In this presentation I share a wide array of tools and technologies that I use every day to help run my business as the owner of a digital marketing and online communications company.
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The Marketers Desktop: Tools and Technologies
1. The Marketers Desktop:
Tools and Technologies
Originally Presented by David Gadarian
at the Natick Microsoft Store for the
MetroWest Marketing Group MeetUp
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2. A few quick notes….
First – thanks for stopping by!
Second – while the presentation covers a ton of ground this is not
the end all, be all.
Third – if you’d like, feel free to Tweet me @davidgadarian with
some of your own “faves” and perhaps there will be a 2.0 for this
presentation.
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3. And here we go….
The Marketers Desktop:
Tools and Technology
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4. The In Box
Google Apps for Business
http://www.google.com/intx/en/enterprise/apps/business/
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5. The In Box
Rapporitve – a good service for Outlook was
Xobni (inbox backwards…)
http://rapportive.com/
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13. The Desk
• Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
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14. The Desk
• A solid headset – I use a USB headset which
works great.
•Read the reviews.
•I have heard of people
having issues with wireless
headsets…
•Make sure there is a mute
button
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15. Colors, Fonts and Grabbers
• Instant Eyedropper
• http://instant-eyedropper.com/
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16. Colors, Fonts and Grabbers
• Wonder Web Ware
• http://wonderwebware.com/
• No clue why I have this for free, but I do…
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17. Colors, Fonts and Grabbers
• Pendule Chrome Extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pendule/gbkffbkamcejh
kcaocmkdeiiccpmjfdi?hl=en
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18. Colors, Fonts and Grabbers
• SnagIt (also have Jing for free, and Camtasia for higher end videos screen grabs)
http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.html
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20. Colors, Fonts and Grabbers
Element Inspectors –
• Firefox Version (for sure)
• Internet Explorer Version (not sure?)
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21. Colors, Fonts and Grabbers
• Another way to play is to “view source” to see
what sites are using, how they are built etc.
• Right click and then view source.
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22. Colors, Fonts and Grabbers
• Photo Shop by Adobe
• The Gimp Open Source
• Both do much of the same things. Get really
good at using one of them…
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23. HootSuite
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Social
Sprout Social. There are enterprise versions such as Involver, Buddy Media and
Wildfire… but they seem to get purchased…
https://hootsuite.com/
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24. Social
• Shortstack (Facebook App Building Platform
http://www.shortstack.com/
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26. Newlsetter
• MailChimp – great service, and for marketers, a great
communication company
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Constant Contact (based here in Massachusetts)
Aweber
http://mailchimp.com/
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36. Websites
• Dreamweaver by Adobe (or Kompozer if you
prefer an open source alternative)
http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html
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37. Websites
• Notepad ++ - free text editor
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
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39. Websites
• Teach Yourself CSS in 10 Minutes (There are lots of books out there, and
there is even a new CSS standard – CSS3, but this book helped me
immensely.)
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/book/
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40. Diagram and Charts
• Lucid Chart – wire framing, charts, graphics
https://www.lucidchart.com/
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42. Diagram and Charts
• Infographics – all the cool kids are making
them…
– Piktochart
– http://create.visual.ly/
• Good to create, but also great resources to
augment and validate your own ideas while
using infographics created by others.
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45. Collaboration
• Google Drive (have some nice sharing features but
there can be pushback if people are not already using
Google… - every brand has its fans)
• MS Skydrive
• Copy
http://www.google.com/drive/about.html
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53. Management
• Zapier
Quick note regarding Zapier – this is a service that I do not yet
use, but do intend to bring into my mix for 2014.
What this software manages to do is quite amazing,
groundbreaking and disruptive and I suspect this type of
solutioning will quickly become a “must have” for most online
marketers in the next 18 months.
https://zapier.com/
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54. Operating System
I follow the clients… and most of my clients use this…
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55. Operating System
I follow the clients… and most of my clients use this…
Google has some interesting alternative, but they are not nearly as robust, and
they don’t work as well right now. That said Google is a fast moving company…
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56. Accelerators
Time – make the most of it.
Spend some of it focused on professional
development. Do this EVERY week
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57. Accelerators
Time – make the most of it.
Spend some of it mastering your own set of
solutions to provide you with a good return
over the lifetime usage of your solutions.
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58. Accelerators
• Search Engines – great information there for
you to access – make the most of it!
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59. Accelerators
• YouTube – this is often under valued as a
resources, but if you are looking for “how to’s”
chances are someone somewhere has put up
a video showing you…
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61. Reading List
• TechCruch
• Unbounce
• Copyblogger
• KISSmetrics blog http://blog.kissmetrics.com/
And this list could go on and on… just make sure
you take the time to continually educate
yourself
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62. David Gadarian
Company: Gadarian Digital
Website: www.gadarian.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidgadarian
LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgadarian
Possibly my all time favorite photo not involving
my family:
http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/iss_atlantis_transit.h
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Before we dive in, any questions… ask away. Any thoughts please share. Also – a brief disclaimer that I use these services, but there might be better alternatives… I’m going to go pretty rapid fire…
Very streamlined. Very cloud oriented. Very quick – nearly no latency. I made the switch from being a Blackberry user a few years back. Plays very well with a ton of other cloud based applications. Downside is, it is cloud based and there is an element of intrusion. There is risk there. Maybe now that MS is back in the mobile space in a more substantial way Outlook could be back as my choice.
Owned by LinkedIn – I was nervous that service would tank, but so far so good.
my AU# | Phone | Screenshare | Landline – hard to beat….