Marketing Resources for Startups

FACT: 1.3+ Billion People Use Facebook Messenger Every Day

If your startup or business is looking to level-up on your Facebook marketing efforts, ManyChat is a great option for automating and combining the power of Facebook Messenger and SMS to grow your business.

Acting as a 24x7 sales rep for your business in the Facebook channel of your funnel, tailoring messages to new potential customers is a great way to warm up leads for your pipeline. ManyChat helps facilitate this by allowing to you design the conversation, and gather the information you need...even while you're sleeping.

After all, we realize that many startup teams are ultra-lean, and you need to be in many places at once, while also continuing to build and diversify your marketing mix, and your funnel.

With ManyChat, you can expand your startup marketing efforts quickly by helping convert leads into customers through simple, personalized messaging. With an average of 80% open rates and 25% click-through-rates (CTR), Facebook Messenger is a powerful and relatively new tool that we recommend any startup, or existing business looking to grow their pipeline, highly consider.

ManyChat starts at just $10 per month, so it is a great way to engage new leads without breaking your new business's or startup's bank.

So what are you waiting for? Get started today!

Crowdfire is a social media management platform used by brands, businesses, startups, and individuals all over the world to help drive social media engagement and growth.

They've packed in tons of features, ranging from content publishing, rss feed pulls, content curation functions, andy beyond, all in one place at a competitive price, with scalable options for your growing social media marketing arsenal.

Crowdfire is fairly intuitive to understand, can help you save a lot of time, and has a host of features in a single place. It is a great tool to grow and manage your social accounts, even if you're starting from ground zero.

Try it out today right here.

Need an 800 number setup quickly and pain-free? Need to have multiple extensions available for your growing team at your startup? Want your old-school clients sending in faxes still to generate a PDF to your email? Grasshopper is the paper-and-pain-free answer.

Grasshopper is easy for the tech-savvy (and non tech-savvy) entrepreneur to set up. It's also super affordable, so you don't have to buy one of those old, clunky, and pricey PBX phone systems (we know, that's the last thing you want cluttering up your office).

Try it out for seven days for free too as there's lots of other cool features...most likely, it'll become The Jam when it comes to getting your professional, nimble telecommunication setup rolling for the modern era and your soon-to-be awesome startup (without everyone having to listen to those espresso machines whirring in the background).

Trying Grasshopper is easy, so startup here, and thank us later. ;-)

Public data breaches have caused a climate of fear among consumers. As a startup or small business owner with a new brand in the marketplace, one of the first things you need to show potential customers is that you're one of the good guys. This is Marketing 101.

TrustedSite tool helps you do just that: let your visitors know your website is safe, and that YES, you are a real business and not a data pirate (arrrrr!).

The TrustedSite badge helps solve this problem by letting visitors see that your website is safe, alleviating security concerns while increasing engagement and conversions at the same time.

With the free version, you can display the floating trustmark for up to 500 visitors per month, at no charge, and installation is super easy. So easy that if you need help installing the badge, we'll help you get setup at no charge (just drop us a note in the chat bubble here in the bottom right once you've setup your account, and we'll get you on your way).

Why You Need This (especially for new e-commerce sites):

• Show Off Your Security: Get weekly security screenings from the world's largest dedicated security company, and then tell your visitors about it.
• Boost Your Engagement: Easing security concerns means a reduced bounce rate and increased visitor usage of your site.
• Increase Your Sales: With TrustedSite Secure certification, visitors spend more time interacting on your site - and that ultimately means more conversions, and more sales.

With TrustedSite trustmarks, visitors can also verify your security, contact information, and business integrity without ever leaving your site. Additional features like Shopper Identity Protection and Issue-Free Orders give visitors the confidence to engage with and purchase from your site knowing you're a brand they can trust.

Get started with a free trial here, and grow from there with plans that start at just $39/month.

It'll be well worth your while.

Go ahead. Forget your passwords. 1Password remembers them all for you.

The Short Version: AppSumo has tons of great tools for all aspects of early-stage startup marketing and companies bootstrapping their way along.

Looking for some of the easiest to use -- and best free resources for startups -- in order to start marketing your new business or startup? Need some initial ideas on branding your startup? Need a chat tool for your website that won't cost you an arm-and-a-leg on monthly fees? AppSumo more than likely has what you need, along with excellent white papers and training courses.

AppSumo is filled with many startup resources, and while many are in their early stages too just like you, there's plenty of opportunities here to try them out while getting lifetime memberships for being a flagship subscriber at a fraction of the normal cost.

Learn more about some great tools — from analytics to forecasting to automations and beyond — at Appsumo.com.

While our clients needs in the digital and e-commerce department are often very specific (a custom digital platform is necessary 99% of the time), we know many startup founders are bootstrapping in the early days and using off-the-shelf e-commerce products like Shopify to get started.

If this describes you, Personizely is something you'll want to check out.

Personizely helps you easily collect shoppers' contact info (even if they don't purchase), promote limited time offers, and decrease cart abandonment rate using exit intent popups, recommended item cross-selling, upselling, plus remarketing opportunities galore. Also, there's many deep integrations available with MailChimp, WordPress, Shopify, Shopify Plus, Sendgrid, and beyond that can help you build customer traction + loyalty at every step of your funnel.

And with easy-to-install widgets, you don't have to be a coding wizard to put it to work for you.

Learn more by checking out Personizely right here.