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So, I can guarantee you that all the tools on our list come highly
recommended for entrepreneurs, startups, and companies looking to save
on budget.
In order to make the list easier to navigate, we’ve broken down the 27 best
free marketing software tools into ten categories:
Each tool can be used individually or combined with others to create full
work ows.
For example, here’s a work ow that uses three different automation tools for
lead generation on LinkedIn.
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For example, the MobileMonkey Zapier integration allows you to easily send
information that’s stored to customer pro les in MobileMonkey to other
applications.
Here are just some of the more popular “Zaps” for MobileMonkey users:
Zapier will save you lots of time by automating repetitive tasks and please
your clients when you’re able to work with their tech stack.
The time MeetEdgar will save you and the results it will deliver makes this
tool as good as free.
MeetEdgar is a content recycler which you can use to automate the sharing
of all your evergreen content across most major social media channels.
Unlike content schedulers such as Hootsuite and Buffer, you can create the
posts that are most important to your content strategy one time, and then
have them post on a recurring schedule over time.
This ensures that your followers and page visitors are most likely to nd the
content that converts and attracts a wider audience.
You can use MeetEdgar across your social channels to do the following:
LinkGallery by Rebrandly lets you seamlessly manage one bio link for all your
social media platforms. It enables you to direct your audience to all the
different articles, events, sites, and shops that matter to them most.
reate a unique bio link and add new content to the gallery over time.
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Get detailed click stats from your audience to understand what they
interact with the most.
Enhance your users’ experience by directing them to speci c
destinations based on their browser.
This year they’re introducing bots for WhatsApp, Instagram, and iMessage as
well.
Even on the MobileMonkey free forever plan, you can run unlimited
Facebook Messenger campaigns. Some popular social media strategies with
MobileMonkey chatbots are:
SEO Software
Free Marketing Software #7: Ubersuggest
Ubersuggest has a great free version for SEO research and management.
The tool was launched recently by Neil Patel, one of the most recognized
digital marketers globally.
Ubersuggest allows you to get insight into the strategies that are working
for others in your market so you can adopt them, improve them, and gain an
edge.
And to make things easier it also generates a list of keywords for you based
on what is working for your competitors and what people are typing into
Google.
Using the Ubersuggest top SEO pages report, you can discover which of
your competitor’s pages are ranking for popular organic keyword phrases
and which ones are getting attention from sites like Facebook.
This is great for content marketing, as you’ll no longer waste time writing
content that people don’t want to read.
With SpyFu you can search for any domain and see every place they’ve
shown up on Google, every keyword they’ve bought on Adwords, every
organic rank, and every ad variation in the last 13 years.
After installing the Yoast SEO plugin on your WordPress site, this free
marketing software instantly analyzes the SEO of your content, the page,
the URL, your headline, the meta description, your image alt-attributes and
more.
Then, Yoast tells you exactly what to do in order to improve your SEO score,
and as you make the improvements on the page, it instantly lets you know
whether issues are xed or if you can improve the page performance even
more.
In fact, 48% of customers would rather connect with a business using web
chat than they would email, phone, or any other means.
Here are some brilliant web chat examples you can get started with today to
generate leads using MobileMonkey:
Startups that need to build lead lists fast commonly use FindThatLead to:
Canva has pre-built templates for all of the following and more:
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Instagram stories
Flyers
Infographics
Presentations
YouTube thumbnails
C ards
Invitations
Logos
Even with unlimited resources, it can be challenging to design a
presentation or create a great looking image last minute. High-pressure
design deadlines are stressful for both designers and marketers, yet in most
workplaces, this is a common occurrence.
Designing templates your clients or team can edit can help to solve this
problem and free your agency up to work on the projects you most care
about.
Using PlaceIt , you can create high-quality branding and marketing assets
such as logos, mockups, videos and design templates.
The free tools on PlaceIt that I’ve used the most are for mockup images.
Mockups are great to show your product or service on real mobile devices
like iPhone, Android, MacBook, tablets, etc.
Muck Rack’s search engine lets you discover and pitch relevant journalists in
a targeted way. It enables you to build and share media lists that are
automatically kept up-to-date in order to save you time maintaining old
media contact lists.
Very similar to HARO, Muck Rack will send alerts to your email inbox to check
for stories that journalists in notable publications need expert advice, quotes,
and other resources for.
You can target the categories you’re most interested in, reach out to
journalists, and try to get published.
Three times per day, ve days a week, HARO will send you an email with
updated source requests that are relevant to you or your client’s industry,
expertise, or personal experience.
Then, if you nd a story that matches your needs, you can pitch the masked
email address listed in the source request by including answers to the
journalist’s questions, any speci ed requirements, and a bio with you or your
client’s contact information.
MailChimp is super easy to use for creating great-looking emails in their drag
and drop email builder.
One reason to consider using MailChimp as a free email tool is that the
platform is scalable as you grow and can afford more of their features and
services. Other free email tools may require you to consider upgrading to a
more robust email platform in the future.
So, the difference between MailChimp and Mailer Lite is that you get more
contacts in the free plan with MailChimp, but you get more features on the
free plan with Mailer Lite.
For an individual marketer or even for a marketing team, Trello’s free plan is
as easy as it gets to neatly organize all of your tasks and projects in the most
user-friendly drag and drop interface.
The main reason I’ve chosen Trello is that as a digital marketer, you need to
spend more time executing, and less time planning. Trello makes that easy,
whereas a tool like Asana or even more robust tools like Jira have too many
bells and whistles that will have you spending more time updating and
managing your projects than you do executing them.
MobileMonkey live chat tools are great for increasing conversion rates on
your website. In fact, studies have shown that live chat software increases
conversions on websites by 45%.
HotJar almost gives too much away for free, and it should be on everyone’s
list of the best free marketing software available.
Lastly, HotJar is easy to install. With one copy and paste of HTML script, you
can start improving your marketing funnels and their conversion rates fast.
Google Optimize is a free marketing software that allows your data to guide
your decisions. Optimize is natively integrated with Google Analytics, so you
can quickly understand how to improve your website.
un tests on your website’s content to learn what works best for your
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visitors, including A/B, multivariate, and redirect tests.
Optimize your website experience to suit each type of audience.
C reate custom landing pages for Google and Facebook Ads, and
convert more visitors into paying customers.
What’s great about Quuu’s promotion software is that it gets real people and
businesses on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to provide clicks and shares
of your content.
Here’s how I’ve personally used Quuu in the past. I would use analytics to
determine which content was converting best from social media on our
website. Then, I’d use Quuu to promote that content online, which would
then get thousands of additional impressions than I would have received
otherwise.
Use Quuu to curate content that your social media audiences will nd value
in, and then promote your company’s best performing content to increase
traf c to your blog.
The platform has powerful video SEO and tools for creating smarter ads on
search and social media. Additionally, Wistia is great for marketers because it
has marketing automation integrations, lead capture tools, and features that
keep your audience engaged.
And Wistia has a free version that comes with all of its standard features. For
free, you get up to 3 videos you can embed just about anywhere, up to 250
channel subscribers and A/B testing tools.
MobileMonkey takes this a step further with multi-channel chat blasts. This
means you can reach your audience instantly via social media, SMS text
messaging, as well as website chat.
For example, instead of waiting for people to chat with you on your website
or ll out a contact form, you can reach out to them proactively and engage
with your audience in real-time. And two of the most powerful channels in
2020 are text message marketing and Facebook Messenger.
As a result, you’ll get more leads, conversions, and provide a better overall
customer experience.
Check out how to send a text message blast in this step-by-step guide to
growing an SMS contact list and sending mass text marketing messages.