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 bigger 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 resource I use a lot, plus a bonus.

1. 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 PowerPoint
presentations, 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.helparepor
ter.com/
Content
creation
About The Author
Steve 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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