Best Digital Marketing Tools in 2019

I’m a big fan of finding the latest and greatest digital marketing tools.

While digital marketing tools will only help you execute a proper strategy (they won’t do the work for you), the right technology stack can really help you zoom past the competition.

Some tools out there are foundational — things like email marketing, web forms, analytics, and a CRM. However, other tools are more specialized, including keyword rank trackers, or design tools.

To take your marketing strategy to the next level, we’ve outlined the following 16 digital marketing tools every marketer should have in their tool belt.

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HubSpot has several tools to help you grow your business, no matter what stage you’re at.

Starting out, there are several tools available for free. You can set up web forms, popup forms, and live chat software for lead capture. Then, you can send email marketing campaigns, pipe all of your data into the free CRM, and analyze site visitors’ behavior.

When you expand into the paid tiers, things get really sophisticated with advanced marketing automation.

From managing your content and social media to tracking emails and connecting with your leads, HubSpot is an all-in-one solution — although it works well with other point solutions you may use (Typeform, HotJar, etc.).

Ultimately, the tool allows you to:

• Grow your traffic, convert leads, and prove ROI for your inbound marketing campaigns.
• Shorten deal cycles and increase close rates with the provided sales tools.

Ahrefs is a comprehensive SEO tool to help you punch up your website traffic. They have data for around 150 million keywords in the U.S., and even more for 150 other countries.

Ahrefs is great for competitive analysis, allowing you to check out who is linking to your competitors, what their top pages are, and more. You can see where their content ranks and, using the Content Gap tool, identify key weaknesses for your content areas.

The Top Pages tool lets you see which pages get the most traffic, and you can see the amount of traffic going to competitors’ sites.

Ahrefs is one of my favorite SEO tools. It constantly impresses me with features I use daily, and I learn about new features all the time. It’s easily the most robust product in this space.