Best Tools For A Marketing Pro

Best Tools For A Marketing Pro: Every digital marketing pro has their go-to bookmarked sites, apps, and software programs. Depending on their specific job and daily tasks, these go-to’s might be different. But, there are many apps that marketers will have in common with each other. Here is your GO-TO list of the Best Tools For A Marketing Pro:

Chrome Extensions:

• Google Hangouts: “On your computer, you can use the Hangouts Chrome extension to send messages, make video and phone calls, or share photos.” (Google Chrome)
• Color Pick Eyedropper: “A zoomed eyedropper & color chooser tool that allows you to select color values from webpages and more.” (Google Chrome)
• Pixel Zoomer: “PixelZoomer takes a screenshot of the current website and provides various tools for pixel analysis. You can zoom in to websites (up to 3200%), measure distances and pick colors with an eyedropper.” (Google Chrome)
• Clear Cache: This tool is extremely helpful for desktop Instagram users. Instagram on a desktop can sometimes lock up after posting several comments or liking several pictures. Clearing the cache on an Instagram page will help clear up that ‘limited account action’ message. “Clear your cache and browsing data with a single click of a button. Quickly clear your cache with this extension without any confirmation dialogs, pop-ups or other annoyances.” (Google Chrome)
• Font Finder by WhatFontIs: “The easiest way to identify fonts on web pages. What is the easiest way to find out the fonts used in a webpage? Firebug and Webkit Inspector are easy enough to use for developers. However, for others, this should not be necessary. With this extension, you could inspect web fonts by just hovering on them. It is that simple and elegant.” (Google Chrome)
• Grammarly: “From grammar and spelling to style and tone, Grammarly helps you eliminate writing errors and find the perfect words to express yourself. You’ll get suggestions from Grammarly as you write on Gmail, Twitter, LinkedIn, and nearly everywhere else you find yourself writing.” (Google Chrome)

Bookmarked Webpages:

• Canva: Canva is a great option for easy and user-friendly graphic design, content creation, logo and branding design, and much more.
• Line Breaker Tool: “This tool allows you to add multi-LineBreaks to IG without using awkward characters like ‘.’ and ‘-‘.”
• Font Changer: “…this translator lets you change your font using Unicode symbols. You can use it to change fonts on your Instagram bio, change the fonts in your Tweets or Twitter bio – you can even change the font in your Facebook posts to make them stand out more!”
• Gif Maker: “A GIF Is Just an Animated Image In its simplest form, a GIF (pronounced “gif” or “jiff”) is just an image file. Like the JPEG or PNG file formats, the GIF format can be used to make still images.” (howtogreek.com)
• Online Image Compressor: “This online image optimizer uses a smart combination of the best optimization and lossy compression algorithms to shrink JPEG and PNG images to the minimum possible size while keeping the required level of quality.” Honestly, this tool comes in handy much more than you’d think it would. When you’re trying to upload an image to Instagram or another social media platform, there are size and pixel guidelines that must be followed in order to be able to post to these platforms. The most strict one is Instagram. So, do yourself a favor and bookmark this tab for when you’ll need it!
• Unsplash Free Images: “Over 1 million free high-resolution images brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.”
• Ad Mockup: This is a great site for when you want to send a client some social media ad mockups! “AdParlor blends Media Buying and Creative Services at Scale to enhance paid social and display campaigns for sophisticated advertisers.”
• Facebook Creator Studio: “Creator Studio lets creators and publishers manage posts, insights, and messages from all of your Facebook Pages in one place.”

Apps:

• WhatTheFont: “Identify fonts in a snap! Take a photo of a design you love – WhatTheFont recognizes the fonts and shows font matches. Great for designers, crafters, and anyone who loves typography.”
• Combin: One of the BEST marketing tools for help with boosting your organic Instagram growth! “Promote your Instagram account, grow real community, create buzz under your posts easily with Combin.”
• Instasize: “Instasize is the photo and video toolkit for social content creators. Download today and experience premium filters, borders, and adjustments to create scroll stopping content.”
• Giant Square: Ever wonder how accounts get the giant versions of one photo but it takes up 6-9 different squares at once? Check out this marketing tool. “Giant Square is 3 complete photo apps in one app!
  • 1) It was the inventor of GRIDS for Instagram. And let you create big pictures, panorama pictures, banners and make your profile on Instagram shine!
  • 2) Square Editor – Avoid cropping your pictures on Instagram. Make cool frames around your image for minimalistic looks in a square ready frame.
  • 3) NEW: Panorama Swipe – Upload the same image as a carousel on Instagram.”

• Repost: “Repost for Instagram makes it easy to #Repost your favorite photos & videos on Instagram while giving credit to the original Instagramer.”

We hope you find these links useful and helpful in your daily digital marketing tasks!