numbers as long as you log into your bank accounts it’ll find all of the information needed within seconds. It’s the best of the best for solopreneurs to large companies.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nCustomer Relationship Management (CRM) Tools<\/span><\/h6>\n17hats<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nThis is an all-in-one tool to organize, systemize, and grow your business. Organize your contacts, leads, invoices, contracts, workflows from lead to payment, it’s all in there. It syncs with your calendar and email so you have everything at your fingertips.<\/p>\n
Dubsado<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nThis is also an all-in-one tool to organize everything that an entrepreneur or small business needs to organize and systemize. It integrates with many other services so it automates the tedious tasks for you.<\/p>\n
Again, these two tools are quite similar and colleagues either love 17hats or Dubsado. It’s all about user experience preference.<\/p>\n
Not Quite Automation, But Will Definitely Speed Up Your Workflow<\/span><\/h6>\nStencil Chrome Extension<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nSuper fast image creation with quotes with the Stencil extension is awesome! When there’s a quote that you like on the web and want to share it with your followers. Highlight it and click the Stencil extension to have it pop into the design canvas to create an inspirational quote image. You can then preview and share it or queue it into your Buffer account. How easy is that?<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nLoom Extension<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nIf you need to communicate with your team with a quick video or want to explain a process for a client, Loom is there. Loom has an extension that you can click on when you’re ready to do a screen share and share immediately with a link. It’s also integrated with Slack and team members can see the video without having to go out of Slack.<\/p>\n
This is a social media scheduling tool that has a wonderful way of analyzing social media posts. At a quick glance, you can see how your social media posts are engaging and simply re-buffer the content that your audience likes with a simple click. It automatically has a schedule set that you can follow or set up your own schedule. Buffer also has an extension to buffer any articles you like and would like to share on social media. Love that it helps schedule a variety of social media networks including Pinterest and Instagram. It’s very easy to use and you can have a team help buffer content into your queue with their awesome plan.<\/p>\n
CoSchedule<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n We’ve mentioned CoSchedule in our top blogging tool list for their headline analyzer<\/a> but CoSchedule does so much more for marketing. It’s an all-in-one tool based on a cross-functional marketing calendar to organize: social media content, blog content, email marketing campaigns, project collaborations with teams, and analytics. Pretty powerful tool!<\/p>\n MeetEdgar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n MeetEdgar is a social media scheduling tool that recycles evergreen content into categories and schedules posts out the way you want to with your audience. Very easy to use and they’re working on getting Pinterest and Instagram posting capabilities.<\/p>\n Missinglettr<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n This automation tool is pretty awesome to share blog\u00a0content! You don’t have to really think about copy for your social media posts because it automatically does it for you. It grabs quotes and images from the actual blog post to include in the social media post. It also includes hashtags that are rated in popularity. Each blog post gets a 12-month campaign automatically. All you have to do adjust any hashtags, copy, or image. You can also adjust the branding settings to your brand color<\/a> for a consistent brand look.<\/p>\n IFTTT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n If This Then That helps create applets that bring services together to create a new experience. This tool is helpful for regular daily tasks that are annoyingly tedious. There are so many recipes you can try. You can tell it to save emails in Gmail with a specific subject to be sent to your Slack or you can automatically save the tweets that you like to be sent to Pocket so you can read them later. There are so many possibilities! Many of the services they have are home-related like Philips Hue lighting, connecting Alexa to talk with your Neato vacuum, and get the weather sent to your Gmail Calendar. If you can better organize your home, you can get more stuff done for work or vice versa.<\/p>\n Zapier<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In Zapier, you can create workflow\u00a0ideas with app integrations that are called Zaps. This is a mighty tool to set up every workflow you can think of.\u00a0 You can connect your Feedly articles to your Buffer queue or connect your new tweets to your LinkedIn company profile. I personally have Typeform responses to Trello<\/a> and Instagram posts to Buffer. There are very unique ways to make your content work for you.<\/p>\n Asana<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This project collaboration tool helps a team stay on task with checklists and calendars. Marketing campaigns and product launches are all mapped out for team members. People who use Asana love it when they get a flying unicorn across the screen when they check a task off a list. I must say there is something definitely satisfying about unicorns in general but imagine getting work done with a celebratory unicorn. That’s a celebration right there!<\/p>\n Trello<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n You can use Trello for content management and project management for your business. It’s a visual platform to organize thoughts into neat lists and cards. Think of all your ideas on sticky notes arranged in order but on your computer. It’s easy to use and collaborate with a team where ideas can flow!<\/p>\n Asana and Trello are both absolutely great but built for different types of people. From what I’ve encountered with colleagues, you’re either Team Asana or Team Trello but\u00a0not both!<\/p>\n Acuity<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In every business there are meetings and the biggest hassle is scheduling them. There used to be lots of back and forth emails but that’s not the case anymore. Acuity does an amazing job connecting with your calendar and allowing people to schedule directly via email or Facebook. You can also embed it into your website, sell gift certificates for sessions, and provide intake forms to make the best out of your meeting.<\/p>\n Calendly<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This calendaring app works very well and the user experience is enjoyable. No more back and forth emails and lots of ways to embed, integrate, and automate leads with this tool.<\/p>\n These two tools are very similar and powerful, the main difference is the user-interface and how you’d like to display your calendar. One uses circles for dates and the other is calendar-like.<\/p>\n Quickbooks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Get your income, expenses, pay employees, manage taxes, and reporting all done in one place. If you have a product business, it manages inventory as well. The automation part of this type of tool is where it communicates with your banking companies for account information. No need to look for account numbers or routing numbers as long as you log into your bank accounts it’ll find all of the information needed within seconds. It’s the best of the best for solopreneurs to large companies.<\/p>\n 17hats<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n This is an all-in-one tool to organize, systemize, and grow your business. Organize your contacts, leads, invoices, contracts, workflows from lead to payment, it’s all in there. It syncs with your calendar and email so you have everything at your fingertips.<\/p>\n Dubsado<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This is also an all-in-one tool to organize everything that an entrepreneur or small business needs to organize and systemize. It integrates with many other services so it automates the tedious tasks for you.<\/p>\n Again, these two tools are quite similar and colleagues either love 17hats or Dubsado. It’s all about user experience preference.<\/p>\n Stencil Chrome Extension<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Super fast image creation with quotes with the Stencil extension is awesome! When there’s a quote that you like on the web and want to share it with your followers. Highlight it and click the Stencil extension to have it pop into the design canvas to create an inspirational quote image. You can then preview and share it or queue it into your Buffer account. How easy is that?<\/p>\n Loom Extension<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n If you need to communicate with your team with a quick video or want to explain a process for a client, Loom is there. Loom has an extension that you can click on when you’re ready to do a screen share and share immediately with a link. It’s also integrated with Slack and team members can see the video without having to go out of Slack.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nMake Automation Apps Work for YOU<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nCollaboration Project Management Apps<\/span><\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nCalendaring Apps<\/span><\/h4>\n
Financial Tool for Business<\/span><\/h5>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nCustomer Relationship Management (CRM) Tools<\/span><\/h6>\n
Not Quite Automation, But Will Definitely Speed Up Your Workflow<\/span><\/h6>\n
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