How To Improve Your Digital Marketing (And Prepare For The Zombie Apocalypse)
Half of a Digital Strategist’s job is knowing which tools are available to make our jobs faster, better, smoother and easier. There is no one perfect tool for digital wizardry. More often than not, it comes down to utilizing the right combination of tools.
Whether you’re a freelancer, strategist or account manager, the following tools can benefit your digital strategy.
Buzzsumo
Buzzsumo is the ultimate tool when developing a digital strategy built around high-performing content.
- Discover exactly which online influencers are relevant
- See what kind content is receiving a high number of shares
- Customize the display to prioritize data for your own content strategy
Pro tip : Find, listen, respond and build relationships with top influencers as a long game strategy.
Canva
Canva lets you easily create and edit graphics at any size for any purpose. It’s a must have for any digital marketer who needs graphics on the fly while working on a budget.
- Very user-friendly, especially for social media and display ads
- Comes with preloaded templates sized to any social network’s required specs
- Enables collaboration on designs
Pro tip: Save room on your Mac or PC by deleting PhotoShop.
SEMrush
While the premium version of SEMrush can be quite costly, the information is extremely valuable, especially for high revenue clients.
- Get info on roughly how much a company is spending on AdWords
- See how healthy a SEO rank is compared to industry-wide averages
- Get analysis of a clients’ competitors in SEO, SEM, and more
Pro tip: Try to match a significant dip in organic search traffic with a Google algorithm update, which may indicate that a competitor was in violation of Google’s design, technical or quality guidelines at some point.
MOZ
MOZ is the all-in-one SEO companion that offers a seemingly infinite pool of SEO tools that should cater to your digital strategy.
- Fits a variety of budgets — from free SEO tools to their premium toolkit (MOZ Pro)
- Site audits, keyword analysis and rank tracking across 170+ search engines
- Dedicated to SEO training and community building
Pro tip: Check out MOZ’s tutorial videos! Not only will they help you to get the most out of each tool, but they can fast-track you knowing whether or not a particular tool fits into your digital strategy.
If This Then That
If This Then That is a powerful automation tool that connects with almost any social network, plugin, API and site. Basically, it does nearly everything.
- Embed relevant brands into your customer facing apps
- Auto-post Facebook updates to LinkedIn, auto-post to Twitter when streaming on Twitch, autoload Instagram photos to a Facebook album (you get the idea)
- Connect to weather apps so your lawn doesn’t get overwatered if it rains or close you garage door from the other side of town
Pro tip: IFTTT can send you instant notifications from the CDC in the event of a zombie apocalypse!
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