Marketing your freelance business is not an easy task and it may take up
a considerable amount of time. That’s why you need a clear overview of your
efforts to know if you’re investing in effective actions. The tools outlined below
can help you analyse your marketing results and improve your overall strategy.

SEO Competitor Analysis Tool  

This tool compares your URL with the website of your competitor in terms of search friendliness. It will provide you with accurate data (e.g. load time, link count) and useful tips (e.g. why you have to define the language of your website) on the key areas of your website. What’s more, you’ll also see how your website performs compared to other similar businesses and what is the keyword density for the provide phrase.

Swydo

Swydo is a tool designed for online marketing reporting and integrates data from Google Adwords, Bing Ads, Google Webmaster and Google Analytics in one place. It will help you create visually attractive reports that can be easier to grasp than just a set of raw data pulled out directly from other tools. Although Swydo is aimed at pay-per-click agencies, its functions are equally helpful for freelancers and small businesses that need a visual overview of their marketing results.

Cyfe

Cyfe is an online dashboard for data monitoring and analysis. Similarly to Swydo, it also imports information from tools such as Google Analytics, MailChimp, Amazon, Facebook and more to display a clear overview of your statistics. You can also export the results to PDF or other formats and use a featured keyword ranking tool to automatically monitor your website position.

FreeMarketer

FreeMarketer includes a variety of features for e-mail marketing, simple CRM, marketing campaigns, social media, reports and list management. Its extensive report function may be especially useful to track your e-mail marketing campaigns. The goal of the tool is to help you generate more leads and close more sales by tracking your web activity and clicks on you links or social media posts. Some features are still under construction, but the application looks quite promising.

ExpressPigeon

With this tool you can design creative brand e-mails for your business purposes, create and send newsletters, track your e-mail campaigns and categorise your audience based on engagement. The free version is limited to 500 contacts and 1000 e-mails per month, which might be enough for a freelancer or if you want to send messages only to a certain group of recipients. ExpressPigeon offers
a friendly user interface, where you can drag and drop selected items and change colours and sizes to create your marketing e-mails. You can also pick a template or design your newsletter with custom HTML. Other useful options include creating autoresponders or setting up subscription forms and buttons.

Have you used any of these tools? Can you recommend other applications to monitor your marketing efforts?

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Dorota Pawlak

Dorota helps digital brands infuse their content with a local touch. She is a localization consultant, translator specialized in IT, prompt engineer, and a book author. Dorota teaches online courses on localization, writes for her blog and a Medium publication. She also runs a Small Biz AI, a Substack newsletter for freelancers and small business owners ready to discover handy AI tools.