Content marketing has quickly become one of the most competitive arenas in the digital landscape, meaning it is essential to have a dedicated content marketing strategy in place. It may seem simple to streamline your content for the week, but the truth is it actually takes a lot of time and effort. Below, we’ve outlined some of our favorite tools that help us ensure our marketing strategy is consistent, original and compelling.
Posting to social media is easy enough, but having to individually log on to each platform--Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, etc.--to share the same message is not only tedious but also time-consuming. Enter HootSuite. More than 16 million people employ the tool’s ability to either post instantly or schedule messages across more than 35 social networks from one dashboard. Additionally, HootSuite offers analytics reports to help you better understand what campaigns are most successful.
No matter how adept a writer you may be, no one is immune to the occasional grammatical error or misspelled word. Luckily, Grammarly is there to make sure you never look the fool. Not only does the tool catch simple grammar mistakes and spell check the document, but it also takes into account the context and makes suggestions where a better word could be used, lets you know if you’re overusing a word, and even checks squinting modifiers. Plus, you can install a Grammarly extension into your browser of choice so that you don’t even have to leave your window for editing. Grammar errors are a needless mistake that makes you or your business appear less credible, so why leave it up to chance? (Special thanks to Grammarly for editing all of EMB’s blog posts!)
59 percent of B2B marketers say email is their most effective channel in terms of revenue generation, and MailChimp is an excellent aid in creating and disseminating original marketing campaigns. The tool offers templates for newsletters, ads, emails and more and allows you to automate the messages for different audiences. After a campaign is sent out, you can track open rates and click rates, and Google Analytics works in unison to demonstrate the amount of traffic and revenue generated. Users also have the ability to create different subscriber lists, and MailChimp automatically keeps track of who the most engaged subscribers are and lets you know which emails are bouncing back.
Speaking of email campaigns, a bad color palette can completely ruin a message, no matter how strong. 90 percent of information transmitted to the brain is visual, meaning if someone can’t read your type or the colors are too harsh on the eyes, they’ve deleted the email before they even read what it was about. With the use of Coolors, you never have to worry about unsightly color combos again. The site is free to use and instantly generates aesthetically pleasing color palettes with the touch of a button. You can even upload the image to be featured in your email or social post, and Coolors can the exact colors in the picture and design a palette to complement it. Once completed, you can save or export the palette to be used as many times as you need.
Check out one of our older posts here for four more software tools we love!
