Now that Internet Marketing is at its zenith, given that online is the name of the game presently, it is extremely essential for Internet marketers to gear up for the challenges that lie ahead. In this blog we attempt to present best free and paid iPad apps for Internet marketing agencies and professionals into Internet marketing, so that they can perform at their best possible levels for the glory of their profession. Hopefully these apps will save your some money from hiring a marketing agency and help you implement your internet marketing strategies successfully.
Valuable Free Apps
Dropbox (FREE)
This is a free app especially for business use, which allows you to bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere, and can be easily shared. It is possible for you to access any file you have shared to your Dropbox from your iPad. With Drop box, you can access all your photos, videos, as well as other documents and share them with others sans any complications. Besides offering 2 GB of space when users sign up, Dropbox allows you to share a link to your biggest files, hence users can say goodbye without worry to attachments. You can also add files to ‘Favorites’. This can surely be a boon for Internet marketers who need access to their work from various locations.
GoToMeeting (FREE)
This is a free app that you would use to view webinars from your iPad. This app also allows you to host conferences and workshops remotely from your device. It’s a great app for collaborating with your work colleagues especially when they are separated by geographical distances. As you will know, you will need to download this app in order to join, host, or schedule a ‘Go to Meeting’ app from your iPad.
This app also allows users to view slide presentations, design mockups, spreadsheets, reports, and anything that the presenters in the meeting can share onscreen. Included among the features are a one-tap dial in to the phone conference and the ability to brainstorm with the onscreen highlighter and whiteboard.
1Password (FREE Version)
This is free app that makes it easy for you to keep all their passwords in one place. This is certainly an awesome feature considering that Internet marketers are a busy lot and that it is very difficult to manage passwords these days. It is a brilliant app that keeps your vital information in just one secure vault.
With 1Password, users can store their logins, identities, secure notes, as well as credit cards without any hassle. They can also log into websites without the need to remember any passwords. At the same time, users can fill credit cards and identities without typing and also access their most used items by using favorites. By the way, there is also a fast and powerful search for users to find what they need. The best part about this app is that everything in the 1Password vault is protected by a master password that only you know.
Earnest (FREE)
Earnest is a free record keeping app for your iPad, which most Internet marketers will just love. It is a snuggly little app that helps small firms, start-ups and the self-employed to keep a track of their income as well as a better idea of the tax owed by them.
Photoshop Express (FREE)
This app is a must have for Internet marketers. Photo Shop Express is a free app that makes it extremely easy to access photo editing tools for marketing purposes. This app is very vital for the Internet marketing community as many photos need to be touched up before uploading them to the Internet.
Affinity Live For IPad And IPhone
This is a free app for iOS. It allows you to keep up-to-date with your tasks while you are on the move. It requires iOS 7.0 or later. Also compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and the iPod Touch, it includes key features such as weekly and monthly task board, different task assignees, billable and non-billable time log, client contact details, client task details, deadline for tasks.
Oracle Social Cloud
This is a social media management suite with an iOS app available. Compatible with iOS 4.3 or later, this app is free and allows you to stay connected with customers and keep updated with the latest news on your iphone or iPad. Some of the key features that are included with this app include customizable news filters, registration for Oracle events, participation with oracle bloggers, social network management, and others.
Zoho Books
This is an iOS app that has been designed for money management while on the move. It is possible to record your expenses right on your iphone or iPad. It is also possible to send your bill immediately, once you complete your project. This is a great app for travelers as Zoho Books supports transactions in multiple currencies. This app requires iOS 6.0 or later. However, you need to use a Zoho account to use this free app.
DirectIQ
This is an iOS app that Internet marketers can use to view live reports of their online marketing campaigns, wherever they are. DirectIQ also includes an email marketing system that promises high delivery rates. With lots of powerful features as well as an easy-to-use interface, it is compatible with iOS 4.3. Some of the features include campaign scheduling, live reporting, contact transfers, geo-location reporting, live chat, email support, and others.
Facebook (FREE)
This app is the mainstay of most Internet marketers around the world. As the most downloaded social networking app, it gives the same experience of using Facebook on their tablets and mobile devices. This app can come as most handy in case you are using Facebook as your main social media channel for your business.
WordPress (FREE)
This is the most popular blogging tool available worldwide for personal as well as business use. With WordPress, you can use the easy to use apps to update your blog with your Smartphone or tablet while on the move. You can even upload as well as manage user comments on the go.
Blogger (FREE)
This is yet another blogging tool that is not as popular as it was in the yester years, but is a simple tool nevertheless, you can easily update your blogs from your smart phone or tablet and manage comments, photos, and other location based services while on the move.
Dragon Dictation (FREE)
Yet another free application for those in the Internet marketing business is Dragon Dictation that helps converting speech to text. In other words, it is an easy to use voice recognition application that allows you to speak and instantly see your text and email messages. According to the makers of this app, it is up to five times faster than typing on the keyboard. Dragon Dictation also allows users to dictate updates directly to social networking applications viz. Facebook and Twitter.
Valuable Paid Apps
Buffer: (PAID)
This social media app allows you to manage and monitor main social media accounts in one go. It is possible for you to instantly schedule content for various social media accounts such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn accounts so that you can easily analyze statistics on how well the posts perform. You can also set their own updating schedule for each account and even create buffering patters, so that for different times during the week, the appropriate posts can be shown to the required audience.
SugarSync (PAID)
For those Internet marketers who need to use multiple computers, this is an app that helps them automatically sync files and folders across multiple computers. This allows you to access documents, photos, and music, wherever you are. This app also offers automatic as well as continuous backup for all files. Available for the iPad, it is also available for other platforms such as the PC, Mac, Android, Blackberry, iPhone, iPod Touch, Windows Mobile, and others.
Most established businesses hire digital marketing agency to take care of internet marketing. Small business and individuals can not afford internet marketing agency therefore these apps may prove really handy in low cost marketing on internet.