152 Our Favorite Web Tools of 2016

We look at a number of tools and services that we use on a daily basis. These are services that make a big difference in how we run our businesses. We move at speed and cover a lot of ground in this pre-Christmas show! Summary: We talk about our favorite web tools of 2016. Covered: tools for productivity, project management, accounting, invoicing, social media, content management, and content creation.   Episode 152 Table of Contents 0:00 Podcast intros. 1:37 What we use for video conferencing. 4:50 Our choice for video hosting. 8:32 John's choice for invoicing software. 10:56 Jonathan's choice for invoicing software. 11:44 An alternative for external email addresses. 13:54 Jonathan's choice for a CRM. 16:44 A tool John uses for local SEO citations. 20:09 Jonathan has a pick for SEO keyword research. 21:04 Another pick for email outreach. 23:00 A tool we are using for project management internally. 24:54 John's tools for migrating websites. 27:20 Jonathan's choices for site backups. 29:28 Two cautionary tales of why you want to have a reliable plan for website backups. 34:54 John's advice for getting blog posts written. 36:53 Jonathan has some picks for spell-checking and editing. 37:55 Our mutual pick for capturing screenshots. 38:34 Some more picks we have for cloud storage and productivity. 39:40 Podcast outros. ===================   Links mentioned during the show: Zoom https://zoom.us/ Go To Meeting https://www.gotomeeting.com/ Wistia https://wistia.com/ FreshBooks https://www.freshbooks.com/ Zoho Invoice https://www.zoho.com/us/invoice/ Harvest (Time Tracking) https://www.getharvest.com/ Zoho Mail https://www.zoho.com/mail/ G Suite (formerly Google Apps for Business) https://gsuite.google.com/ Agile CRM https://www.agilecrm.com/ Drip - Email Marketing Automation https://www.drip.co/ Active Campaign http://www.activecampaign.com/ Moz Local https://moz.com/local Yext (DON'T use this) http://www.yext.com/ Get Found (Go Daddy) https://www.godaddy.com/products/business-marketing.aspx Moz Whiteboard Friday https://moz.com/blog/category/whiteboard-friday Rand Fishkin on Twitter https://twitter.com/randfish Distilled on Twitter https://twitter.com/distilled Wil Reynolds on Twitter https://twitter.com/wilreynolds SEMrush https://www.semrush.com/ Majestic (SEO Tools) https://majestic.com/ Raven Tools https://raventools.com/ KWFinder https://kwfinder.com/ Mailshake https://mailshake.com/ Teamwork - Cloud Productivity Software <...