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3 Online Marketing Tools that Have Grown into Something Awesome This Year

August 30, 2016 at 6:18 am PST By Ann Smarty

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ann smarty toolsI love tools and I love watching them evolve and grow. I think that building a cool tool is only half of the deal: It’s keeping innovating it based on ever changing trends that makes a tool successful.

In this fast-paced digital world, you need to be building and re-building your platforms again and again to stay ahead of competitors.

This year I’ve been excited to see the below three tools do just that. I’ve been using all of them for quite a while and the new features that were added are just awesome!

1. GetResponse

  • Free trial: Yes
  • Freemium: No

Initially the email marketing solution of my choice, GetResponse has won my heart by the most powerful automation feature on the market. I’ve always loved the auto-responder feature allowing me to build advanced workflows based on your lead actions. For example:

  • Send a customized email whenever a user clicks a specific link or downloads a specific document;
  • Send a customized email depending on which page a user fist signed-up;
  • Send a customized exit email based on which email triggered an opt-out, etc.

GetResponse

But what’s more, GetResponse has overgrown its email marketing offering and turned into an advanced all-in-one marketing platform with a ton of cool features including:

  • The ability to host webinars
  • Advanced analytics
  • Shopping cart recovery and more.

The best thing is, GetResponse is geared towards small business which means it’s really affordable for this impressive feature set.

2. SERPstat

  • Free trial: Yes
  • Freemium: Yes

One of the newer tools in the market, I’ve been using SERPstat for quite a few months now, ever since their rep contacted me sharing their cool “question research” feature (read more about it here).

It’s been amazing to watch the tool add more and more quite unique and innovative features expanding my keyword research capabilities:

  • Missing keywords allowing me to see which key phrases your competitors are ranking but you are not
  • Second-page keywords: Identify your keywords with best potential (those ranking on page #2)
  • “Related” keywords: Find closely related terms to include in your content

SERPstat

And now they have come up with a tool set turning SERPstat into an ultimate SEO platform to be used for competitive intelligence, keyword research, on-page search engine optimization, backlink research and rank tracking.

SERPstat domain

It has a variety if plans making it affordable to small businesses and solopreneurs.

3. BuzzSumo

  • Free trial: Yes
  • Freemium: Yes

I’ve been using the core features of BuzzSumo for ages: It’s an easy way to quickly see what has been recently written on your chosen topics and identify the most successful articles, infographics, interviews, etc. based on your chosen keyword. It’s a great way to find content to get inspired by and learn from.

Facebook search has been added later and it has been quite a unique one I’ve never seen anywhere else. You can actually search any keyword and filter results by “video”, “image”, “giveaways” and other post types. It’s a great way to see what other Facebook pages are doing to yield results on Facebook.

BuzzSumo Facebook

You can also search for influencers on Twitter as well as use “Audience builder” tool to find Twitter users who are likely to share your content in the future:

Audience builder

“Content alerts” is another cool feature from BuzzSumo which delivers industry updates or brand mentions daily into your email inbox. BuzzSumo reports on many more mentions that Google alerts do and in a much more timely manner.

And recently they have added yet another update letting you spot your brand “unlinked” mentions to timely engage with those opportunities to generate traffic and build authority.

BuzzSumo link alerts

The five unique features above make BuzzSumo an invaluable content marketing and influencer outreach tool.

And which tools have you been watching grow lately? Please share in the comments!

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Ann Smarty is the Brand and Community manager at InternetMarketingNinjas.com as well as the founder of MyBlogU.com. Ann has been into Internet Marketing for 10 years, she is the former Editor-in-Chief of Search Engine Journal and contributor to prominent search and social blogs including Small Biz Trends and Mashable. Ann is also the frequent speaker at Pubcon and the host of regular Twitter chats #vcbuzz and part of Internet Marketing Ninjas team.
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Comments

  1. David Leonhardt says

    August 30, 2016 at 4:48 pm

    These tools are all three good examples of ones that become huge in their niche, then use that as a ladder to climb up into all-in-one tools. They are like the Amazon.com of marketing tools.

  2. Emory Rowland says

    August 30, 2016 at 8:00 pm

    I love BuzzSumo. A little expensive, though..

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