Tools + Resources
In addition to our full list of agency services, Studio Three 49 has a variety of digital marketing tools, done-with-you resources and recommendations to help your business and brand stand out online.
The Social Starter
Our Social Media Strategy Guide
$47
Social media remains the best place for brands and businesses to connect and engage with their ideal clients and build an engaged community.
With this guide, you’ll be able to:
Clarify your brand message.
Develop a sharp point of view that resonates with your ideal clients.
Create more ease and efficiency with your social media content creation.
Maintain posting consistency to boost reach and increase engagement.
Deliver efficient, measurable, profitable brand growth
The Digital Marketing Accelerator
Our 1-Day Done-with-You Content Strategy Planning Session
For businesses and brands ready to take a more strategic approach to building their online presence. This is our one-day intensive done-with-you content strategy planning session.
Together, we’ll build out your 90-day content calendar and put the systems and process in place, so you can be intentional and consistent with your content creation. It’s a repeatable system to drive real results for your business focused on helping you achieve your revenue goals!
All Tools
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Project Management + Communication
*ClickUp
ClickUp is our go-to project management platform. This is where we create workflows for our team to make processes more efficient. We even like it for personal use because we can add links, images, documents and more. Our favorite feature is the calendar and email integration that allows us to add tasks to our lists on the go. Try ClickUp for free.
*Spike
The power of email, with the simplicity of chat. Spike’s Priority inbox puts emails, messaging, collaboration tools, calendars and more are all in one place. The efficiency and speed with which we’re able to process and respond to messages is everything. Click here to get one month free when you sign up to Spike with a Business account.
*Honeybook
Honeybook is a business management tool that completely uplevels the overall client experience and helps us to book projects faster with less effort. We’re able to save time using templates for emails, brochures and proposals and add our brand (fonts, colors, images, etc) to everything for the most professional presentation. Clients can then review everything they need, electronically sign contracts and make payments all through Honeybook. Use code dogreatwork for 50% off your first year.
Social Media
*Canva
Canva is a free online editing platform. We use it to easily create templates and graphics for our social media posts and email marketing campaigns. Start from scratch or work from their broad range of premade templates. Canva also has a stock image library and various other digital assets that you can use for a more unique look. Try Canva Pro for free.
*Later
Later is the platform that we use to plan, schedule and automate our social media strategy. Available for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn and TikTok, the features focus on visual scheduling and media management. We rely heavily on Later’s reporting and analytics tools, as well as the custom link in bio feature to set our clients up for more sales and success. Click here to get 10 extra posts per month when you sign up and publish to Instagram.
*Flick
Using quality hashtags is one of the most effective social media growth strategies to gain visibility and increase your follower count. Flick offers a simple, easy to use hashtag search and analytics tool to help you become your own Instagram hashtag pro. Find quality hashtags, understand when your audience is online to better plan your posting schedule and see what content resonates most with your followers to boost engagement. Get 10% off your first month.
Email Marketing
*Mailchimp
Mailchimp is the all-in-one marketing platform for small business. Create beautiful, branded emails, design landing pages and signup forms to grow your audience and track sales and campaign performance. Try Mailchimp for free.
*Canva
So good it’s worth repeating. Built in tools like the Brand Kit make it easy to customize templates with branded colors and fonts for visual consistency. Plus, you can easily collaborate with both clients and teams and save designs to your favorite cloud storage platform to sync across all your devices. Try Canva Pro for free.
CoSchedule Email Subject Line Tester
Learn to write more click-worthy email subject lines that drive more opens and conversions. The CoSchedule email subject line tester will grade your headline by words that increase opens, words that decrease opens, number of characters, words and emojis and any numbers present.
Copywriting + Content Creation
Airstory
Airstory fills a huge gap for copywriters and content creators. The ‘how do you go from blank page . . . to filling page . . . to filled page’ gap. This drag-and-drop document builder is a game changer, and the Chrome extension is a great way to capture your online research as a note and use it in your writing.
*Airtable
Avoid death by spreadsheet with Airtable, an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing relational databases. You can store, organize and collaborate on information about anything — like social media content libraries, competitive research and blog post ideas. We have a table for each of our social media clients, with content organized by theme. A great resource for instant content inspiration. Try Airtable for free.
Loom
Video is the new email and adds an element of personalization to your digital communication. With Loom, you can record and share video messages of your screen, cam or both. Faster than typing an email or meeting live, it’s the future of remote work.
Process + Productivity
Toggl
Toggl makes time tracking so simple and hassle-free. It’s helped us improve our own processes identifying unnecessary time sucks and given us the ability to provide more accurate project estimates and invoicing.
*LastPass
These days, who isn’t juggling multiple passwords, payment info and other sensitive info across multiple clients, platforms and accounts. Using LastPass, you can access and share sensitive information securely, without the need to communicate the user login details. Try LastPass for free.
Zapier
If you’ve ever wondered, “Where’s my EASY button?” this is it! Zapier moves info between your web apps automatically, so you can focus on your most important work. Our current favorite ‘Zap’ automatically sends new tasks added in ClickUp to our Google calendar, so we can easily time block and schedule work to organize our day.