5 Startup Tools to Kickstart Your Growth

5 Startup Tools to Kickstart Your Growth
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We are living in an age where there is no shortage of startup and business tools available. It seems that every day someone is launching something that can help us become better entrepreneurs, startup owners, and business people. From basic tools that optimize the experience of products we already use and love, to more independent tools that help us plan our growth rate.

Apart from adapting tools that help us keep our team productive and on-point about our workflow, one of the first things we want to do after launching our startup is to acquire customers, and these days there is no shortage of apps and tools that can help us with doing just that. We also want to make sure that our website is ready for new customers.

MaxTraffic

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eCommerce is a constant battle, and MaxTraffic provides one of the best weapons to fight site abandonment and increase sales. By tracking customer behavior and mouse movement, it enables online stores to show their best deals and special offers at the moment the customer is attempting to leave. An easy-to-use dashboard makes it simple to create, track and analyze a number of effective campaigns.

Savah

Savah is a free design collaboration and prototyping tool that enables its creative teams and startups to create prototypes of web and mobile apps without having to write any code. Savah enable teams to turn their designs into full-fledged interactive prototypes. Savah lets you and your team build prototype apps that will work and feel like they're production apps; without having to implement interactive features.

GetSiteControl

GetSiteControl is an all-in-one widget kit for website owners. If you want to start collecting email addresses on your website, conduct online surveys, put a notification, a contact form, social share and follow buttons on your website, you can quickly and easily do it from a single dashboard.

Extensive customization options allow you to create widgets that will perfectly match your brand and website design. GetSiteControl widgets are very easy to implement, so you don't need to know how to code to add them to your website. And with the unlimited Free plan that includes all the tools GetSiteControl is also an affordable solution for a website of any size.

Zapier

Zapier lets you easily connect the web apps you use, making it easy to automate tedious tasks.You can wait for third-party app developers to offer the SaaS integrations you need. You can hire expensive freelance programmers to build custom software for you. Or you can simply do it yourself with Zapier, and then get back to the work that matters most to your business.

Buffer

Buffer is a social media management app that has grown expontentially in the recent years. With Buffer you can take away the daily worries of having a smooth social media schedule for the leading social media platforms, the social sharing widget enables anyone to share content directly from the page they're viewing it, and premium users can enjoy the luxury of unlimited slots for content schedule, which means you can line up content for weeks ahead of you.

What tools do you use after launching a new business and/or product? What's your main focus for attracting customers and partnerships?

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