Are you an Apple iPhone user and ever wondered what the best apps and tools are to keep your business running and functioning smoothly whilst you’re out and about?
Well look no further as this video and article gives you the low down on all the apps and tools you need to do just that!
iPhone Tools for Internet Marketers
Could Apple actually make it any easier for Internet Marketers to run and build a business using the tools that are complete with the iPhone? Talk about getting things on a plate.
The first thing is the 5MP digital camera included because you never know who you might meet and who you might want to have your picture taken with.
The next thing is the 720p HD digital camera which you can stick on YouTube in 5 minutes flat! Seriously, you can bang videos onto your YouTube channel on the fly.
iPhone Apps for Internet Marketers
Reeder: Subscribed to any RSS feeds in your Feedburner account? Use Reeder as your RSS aggregator on your iPhone so you can catch up with content from your favourite blogs whilst you’re on the move.
Google: Access to all your favourite Google tools such as Google Docs, Calendar, Gmail, Talk, Reader and Buzz.
YouTube: An app that comes bundled with the iPhone. Allows you to stream your favourite YouTube videos and to upload videos to your YouTube account straight from your iPhone.
iPod: Subscribe to your favourite Podcasts and have them available for you to listen to while you’re out and about or at the gym.
Voice Memos: Record anything that comes to your mind in an instant as an audio message on your phone. Never get caught short forgetting your next blog post or product idea again!
Facebook: Access to your favourite social network to post updates for your friends or catch up with what’s going on the Internet Marketing community.
Echofon Pro: Manage an unlimited number of Twitter accounts direct from the app.
Skype: Catch up with your Skype contacts by either using the instant messaging feature or Skype calls.
PayPal: Always a sweet idea to keep tabs on your PayPal balance.
DropBox: Read any PDF’s or other docs that you’ve put in your DropBox area on your desktop. You can also collect and share docs from your IM buddies using this tool. Talk about simple file transfer without the need for clogging up mailboxes with huge emails.
Analytics Pro: Awesome app which costs a little money but does allow you to check all your Google Analytics stats while you’re on the move. There’s a lot of detail within these stats and can easily help you spot your best and worst performing pages, keywords, visits, bounce rate and much much more! Priceless is you ask me!
Bit.ly Tools: Shorten links conveniently using bit.ly. As at the time of writing, you can’t synchronise your bit.ly account with the iPhone app although they’re working on it. I’m sure they’ll have that small point sorted out pretty soon.
iBusiness Stats: Track unlimited numbers of ClickBank, Commission Junction, ClickBooth and Copeac stats within your iBusiness Stats account. Now all you need to do is make sure you’re getting sales, so you can admire the stats when you open it up.
WordPress: Manage the basic elements of your blog while you’re on the move. You can manage your pages, posts and comments. Realistically, you would probably wait until you get back to your laptop to deal with the bulk of your blog work, but it’s great for doing the pretty simple stuff like reading, approving and replying to comments.
SEO Pro: Monitor your SEO efforts. The app enables you to see any sites Alexa rank, page rank, backlinks (according to what notional figure Google and Yahoo state) and Compete rank.
Aff Calc: This app enables you to calculate whether it’s worth your while promoting a product hosted on ClickBank as an affiliate. It helps you determine ROI if you’re driving traffic to affiliate offers using PPC and also enables you to calculate the commission for the product owner and the affiliate based upon the commission percentages and ClickBank’s own charges.
MomoNote: Jot down notes really easily using this app. Stores the notes in a tidy fashion in categories you choose and properly dated.
Seesmic: Ping.fm app for your iPhone.
AudioBoo: Make audio on the fly and immediately upload to your AudioBoo account.
oDesk: Run an outsourcing operation from this app alone. How cool is that?
Flickr: Share your photos on Flickr. Label your photos properly and you might be able to piece together another decent traffic strategy.
iMovie: Make edits to your videos before you upload them to YouTube. Lightweight version of Apple’s popular video editing application.
Joel Comm: Catch up with latest news from Joel Comm’s blog. Joel is a pretty straight shooter within the Internet Marketing community.
Internet Marketing Speed: Catch up with the latest information from SEO expert James Schramko.
Marketing Online Live 2.0: Catch up with the latest information from the blog and Twitter account of marketers Paul Colligan and Alex Mandossian.
Tumblr: Handing app if you have have a Tumblr blog.
I hope you get some great value from this post and use some of these tools to run your Internet business, so you needn’t get behind when you’re out and about. Of course, don’t let these tools take over your entire life, but do use them to help you become more productive.
