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Hey! 👋🏼 It's Gio and this is Ultimate Tools — the newsletter that brings you the best digital marketing tools and websites every week.

It is time for a change! 🤩

If you've been following this newsletter for a while, you know how much I enjoy refreshing it, tweaking it, and adapting it to new formats and trends, all while listening to the feedback and suggestions of our more than 22,500 readers.

After 134 editions, I'm excited to introduce a new newsletter format: more streamlined and concise, yet still packed with information, insights, tips, tools and… a new section:

The 🛠️ ToolStack — a space for exploring the tools, software, apps, and online platforms used by some of the most interesting and successful founders, marketers, creators, operators and digital entrepreneurs worldwide.

Because who better to recommend a tool than someone who uses it every single day? 👨🏻‍💻

^{Today’s edition is brought to you by Axamo.}

💡 Top 3 Ultimate Tools of the week

TRUENORTH
GROWTH

TrueNorth is a growth marketing platform that allows you and your team to plan and track marketing goals in one place, helping you focus, align, and achieve all your objectives.

💸 Pricing: Free for 14 days, then $99/mo.

🌐 Website: truenorth.io

REPURPOSE
SOCIAL MEDIA

Repurpose is a content repurposing and scheduling platform that helps you automate content creation and distribution across various platforms. Simplify the way you manage your social media by automatically converting and publishing your content to multiple channels.

💸 Pricing: $20.75 / mo (14-day Free Trial).

🌐 Website: repurpose.io

READERMODE
READING / PRODUCTIVITY

Readermode enhances online reading by providing a distraction-free environment. It strips away unnecessary elements such as ads and pop-ups from web pages, allowing users to focus solely on the text.

💸 Pricing: Free.

🌐 Website: readermode.io

🛠️ ToolStack

Tools that successful founders & operators use to streamline their work

Thomas McKinlay, founder or Ariyh and ex-Google.

“My team of PhDs and I turn the latest scientific research in marketing into 3min practical insights that you can use to grow your business.

I try to keep my stack light and simple, and I'm used to using Google Docs for almost everything (as we did at Google).”

• Newsletter → Beehiiv

• Website → Webflow

• Team Communication → Slack and Loom

• Meetings → Google Meet

• Design → Canva

• Social media management → Publer

• Everything else → Google Docs

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💊 Marketing Pills

Latest news and trends from the web

👨🏻‍💻 Influencer Marketing Benchmarks in 2024.

📊 Instagram updates Feed Algorithm to prioritize original and emerging Creators.

🥇 Female Founders, are you ready to build a High-Growth business?

📲 WhatsApp adds Community Events.

🐤 LinkedIn is the Twitter/X rival no one is talking about.

🧠 87,7% of entrepreneurs struggle with at least one mental health issue.

💡 5 tips for starting & launching a podcast.

📚 # The book of the week: The Coming Wave

🤯 Extra Tools & Websites

• Your Google Calendar on WhatsApp.

• Save any page on the web to Notion.

• Your in-house AI Video Marketing Agency.

Lifetime Deals

Pay once & use forever 💸

• SmatLeads: Find high-paying, easy-to-close leads for your local business or agency. $59 lifetime.

• KickoffLabs: Create referral programs, giveaways, and waitlists for your lead generation campaigns. $59 lifetime.

• Listener.fm: Elevate your podcast post-production process with AI-generated titles, descriptions, and show notes. $49 lifetime.

🎥 Video of the week

Use Strategic Thinking to Create the Life You Want

We're done for this week. That was quick and painless, wasn’t it? 😎 

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Take care!

Gio.