I think most meetings are poorly documented. One reason is that everyone takes their own notes—if they bother to take notes at all. Rarely does the group pool their notes, and most importantly agree on what the next steps, action items and responsibilities are. Minutes.io is a tool that makes meetings more productive. Just designate a …
Successful entrepreneurs know they should work on their business more than they work in their business. That means documenting what you do, and how you do it—and then empowering others to do much of the day-to-day work so you can tackle larger issues. SweetProcess lets you document the repetitive steps you take to get your products and services ready to ship, so someone …
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If you are baffled by search engine optimization (SEO)—or think that the process has to cost a fortune, consider Positionly (affiliate link). It makes it easy to track, manage and identify the most optimal search phrases for your company. Positionly provides a great user interface, and it integrates with Google Analytics—so you can get all the important metrics you …
If you want to improve your blogging performance, you’ll likely need an editorial calendar. This will help you and your team plan ahead, stay focused and keep track of articles from idea to final publication. CoSchedule is a editorial calendar for WordPress. With it, you can schedule posts and easily drag and drop them around on …
Need to set a quick countdown timer while you’re working at your computer? Check out e.ggtimer. This site lets you quickly set an alert, whether for a few seconds or a few hours. You can change the alert type (beep or ring), the volume and whether to display a pop-up when the timer ends. Cost: Free
How simple is the “onboarding” process for your website? Does it turn your new users into raving fans, or cause them to post nasty rants about you on Twitter? Learn the onboarding process used by some of the best websites and apps with User Onboarding. The site features a number of “teardowns” (step-by-step breakdowns of the signup …
Designing a new website? Need to improve the one you have? The Web Developer Checklist will help you do things the right way…from fixing broken links, ensuring your content is found by search engines and making your site mobile friendly. Cost: Free
If you have limited time and money to invest in both email marketing and a CRM system, you’ll want to check out Fanbase. It combines the best elements of email campaign management (think Mailchimp or Constant Contact) and CRM (like Salesforce), at very affordable prices. Already using another email system? No problem—you can import your records from a …
Yes, it is easy to make fun of hashtags. However, they are everywhere and can be useful to keep tabs on topics that matter to you and your business. Tagboard is an central “hashtag hub” that searches for hashtags across Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Vine and Google+ and App.net. With an account, you can define hashtags. You …
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SimilarWeb gives you a wealth of information about a website’s visitors. Look at your company, a client or a competitor’s site, or compare several side-by-side. You’ll also get a snapshot of similar sites and a neat “topic cloud” that will give you a glimpse on the most important topics for a given site (great for SEO …
