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Tools for content management and finding leads....The Growth Letter by Tim Cakir - Issue #40

Ahoy mateys ⚓

I’ve been sailing all weekend, working towards getting my captain’s license. Learning and challenging myself always gives me energy and boosts my mood.

No matter your age, I think the best way to spend money is on education and self-development - it’s an investment you’ll never regret.

Good Reads

Email finder tools are really useful and can save a ton of time when contacting leads. Here are a few good tools to try, and I’d like to add one more to the list: Findthatlead.com.

SDRs need to locate accurate contact information in the shortest time possible. Here are the best email finder tools to help them.

Do you ever use voice search? Though people keep talking about it, I haven’t directly seen many people use it. Still - it could take off in a big way, so it’s worth getting up to speed now on how to optimize for voice search.

Interested in optimizing your website and its content for voice search? Consider implementing these tips into your SEO strategy today.

Design Thinking workshops are a great way to solve problems with your product. I’ve taken part in a few, and here’s an interesting resource with everything you need to know about organizing a successful one.

Design Thinking is a vital framework that helps teams find innovative solutions to pressing product-related issues. This article outlines the most important aspects of organizing a Design Thinking workshop with your team. 

Ever wondered how Slack makes money? So many of us use the tool without paying, and this article explains how they make a profit despite running a wildly popular freemium version.

Slack follows a freemium model, where a free version is offered, and users can convert in paying customers if they want more usage or advanced functionalities. Slack combines the free model with a direct sales force to acquire enterprise customers with yearly recurring revenue of over 100K. Those customers were 575 in 2019, and they accounted for 40% of its revenues. 

Who to Follow

Vassilena Valchanova is a digital marketing strategist, trainer, speaker, and Growth Mentor based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Check out her website, where she blogs about marketing, productivity, and growth. I also enjoy reading her newsletter where she shares her favorite articles of the week!

The latest Tweets from Vassilena Valchanova (@vasvalch). Digital marketing strategist, trainer & public speaker. I help brands build meaningful relationships and scale them through digital channels. Sofia, Bulgaria

Tools

Tool of the week is Storychief, the content management system I’ve been using for years to manage my blog and social media.

You can compose articles directly in the tool with real-time SEO and readability checks that really help optimize posts. Plus, now that my blog is hosted on Storychief, I can schedule and publish directly through the platform, and get lots of data on how my posts perform.

StoryChief puts everything you need to get your content marketing done in one place. Organise, structure & distribute your content multi-channel.