You are correct in saying many of these tools have been heard of. I like to add that they a probably not being properly used. The strength of your article is in the depth of detail you gave each item and the Pro Tips were of most benefit.
I have signed up for several new services and look forward to using the ones I already have correctly now.
rjeann1
· 1 month ago
great article.
Darren Markson
· 3 weeks ago
Great article but I didn't see anything about ecommerce? Take a look at http://www.bigcommerce.com - it's the MailChimp of ecommerce! We're about to launch 4 stores on it for clients. Very designer friendly.
Honey Singh
· 1 week ago
No doubt the tools are common and great for use. Now a days every one is digging into social media and i guess does the term "social media" coined up while i was in the school. :P
Anyway besides twitter,youtube, facebook and other its quite essential to analyse the metrics of social media and i use bit.ly, socialtoo, Xinureturns, Socialmention, Blogpulse, PostRank, ViralHeat and Broadtracker for social media tracking tools that can help in social analytics.
mikebayes
· 1 month ago
Thanks for this. I will be passing on to my clients!
Great resource, makes we wish it would PRINT OUT. You'd think that'd be pretty easy but noooooo....it's not.
margaretegan
· 1 month ago
This is terrific, thanks so very much. Sending in out to friends, clients and...
John LoFranco
· 1 month ago
Being active in these social media spheres is important, but don't get overwhelmed by trying to participate in all of them. It is important to determine what social media tools are best suited for your company and then stick with them. Being highly active is a hand full of social media networks is better than being moderately active in every social media network.
YaniMrjack
· 1 month ago
Nice article ! Thanks for sharing !
StevenTheThinker
· 1 month ago
This is a great list. I knew about all of these products, so it's certainly nothing new.
I'd quite like to see some new faces though. I've just started using glasscubes.com (for example) which has revolutionised how I'm working. It's at least on a par with Basecamp and in fact, I prefer it. However, you never seen it or different sites in lists like this - probably because it's a bit different. Still...
It's funny that once MySpace was in these lists too... sign of the times maybe?
Where's the next big thing?
Cyril Arnaud
· 1 month ago
+1 for glasscubes.com It just changed the way we do business, in a great and efficient way !
Shoot! Wish we could've got http://PitchEngine.com on that list! I'm the founder, who happens to be an entrepreneur as well, but I do believe wholeheartedly that we are an excellent tool for all entrepreneurs, especially those doing their own public relations. 13,000 brands use our social platform to create and share releases today!
Great post though - I use almost all of the above to build my own business!
anneonymity
· 1 month ago
I've actually used Pitch Engine for clients before. It is a pretty neat platform that beefs up your standard press releases since you can include multimedia assets with it.
Oh, and I've eaten a chocolate covered grasshopper that grasshopper.com sent my office awhile back... tasted like a KitKat (with legs).
Taras Kiseliuk
· 1 month ago
E-Marketing 101 for the people! Great article and could be very useful for e-ntrepreneurs.
AskJamesHolmes
· 1 month ago
Barb - Very nice set of tools here, most of which I am familiar, but you managed to give one golden site that I was previously unaware of and will take action on incorporating into my social media pillar.
They say it only takes one actionable new idea per day to gain massive results.
Thank you for all of your excellent contributions!
James
vavou
· 1 month ago
excellent article, and one that I shall digest and pass on to my clients!
TonyTomlinson
· 1 month ago
I have it in an easy to forward word doc if you'd like it just twitter me @tonytomlinson
Shane Schimpf
· 1 month ago
Thank you for the excellent article, very informative. I see there are several tools that I need to be looking at. Thanks Again, Cominback
@JoeHobot
· 1 month ago
Love this article, am actually using Grasshopper for almost a year now and I also know few of them. They are very successful entrepreneurs that's why it's no wonder they came up with this great article!
Again thanks for sharing , tweeted and retweeted.
Tad H
· 1 month ago
Interesting list, some names that I'm not so familiar with yet. Always learning with SM. One of the things that makes it both so much and useful.
Andy Stief
· 1 month ago
Great article. I'd never heard of a couple of those sites before. I would love to see an article in the future that talks about a hypothetical business actually going through the motions of utilizing these tools, giving examples of how each would progress the business.
Lee Starusta
· 1 month ago
Great list! find more on ziipa.com!
bhartzer
· 1 month ago
Luckily I'm already using most of those. I'll check out the others. So I guess this also means that mashable is now allowing sponsored posts?
CollegiateLiving
· 1 month ago
Very nice list...would like to hear more about youtube and the power on video media...my readings are guiding me away from video based promos and ads...and we are not all good at making viral videos...
Vitaly Makarkin
· 1 month ago
Very powerful article. Thanks for MailChimp, it's a good choice for beginners.
Startups are one of the most overlooked groups of social media users- most advice articles seem to be geared towards established companies or individual entrepreneurs. This article will be a big help to startups that don't have a dedicated marketing department.
DWEEB
· 1 month ago
very nice!
Ben Lang
· 1 month ago
What about Kampyle?!
Tom - NewEvolution
· 1 month ago
I think useridea.com is also a good option for feedback too.
Kendrick Yi
· 1 month ago
kudos for doing all that research! very informative as well! will RT!
Shabbir Bhimani
· 1 month ago
Great article. Would pass to my friends
talk2saravanan
· 1 month ago
Great artcile
kumud
· 1 month ago
great...i needed sth to manage my projects...and these are great options for startups likes mine
SanTheMan
· 1 month ago
Another email marketing application worth mentioning is madmimi.com A google apps replacement would be Zoho.com. Zoho's free edition itself is very competitive..check it out.
Jason Barone
· 1 month ago
This is an awesome list Barb. One thing I'll add about Basecamp. It's a great product but can be rather expensive and feature-lacking. The big one that comes to mind is when you start getting into recurring activities and on-going/long-term clients.
Toodledo has been a fantastic program for me to handle projects/to-dos. The UI isn't that great, but the functionality is Top-notch. You can duplicate almost any Basecamp feature--folders, milestones, goals, todos, etc. Toodledo also has fantastic integration (ical, Gcal, igoog, Firefox, etc). The price point on their "Pro" version is phenomenal. I'd give it a look.
dangerousdolly
· 1 month ago
Very nice! May I also suggest some sort of survey tool to check customer satisfaction, business evaluation form etc.
How come you do not metion Hubspot? Our company SiliconCloud (www.siliconcloud.com) which specialise in Inbound Marketing are partners for Hubspot in Europe. Our clients (regless of their size) find Hubspot great by using their using proven technology and methodology to start a successful inbound marketing strategy.
belka
· 1 month ago
The most effective way to attract lawyers of the brand and spread the word about products and services - is Facebook.
facebook-1275687207
· 1 month ago
I like face book to promote websites. There is so many autotweet and sharing programs that make it easy to digg, tweet etc with only having to connect with one site.
Ecaliptoos
· 1 month ago
Cool Post! :-)
luca filigheddu
· 1 month ago
Just wanted to stress that MailChimp is definitely a great tool... I discovered it a few weeks ago and now I love it!
bobbicknell
· 1 month ago
Thanks for sharing great resources! Much appreciated!
Henry
· 1 month ago
awesome artecle! really informative and useful A bunch of Entrepreneurs are gonna benefit from this
TonyTomlinson
· 1 month ago
I have this post in an easily downloadable word .docx Just twitter me @tonytomlinson if you'd like me to send it to you.
shahin
· 1 month ago
Hi, I have an account with www.yola.com ; When I try to open yola site it says loading yola and moves a small wheel for all the time. Please find out the solution. R. shahin e-mail address: s11@z6.com password:123456
AlexisCeule
· 1 month ago
Awesome!!! Thank you!
anthony
· 1 month ago
I'ld like my guests to see this.
iansnead
· 1 month ago
I concur with most of your points on the use of video. Video is certainly becoming used more and more as its effective in giving the online user a richer experience which in turn helps your conversions. My tip here would be to have that video on your site and not a third party site like Youtube. Embed the videos on your site as this is where you want your users to be. Use Youtube to do that or few other companies that provide a better service for this like www.vimeo.com for people who are not selling stuff and www.vzaar.com for people who are using video to sell products or services. Both services don’t have ads and the user experience and video quality is awesome.
susanyoung
· 1 month ago
Hi Barb, Thank you for sharing this information---right on target for success. The screenshots are great, and of course I know the value of video's and Twitter. I will check out some of the other tools you recommend. I am happy to Retweet this for you;good post!
Thanks very much. This article will help me plan better. I wish you have mentioned TwoutOut (http://www.TwoutOut.com) and TeensAbout (http://www.TeensAbout.com). These are some good tools for entrepreneurs.
Poo
· 1 month ago
You all smell like poo
Personal trainer Cheltenham
· 1 month ago
I was going to mention www.surveymonkey.com too! Great business tool, maybe not specifically entrepreneur-targeted, but very useful.
Great list, and as a start-up thinking about things like LinkedIn, some nice tips too.
Rich
Dimple Thakkar
· 1 month ago
Love articles like these. Very helpful. Grasshopper would be cool if they didn't charge by minutes! :(
arielceja
· 1 month ago
Hope Google integrates Google Wave into their standard app offerings.
chrisstocker
· 1 month ago
Thank you for these tips. I have never heard of Monitter and have been looking for a reliable free e-mail service to get started with. This is great.
Mollie
· 1 month ago
this was great!
Adam Skiba
· 1 month ago
Nice top 10 list. Thanks for your input on these solutions!
azkadinansa
· 2 weeks ago
Great may be it can be used for get many link popularity and other..
Pete Callaghan
· 2 weeks ago
A useful overview of these tools. The twitter environment changes very quickly and I think that hootsuite is looking stronger than monittor at present. I would also recommend considering OpenOffice as an alternative to the document handling of Google.
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I have signed up for several new services and look forward to using the ones I already have correctly now.
Now a days every one is digging into social media and i guess does the term "social media" coined up while i was in the school. :P
Anyway besides twitter,youtube, facebook and other its quite essential to analyse the metrics of social media and i use bit.ly, socialtoo, Xinureturns, Socialmention, Blogpulse, PostRank, ViralHeat and Broadtracker for social media tracking tools that can help in social analytics.
quite interesting!!!
I'd quite like to see some new faces though. I've just started using glasscubes.com (for example) which has revolutionised how I'm working. It's at least on a par with Basecamp and in fact, I prefer it. However, you never seen it or different sites in lists like this - probably because it's a bit different. Still...
It's funny that once MySpace was in these lists too... sign of the times maybe?
Where's the next big thing?
It just changed the way we do business, in a great and efficient way !
http://www.feedback20.com/en/
Great post though - I use almost all of the above to build my own business!
Oh, and I've eaten a chocolate covered grasshopper that grasshopper.com sent my office awhile back... tasted like a KitKat (with legs).
They say it only takes one actionable new idea per day to gain massive results.
Thank you for all of your excellent contributions!
James
Thanks Again,
Cominback
Again thanks for sharing , tweeted and retweeted.
find more on ziipa.com!
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Toodledo has been a fantastic program for me to handle projects/to-dos. The UI isn't that great, but the functionality is Top-notch. You can duplicate almost any Basecamp feature--folders, milestones, goals, todos, etc. Toodledo also has fantastic integration (ical, Gcal, igoog, Firefox, etc). The price point on their "Pro" version is phenomenal. I'd give it a look.
May I also suggest some sort of survey tool to check customer satisfaction, business evaluation form etc.
Good options are:
http://www.surveymonkey.com (free under 100 answers and 10 questions)
http://www.surveypirate.com (free)
really informative and useful
A bunch of Entrepreneurs are gonna benefit from this
When I try to open yola site it says loading yola and moves a small wheel for all the time. Please find out the solution.
R. shahin
e-mail address: s11@z6.com
password:123456
Thank you for sharing this information---right on target for success. The screenshots are great, and of course I know the value of video's and Twitter. I will check out some of the other tools you recommend. I am happy to Retweet this for you;good post!
Susan Young (www.getinfrontblogging.com) /Twitter @sueyoungmedia
Ideas on Facebook:
http://www.ryanhanley.com/2009/10/25/why-doesnt...
thank you a million times
LinkedIn all the way!
Great list, and as a start-up thinking about things like LinkedIn, some nice tips too.
Rich
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