Marketplace
Marketing technology purchase decisions should, of course, be based on careful consideration of strategic and functional needs. But the vendors here are great additions to virtually any relevant short list. When you’re ready to purchase, this is the place to come.
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Content Strategy and Development
Tools to help you plan, research, and develop both text and visual content.
Create Engaging Graphics in Minutes
Beautiful charts, maps, graphics, and dashboards are a snap with Infogram. Create effective, beautiful visuals that impress colleagues and customers. Use our huge bank of photos and icons to create stunning images for blog posts and social media.Connect your data to build live, easily shareable dashboards that visually track your business.
The Best Content Curation Software
Use The #1 Tool to discover, review and curate content for Google-friendly posts, thought leadership, authority posts and publications. Discover and share content from an incredible range of online sources with CurationSoft.
The Ultimate Writing Tool for Big Projects
Scrivener is the go-to app for writers of all kinds, used every day by best-selling novelists, screenwriters, non-fiction writers, students, academics, lawyers, journalists, translators and more. Scrivener won’t tell you how to write—it simply provides everything you need to start writing and keep writing.
Quick & Easy Graphic Design Software
Create online graphics in a snap with Snappa. Whip up graphics for social media, ads, blogs, and more without Photoshop or graphic designers.
Fonts, Logos, and Icons from Top Designers
Discover a huge collection of hand-reviewed graphic assets from our community of designers. All new graphic assets are reviewed by Envato to make sure they meet high-quality design and functionality standards. From vector images to presentation templates, you’ll always find something that catches your eye.
Simple Image Creation for Social Media and Blogging
Perfect for creating social media posts, ad graphics, content marketing visuals, email images, and more! Create images faster and easier than ever. Pick a background. Add some text. No hassle.
Wonderfully Simple Graphic Design Software
Tailor your template with free images and fonts. With Design Wizard it’s easy to create unique images in minutes. Every element in your selected template is editable. Change or upload backgrounds, images, and colors. Add your logo, change fonts or include a personalized caption.
Easy Social Media Video Maker
Easily mke great videos. Join the millions of businesses, photographers, and families who use the power of video to share what matters most to them.
Simple Animated Content Creation Tool
Move your audience to action. Increase engagement, retention, motivation, and conversion using rich media made simply with Vyond (formerly GoAnimate). Vyond is changing the way the world communicates, one video at a time.
Top-Ranked Audio and Video Editing Software
Edit audio files, convert video formats, and edit your video recordings to make your own movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. Enhance your videos with effects, menus and audio, so that they have a professional look.
Animation, Slideshow, and Video Creator
Online video and animation maker in your browser–easy tools to create professional intros, animations, slideshows and music visualizations, without any technical skills, in minutes.
Photo Editor and Graphic Design Maker
Use The #1 Tool to discover, review and curate content for Google-friendly posts, thought leadership, authority posts and publications. Discover and share content from an incredible range of online sources with CurationSoft.
Revolutionary Photo Editor and Design Maker
Everything you need for photo editing (adjust color, size, lighting, etc.); photo effects and filters; and photo retouching. Design collateral using pre-built templates for posters, postcards, banner ads, and more.
On-Demand Photo Retouching Service for Ecommerce
On-demand retouching–a lean digital assembly line combining specialist editors and artificial intelligence—developed exclusively for product image editing—brings unprecedented speed, control, and quality to post-production.
Stock Photos, Pictures, and Royalty-Free Videos
Find amazing content for your next project. Discover over 209 million royalty-free images, stock video clips, and music tracks.
Stock Photos, Vectors, and Royalty-Free Images
When you need a unique visual–browse and select from millions of stock photos, vectors, video clips and music files at surprisingly low prices.
Fair Trade Stock Images
A new generation of images. No subscription. Fair pricing. Millions of images from across the globe. Amateurs and pros. Cameras and phones. The world’s first photographer-controlled image marketplace, with simple licensing and revolutionary image search.
Online Writing Tools and Apps
Grammarly helps you be a better writer by eliminating most writing mistakes. It scans your text for proper use of more than 250 advanced grammar rules.
Website Design and Optimization
Tools to help you design and build websites, and optimize them for organic search.
Keyword Research Tools for SEO and SEM
SEMrush is a powerful keyword tool that will display, for any website, the top ranking keywords in both organic and paid search, along with organic rank, rank changes, and keyword volume trends.
All-in-One SEO Tool Suites
The top all-in-one reporting platform for local SEO. Provides organic, maps & mobile search rankings; citations, reviews, and backlinks; competitor benchmarking; and integration with Google Analytics, Facebook, and Twitter accounts.
Social Media Marketing
Tools to help you create social content as well as increase your following and engagement.
Facebook Marketing Tools
Heyo simplifies the process of creating sweepstakes, contests, and campaigns, as well as driving engagement with Sweepstakes, Photo Contests, and Group Deals.
Google+ Marketing Tools
Friends+Me lets you schedule posts on Google+, cross-promote those posts to your accounts on other popular social networks, and coordinate posting activities with team members.
Influencer Relations
Tools to help identify, prioritize, and engage with key influencers in your industry.
Influencer Marketing Tools
A combination influencer marketing / social media monitoring / competitive analysis tool that lets you find influencers by subject area, analyze social profiles for qualifications, manage relationship, track brand mentions on social media, and report on results.
Content Distribution and Amplification Tools
Vimeo is the more business-oriented version of YouTube. It offers many similar video sharing tools and features, but viewers won’t be directed to funny cat videos when they are done viewing yours.
Online Advertising
Tools to create online campaigns, monitor ad performance, and gain competitive insights.
Social Media Campaign Tools
Collect leads, boost engagement and drive sales using landing pages, contests, and forms. Tweet your campaign, post it on your Facebook Timeline, in your Instagram bio, or even in an email. Your published ShortStack Campaign can act as a hub to help manage your marketing efforts across multiple channels.
Ad Monitoring Tools
Identify which ads work best, where. Keep track of your competitors’ strategies, to effectively plan and buy advertising more efficiently. Get insights into their campaign strategies, and use these insights to improve how you advertise online.
Prospect Marketing
Tools to help at the middle and bottom of the funnel, guiding prospects through the buying process.
Marketing Automation Tools
Drip offers small to midsized businesses easy-to-use marketing automation and integrates with popular landing page builders.
Email Marketing Tools
AWeber is a full-featured email service provider with capabilities for building auto-responder sequences, campaigns, newsletters, customized sign-up forms, RSS to email, HTML templates with drag-and-drop editing, and email marketing tracking—all with high deliverability.
Metrics and Analytics
Tools to measure content and digital marketing performance for continual improvement.
Competitive Intelligence and Benchmarking Tools
Enter any URL to see details of the technology used to build that website, or search this tool’s database to see which sites use shopping carts, analytics, hosting and many more.
Web Analyics Tools
Inspectlet records videos of your visitors as they use your site, allowing you to see everything they do. See every mouse movement, scroll, click, and keypress. Pinpoint what gets visitors’ attention, what causes confusion, and where individual users dropped off within the conversion funnel.
Business Operations
Tools for accounting, finance, HR, project management, and more.
Accounting and Finance Tools
Xero is online accounting software with functionality for invoicing and quoting, inventory tracking, purchase orders, billing and expenses, and payroll, plus integration with more than 500 apps for timesheets, ecommerce, expense management and more.
Project Management Tools
Wrike is a flexible collaboration and project management tool for teams of all sizes. Create projects, request forms, manage and edit files, produce Gantt Charts, manage resources, keep track of time and budget, collaborate, create to-do lists, and sync with popular calendar and email systems.
Personal Productivity
Tools to help you improve your skills and make better use of your time.
Online Education Tools for Business Pros
Udemy is an online academy offering 40,000 courses across an incredibly wide range of subjects, and has served more than 11 million students. Classes are self-paced and accessible on any device.
Personal Productivity Tools
Chrometa is an automatic time tracker that captures your time as you work on your PC, Mac, Android, or iPhone. No need to stop and start timers. Integrates with popular billing apps (like QuickBooks and FreshBooks) and email systems.