Here are some tools, links and services we’ve found that might make your life easier.

Our current top tool:    

Hubspot Website Grader: This grades the overall performance of your website base on SEO, security, speed and mobile factors, as well as offering tips on how to improve your website.         

Some other cool tools:

Analytics

• Advanced web ranking: Fresh rankings daily, weekly and on demand for desktop, mobile and local searches, all packed nicely into white label reports. 
• Google trends: What do our Google searches say about us? Find out what the 2014 results revealed.
• Quick sprout: Generate ideas by analysing your competitor’s most popular content.
• SumoMe: Free tool to grow your website traffic and conversions.
• Talkwalker:From sentiment analysis and influencer ranking to performance KPIs, make informed business decisions faster with powerful social analytics.
• GaggleAMP: For marketers looking to leverage their reach and drive engagement via social media to increase web traffic, leads and sales.
• BatchGeo: is a cool tool to help you to create google maps from your data. Simply copy in your address data from your spreadsheet and let it map your data. 
• SpeedTest: A speed test for your internet connection. 
• Survey anyplace: We offer ingenious ways to engage people and get you better insights.
• Wordcounter: Wordcounter ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text.
• Check my links: A great browser extension for Chrome that finds all the broken links on your webpage.
• Soovle: Use key words to find key phrases people have searched to help optimise your content.
• Similarweb: Software you can use to benchmark your digital marketing against your competitors.
• After the deadline: A spelling, style, grammar and language checker that goes well beyond the simple spell checkers of the past.
• Hotjar: An analytics and feedback program that provides click heatmaps, surveys, form analytics and much more.
• Send check it: A simple analytical tool for proofing your emails before you send them.
• LikeAlyzer: Get a good look into your Facebook page analytics with LikeAlyzer.
• Rapportive: View LinkedIn profiles inside gmail.
• Wolfram Alpha Facebook analytics: Wolfram Alpha tunes its amazing software for Facebook analytics to provide detailed insights into your social posting.
• MentionMapp: Get more out of twitter by following conversations, making connections and tracking tweets.
• Open site explorer: An great app from Moz for site link analytics.
• Fanpage Karma: Analyse not only your own Facebook profile but the profile of your competitors.
• Google Trends: Find out what is trending so you can better tailor your social media posts.
• Simply measured: Professionally presented social media analytics.
• Peek: A great platform for many different types of user testing.
• Facebook page barometer: Compare your Facebook page insights to averages compiled from thousands of other pages. 
• Shared count: Track how often your site has been shared across different social media channels.
• On-page optimization tool: An easy to use tool that can deliver a variety of SEO related metrics for your selected page. 
• Optimizely: With a variety of digital optimisation tools on offer, Optimizely can help develop your school’s digital assets. 
• Brand24: Discover what people are saying about your school online.
• Mixpanel: User behavior analytics for product, marketing, and data teams.
• SurveyGizmo: A robust survey and data insights platform that empowers businesses to make smarter decisions.
• Survicate: Survicate is the most versatile customer feedback tool used by marketing, product and support teams.
• GetResponse: GetResponse offers a wide array of features such as AB testing, responsive templates, email segmentation and even landing page creation.
• Mention: Be alerted to your media mentions with this effective media monitoring app that also keeps track of your mentions to provide analytics.
• The Google Ads Performance Grader: This quickly and securely evaluates the strength of your Google Ads account in 60 seconds or less.

Brand

• Frontify: Create and maintain beautiful style guides.
• Emblem: Upload an existing logo or use the logo builder, and quickly get a full brand kit that you can share with the world. 

Classroom

• Kaizena: It is a fast and simple way to add voice comments, text comments and resource links to student work.
• Google classroom: Helps teachers save time, keep classes organised and improve communication with students.
• Wikispaces Classroom: is a social writing platform for teachers and students. It is a classroom workspace where teachers and students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams.
• G Suite for Education: A suite of productivity tools to help students and teachers interact seamlessly and securely across devices.
• Schoology: Schoology brings together the best K-12 learning management system with assessment management to improve student performance, foster collaboration and personalise learning.

Data management

• Unomy: Organises huge volumes of constantly changing data about companies and their moves for the millions of businesses that interact with them.
• Dashlane: A password manager and secure digital wallet all in one. You’ll never forget a password again.
• Care Monkey: is an app that collects medical, emergency and permission forms. It means no more paper forms, and the information is available at the touch of a button, anywhere, anytime.
• Google Drive: Cloud storage and folder back up. 

Design

• Smallpdf: Use smallpdf to create pdfs, convert documents to pdf and vice versa online and for free.
• Wordle: Create and design your own ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide.
• Share button: Drive traffic to your website. Add share buttons for free.
• Canva: Offers a new online creative product for business level design and artwork. It’s called “Canva for Work”, and is due to be released shortly.
• Adobe Voice: There’s power in your Voice. Turn your story into a stunning animated video in minutes. Adobe Voice creates professional animated videos. 
• Flowtility: Enhance your videos and presentations with a ready made series of transitions and customised templates.
• PDF annotator: Open and annotate any PDF file directly on the page – add comments, corrections, signatures, highlighting, even photos and drawings.
• Wordswag: Now you can create beautifully custom text layouts that would normally take minutes or hours with just a tap.
• Flipagram: Short videos made easy. Create, share and discover fun photo-video stories set to music.
• Sniply: Attach a call-to-action to every link you share to boost website traffic, increase social media ROI, get sign-ups and subscribers, and to leverage viral content.
• HTMLsig.com: is a simple, elegant HTML email signature creation tool. It creates an email signature that not only includes your personal information, but your company information and logo, social media links and disclaimer.
• Awesome screenshot: allows you to capture, annotate and share at the click of a button. You can capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, then it is a one-click upload to share.
• Skitch: Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.
• Easelly: Features thousands of free infographic templates and design objects which you can customize to create and share your visual ideas online.
• JobCV: Create beautiful, professionally designed resumes that are sharable across the web.
• Vectr: Free online vector design app – in beta but looks good for those on a budget!
• NUVI: Real-time data visualisations are what set NUVI apart. Beautiful, insightful, data-driven designs will fuel your strategy and guide your decision-making process.
• Spacers: Create an online digital space and use it to share with your friends.
• TranscribeMe: High quality transcription service that converts audio content to text.
• Gimp: A free, open source, cross platform image editor.
• Awesome screenshot: A Google Chrome extension for taking screenshots with some other smart tools that help you make the most of said screenshots.
• Piktochart: A simple infographic design app that can help you to engage your parents better.
• WhatFont: A google chrome extension for identifying fonts on the internet.
• Scrivener: A content creation tool that helps you to compose and structure documents.
• Bubbl.us: A simple mind mapping app that gives a graphical representation of ideas and concepts. 
• Photovisi: A clear, simple app that allows users to easily create photo collages.
• Myfonts: With thousands of typefaces to choose from you will find something right for you.
• Visme: Create presentations, infographics and other visual content from a user friendly website.
• Venngage: Use templates to easily create informative infographics with charts and effective visuals.
• Affinity designer: A graphic design program to rival photoshop at a fraction of the cost.
• Gimp: Described as the best free alternative to photoshop, Gimp is perfect for the designer on a budget.
• Resizeimage: A seriously helpful yet simple tool for resizing and adjusting images quickly.
• Convertcase: Another very simple but helpful case changing tool we use at imageseven.
• Adobe Premiere Clip: A free video editing app that allows you to create easily sharable video content.
• Befunky: A great little photo editing and graphic design application.
• Snappa: Whip up graphics for social media, ads, blogs, and more without Photoshop or graphic designers.
• Pablo by Buffer: Your online suite for creating visual content for social media.
• Photophea: An alternative to Photoshop. A free online image editor that allows you to load, edit and save files without having to use any plugins.  
• Unsplash: A database of beautiful imagery for you to use on your school’s social media or blog posts. 

Email

• Email hunter chrome extension: It can find the email of virtually anyone you’re searching for. It even integrates with Linkedin giving you the ability to find emails of contacts right away!
• Campaign Monitor: A simple and proven way to automate emails.
• Lucidpress: Lucidpress brings simple yet powerful software for creating newsletters. It’s free, easy to use, and comes with professional templates.

Event management

• Syndical: A service that makes it easy to create and share events across networks.
• TryBooking: This is a super easy to use ticketing system for any event. It is a great way to not only sell tickets, but it also forms a database with details of the attendees.
• Whova: Save organizer time, maximize attendee engagement and networking.

Inbound/content marketing

• Smab: Smab is an audio track with visual content embedded and synced. Users can add notes and bookmarks, all synced to track progress.
• Hubspot’s blog topic generator: Struggling to fnd fresh new content ideas? Let the blog topic generator help.
• Pixxfly: An effective content marketing system for your social media and more.
• Content idea generator: Answer questions about your organisation and generate content ideas.
• Medium: A great place to start a blog if you can’t yet host one on your site.
• ZenWriter: Remove distractions and get back to basics with this simple writing app.
• Paperform: A great option for creating online forms for your website.
• Plagiarism Check: Plagiarising content, intentionally or otherwise, is never good. Use Plagiarism Check to ensure your content is as original as possible.
• Blurb: A simple platform for creating, printing and publishing independent books. 
• Kingsoft Office: A great free alternative to Microsoft Office.
• SendPulse: Send automated emails, text messages and more, all from one place.
• ActiveCampaign: The marketing automation platform that perfects the blend of automation and human touch. 
• Ginger: A simple but effective online grammar checker.
• Infusionsoft: Marketing automation for organisations of any size.

Keyword/SEO

• Ruzzit: Filter through the most viral content on the web and find out what’s trending with any keyword.
• CoSchedule headline analyzer: It scores your headline quality and its ability to result in social shares, increased traffic and SEO value. 
• The periodic table of SEO success factors: This easy to use table shows some important search engine optimisation ‘ranking factors’ and best practices that can lead to success with both search engines and searchers.
• Keyword tool: The Keyword Tool helps you find 750+ popular long tail keywords that people are typing into the Google search box.
• SumoMe: Increase your web traffic and conversions with this suite of tools.

Online surveys

• Question pro: A software that allows users to create, distribute and analyse online surveys and polls to generate insights and make better decisions.
• Zoho: Create your survey in minutes. Reach your audience on every device. View results graphically and in real-time. 

Presentations

• Pitcherific: Helps entrepreneurs and other innovators to create, train and improve their short, time-limited presentation/pitch to spread their messages and reach their goals.
• The Slide Bureau: A presentation creation and sharing service that provides a bright beautiful spotlight for your best ideas. You can even drive your presentation remotely from your tablet.
• Pheedloop: Want to become an amazing presenter? Use pheedloop to listen to your audience by anonymously finding out what they think.
• SlideDog: Say goodbye to traditional slide and bullet point presentations. With SlideDog you can combine almost any media into one seamless multimedia presentation.
• Curator: Collate images, text and web pages, organise them and present them all from the one app.
• CharlieApp: Charlie will do your research on people you are about to meet with for you, so you can be most relevant to your prospects.
• Ted: You’ve all heard of Ted talks, but did you know you can watch them on your smartphone?
• Google Slides: Create and present slideshows collaboratively, anywhere you want.

Project management

• Huddle: Team collaboration and project management software. Manage tasks, projects and documents simply in secure cloud workspaces.
• Freedom: Locks your computer off the Internet for as long as you demand. Block distractions, be more productive, and start accomplishing more.
• Bidsketch: Use Bidsketch to create professional proposals with their thorough templates.
• Scheduleonce: The most versatile scheduling platform you will find. 
• One step at a time: Another brilliant short post from Seth Godin with a lot to say about taking small steps.
• Flow: Flow is a simple to use project management app with a wide variety of features. 
• Wunderlist: A great cross platform app for list keeping.
  
• Asana: A corporate messenger doesn’t have to be exclusive to big business. Improve efficiency and save yourself from confusing email threads with this effective messenger.
• Monday.com: Visualise your project management and become more organised.
• Pageproof: An easy way to review and approve a variety of online formats within your team.
• Timecamp: A time tracker with computer activities and productivity monitoring, attendance tracking, integrations and more.
• Draftable: Find the differences between old and new versions of the same doc in an instant.
• Xero: Easy-to-use invoicing software with a variety of features.

Social media

• Oktopost: As a school, your content needs to be where your parents are. Oktopost lets you easily manage large-scale content distribution to social media, across all of your profiles and pages.
• 10 tantalizing Twitter tools to try: Whether you are a startup founder or a community manager utilising a variety of Twitter tools can be crucial to your success.
• Storify: Storify helps make sense of what people post on social media. Curate the most important voices and turn them into stories, building a new information network that will give you a social perspective on any event.
• Zuum: Compare your brand’s performance across all your social media networks to find out what is working in your social media strategy, as well as against your competitors.
• BuzzSumo: Analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor and find the key influencers to promote your content.
• The HQ Network: provides a solution for safe and efficient communications in an online space – in private. It is like a social network – without the problems of a social network.
• Social Centiv: SocialCentiv is an easy-to-use Twitter marketing tool that allows you to turn conversations into enrolments.
• Socedo: Automated social media lead generation. Find your target audience, engage them with one click, and fill your funnel.
• SpreadsheetBooster: Import data to track your online performance.
• Exfluential: Take your social media programs to the next level by engaging your employees, partners and providers. 
• Glip: Find harmony in productivity. Real-time messaging with integrated task management, video conferencing, shared calendars and more.
• HipChat: Group and private chat, file sharing, and integrations.
• Dlvr.it: Share content accross all your social networks without visiting each one. 
• Twitterfeed: Deliver your content to multiple social media channels and monitor its success.
• Repost: A simple app that allows users to repost instagram posts whilst giving credit to the original poster.
• Followerwonk: A Twitter analytics app by Moz. Find, analyse and optimise your Twitter channel for social media growth.
• Must be present: Discover how good or bad your social media responsiveness is.
• Glimpse: Live stream to only those you choose from your contacts.
• Locowise: Use Locowise to gain insights and create value across your social media channels.
• Everypost for Social Media: A great option for scheduling and publishing social media posts and much more.
• Sumo: Free social media sharing buttons that can be added to your site. 
• Tumblr: One of the easiest ways to blog, share and consume content.
• HowSociable: A handy tool for measuring your and your competitors’ social media presence.
• MeetEdgar: A social media scheduling tool that allows you to recycle old posts.
• ContentCal: ContentCal is a visual calendar for planning and auto-publishing your social media content.
• SmarterQueue: Boost engagement and save hours each week with the most intuitive social media management tool for small businesses, marketing teams and social media managers.
• Hootlet by Hootsuite: Post to your socials without leaving the page you are on and much more with this Google Chrome add on.
• Tailwind: Social scheduling for Pinterest and Instagram.

Storytelling

• SourceSleuth: Find quality sources and experts for your next story faster with help from the SourceSleuth team.
• Hemingway editor: makes your writing bold and clear by highlighting common errors, complex sentences, suggesting verbs instead of adverbs, simple words instead of more complex ones and avoiding the use of passive voice.
• Flipboard: is your personal magazine. It is a single place to discover, collect and share the news you care about.
• Edublogs: lets you easily create and manage student and teacher blogs, quickly customise designs and include videos, photos and podcasts — it’s safe, easy and secure.
• Gapminder: Statistics that tell an animated story of their own.
• Audible: Listen to audiobooks on your smartphone, tablet or computer with Audible.
• Macquarie Dictionary Online: An indispensable tool for any writer, editor or proofer.
• Grammarly: A cloud-based English-language writing-enhancement platform.
• oTranscribe: A free open-source HTML5 app to take the pain out of transcribing interviews.

Time management

• Evernote: Get organised with this powerful digital notebook. It makes research and presentation easy.
• Schedule once: Get organised with one of the simplest free meeting booking systems.
• The Pomodoro Technique: Time management tools and tactics. Do more and have fun with time management. 
• Weekplan: A weekly planner for effective people. Being more productive is pointless if you are working on the wrong things.
• Timeanddate: is a great website to see what time it is anywhere around the world, but the best part is the ability to plan a web or phone meeting to fit in with the various time zones that you are dealing with.
• Nimble: Nimble has re-imagined customer relationship management. It auto-magically pulls contact profiles, email conversations and social signals into one place.
• Panaya: Empowers organisations with the ability to test and manage enterprise resource planning (ERP) changes, faster and better at a fraction of the cost.
• Calendly: Simple, beautiful scheduling. Say goodbye to email tag for scheduling appointments, interviews, calls, demos and much more.
• CastingWords: A paid online transcription service. Upload your audio and they will transcribe it for you.
• Lingo24: A human powered and cost effective translation service.
• Focus Booster: An app designed to help you maintain focus and manage distractions.
• Now do this: This amazing list tool is incredibly simple but incredibly useful.
• Habitica: A playful take on the traditional productivity application.
• Acuity Scheduling: A scheduling app with a huge amount of genuinely handy features.
• Lucidchart: Collaborate with your workmates as you visualise your work through charts and diagrams.
• RescueTime: Discover where you are wasting time and stay organised. 
• Bear: An intuitive note taking app you can access anywhere.

Video

• MeBox: MeBox Media video player delivers unparalleled video experiences and better results to customers.
• Appear.in: Video conversations with up to eight people for free. No login … no installs. It makes contacting your team and working collaboratively across the globe even easier.
• Powtoon: Create animated videos and presentations quickly and easily to keep your customers engaged.
• TubeMogul: A way to post video once, and get it uploaded to many video services.
• Zype: Publish and monetise all of your video content using a single interface.
• Bits on the run: A professional pay-per-use web video server.
• Wistia: Video hosting and analytics for your school.
• Renderforest: Renderforest is a cloud based video maker for creating introductory videos for YouTube, wedding or travel slideshows, as well as much more. 
• Vibbio: A platform where you can order video production on demand.
• Shakr: Drag and drop your videos and images to make quick, easy videos online.
• WireBuzz: WireBuzz is a video production company that combines video with marketing strategy.
• PowToon: Use PowToon to create quick animations or videos for your school.
• Clipchamp: Your online video converter, editor, compressor and webcam recorder.
• Soapbox: Soapbox is a free Chrome extension that enables anyone to record, edit, and share high-quality videos.
• Hyperlapse: Condense videos so they display faster to get more from your one minute on Instagram.
• Animaker: A free, easy-to-use online video animation tool.
• Recordit: Record screen casts and create videos quickly from your computer with Recordit.

Working collaboratively

• Mindmeister: Develop ideas and share your mindmaps to brainstorm and collaborate with as many others as needed, in real time.
• ProofHub: A web-based project management software and collaboration tool to plan, organize and deliver projects of all sizes, faster.
• WorkFlowy: is an organisational tool that makes life easier. It can help you organize personal to-dos, collaborate on large team projects, take notes, write research papers, keep a journal and much more.
• Perfect audience: Bring all your retargeting together into one powerful dashboard. Setup takes minutes. See results immediately.
• Asana: Is the easiest way for teams to track their work and get results. Responsibilities and next steps are clear, so you can shoot for the moon and get there.
• Wikispaces: Writing workspaces you’ll love. Formative assessment you’ll use.
• Trello: Organise your workflow and keep track of everything.
• OmniFocus: Keep work and play separated with contexts, perspectives, and focus. Ignore the irrelevant, focus on what you can do now, and accomplish more.
• iDoneThis: Monitor your progress daily to achieve your goals and share your successes and challenges.
• Parlay concepts: Parlay helps you collaborate with your team to iterate ideas. 
• GoToMeeting: Online meeting platform used to connect employees in different locations.
• Zoho Meeting: Zoho is an online meeting application that allows desktop sharing, presentations and much more. 
• Basecamp: A great project management and organisation app that is so good even we use it!
• Viber: More then just an online messaging app, Viber could be the last communication app your team needs. 

Website

• Namechk: Use Namechk to see if your desired username or vanity url is still available at dozens of popular social networking and social bookmarking websites.
• Zapier: Connect your web apps and use simple, event-based automation to avoid repetitive tasks.
• Pardot:See how marketing automation has the ability to transform your marketing and sales processes.
• Reputology: Reputology is a review monitoring and management platform. Take control and monitor all of your online reviews in the one spot.
• Elementor: A plugin for WordPress, use Elementor to help design your next landing page. We do!
• SquareSpace: A website builder, blogging platform, hosting service, domain name registrar and so much more, all rolled into one sophisticated suite of tools.
• GTmetrix: GTmetrix gives you insight on how well your site loads and provides actionable recommendations on how to optimize it.
• Quttera: Scan your website for malicious files, potentially suspicious files and other security risks.