Tips and tools for Startups

I have learnt that understanding the needs of your customers and the market is key to building a strong foundation for your start-up. Here are my recommendations  for the most useful tool per category:

RoboAuditor

Every business likes to have a automated lead generation engine which can convert the website visitors to leads at least 4X speed and low cost.

The typical old age email subscriber forms don’t work anymore. RoboAuditor is an embeddable white label SEO audit tool which can be put on all your blogs and web pages in one go. It increases your website visitor to lead conversion by at least 4X.

RoboAuditor is one of the top apps on HubSpot ecosystem and can integrate will all the CRM and Marketing systems in just few clicks.

CRM/ Sales funnel management

Salesflare

The intelligent sales CRM built to automate most of your sales funnel.

Salesflare automatically populates your address book with the data it gets from your company database, email signatures, and social media sources.

It’s a tracker and logbook for all interactions of leads towards you, handed to you on a silver platter in an automated timeline.

From the data it gathers, Salesflare will send out to-do reminders on specific leads, so no deal can fall through the cracks anymore.

Salesflare works wherever you work: desktop, mobile or just from your Gmail where it gives you everything you need from an integrated sidebar.

You can make it work together with over 700 apps via Zapier. Popular integrations include Slack, Stripe, Mailchimp and Trello.

Web/ mobile analytics: user tracking

Kissmetrics

Kissmetrics generates precise customer behaviour data metrics that is bound to give Google Analytics a run for their money.

While Google Analytics attributes each new visit to a new user, Kissmetrics takes it up a notch with its capacity to recognize visits from a particular device as originating from the same user source.

This makes Kissmetrics more efficient than Google Analytics in filtering out potential recurring leads from your website into your sales funnel.

Website usability testing

UXProbe

The remote testing tool that allows your users to experiment with your digital platform at the comfort of your own time and space. You may customize the tasks you desire for the user to perform.

The user’s entire experience — on-screen movements and expressions — while performing the task are captured for your immediate or future perusal.

The app’s post-test evaluation metrics will reveal illuminating insights to how your website fares in terms of user experience.

Domain Name

Domainglo

There are many online domain name generators but what i found the best is Free domain suggestion tool for startup. It doesn’t work like other domain name generators. what i have heard, it is created by a team of 20 year old domainers. It’ fast and clever. It works like a magic tool. You just need to put a keyword and bang here is your list of domains. Not only that it includes brandable domains suggestion for free. And last part provides keywords related to our keyword which we searched. It bought many domain through this generator like  pantybras .com, CoinExchanger .org, Payooze .com, Qomfo .com and many more. Below is a small presentation of this magical domain name generator

SEO

Ahrefs

The go-to tool to upsurge your search traffic, monitor your niche, and outrank your competitors. Ahrefs reveals the backlinks of every website on the World Wide Web, allowing you to dig deep into the SEO strategy of your competitors.

A top feature is its keyword explorer, which enables you to see the exact keywords your competitors are ranking for in search results. This makes competitor research a piece of cake and helps you determine the keywords to target for maximum reach.

Web Hosting

1. SiteGround

2. Bluehost

Email marketing

MailChimp

The go-to tool for rolling out newsletter campaigns that won’t wind up in your target recipient’s spam box. It also tracks and analyses the outreach of your campaign in detail.

Mailchimp offers a variety of easy-to-use newsletter templates, which integrate easily with other tools.

Design tools: graphics

Canva

Canva might just be the most user-friendly graphic design tool you’ll ever come across, and best of all: it’s free. It gives you the power to create practically anything — from social media banners, flyers, infographics, to business cards — just by dragging and dropping.

The paid version packs all this power, plus the additional punch of creating brand kits and customisable design templates.

Project and task management

Trello

The collaborative tool to keep your team harmonized and on top of its work.

Trello’s user-friendly interface with boards, lists, and cards, enable you to organize and prioritize your tasks in a fun and flexible way.

Double the fun with the Slack integration.

Customer engagement/ support

Intercom

An in-prompt personal messaging function that allows you to chat with and at the same time offer support to the visitors to your website in real-time.

With Intercom, you can activate leads in the early stages of the sales cycle. It also tracks user behaviour.

A low-maintenance solution to stay on top of your users, regardless of their commitment status.

Billing/ online payments and subscriptions management

Stripe

Dubbed the best software platform for Internet business seller. Stripe’s APIs and functionality helps you build the best product for your users.

It securely stores customer payment information for one-tap purchases on your website or app, while helping you build high-converting payment flows.

It is a holistic solution to any subscription service, on-demand marketplace, ecommerce store, or crowdfunding platform.

Recruiting tools: prospecting and lead generation

Hunter

Are you making a career in digital marketing. Hunter will seek out professional email addresses for you.

Activate your search with a company or domain name and Hunter will work its magic.

Bulk upload email addresses in a .CSV and Hunter will tell you which ones are ‘deliverable’.

Team communication and coordination

Slack

Slack functions as a central hub where everything comes together like mocospace

You can set up an army of bots to keep you notified of all the happenings in your start-up, or keep the energy level high with the dankest memes and most fire GIFs.

It’s an ever-changing blackboard filled with output of your team’s efforts, from every possible corner of your business.

Apps 

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