What Are Your Favorite IM Tools?

12 years ago

nice list...

unless i overlooked it.

i really think market samurai rocks..

personally. i use traffic magnet by ross goldberg.. content syndication moster.

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cbader

12 years ago

Awesome. Thanks for the list! Just booked marked it.

One thing in my tool belt is seolinkvine. I was lucky enough to get in when it first opened and have a life time membership. Great for article marketing. You can also get free content from them as well. I use it for one of my sites for free content, not a bad source.

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CMGbz

12 years ago

LeechBlock & StayFocusd - Keeps me from checking stats, browsing forums, scores, and email.

StatCounter - Free, simple, detailed, & non-footprint leaving statistics solution

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Nics 12 years ago

Originally Posted by CMGbz

LeechBlock & StayFocusd - Keeps me from checking stats, browsing forums, scores, and email.

This is a cool one that I didn't know about. Will use this to work on eliminating my bad habits.
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- Ryan David 12 years ago
  
  Usually when there are questions like this posed, there are a lot of people that post thought-provoking responses like "My mind is the most important IM tool" or something like that.
  
  Whenever I see posts like that I want to just one-up them and say "Oxygen is the important marketing tool because we would be nothing without it.".
  
  But to your point, here is my list:
  
  1) Aweber
  2) Google Apps
  3) A tie for SEOElite & Optispider.
  
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cbader

12 years ago

Originally Posted by CMGbz

LeechBlock & StayFocusd - Keeps me from checking stats, browsing forums, scores, and email.

StatCounter - Free, simple, detailed, & non-footprint leaving statistics solution

Wow, I know I could use that first one from time to time. Thank you.

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FredBeers 12 years ago

LeechBlock is lookin pretty shnazzy...thanks for that one. Shiny objects beware!
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Kal Sallam

12 years ago

Prosper202
OptimizePeress
Aweber

Those are my top 3.

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fin

12 years ago

Optin Skin
Aweber
CommentLuv

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Kim Roach 12 years ago

Originally Posted by fin

Optin Skin
Aweber
CommentLuv

Great additions Fin!

I LOVE CommentLuv

I actually just got that installed and customized today.

Great commenting system.

- Kim
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Dan Grossman

12 years ago

SnapEngage - Nothing else helps close sales better than a customer being able to live chat to answer their questions. Even if I'm not online, the "support offline, click to send an email" button shown instead has increased conversion rates compared to not having it there.

ZenDesk - Support tickets and help desk. Putting all the frequently asked questions on the front of the help desk has drastically reduced unnecessary support e-mails. Has a nice mobile app too.

SendGrid - Transactional mail as a service. My e-mails to customers get delivered, every time, not to a spam folder like mail from most shared web hosts.

HitTail - Suggests keywords to target for SEO/PPC based on searches used to find your website. Sends me a weekly e-mail with a new list.

Trello - Project/task management. I use it for everything from idea organization, to software bug tracking, to marketing activity reminders.

AdWords Remarketing - If you have your own product or service, and you're not running remarketing campaigns, you're crazy.

Improvely - I won't link this one as it's mine, but this is what I use to track the clicks and conversions from all my marketing efforts, as well as monitor SEO results and see what new sites are linking to mine.

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Kim Roach

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan Grossman

SnapEngage - Nothing else helps close sales better than a customer being able to live chat to answer their questions. Even if I'm not online, the "support offline, click to send an email" button shown instead has increased conversion rates compared to not having it there.

ZenDesk - Support tickets and help desk. Putting all the frequently asked questions on the front of the help desk has drastically reduced unnecessary support e-mails. Has a nice mobile app too.

SendGrid - Transactional mail as a service. My e-mails to customers get delivered, every time, not to a spam folder like mail from most shared web hosts.

HitTail - Suggests keywords to target for SEO/PPC based on searches used to find your website. Sends me a weekly e-mail with a new list.

Trello - Project/task management. I use it for everything from idea organization, to software bug tracking, to marketing activity reminders.

AdWords Remarketing - If you have your own product or service, and you're not running remarketing campaigns, you're crazy.

Improvely - I won't link this one as it's mine, but this is what I use to track the clicks and conversions from all my marketing efforts, as well as monitor SEO results and see what new sites are linking to mine.

Those are some golden nuggets!

Thanks for the additions

I've also heard that AdRoll.com is good for retargeting.

That's next on my list.

Cheers,

Kim

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Auggie Tsai

12 years ago

My favorite IM tools are my eyes, ears and my brain. My eyes so I can read, study and stay abreast of marketing methods. My ears so I can listen to training sessions and my brain so I can process what I've read and heard and internalize everything

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Dan Grossman

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Auggie Tsai

My favorite IM tools are my eyes, ears and my brain. My eyes so I can read, study and stay abreast of marketing methods. My ears so I can listen to training sessions and my brain so I can process what I've read and heard and internalize everything

Ugh. See: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6880835

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CMGbz

12 years ago

Raptor - An oldie but a goodie... it's like notepad on steroids for long lists and text files. It's been offline for years but you can still get a copy on archive.org

http://web.archive.org/web/200603032...tor/raptor.htm

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Greedy

12 years ago

My PPV URL scrapper I made.

It is alway better when you make it.

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EugeneFarber

12 years ago

Funny enough I just sent this out to my list today. I want to create the ultimate marketing resource list. I have nearly 100, then decided to take a break (but figured it was enough to send it out).

Check it out here.

I'm going to try to keep this updated (and growing).

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Kim Roach

12 years ago

Originally Posted by EugeneFarber

Funny enough I just sent this out to my list today. I want to create the ultimate marketing resource list. I have nearly 100, then decided to take a break (but figured it was enough to send it out).

Check it out here.

I'm going to try to keep this updated (and growing).

This is a seriously awesome list Eugene!

I'll be sharing this on my social networks

Thanks for posting it.

- Kim

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EugeneFarber 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Kim Roach

This is a seriously awesome list Eugene!

I'll be sharing this on my social networks

Thanks for posting it.

- Kim

Thanks Kim! Much appreciated.

I have a few more sitting around in Evernote. My head started spinning after a while so I decided to stop .

I'll be keeping it updated though . I'm sure I'll discover a few great new ones in this thread.
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MikeThomas

12 years ago

A really under rated tool is spyoneweb.com

It's a sneaky competitive research tool. You can see what other sites your competition has

Mike

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Dames Jean

12 years ago

workflowy.com is amazing for creating lists and sub-lists

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MrMonetize

12 years ago

I use a lot of tools mentioned and more.

Aweber
LongTailPro
Market Samurai
LastPass
CuteRank
DropBox
Prosper202
HMA VPN
Piwik
OpenOffice
TextMate
Photoshop
Filezilla
Twidium
OneLoad
etc

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nick111

12 years ago

Wow thanks for recommending Wistia! Very cool! And it's free, I can come up with many ways this could help.
Everything else mentioned is great also!

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Randall Magwood

12 years ago

Aweber, Camstudio, Audacity, Yahoo Sitebuilder, Pingomatic

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braincandy7

12 years ago

I had a chance to beta test Crystal analytics which i much prefer over GA. Nice desktop client as well for instant access and real time stats.

https://www.crystalfd.com

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Tony Humble Banned 12 years ago

Google Analytics - once you've set up all the goals, you can get really accurate feedback on how your campaigns are doing. Definitely don't overlook this!
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aw4248

12 years ago

very informative thread, thanks guys for sharing!!

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Socialbakers

12 years ago

I am currently using AIM, because we use Gtalk in our work and I communicate via the facebook chat as well. This IM integrates it all in one and it works for me just fine.

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onlinebizgiant

12 years ago

Teuxdeux:An online place where you can keep track on everything you need to do with this simple to-do-list.

GoToWebinar- In order to conduct webinar (now a days very hot) to conduct meetings and training with your community.

Zamzar.com- An incredible online conversion tool to convert any files to different formats without downloading a software or any other hazels.

FileZilla: Free FTP software

Survey Monkey : Create custom surveys in minutes in order to get feedback from your subscribers.

YouConvertIt.com : A Free online conversion tool that allows you to convert a nearly unlimited type of media file formats, including documents, images, audio, videos, etc… Convert your files to different formats quickly and easily.

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dahlgren_m

12 years ago

My personal favorites at the moment are:

Seomoz & Traffic Travis
Google keyword Tool

All you need to do sufficient SEO research!

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mark healy

12 years ago

drop box and skype, love them

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Dimitris Skiadas

12 years ago

The most important one!I use it EVERY SINGLE DAY!

Google Drive

Dimitris

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MrMonetize

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Garage667

The most important one!I use it EVERY SINGLE DAY!

Google Drive

Dimitris

Mmm, so Google now know all your friends, where you go, can read your emails, know every search you make, know all of your websites and its visitors and now they have all your files. I'll be avoiding that service, they are not owning me.

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Dimitris Skiadas

12 years ago

Originally Posted by MrMonetize

Mmm, so Google now know all your friends, where you go, can read your emails, know every search you make, know all of your websites and its visitors and now they have all your files. I'll be avoiding that service, they are not owning me.

They already own you, you just don't know it yet

No offense

Dimitris

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MrMonetize 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Garage667

They already own you, you just don't know it yet

No offense

Dimitris

No offence taken bud , but this is partly why I avoid as many Google services as I can, they don't like Internet Marketers and they are not knowing the in's and outs of my whole business.

Why would you not use something like DropBox or MediaFire over Google?
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pbarbanes

12 years ago

Kim - Great list and thanks for starting the discussion to get more added.
I have to second aweber and gotomeeting/gotowebinar.
I'd add a little software tool called FBAddToPage by warrior Shelle-K. I think I got it as a bonus in a WSO. Because I do create a lot of FB tab apps, it's a really useful time-saver.

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Kim Roach

12 years ago

Great additions everyone!

I'm looking forward to checking out Teuxdeux

- Kim

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ceenote100

12 years ago

I've been using twollow a lot lately. Very useful for your twitter account and it's free. You can follow up to 200 users a day just by typing in a couple of keywords.

I also like Google and Bing Webmaster too.

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tyronne78

12 years ago

Aweber
Market Samurai
ezArticleLink
Filezilla
Article Marketing Robot
Notepad++
Skype
Google Keyword Tool
Penzu
The Best Spinner
Comment Kahuna

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jamiebarclay

12 years ago

Wow what a list Kim. I love Lastpass, aweber, optimise press and camtasia

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Surminga

12 years ago

Adwords and Analytics are probably my most used tools and most prized. They are the start and end of everything, check them out almost every 10 minutes

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IMSince2003

12 years ago

My favorites:

1) Micro Niche Finder.
2) Market Samurai.
3) Microsoft Excel with embedded IM macros

Pretty much everything else I can live without.

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speedbird

12 years ago

Kim, I must say that your threads and posts are making an invaluable contribution to this forum. I am going through some of them and I can assure you that you are an authority in IM. Keep up the good work you are doing!

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Kim Roach

12 years ago

Originally Posted by speedbird

Kim, I must say that your threads and posts are making an invaluable contribution to this forum. I am going through some of them and I can assure you that you are an authority in IM. Keep up the good work you are doing!

Thanks so much for your kind words

- Kim

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MatthewWoodward 12 years ago

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Carol_A

12 years ago

Jing, Camtasia, GoToWeb., and for images.....logo creator, then the freebies... pixabay, iconfinder, and sxc.hu

Thanks to all who have contributed......am bookmarking and going to go through these one by one!

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sirtiman

12 years ago

1. MS Paint

2. Skype

3. Photoshop

4. Kompozer

5. Camstudio

6. Primo PDF

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ef2020

11 years ago

What a brilliant thread... here are mine:

Camtasia
Market Samurai
Filezilla
Analytics
Aweber

Bookmarking this thread

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MarketMaster13 11 years ago

Great list,thank you for sharing it.I use Aweber allot than any other but i can now diversify with your list.
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  Not only for IM, but I use it everyday: RoboForm!
  
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Hani D

11 years ago

GetResponse, OptimizePress, Camtasia Studio, PowerPoint and Xmind.

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Terry Kyle

11 years ago

Top 5:

Trello - Workflow management.

Markup.io - Markup changes on any web page and email the custom URL to staff.

GoogleGlobal - Check rankings in other countries.

MS Expression Web - Pretty easy HTML editor.

Statcounter - Non-Google analytics.

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celente

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Kim Roach

Hey Warriors,

I was thinking today about some of my favorite tools / services that have helped me the most in growing my business over the past 5 years. I thought I'd share a few here and would love to know what your favorites are as well!

Aweber - This one is pretty obvious

GoToWebinar - Still one of the best for doing live webinars.

OneClickTool.com - A really cool free tool that allows you to immediately add people who register for your webinar into Aweber. This works REALLY well for growing your list via social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.

Wistia - This is one of my more recent discoveries. It works extremely well for video hosting and creating custom video players. But what I like best about it is that I'm able to upload my raw GoToWebinar files and create a video player that is compatible with all devices.

Adtrackz Gold - This is where I do all of my tracking so that I know exactly how much traffic is coming from each traffic source. Along with how many of those visitors are converting into subscribers and sales. If you don't know the effectiveness
of each of your different traffic sources - there's no way to scale. You MUST measure to improve.

Optimizely - Makes all of our split-testing super easy.

99Designs.com - This is my go-to source for graphics.

Optimize Press - We pretty much run our entire business with Optimize Press & Wordpress.

Digital Access Pass OR Wishlist - Membership sites are the key to a consistent, predictable business model.

DiyWPBlog.com - This guy is a tech wizard who makes my life easier.

GraphicRiver.net - This is my secret spot for finding really cool graphics to use inside my product download areas and within my membership site.

LastPass - Because I certainly can't remember all those passwords by myself.

DropBox - One of the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. This is a life-saver especially if you're working with team members.

EverNote - This is one of my favorite tools online. I use it every day.Evernote allows you to take notes, save url's, web clips, files, images and entire webpages.
I use it to create my online swipe file. Mark down ideas for new products. Keep a running list of article ideas, subject lines and more.

FreeMind - My favorite free mind mapping software. I use mindmaps to outline articles, new products, and business ideas.

Contactually.com - This is a new one that I've just started using but it's pretty ninja.
Great for keeping up with your blogging alliance.

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Linx99

11 years ago

In terms of visitor >> customer flow order:

LongTailPro
iWriter for content
Wordpress/OptimizePress or Unbounce.com
Aweber
Clickbank/Paydotcom

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pinkgorilla

11 years ago

Aweber, Dropbox, Google Drive, Outlook, Excel and Photoshop are probably the tools that I use the most. I use a lot of affiliate programs as well but those don't really count as "tools". And I have countless Wordpress plug-ins that I use on my sites.

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jessiem

11 years ago

Nice list!

Aweber
Time Doctor
Evernote

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svetod

11 years ago

Great list, thanks for sharing! Will definitely start using some of these.
I can add Google Website Optimiser and Keyword Planner.

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