Mobile Apps for Managing Marketing On-the-Go

mobile appsToday’s marketer is busy and often on-the-go, especially at startups and growing companies where the person in charge of marketing may also have responsibilities for other areas of the business. Luckily, apps for smartphones and tablets can help marketers stay on top of their game, even when they’re away from the office.

Here are a few mobile apps to help you manage your marketing from the road.

Writing and Sending Proposals

Need to create client proposals on-the-go? The apps below let you edit and manage proposals on the cloud. You can save proposal sections and re-use them for future documents. Since these apps allow multiple users to collaborate, you can easily incorporate edits from your team without sending word processing documents back and forth.

Proposify
Proposify has a drag-and-drop interface for building proposals, and sample templates for a number of industries to help get you started. To make it easier for your clients to sign, they also facilitate online signatures. Pricing starts at $25/month.

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Bidsketch
Similar to Proposify, Bidsketch allows you create proposals by putting together different sections. The app also tracks when your proposal is viewed, to help track how interested or engaged your client is. Pricing starts at $23/month.

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WordPress

If you manage multiple WordPress websites, you can use the WordPress mobile app for iOS and Android to help monitor and publish content while you’re on-the-go. The app supports both self-hosted (WordPress.org) sites and WordPress.com sites, and you can add multiple sites within the app.

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Photo Editing

Snapseed

Snapseed (iOS, Android), now owned by Google, is routinely voted as one of the top photo editing apps. Unlike many other image editing apps, Snapseed lets you easily select multiple small sections on the image to edit, instead of applying the edit to the entire image.

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Adobe Photoshop Express

The Adobe Photoshop Express app for iOS and Android is a free, light version of the desktop Photoshop program. The app has preset filters, but also individual controls for you to apply custom edits to images such as exposure and brightness.

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Document & File Storage

While you’re away from your office or computer, it’s plausible that you may have to send documents, images or other files to your colleagues or business contacts, or open files on your mobile device. By using a cloud storage for files, you can ensure you always have access to your documents.

Google Drive

Google Drive lets you easily edit documents, including spreadsheets or documents on mobile. If you’re using Gmail as your email client, you can attach files up to 25 MB; for files bigger than 25 MB, Gmail can automatically send the file through Google Drive. This is a big help because sometimes files such as design files, large presentions or other media-heavy documents are often large.

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Dropbox

In addition to accessing files store on Dropbox, you can set up the Dropbox app (iOS, Android) to automatically backup your photos or camera roll on your phone. This is helpful if you’re at an event and want to ensure the photos you take are backed up, or if your company uses Dropbox, this is an easy way to give your colleagues at the office immediate access to the images if there is a quick turn around on blog posts.
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By taking advantage of these productivity apps with your mobile device, you can ensure that the activities you have to manage can still get done. What other mobile apps would you recommend to a marketer on-the-go?

Mobile Apps for Managing Marketing On-the-Go