You will find on this list the most essential and useful by my opinion tools and software to start manage, monitor, organize and even find rooms for improvement for your online business. If you are just starting you surely need to check some of them or at least try to find alternatives to the examples but with this type of tools you will get to know the basics that you need for your online business.
MailChimp- MailChimp – is email marketing tool which offers free and paid plans. The best thing about Mailchimp is that it have great analytics features to measure and track your campaigns and with their strong technology tools it makes it one of the best email marketing tool you can use and of course it is super user friendly and easy to use which is a big plus.
- Piktochart – is an infographic software which is web-based and it allows you to create beautiful intensive professional infographics by using different templates. One of the best features is that Piktochart have HTML publishing capability which means that infographics are readable by search engines, the service is very easy to use and basically you can manage to create your own great looking informative infographic without hiring a designer or developer to create it for you.
- Evernote – is great software to store and manage your files. You can create notes which can be a text files or webpages, pictures, videos, even a voice memo and you can attach different kind of files to your notes. And one of the best features is that supports a great number of different platforms and it also offers online synchronization and backup services so you can access your files and notes from where ever you need them.
- Google Analytics – of course we all know about Google analytics but it still one of the best tools for detailed statistic about a website traffic, traffic sources different kind of measures and sales. This is by far the most used analytics software and you can find a lot of useful information for your site, there are options and services in the tool with which you can even try to make and manage different campaigns according to your data so you can improve you site and drive more sales.
- Hootsuite – is a great social media management system. The interface is in the form of dashboard and supports social integrations from all the major social networks. From this single dashboard you can synchronize your accounts and manage your online presence with ease which makes it pretty useful tool to have.
- Google Drive – is a synchronization storage service by Google which enables users to storage, share and even edit together files. Google Drive have already 120 million active users and it is great tool to share documents between your colleagues and friends.
- Dropbox – is also a cloud storage service which can also offer features like file synchronization, personal cloud storage and client software. Dropbox allows users to create one folder where they can share and put files together no matter on which computer are they or from where they use it.
- Prezi – is great software for making presentations on a virtual canvas. It is also a cloud based service and there are a lot of cool features that allow users to zoom in and out and display and navigate in their presentations within a 2.5D or parallax 3D.
- CrazyEgg – is a company which offer for individuals and businesses to find out what visitors are doing on their sites. The info and data is displayed as heatmaps which are showing where visitors are clicking while they are on the site, this is more visual method of analytics behavior of your site visitors, which is great tool to help you improve your landing pages.
- Yola – is a free website builder service and a web hosting company which allows user without any particular web-design skill like HTML or programming skills to create web sites using Yola. The interface is easy to use and you can have for minutes your own site with free hosting on a sub domain of Yola which also integrates e-commerce and blog software.
With the help of this tools you can now start your online business, you can create, manage, analyze, organize, present, share your files and content and even more with this kind of software. There are also a lot of alternatives which you can find on your own based on these examples so wait no more and start managing your online business the best possible way.
Albert Palacci occasionally writes as a technology journalist, he is also writing regularly for online magazines and websites and he is regular contributor to various blogs. You can also find more of Albert works on his personal blog – Albert Palacci and on his Twitter and Google+ profiles.