StartupResources.io — Issue #140
Another Friday! Where did the time go? By way of consolation, here’s another list of awesome tools and resources to help your business, PLUS introducing what is probably the smartest AI bot on the planet.
⚙️ Tool of the week
Competitors.app | Monitor competition changes — competitors.app
The idea is to get an update of relevant competitors’ marketing changes such as new SEO keywords, website changes and more, in a report that takes just 5 minutes a week to read. Highly reviewed and the price is nice at $10/month per competitor.
🛠 Tools discovered recently
Squadhelp | Get 100s of catchy name ideas
www.squadhelp.com
Get 100s of catchy name ideas from experts across the globe in 3–5 days or less. Fully validated with domain checks, trademark support & audience testing.
Buffer Stories Creator | Quickly create Facebook and Instagram Stories — buffer.com
This is neat, a free new tool from Buffer. Great if you’re using Facebook or Instagram stories for your marketing, lets you make professional-looking stories quickly and easily.
Translate HERE | Simple to use human translation service — www.translatehere.net
This looks like a very simple and affordable service to use for translations, comparable to Gengo which we use for CrankWheel, but with many more languages.
Create a Signature | Very easy email signature creator
This is about as easy as it gets to create a professional-looking email signature. Free.
Telepult | Manage Telegram channels — telepult.pro
Are you using Telegram channels yet? A lot of folks seem to be. This tool looks slick for managing publication to channels, getting analytics, and more. $5/month per channel, free trial.
Narro | Personal podcast generator — www.narro.co
If you like to listen to podcasts, then this might be for you. It lets you transform any written articles online into a podcast. The narration is pretty high quality. Free for up to 2 hours per month.
Kono Store | Mechanical keyboards and more
I know this won’t be relevant for many of you, but I absolutely LOVE mechanical keyboards so I’ll link to it anyway 😁 They have a ton of different mechanical keyboard types that I’m salivating over right now (and no, this is not a sponsorship, I just LOVE mechanical keyboards!
🤓 Articles of the week
Podcast Advertising: $51,975 Spent. Here’s What We Learned — ahrefs.com
This is a comprehensive guide to how to do podcast sponsorships, based on real experience with it. Good read even if you don’t plan on sponsoring podcasts.
32 Best Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Website (Increase Blog Traffic) in 2019 — www.ryrob.com
Good list of stuff to try.
4 Ways to Find Untapped Keyword Ideas With Great Traffic Potential — ahrefs.com
Good stuff here, I particularly like the one about using user-generated content communities (for example Reddit) as a way to figure out unconventional keywords for your stuff.
Unconventional bootstrapping: round 1 — justinjackson.ca
The untold story behind many successful bootstrapped companies is this: they didn’t fund their company from customer revenues.
😢 That’s it for this issue
Have a lovely weekend!
Cheers,
Jói
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