File sharing tools
EvernoteEvernote also allows you to save searchable information to share it in virtual notebooks with others, or even with your entire agency.
Dropbox
With Dropbox for Teams, your entire agency can also share folders internally or with external clients or contacts, all while maintaining administrative control.
Dropmark
You can view every collection as a fullscreen presentation, mixing images, websites and more. You can even drag in audio or video from YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud or your desktop to create custom playlists and podcasts. With the Dropmark for Mac app you can just drag and drop to your Mac menu bar and upload directly to your account.
Collaboration tools
TrelloYammer
With Yammer you can organize meetings and events, share them with co-workers, and gauge attendance by collecting responses. The tool also allows to visualize your agency’s org chart so you know who manages and reports to whom and who to contact internally on a particular subject matter.
CMW Project
Built on top of CMW Team Network™ — the industry 1st pre-integrated social collaboration platform — CMW Project delivers a unified workspace for data and document sharing enabling highly efficient cross-team collaboration fully in context of work. Free 30-day trial is available here.
ProofHub
You can monitor each task’s progress and observe how it progresses through the various project phases using the Kanban boards. Additionally, you can add comments and files as attachments to a task. You and the team members can even conduct a quick conversation or share files regarding a task using the integrated chat feature.
Smartlead
You can maintain all your email accounts from one centralized master inbox so you never miss a lead. It offers unlimited email warmups and AI personalization to maintain sender reputation and boost reply rates. Moreover, the custom conditional email sending triggers helps you reach out to your leads faster and 7x their chances of booking meetings. Smartlead helps businesses scale their outreach across email, Twitter, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, etc. You can track reply rates and click-through rates and access in-depth analytics to monitor your campaigns.
Content sourcing, creation and management tools
ClipchampWith Clipchamp, you can trim your video, add logos, titles, transitions, and even resize it perfect for any social media platform. Creators and marketing agencies love how versatile it is. This movie maker has easy-to-use pro features like green screen effects and AI text-to-speech voiceovers. The browser app also allows you to record your screen and webcam to create tutorial videos and reaction videos.
Invideo
Design Wizard
Curata
Content Marketer
With Content Marketer you just need to pick a blog post or article that you would like to promote. The tool will scan your content and find the email addresses or Twitter handlers of people you mentioned so that your could outreach them easily and build relationships.
Picsart
What really separates Picsart from other design programs is its easy-of-use. Using AI algorithms, designers can use the image generator to create unique graphics, the replacer to automatically swap objects, and the writing assistant to scribe compelling copy. But without AI, creators still have full range to design logos, flyers, brochures, banners, pins, and posters that they can use in their business or personal lives.
CMW Tracker
With CMW Tracker you can create customized workflow around getting different types of content done since the process is different for ebooks, blog posts, tweets, Facebook updates, etc. Request free 30-day trial here.
Conversion Rate Optimization tools
OptimizelyUnbounce
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Miscellaneous useful resources
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Collaboration features include video, keynote, and screen sharing along with whiteboarding, quizzes, polls, and participant chat. Store and share your resources and recordings on the provided cloud.
For anyone looking for a professional, complete solution, MyOwnConference ticks all the boxes. They support most devices and have one of the best levels of customer service on this list. The best part is you can start with 20 attendees free!
Turn your best customers into your top promoters! It would be easy for you to recruit and empower customers, affiliates, and influencers to promote your brand. OSI has everything you need to start an affiliate program to allow your customers to promote your brand across social networks. By enabling social sharing, you can add pre-written posts with graphics for your customers to share on all the major social networks. This makes it super easy for them to promote with very little effort.
To find out who your most loyal and satisfied customers are, OSI has included a FREE bonus survey tool that will allow you to find out who will be prime for referring others. You can send out an email to all of your customers and ask them how likely they would be to refer to others. Based on their response, you can automatically sign them up for your referral program.
A Resource for Agency Owners – immediate actionable steps you can take right now to make a difference in your business by Jason Swenk and adding value agency owners community.
Fuel Lines – new business resources for Advertising, Digital, Media and PR Agencies by Michael Gass. The blog has been rated among the top 100 marketing blogs in the world, according to Ad Age’s Power 150.
Inbound.org – The Community for Marketing Professionals. In a Marketing Agencies Group with members from 35+ countries you will find tons of information helping you run your agency better.
Marketing Agency Insider – Developed by Paul Roetzer, Marketing Agency Insider is the hub for marketing agency news, information, resources, training, education and engagement.
Agency Post – HubSpot’s blog for the Agency Professionals.
MAGNET Global Network – a collaborative network of the world’s top marketing and advertising agencies. This organization and its member agencies represent more than 800 clients worldwide.
Agency Search Portal – Sortlist provides you with free tools to showcase your agency and connect the Sortlist community of marketers seeking for your service.
The marketing landscape is constantly shifting as new strategies and tools arise. Agencies that don’t adapt their services to meet the demands of timely and relevant inbound marketing will simply get left behind.
Stay ahead of the curve and succeed!