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Introduction................................................................................ 3
Why a guide to digital marketing tools?............................................................ 3
How is this guide structured?............................................................................ 3
How have we selected the categories and tools?............................................. 4
Building your marketing technology stack....................................................... 5
The challenges of managing return on marketing technology........................ 7
What scale of marketing technology stack is required?.................................. 8
Example marketing technology stacks............................................................. 8
Reviewing your martech against competitors............................................... 11
How are the top five services in each category selected and ranked?......... 11
Let us know how you find our tools recommendations!............................... 12
REACH....................................................................................... 13
1. Site Audience Comparison.......................................................................... 13
2. Digital Analytics Tools.................................................................................. 17
SEO Tools.............................................................................................21
3. SEO Keyword Analysis................................................................................. 22
4. SEO Rank Checking...................................................................................... 27
5. SEO Site Crawling......................................................................................... 30
6. SEO Backlink Analysis.................................................................................. 34
7. Google Ads and Paid Search Analysis.......................................................... 38
8. Influencer Outreach and Management....................................................... 42
9. Data Management Platforms and Audience targeting............................... 47
ACT........................................................................................... 52
10. Website Interaction and UX Tools............................................................. 52
11. Content Management Systems (CMS)....................................................... 56
12. Blogging Tools (and CMS).......................................................................... 61
13. Content Curation and Authoring Tools..................................................... 67
14. Landing Page Creation and Testing Tools................................................. 71
15. Digital Asset Management......................................................................... 75
16. On-site Push Notification........................................................................... 79
CONVERT................................................................................... 83
17. Personalization for E-commerce............................................................... 83
18. Push Notifications and Email Re-targeting............................................... 87
19. A/B and Multivariate Testing Tools............................................................ 92
20. E-commerce Management......................................................................... 97
21. Product and Customer Review Tools...................................................... 101
22. Call Tracking............................................................................................. 105
23. Customer Messaging and Live Chat........................................................ 109
ENGAGE................................................................................... 113
Social Media Publishing Focus.............................................................. 113
24. Social Media – Publishing Focus.............................................................. 114
25. Social Media – Listening Focus................................................................ 118
26. Social Media – Campaign Tools............................................................... 122
27. Online Customer Service Tools................................................................ 126
28. Marketing Cloud, CRM and Campaign Management.............................. 130
29. Email Service Providers Marketing Automation Services...................... 134
30. Survey and Voice of Customer Tools....................................................... 138
How are the top five services in each category selected and ranked?
In this compilation we wanted to help marketers by giving them an idea of the best tools
available in each category based on our experience of the tools we have used and discussed
with other marketers. We know from giving keynotes and training workshops that there is
always a lot of interest when tools are recommended, so for years, we have been wanting to
bring these all together.
þþ 1: The most popular tools by volume of usage – so widely used, freemium or lower cost
tools tend to be ranked most highly except in categories of enterprise tools.
þþ 2: Services we use or are familiar with and are rated highly by tools review sites.
þþ 3: Services suitable for small and mid-size businesses with limited tools budgets.
Think of the order as based on the opinion of one friend or colleague to another. Since we are
keen to make the list as objective as possible, we have tapped into online services that help
compare tools and martech services. These vary in their quality and coverage. Some ratings
servies, such as Forrester and Gartner, tend to focus on more expensive ‘enterprise’ services
in some categories only while others like G2Crowd, Trust Radius, and Capterra are useful, but
are often limited by the categories they cover and the number of reviews submitted.
If you’d like to recommend a tool that has helped you, or you think we’ve missed a key tool, let us
know. Maybe your business offers a digital marketing tool or service that you think we and our
members know about. Get in touch, we’d love to know about them and we can discuss how we
can promote it through our content marketing partnership.
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