We look at a number of tools and services that we use on a daily basis. These are services that make a big difference in how we run our businesses. We move at speed and cover a lot of ground in this pre-Christmas show!
Summary:
We talk about our favorite web tools of 2016. Covered: tools for productivity, project management, accounting, invoicing, social media, content management, and content creation.
Episode 152 Table of Contents
0:00 Podcast intros.
1:37 What we use for video conferencing.
4:50 Our choice for video hosting.
8:32 John's choice for invoicing software.
10:56 Jonathan's choice for invoicing software.
11:44 An alternative for external email addresses.
13:54 Jonathan's choice for a CRM.
16:44 A tool John uses for local SEO citations.
20:09 Jonathan has a pick for SEO keyword research.
21:04 Another pick for email outreach.
23:00 A tool we are using for project management internally.
24:54 John's tools for migrating websites.
27:20 Jonathan's choices for site backups.
29:28 Two cautionary tales of why you want to have a reliable plan for website backups.
34:54 John's advice for getting blog posts written.
36:53 Jonathan has some picks for spell-checking and editing.
37:55 Our mutual pick for capturing screenshots.
38:34 Some more picks we have for cloud storage and productivity.
39:40 Podcast outros.
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Links mentioned during the show:
Zoom
Go To Meeting
Wistia
FreshBooks
Zoho Invoice
https://www.zoho.com/us/invoice/
Harvest (Time Tracking)
Zoho Mail
G Suite (formerly Google Apps for Business)
Agile CRM
Drip - Email Marketing Automation
Active Campaign
http://www.activecampaign.com/
Moz Local
Yext (DON'T use this)
Get Found (Go Daddy)
https://www.godaddy.com/products/business-marketing.aspx
Moz Whiteboard Friday
https://moz.com/blog/category/whiteboard-friday
Rand Fishkin on Twitter
Distilled on Twitter
Wil Reynolds on Twitter
https://twitter.com/wilreynolds
SEMrush
Majestic (SEO Tools)
Raven Tools
KWFinder
Mailshake
Teamwork - Cloud Productivity Software
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