This is a list of the 19 BEST product marketing tools for ambitious product marketers.
The best part?
That all these proven tools work great in 2019.
In this list you’ll find the right tools for:
- Project Management & Team Collaboration Tools
- Product Competitive Analysis Tools
- Prototyping Tools
- Landing Page Creation Tools
- Lead Generation Tools
- Conversational Marketing Tools
- Analytics Tools
- Email Marketing Tools
- A/B Testing & Experiment Tools
So, without any further ado, let’s dive right in!
Product Marketing Tools
- Airtable
- WhatRuns
- Google Sheets
- Trello
- Typeform
- MockFlow
- Instapage
- Witeboard
- UsabilityHub
- Hotjar
- Hello Bar
- Drift
- Close
- ActiveCampaign
- Autopilot
- Ahrefs
- Productboard
- Mixpanel
- Optimizely
1. Airtable
This is the first tool I have for you.
According to its website, Airtable is:
“Part spreadsheet, part database, and entirely flexible…”
You can use it to share files with your team, keep everything in order, and collaborate in a flexible way.
The best part?
That Airtable integrates with many other apps (i.e. Hubspot CRM, Mailchimp) and tools through Zapier.
Thus, the possibilities you have and the combinations you can make are endless.
Category: Project Management & Team Collaboration Tools
Best Feature: Ready-to-use templates
Cost: Freemium—Paid plans start at $10 per month
Website: Airtable
2. WhatRuns
Are you a Chrome fan?
If you are, I have good news for you.
WhatRuns allows you to take a look at the technologies your competitors are using on their website.
This way, you’ll know what their marketing stack is (besides Google Analytics!) and how you can use some of their technologies to optimize your performance.
Cool, right?
The best part is that this Chrome Extension is free.
No cost and no obligation whatsoever.
Category: Product Competitive Analysis Tools
Best Feature: N/A
Cost: Free
Website: WhatRuns
3. Google Sheets
Many marketers will tell you that Google Sheets is a great software.
What makes it so special?
The fact that you can collaborate quickly with your team and clients. Google Sheets are ideal for:
- Sales teams to create customer data sheets
- Customer success teams to keep track and analyze customer feedback
- Product marketing teams to keep information like product messaging in one place
- Marketing teams to save and edit information about their marketing campaigns
- Content marketing teams to automate tasks like keeping a track of social post updates
Also, Google is continuously adding new features to its Google Suite, which makes the software even more powerful.
If you are not using it already, I suggest that you start using it.
Trust me; it is worth it.
Category: Project Management & Team Collaboration Tools
Best Feature: Connect with apps and tools through Zapier
Cost: Free for non-branded domains
Website: Google Sheets
4. Trello
If you are a product marketer, then you might have heard of Trello.
So what is Trello?
It is an amazing tool for collaboration and project management in a fun and flexible way.
I want to be clear about something: Trello is not as advanced as Asana or Jira, but it’s great for small teams that want to stay on top of their game.
Make sure to check it out.
Category: Project Management & Team Collaboration Tools
Best Feature: Copy Card to Boards or Lists
Cost: Freemium—Paid plans start at $9.99 per month
Website: Trello
5. Typeform
Typeform is a great way to gather customer and user feedback.
It is an essential tool for every product marketer or product manager.
It has an easy-to-use interface, and anyone can set up a survey regardless if they are tech savvy or not.
You can customize your survey so that it follows your brand guidelines and add personalization fields to make it more interesting.
Typeform is a tool you MUST have in your toolbox.
Category: Customer Satisfaction Tools
Best Feature: Send your survey responses to a Google Sheet through Zapier
Cost: Freemium—Paid plans start at 25€ per month
Website: Typeform
6. MockFlow
Very often, you may have to create a landing page or a feature-related page for your product.
You may even have to visualize it to present it to your CEO or team.
MockFlow is the best and quickest way to brainstorm UI ideas.
Even though this tool can be more useful for a UI and UX designer, it can also be helpful for a product marketer.
I highly recommend that you use it the next time you want to brainstorm your marketing or product ideas.
Category: Prototyping Tools
Best Feature: Custom wireframe fonts
Cost: Freemium—Paid plans start at $14 per month
Website: MockFlow
7. Instapage
As you probably know already, there are many landing page creation tools.
Some of them useful, and some of them not.
Similar to Unbounce, Instapage is an industry standard; an amazing tool to set up landing pages in minutes.
You can set up landing pages for:
- Lead generation
- Conversions
- Validation
Category: Landing Page Creation Tools
Best Feature: Conversion analytics
Cost: Starts at $99 per month
Website: Instapage
8. Witeboard
Here is another collaboration tool I have for you.
With Whiteboard, you can start drawing and share your design with your team in real-time.
It can be extremely useful in meetings where you want to visualize an idea or concept with ease.
Make sure to check it out, and let me know how it goes!
Category: Project Management & Team Collaboration Tools
Best Feature: N/A
Cost: Free
Website: Witeboard
9. UsabilityHub
According to its website:
“UsabilityHub is a remote user research platform that takes the guesswork out of design decisions by validating them with real users.”
Many times, product and marketing teams put too much effort into a project, a feature launch or a special promotion, only to see it going unnoticed after a while.
The reason?
They haven’t tested enough.
UsabilityHub is your all-in-one solution for user testing and usability research.
Category: A/B Testing & Experiment Tools
Best Feature: Split testing
Cost: Freemium—Paid plans start at $79 per month
Website: UsabilityHub
10. Hotjar
Before I delve any further, I want to be clear about something:
Hotjar is one of the most AMAZING tools ever made.
If you are a product marketer, you need to start using it.
From heatmaps, to screen recording and conversion funnels, Hotjar is an analytics tool that can help you understand:
- What users like and don’t like about your pages
- Which areas need improvement
- What makes people bounce from your website
- Which areas are more aesthetically appealing to users
- Improve your customer journey based on the actions users take
I highly recommend that you add it in your product marketing stack.
Category: Analytics Tools
Best Feature: Screen recordings
Cost: Freemium—For more than 5,000 pageviews per day, pricing is 89€ per month
Website: Hotjar
11. Hello Bar
Hello Bar is a way to make important announcements about your business, with a simple bar at the top of your page.
You can add CTAs, generate traffic and leads, and get people to visit another page that is important to you.
Here are some ways you can use it:
- Product launches
- Special offers and promotions
- Changes in your product features
Many SaaS companies are successfully using Hello bar to inform their visitors about their product and marketing news.
You can use it, too!
Category: Lead Generation Tools
Best Feature: A/B testing
Cost: Freemium—Paid plans start at $29 per month
Website: Hello Bar
12. Drift
In our blog, we’ve mentioned Drift many times.
It’s an alternative to Intercom that we’ve mentioned it as a validation example, and the example of a company that has found a product-market fit.
Drift is an amazing tool to start conversations, build customer relationships with your website visitors and turn conversations into sales opportunities.
Every product marketer should be using to get one step closer to her potential customers and users.
Make sure to check it out!
Category: Conversational Marketing Tools
Best Feature: CRM integrations
Cost: Pricing starts at $400 per month
Website: Drift
13. Close
Close (prev. Close.io) is a CRM toolbox that offers lead management, Email sequences, predictive dialers, and many more exciting features.
Close is also one great example of product marketing.
The team has created and published many eBooks, guides, how-to videos, and blog posts that will help you learn the in’s and out’s of their product, but also understand things like cold Email or Email follow-ups in great depth.
It’s a tool that will help both you and your sales team get better results from your efforts.
Category: CRM & more
Best Feature: Custom reporting graphs
Cost: Pricing starts at $65 per month (monthly billing)
Website: Close
14. ActiveCampaign
ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation tool, ideal for your product team and product marketing team.
Now, this tool is not so useful for beginners as it is for more advanced marketers.
The complexity of its advanced features makes it ideal for more advanced product marketers, so keep that in mind if you want to use it.
All in all, the flows and automation you can build is impressive and can be very useful for your business.
Category: Email Marketing Tools
Best Feature: Lead scoring
Cost: Pricing starts at $99 per month
Website: ActiveCampaign
15. Autopilot
Autopilot is a cool way to automate different marketing actions efficiently.
You can visualize the flows you are building and have an overview of the different steps users take to become your customers.
If you want to better understand the customer journey and build strong customer relationships by being more present for your customers, you need to use it.
It has many exciting features that you have to discover.
Category: Marketing Automation Tools
Best Feature: Templates
Cost: Pricing starts at $99 per month
Website: Autopilot
16. Ahrefs
I’ll keep this one short.
Ahrefs is the BEST competitive analysis tool for product marketers. Period.
If you are serious about analyzing your competitors and learning from them, you have to sign up for one of their paid plans.
Check it out now.
Category: Product Competitive Analysis Tools
Best Feature: Site Explorer
Cost: Pricing starts at $99 per month
Website: Ahrefs
17. Productboard
According to its website, productboard is:
“The product management system that helps you understand what users need, prioritize what to build and rally everyone around your roadmap.”
It’s a must-have for product marketers and product managers.
Category: Project Management & Team Collaboration Tools
Best Feature: Research repository
Cost: Pricing starts at $49 per month
Website: productboard
18. Mixpanel
If you are thinking about product analytics, then you think of Mixpanel.
Mixpanel is the industry standard when it comes to product analytics.
This high-quality platform is a must-have if you are serious about product analytics.
Mixpanel will help you understand your users better and serve them in a more meaningful way.
If you are a post-product-market fit company, you should definitely use it.
Category: Analytics Tools
Best Feature: Retention
Cost: Check pricing here
Website: Mixpanel
19. Optimizely
Optimizely is the best tool for A/B testing.
With clients like IBM, GAP, American Express, and eBay, Optimizely is a tool you can trust.
And since product marketing involves experimentation, I am sure that this tool will be quite useful.
Category: A/B Testing & Experiment Tools
Best Feature: Multi-page experimentation
Cost: Talk to a sales expert here
Website: Optimizely
Now It’s Your Turn
So there you have it.
Now you know what are some of the must-have tools for product marketers in 2019.
Before I leave you, I want to be clear about something:
These product marketing tools are great, but you need to test them first.
When you test them, you’ll be able to shortlist the ones that work best for you.
Now I turn it over to you.
Which one of these tools are you going to use first? Is Airtable or maybe Optimizely?
Either way, let me know by leaving a comment below!
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