We look at a number of tools and services that we use on a daily basis. These are services that make a big difference in how we run our businesses. We move at speed and cover a lot of ground in this pre-Christmas show!

Summary:

We talk about our favorite web tools of 2016. Covered: tools for productivity, project management, accounting, invoicing, social media, content management, and content creation.

 

Episode 152 Table of Contents

0:00 Podcast intros.

1:37 What we use for video conferencing.

4:50 Our choice for video hosting.

8:32 John's choice for invoicing software.

10:56 Jonathan's choice for invoicing software.

11:44 An alternative for external email addresses.

13:54 Jonathan's choice for a CRM.

16:44 A tool John uses for local SEO citations.

20:09 Jonathan has a pick for SEO keyword research.

21:04 Another pick for email outreach.

23:00 A tool we are using for project management internally.

24:54 John's tools for migrating websites.

27:20 Jonathan's choices for site backups.

29:28 Two cautionary tales of why you want to have a reliable plan for website backups.

34:54 John's advice for getting blog posts written.

36:53 Jonathan has some picks for spell-checking and editing.

37:55 Our mutual pick for capturing screenshots.

38:34 Some more picks we have for cloud storage and productivity.

39:40 Podcast outros.

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Links mentioned during the show:

Zoom

https://zoom.us/

Go To Meeting

https://www.gotomeeting.com/

Wistia

https://wistia.com/

FreshBooks

https://www.freshbooks.com/

Zoho Invoice

https://www.zoho.com/us/invoice/

Harvest (Time Tracking)

https://www.getharvest.com/

Zoho Mail

https://www.zoho.com/mail/

G Suite (formerly Google Apps for Business)

https://gsuite.google.com/

Agile CRM

https://www.agilecrm.com/

Drip - Email Marketing Automation

https://www.drip.co/

Active Campaign

http://www.activecampaign.com/

Moz Local

https://moz.com/local

Yext (DON'T use this)

http://www.yext.com/

Get Found (Go Daddy)

https://www.godaddy.com/products/business-marketing.aspx

Moz Whiteboard Friday

https://moz.com/blog/category/whiteboard-friday

Rand Fishkin on Twitter

https://twitter.com/randfish

Distilled on Twitter

https://twitter.com/distilled

Wil Reynolds on Twitter

https://twitter.com/wilreynolds

SEMrush

https://www.semrush.com/

Majestic (SEO Tools)

https://majestic.com/

Raven Tools

https://raventools.com/

KWFinder

https://kwfinder.com/

Mailshake

https://mailshake.com/

Teamwork - Cloud Productivity Software

https://www.teamwork.com/

Basecamp

https://basecamp.com/

WP Engine Automated Migration

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-site-migrate/

WP Migrate DB Pro

https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-migrate-db-pro/

BlogVault

https://blogvault.net/

UpDraftPlus

https://updraftplus.com/

BackupBuddy

https://ithemes.com/BackupBuddy/

WP Site Care

https://www.wpsitecare.com/

Maintainn

https://maintainn.com/

Slack

https://slack.com/

Grammarly

https://www.grammarly.com/

Awesome Screenshot

https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/

Dropbox

https://www.dropbox.com/home

Google Drive

https://www.google.com/drive/

 

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