My Top 10 Free Or Cheap Content Marketing Creation, Distribution, And Promotion Tools

The majority of my clients are mid-sized companies and don't always have the same marketing war chest of the bugger guys. It's not unusual to have to work on a tight budget. As such, I regularly am seeking for tools that allow me to help them create strong content marketing programs cost effectively.

Here are the top 10 tools and resources, plus a bonus, I use a lot.

Name Description Link Tags

99designs A marketplace for graphic design, including logo design, web design and other design contests.

http://99designs.com/ Content creation

Buffer Is a great tool for quickly scheduling and sharing updates to your social outposts.

https://bufferapp.com/ Content distribution

Facebook advertising

Accelerate findability of blog posts and digital assets (eBooks etc.) using Facebook ads to drive traffic back to your website using “Clicks to Website.”

https://www.facebook.com/business/ads-guide/clicks-to-website/?tab0=Links

Content promotion

HootSuite A dashboard that allows you to keep an eye on people talking about your brand, respond to mentions on a number of social channels, and track keywords. This helps me look at how my content is being shared, and by whom.

https://hootsuite.com/ Content distribution

MailChimp Online email marketing solution to manage contacts, send emails and track results.

http://mailchimp.com/ Content distribution

OBS Open Broadcaster Software is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

https://obsproject.com/

Content creation

ShareX Software for screen capture and screen recording (ScreenCasting).

http://getsharex.com/ Content creation

Slideshare Offers users the ability to upload and share publicly or privately PowerPointpresentations, Word documents and Adobe PDF Portfolios.

http://www.slideshare.net/

Content distribution

Triberr This is a great tool. Calling themselves a Blog Amplification Platform, Triberr allows you to connect with other like-minded bloggers and share each other's work with your social networks.

http://triberr.com/ Content distribution

Visual.ly Visually is a large marketplace for visual content creation

http://visual.ly/ Content creation

HARO (Bonus Tool)

No such thing as free publicity? There is with HARO. Help A Reporter Out connects news sources with journalists looking for their expertise.More importantly, if you are writing an eBook or blog post, you can make a request for experts to share their insights.

http://www.helpareporter.com/

Content creation

About The AuthorSteve Farnsworth is a Demand Generation Strategist for The @Steveology Group: A Content Marketing agency that drive sales and dominate markets for high tech B2B. You can contact Steve or connect with him on Twitter as @Steveology.

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