1. Tagboard – an effective social media marketing tool

There’s no doubt that social media is one of the most effective ways to forge relationships online. However, as most of us have probably experienced, it can also, take up a whole lot of time. For this reason, we are always on the lookout for social media automation tools that can help make our social media activities more efficient and more effective as well as grow benefits.

Tagboard is a useful social media tool for social media monitoring. It allows customers to easily keep track of hashtags on major social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, and Vine.

It can be extremely difficult to monitor and track conversations happening across multiple platforms and Tagboard saves you a ton of time by allowing you to create custom boards with content from each platform. 

 

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Tagboard is more than a simple hashtag analytics tool. It is a super convenience marketing tool, it tracks where your hashtags are used in real-time, and then measures sentiment surrounding them. You can then create tagboards—collections of popular posts with the positive sentiment that updates automatically. These tagboards can be embedded in mobile apps and websites— you can even show them on large-screen displays. It’s a great way of amplifying your best and freshest content.

No professional is complete without the tools to do their work effectively—imagine a doctor without a stethoscope or a gardener without shears! Using the right tools won’t make you a great content marketer, but it will give you the best chance of getting there. We need ways to track hashtags, send emails, make infographics, find content ideas, and so much more. By using tools, we can automate the most tedious parts of our work and focus on what matters: creating awesome content. 

2. Ahrefs for SEO

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Another big marketing tool was recommended using is called Ahrefs, which shows us who links to all of our competitors. Ahrefs is an All-in-one SEO toolset.

In addition to be a great SEO tool, many users said that Ahrefs is a great content marketing tool—not only for helping you optimize your content but also by helping you come up with new ideas for things to write about.

The other thing we do with Ahrefs is plug in our competitors' URLs and look at the terms that a website is getting traffic from. Another Brazilian team member, Mary, makes sure those keywords are within our content and relevant posts. That way, we can get the most amount of search traffic when we’re writing content in Portuguese. We’ve had to really utilize tools well since we started expanding internationally.

Ahrefs is not that expensive and it makes a huge, visible difference.

3. Revive Old Posts - a social posting tool

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Revive Old Posts is a marketing tool that lets you automatically share old posts to your social media accounts. This social media software gives your users the chance to discover and engage with popular content from your site. Plus, it helps you keep your social media accounts active. 

You can quickly and easily share posts, pages, media, and custom post types to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr. Besides, Revive Old Posts adds hashtags from tags or categories automatically by fetching them from your post’s categories, tags, and even custom fields.

4. Canva – amazing tools for designers

We can save a lot of time with Canva (Source: Canva) 

Working in marketing, when you don’t have time or resources to get your design team to help, where should you turn? Then use should Canva!

Canva is an excellent free graphic design tool. It turns even the most visually clueless marketer into a design pro, with easy to use templates and an intuitive user interface. Not to toot our own horn, but when it comes to creating and sharing marketing images, you won’t find a better free tool out there than Canva.

Canva is an easy-to-use design platform that allows you to create a variety of graphics for your business. Canva has templates for everything from social media images to marketing brochures, flyers to business cards, presentations to web banners, and just about everything in between. Whatever marketing image you might need, Canva has a template for it. It's no exaggeration to say that Canva is an indispensable marketing tool if you want to save tons of time.

So, how do you use Canva? Let’s say you wanted to create an image for your brand’s Instagram account. You can start with an Instagram Post template, which is already accurately sized for the platform. Once you find a template with the look, feel, and format you want for your Instagram image, you can customize the template—like swapping photos, changing the layout and background, adjusting the fonts, or adding in additional elements like icons, illustrations, or frames. And all with a few drag and drops.

However, if you are in print-related businesse like T-shirts, mugs, phone cases... then you should find some specialized design tools. Currently, one of the most appreciated design tools for print design is NB designer.

Read more: How To Export Design Online As PDF?

Tutorial: How To Design T-Shirts Using Canva 

5. Feedly – a powerful marketing tool for content creators

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Coming up with electrifying content, ideas are one of the hardest parts of content marketing. Luckily, no one ever said you have to do it alone—blogs, online magazines, and newspapers are all great sources of inspiration. Feedly gives you a single place to collect and read all of this content. Simply subscribe to as many feeds as you want, and Feedly will organize all of this content for you in a nice, easily digestible portal.

6. Trello – a marketing tool for campaign and project management

Getting Started With Trello (Demo)

Marketers spend their lives managing campaigns and projects. Here are the tools that make that an easier task to tackle: Trello. Trello is a free project management marketing tool that many marketers love.

Whether you're the sole marketer at your company or part of a 25-person team, staying organized and accountable is super important to executing marketing campaigns. That's where Trello comes in.

Trello is a free, easy-to-use organization, and project management tool that just so happens to be an awesome tool for marketers. It can help you keep your company's largest and most involved marketing campaigns organized. (If you're not sold, it might be convincing to hear that 16 million other users are already taking advantage of it.)

7. Time management with Toggl

Toggl is a social media scheduling tools

One of the best ways to save time is to start measuring it. When the clock is running against a task, you’ll be amazed how much more focused you are on getting it done. But, which tool should you use to track time? Toggl! Toggl is an easy to use free time tracking tool for marketing. It makes keeping track of time spent on tasks, projects, and clients easy to manage.

If you need a time tracking app and but can't pay for one, you should use Toggl. The time tracking tool has a generous free tier of service that gives you access to all its apps (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, web, and browser extension) and includes all the core functionality you'd expect in a time-tracking app. Free account members can't collaborate with other team members, however, and they get minimal reporting tools. Those limitations aside, if you need to track your time across different projects easily, simply, reliably, and for free, Toggl is the app to use.

One reason Toggl works effortlessly is it doesn't ask much of you when you start timing a task. With many time tracking apps, you have to have a client, project, and task entered into your account before the app will let you track time. If you don't, you have to set your task aside for the time being and enter them. With Toggl, you can track your time now and worry about the details later.

Toggl has a great reporting function too so you can pinpoint where to improve efficiencies.

Conclude,

Here are some of the best tools that are guaranteed to make you more productive and time-efficient in your work. There are countless tools that did not make it onto this list! I hope that all the marketing tools below will help you save your time and be the best way to make the most efficient use of your time online!

What are your favorite marketing tools? How does it save you time? Share below!