#which means all the open spreadsheets I’ve been editing can’t be saved or downloaded

[boydyker]

reigning king of accidentally fucking up data and slamming my toe in doors

[leagueofawesomedudes]

2020 LOAD Week 7 Preview

Alright boys, we’re friggen back. I sat at my computer watching a rant-filled groupme conversation as I flipped back and forth between the 37 tabs of the historical data LOAD spreadsheet when I came to the decision 6 weeks is long enough. No longer will you be deprived of my majestic, dare I say, God-like pen to paper fantasy football previews. That’s right, pucker up your buttholes and be ready to masturbate with your tears of joy, laughter, and distraught as I destroy each and every one of you. No Browns talk, no putting it lightly, no bullshit.

Before I start, TJ we appreciate your commissioning efforts in the 2020 season. This is not in spite, I just really missed the preview articles and is my push to somehow keep them around.

And now back to your regularly scheduled cheek spreading unadulterated fun.

 “Jared, wait for this sick drop” The Injured Reserve (1-5) vs.

“Burg, I think these guys actually want to fuck me” Can’t Guard Mike (3-3)

If Jon’s not ferociously defeating the CoCo (Covid19) or nervously giggling as the Squad guys make questionable sexual advances on him, he’s putting together a solid team. I mean you can’t knock a guy with a 3-3 record when you’ve scored the most points in the LOAD. Buuut I’m going to anyway. Suck it Jon. Casey’s still recovering from drafting Joe Mixon in the first-round last year but I will say has elevated his strive for the playoffs. He even did a trade! Good job man someone had to respond to Dom eventually. Your participation in the Groupme on game days (mostly Monday nights) is welcomed and if you ever schedule a tee time at 7am that doesn’t also require a 2 hour commute I’m totally down. Unless Doug’s there I’m all set on my 401k. Unfortunately for Casey, Jon is returning Michael Thomas after his teammate altercation (HideYoWifeInNawlins?) and looks to earn a playoff spot the old-fashioned way with his record.

Jon > Cholly

 “The Snowman” SheDiggsMyCobb (0-6) vs.

“Why’s the Snowman doing all my coke” Pelting Coopers (4-2)

Bennett as much as I appreciate you on my side of the Kicker argument your record is almost making me want you on the other side. We’ve all seen the “historical” data showing where you stand but you do realize you have to get W’s or you fall behind right? This is what you get for recklessly abandoning your strong stance on a roster full of white players only housing 4 on the roster? And to think we all depended on you. Dom I have to say we all enjoy you a lot more without the bullshit time advantage our previous waiver wire system afforded you. The FAAB system has given us all new found time and sleep on our hands but unfortunately for you has also opened the door to the testing facility every other Wednesday. No one blames you with the LA puh and that hair of yours. Speaking of trade rapes, no one talks enough about the Hunt for Edelman straight up during a tough Browns opener and an extremely intoxicated Chad. Well done sir, whether ethical or not, well done. Bennett stays as defeated as his meat on page 113 of XNXX and counting, and takes the L.

Salami > Benito

“What’d you say you use to slow balding?  My friend was wondering” Dj Play Moore Drake (2-4) vs.

“Bro check it it’s River, like Rocky River, where I live, get it?!?!” jared donovan’s team

 Man, I’ve seen few people more confident than Paul heading into the season. He had the mock drafts, the magazines, the insiders, hell even Reddit! And yet here we are. You all thought I was trade raped but yet here. we. are. Our loving Paul with the closest thing to an unbreakable spirit, almost broken. I do think there’s potential for a rebound this year, but Jared is totally trying now and never was before last year so it won’t happen this week. New house, new puppy, same Jared. Guy throws a moving party on my birthday weekend of all weekends. Just when you think Jared can’t surprise you any more, he gives me an entire day to show off how fucking big I am in front of all my friends. No ladies, your boyfriend is still not bigger than me.  Thanks again dude it was the highlight of my 2020. Jared somehow gets one of the top QB’s in the league AND Darius Slayton for a rookie QB potentially on the rise and he’s in a spot to continue to do some damage in the LOAD. Paul, you’re going to need one of Jared’s 3 hour long showers to recover from this beatdown.

Jerry > Pav

 “I’m not triggered but CEH’s game was undisputedly the 1st game of the year” 2 Younghoes 1 Kupp (4-2) vs.

“Wait I don’t have Wentz anymore?” Under the Influwentz (2-4)

A Mr. Douglas Yeckley is the latest to join the fiancé gang and I personally can’t wait until I hit my annual quota of 1 face to face hang out at the Secret Santa to congratulate him in person. I’m still trying to figure out if he checks his email more than the groupme and actually knows he’s the second-best fantasy manager in the LOAD. Yahoo favors the autodraft, can’t wait to see how he does without it next year :) Sam, Sam, Sam. Trying to determine how I feel about writing this on your birthday. I can hate on your dedication to Fantasy as much as I want, but gosh darnit do I have to respect it. Especially with Ashley calling all of your shots this year. We all know she’s been the brains behind this operation this year. Just wait bud, that spreads into all decisions you make real soon. The old “well her lease is up so it makes sense” is how it alllll starts my friend. Won’t be long until that hair of yours starts to look like mine and Pauls. And just because I always root against you, I’m sticking to my guns.

Fur > Sammy

 “You said she’s 18? Nah too old for me” Street Charks (3-3) vs.

Dad (6-0)

Battle of the daddys. Chad out on the streets, and Shawn in the burb life. I’ve been sitting here trying to determine which one of their kids has a better chance of coming out with a bomber on. History repeats itself so I think we have the answer. It’s not often I’m called a trend setter, but this may be the start. Shawn needs to watch out as Chad’s newly shaved arms not only make him look more jacked, aerodynamic when he fights, but it also packs an extra punch in fantasy. Shawn’s the only remaining undefeated team left, but I feel the walls are closing in on him with some injuries to the roster. Even as he’s reading this Chad’s defending Shawn in his head, and giggling as he hears “Right Shawn?” “No, left Shawn”. Just hoping I can get one random, witty comment from Shawn in the groupme from this and I’ll feel accomplished. You’re upset of the week boys, you heard it here first.

Wardog > Carothers

 ***Game of Ze Week***

“It’s actually classified as hair-thinning, that’s all” Kickers & Defense (4-2) vs.

“Oh yeah? Well my friends all tell me I’m the best commish they’ve ever had” Tony Time (3-3)

 If you thought I was going through all of this trouble to write this and not putting myself as the game of the week you’re dumber than Malik. And with that, I’ll lead into a fan favorite, story time:

It’s a brisk Fall morning amidst a global pandemic but more importantly, fantasy season. The squad members have begun to wake and start their days. It’s Friday, so Solden has already been trying to get the troops going as Chad frantically thinks of things to talk about. A small tickle from his mustache causes Tony to slowly open his eyes, taking in a deep breath as Petey licks his face. It’s a calm 8:45, so he still has time to drink his coffee outside before starting his day. As he scrolls among the 37 groupme notifications he figures, why not download the Yahoo app and see what’s going on. Notifications? Hmm I wonder what that could be. His eyes widen. Mouth drops. Sweat begins to pour as The Darth Vader coffee mug slips from his grasp. *Justin Herbert – Questionable (ribs)* *Dionte Johnson – Out (back)*

*Clyde Edwards-Helaire  – Questionable (Ankle)*. This can’t be he says. I rallied them all yesterday it mustn’t be! These trades were fool proof! He frantically sprints over to the computer as Petey sits next to his empty food bowl. “At a time like this?!? Not now Petey!!!” He repeats in his head chant-like “The spreadsheet will have the answers, the spreadsheet will have the answers” as he frantically logs in. No…   No it can’t be…. He had it saved to the desktop he’d just edited it the night before for 9 hours! Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!

“Tj wake up” He jumps. He checks his mustache to make sure it’s still there. It was just a dream. And all is right in the world again.

Solden > Tj

  What’s that Jon? I can’t hear you with Trumps dick in your mouth. Boom Roasted.

Tj is your full-time job as a Commissioner or at Park Place? Boom Roasted.

Dom a 3 is still a 3 in LA we all see the snaps. Boom Roasted.

Shawn locked yourself out of your house lately? Boom Roasted.

Sam when’s the coronavirus peak coming? Boom Roasted.

Jared it’s going away right after the election, right? Boom Roasted.

Doug I’m not talking about work at Secret Santa. Boom Roasted.

Chad a 3 is still a 3 in Lakewood we all see the snaps. Boom Roasted.

Casey I miss driving you to O’Bleness. Boom Roasted.

Paul I’m writing this while I’m working from home at home. Boom Roasted.  

Bennett I’m writing this while I’m working from home at home. Boom Roasted.

Malik you’re an idiot and can’t read this. Boom Roasted.  

Damn that felt good. Until next time boys. Solden out.

[sandralmuller]

Best collaborative writing tools

What are collaborative writing tools?

Online collaborative writing tools are the platforms we use to write, edit, review and approve content before it’s published.

These tools manage revision history via version control, allow multiple people to work on a single piece of content at once, and provide a single source of truth.

They allow us to work more efficiently by restricting access to only the people who need to see that content at a specific point of the workflow.

I work with 2 tools that let me do collaborative writing online: GatherContent and Google Docs.

GatherContent

GatherContent is my preferred collaborative writing software program.

The team behind GatherContent know content ops inside out and have designed a tool that helps content teams write, edit and approve content in a structured and manageable way.

What I like about GatherContent

All your content is in the one place in GatherContent. You can see the overall status of your progress, which is great for project management reporting. You don’t have to dive into different drives and folders to find your content and you don’t have to worry about version control.

Templates

GatherContent gives you the ability to set up templates for each content type. This is super handy for setting up pages to mirror wireframes and capture all the content elements you need to write.

You can use the tab functionality within the template, which is handy for separating instructions under a brief tab. You can add directions for the writer and include or link to source material and upload documents like wireframes.

I add another tab for governance and metadata collection. On this tab, I include who the writer, editor and other page contributors are like subject matter experts (SMEs), and I also write the meta description.

I set up a tab with writing and editing checklists—things to review before progressing the page to the next status. Sometimes I create a specific checklist for the SME or content approver to keep them focused on their task—to check the content for technical accuracy or to ensure the content is meeting their business goals and the page doesn’t present any risks for the organisation.

Workflow and page status

GatherContent gives you the ability to set up a workflow from the briefing process through to final approval, whatever that looks like for your project.

As each page moves through the workflow, it triggers an email alert to pass the baton, so you know it’s been reviewed and it’s now your turn to work on the page.

The advantage over a Word document is that when you’re working on many web pages, you don’t necessarily want a SME to review every single page. And if you have all of your content in a large copydeck, you don’t want to have to separate that page out or send the whole document to the SME. You can send them the link to only the pages you want them to review.

At any time, you can see the status of all pages and know where they are in the workflow.

I would like the ability to set different workflows based on the page template, but that’s not possible yet. Sometimes the standard workflow is overkill for a particular content type.

User management

You can create roles and give those roles certain permissions.

For example, I lock down SMEs to commenting rights only. The SME’s role is to review the content to ensure it’s technically accurate. Nothing more. I don’t want them changing the content and slipping their bureaucratic, passive voice back in. They can add their feedback via comments. I can then selectively action their feedback.

Version history

You can easily switch between different versions. It highlights in each version what was changed and who made those changes. I can’t count the times I’ve had to review or even rollback to a previous version. The version history function has been a lifesaver.

Exports and backups

I’m not a developer so I’m yet to connect GatherContent with a CMS, but it’s possible to do this and upload content directly into a CMS.

But I use the export functionality to create weekly back-ups in Word and CSV formats… just in case. And I have needed the backups in the past.

Pricing

Starting at around $AU150 per month, you might not think it’s a cheap tool, but you (and your clients) will save that and hundreds more in project management fees each month. And it will save you from pulling your hair out while keeping track of the status of multiple Word documents and collating feedback from all the SMEs who need to see and approve each page.

Bonus content and resources

GatherContent’s resources section is jam-packed filled with more knowledge than you can waggle a dictionary at. From webinars and blog posts to templates and eBooks, you can even see an interview GatherContent did with Matt Fenwick and me under the True North Content banner on using GatherContent to engage stakeholders in the content process.

Google Docs

Google Docs is a free online alternative to desktop word processing software like MS Word. You only need a Google account to access Google Docs.

What I like about Google Docs

Real-time collaborative writing

I like that Google Docs is a real-time collaborating writing tool. You can share the doc with anyone and you can both work on it at once. Stored in the cloud, updates are live. You can see what other people are adding to the document in real time.

Version and comment history

Google Docs saves the comment history and lets you tag an individual within the document and assign a task to them.

I like to resolve comments after they’ve been actioned, reducing on-screen clutter. You can’t do this in Word. But after I’ve resolved them, I like still having access to all comments in case I need to refer back to a decision.

I like that I can also easily access past versions of the document, too.

Single version of a document

When writing in MS Word, you email the first draft of a document to your client. They email you back with their mark-up and comments. You action their feedback and send them the next draft. They forward to someone else in their organisation, who forwards it to someone else. Eventually, they email you back with three versions attached with conflicting advice in the comments in each document. Argh!

With Google Docs, you avoid all that nonsense.

Restricted access and editing rights

When you send a Word document out to the world, anyone can forward it on. But with Google Docs, you can lock down access by restricting access rights to only the people you want to be able to view, edit or comment on the document.

Enhance features with Google Doc extensions

You can install Google Doc extensions, giving you extra functionality.

From to SEO features to enhanced grammar checks and other writing tools, you find a solution for pretty much any scenario you can think of.

Check out this article that lists 25 Google Docs add-ons.

Pricing

Google Docs is free for personal use. You can upgrade to G Suite for business, but you can use all the functions you’ll ever need from a personal account.

Untested collaborative writing tools

There are a bunch of other collaborative writing tools available that I haven’t explored yet, or in any meaningful way.

Workflowy

My latest discovery is Workflowy. It looks like an interesting writing tool and I’m going to explore it further. It’s not a replacement for GatherContent by any stretch, but it’s worth a test drive to see what it’s capable of because I’m sure there are some projects I work on that it could serve well.

Etherpad

Etherpad is a free, open-source online writing tool that allows for real-time collaborative writing. It’s a desktop tool, so you have to download and install the software.

It’s interface is simple and uncluttered.

It offers many of the same advantages as GatherContent and Google Docs in that you can collaborate with colleagues in real time.

Airstory

I bought Airstory a few years ago, but I haven’t given it a proper run, yet.

It’s distraction-free interface first attracted me. It doesn’t have pages—content is infinite. You can add people to your project and assign them roles—much like in Google Docs—as a viewer, editor, researcher or owner.

The traditional hard AF way

Before we were blessed with collaborative writing apps or platforms, we used to deliver content projects in Word documents and manage their delivery in an Excel spreadsheet.

In 2005 I managed a large content development project for a government department that brought 26 websites into a single site. We’re talking 100s of pages we edited or wrote from scratch and shuffled through the approval process. As a freelance content consultant, I managed a team of 12 writers and we spent at least 6 months writing and editing that content. In Word. 😱 And tracked in an Excel spreadsheet. 😱

When I think back on that process, it’s no wonder it took us 6 months to generate that amount of content. The project management load alone of manually tracking the status of 100s of web pages makes me clutch my non-existent pearl necklace in horror. I’m so glad I don’t work like that anymore.

Collaborative writing tips

If you’re working on a project and using a collaborative writing tool, here are some tips to help you take advantage of the power and ease of collaboration from content brief through to publication.

Map out your workflow

Think about the whole process from start to finish and map out the workflow you think applies to your project. Test the workflow with a single piece of content. Be prepared to tweak and refine it as you need to during the project.

Set rules around access

Giving people access to a tool like GatherContent means your client can see your works in progress. You can lock them down to a single page, only to a project.

This means you’ll inevitably find SME or client comments on a draft document. This can be quite annoying when you’ve not finished writing, let alone editing the document.

Let clients know that they should only review content that’s at a certain stage of the workflow.

Appoint a client-side content wrangler

Appoint someone on the client’s side to be the content wrangler. They have to make sure everyone who needs to see the document does at the appropriate time (GatherContent makes this so easy) and collate all feedback and give you definitive advice on which action you need to take. Otherwise, you’ll find yourself sifting through conflicting comments from different SMEs and unsure how to respond to their feedback.

Don’t abuse the comment function

No one wants to be tagged eleventy billion times in a document. In a tool like GatherContent, that will trigger an email to the person you’ve tagged, each time you tag them. Same with Google Docs.

Instead, I write @SME or @marsha when I add comments, but don’t actually tag the specific person until the page is complete. Then I tag them once and ask them to review each of the comments marked to their attention.

This is a much better process than dealing with a cranky SME with a cluttered inbox.

Set up a rule to automatically keep project notification out of your inbox

It can get very noisy when working on a collaborative project. I find it helpful to set up a rule in my inbox that directs all GatherContent notifications to a specific folder, rather than clutter my inbox. That way I can drop in once or twice a day and take action.

Don’t step on toes

Having a workflow should mean that you’re not working on content at literally the same time as someone else.

Keep the workflow in mind when commenting or editing someone’s work. If they’re not ready for you to see it yet, you shouldn’t be poking around in there.

If you do some pair writing, then great! I find having a video chat and screen sharing while doing pair writing is the best way to avoid standing on another writer’s toes.

Running copywriting projects with collaborative writing tools

Do you currently use collaborative writing tools on your copywriting and editing projects? Are you planning to use one in the future? I’d love to hear about it in the comments below.

Best collaborative writing tools was originally published on Sandra Muller

[alittlesimlish]

How I've Been Creating My TS2 BACC Sims

(or: Why This Is Taking Me So Damn Long)

The parts I’ve already finished:

Rolled to determine how many sims are in each family (I ended up with a totally of 10 sims spread across 5 families).

Rolled to determine sex/gender of each sim (I went with just the two currently in game for my starting sims because I don’t want to have to deal with custom body shapes quite yet).

Rolled to determine Age range (YA, Adult, Elder) of each sim - I still consider Adults in the first four “years” of the stage to be “young adults”, even if they don’t go to Uni and aren’t recognized as such by the game.

Figured out the actual age in years within that range of each sim as determined by a spreadsheet I made that calculates age based on my personally edited lifespan length and days left. I also added their major birthdays (every 10 “years” + age transitions) to a calendar based on my time/aging system.

Determined what the family relationships will be, based on the number and ages of sims, and figured out some of the major careers, like the mayor and farmers.

Rolled the ethnicity of each family/sim (some are all the same, some are mixed) based on isbrealiomcaife’s All Around the World non-default face templates (https://isbrealiomcaife.dreamwidth.org/11526.html). This required rolling 3 different times for most sims (with Aneta, for example, I rolled Europe > Mediterranean > Bulgaria).

Figured out first and last names for each sim/family by doing research on names that would make sense for their ethnicities.

Rolled primary aspiration and zodiac sign for each sim.

What I’m doing now to create each sim:

Figure out exact personality point distribution, keeping them within their rolled zodiac, but tweaking to prevent identical personalities and to make some sense with aspiration (eg, not have a popularity sim with only 2 shy/outgoing points).

Determine what their secondary aspiration will be based on their personality and using @dinuriel’s sim psycology charts (http://dinuriel.tumblr.com/tagged/sim+psychology/chrono) as a guideline/inspiration .

Roll turn-ons/off based on a system that I can’t remember where I found. But basically, I roll 1-5 for haircolor, facial feature and body type, 1-9 for skill/employment, then throw one out so there’s only 3 and pick one of those to be the turn-off. I was originally going to roll for which one to throw out/be the turn-off, but I didn’t want to end up with sims that wouldn’t find any of the currently available sims attractive or not be attracted to their already assigned spouse.

Create sim’s appearance in bodyshop, using the AAtW face templates as a base, and tweaking them according to pictures I look up online (using Aneta as an example again, I created her using the Mediterranean template and images of Bulgarian women I found online). Exception is for children of two sims, which I will make using their parents genetics in CAS, but I only have one of those. This step includes putting CC wrinkles on older adult sims so they don’t look the same age as the ones who are supposed to be younger.

Plan out sims hair styles and outfits for each category in body shop. I didn’t have much CC or defaults when I started out, so I often need to go find and install new things, or in some cases even create what I want myself, which can make this step take awhile, especially since it’s so easy to get sucked into downloading and modding and forget about the sim I’m working on! I’ve put quite a lot of time into finding/installing and creating defaults at this point, which is making it go a bit faster for each next sim, but there’s still always more to do and get distracted by. Not to mention that I’m incredibly picky, so even installing one things means I often end up opening it in SimPE and making sure it’s townie enabled and shows up in all the right categories and age groups, among other things.

Load the created sims for a family into CAS in game, set the determined outfits for all the categories, set the personality and turn-ons, etc.

Things I have yet to do for any sim:

Figure out the height/stretch skeleton value for each sim. I’ve already got a chart for the ranges, but I might need to tweak it based on how everything looks in practice, but that requires the sims to be in-game to set and see them.

Figure out hobbies based on sullivansims’ insterest system (http://sullivansims.blogspot.com/2015/06/assigning-hobbies-to-sims.html). I haven’t decided if I’m going to do this for the starting sims, but if I do it will have to be after the sims are in-game so I can see what their interests are.

Edit the family relationships and age/days left to actually reflect what I’ve determined. Some of the relationships can’t be set in CAS, like an adult being the parent of another adult, even though one is meant to be 48 and the other 18.

So as you can see I’ve turned this into quite the project! One of the reasons I took a bit of a break was because I had just finished creating a sim in bodyshop and then forgot I hadn’t saved and closed it, losing all that work, so I was upset and decided to take a day off, but that turned into a bit longer absence than I meant it to (seriously, where did those 3 months go??). But this week I’ve been back at it and, on top of those I’ve previously posted, I have three more sims completed in body shop with all their details figured out and pictures of all their outfits so I can recreate them in CAS, plus one more that’s all figured out except their actual physical appearance, which will be determined by their parents in CAS. So those 4 are basically ready to go and just need to be added to the game, so now I just have one family of 2 sims left to finish up! Unfortunately they’re both elders, which I haven’t installed as many defaults for, and who also need it much more desperately, so yesterday I was mostly just working on improving the clothes options for elders in general, so that stalled progress a bit. I am going to aim to get all sims in game by the end of this weekend, though, and then I get to move on to building their houses! 8D

(Also slowing down my progress - writing long, rambling posts about what I’m going to do rather than actually doing it…)

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The 19 Best Content Marketing Tools in 2019

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The 19 Best Content Marketing Tools in 2019

While no content marketing tool can replace a solid strategy and talented humans, having the right tech stack can certainly help you get the job done better, easier, and more efficiently.

There are hundreds of content marketing tools available, some free or cheap and some very expensive. They also serve tons of different purposes, from content ideation to production to promote, optimization, and more. The content marketing technology landscape is growing every year.

This is exciting, since it means that if you have a problem, you can probably find a software solution to help you solve it. But it’s also overwhelming. How do you know which of the couple hundred tools are worth trying?

This post will help clarify those decisions for you. We’ll outline the top 19 content marketing tools in 2019.

The 19 Best Content Marketing Tools in 2019

HubSpot

WordPress

Google Docs

Airstory

Grammarly

Yoast

Buzzsumo

Ahrefs

Vidyard

Loom

Trello

Airtable

Google Analytics

HotJar

Google Optimize

Mutiny

The Stocks.IM

Canva

Adobe Photoshop

1. HubSpot

HubSpot offers many content marketing tools, and many of them are free to try. These include:

A powerful form builder

Popup tools

Live chat and chatbots

And all-in-one WordPress plugin for marketing

In addition to free content marketing tools, if you really want to build a growth machine, HubSpot has a world-class CMS and the most powerful marketing automation platform in the industry and allows you to centralized everything to a free CRM. This means that, at each and every level of a company’s growth, HubSpot has some solution that can help you build your content marketing program.

HubSpot also makes products for sales and service teams. As such, it can really be the ground control for your whole business.

Meta, right?

2. WordPress

WordPress is the most widely used CMS in the world. As of August 2018, VentureBeat reported that WordPress powers about 30% of the internet in general.

Social proof can sometimes lead us astray, but in this case, it turns out that WordPress is a pretty powerful tool, both at the beginning stages and as your grow your content marketing program (it’s used by sites like The New Yorker and The Next Web)

At its core, WordPress is an open source CMS that allows you to host and build websites. You can self-host or host your site via WordPress.com. WordPress contains plugin architecture and a template system so you can customize any website to fit your business, blog, portfolio, or online store.

It’s a highly customizable platform and is widely used by bloggers.

3. Google Docs

Google Docs is to content marketing what a kitchen is to chefs: it’s where all of the work gets done before the final presentation.

Personally, I don’t know any content marketers who don’t use Google Docs to draft their articles. It’s the best platform for collaboration by a long shot, but it’s also easy to use has a pleasant user experience.

In addition, you can usually find a way to upload Google Docs directly to your CMS. In the case of HubSpot, you can do that by default. If you use WordPress, you can use a tool like Wordable to help you out.

Google Docs is free, quite ubiquitous, and pleasant to use. Not many reasons not to use it.

4. Airstory

If you do want to step up your writing and collaboration game, Airstory is a more powerful platform for writers. If you find yourself moving too often between Evernote, Google Docs, Google Drive, and you always seem to have a hundred tabs open for research, it might be time to look into Airstory.

It helps you save quotes, images, and multimedia and drag and drop it into any application where you do writing. As such, it’s an incredible tool for collaboration, but also for writers who are working on longer form content (such as books or ebooks).

5. Grammarly

Grammarly has changed the game for me. I’m not naturally what you would call “detail-oriented,” so if it weren’t for talented editors, you’d be tearing me apart right now for the multitude of grammar mistakes littering my articles.

Grammarly, however, reduces my error rate by probably 50-80%. I still have some mistakes slip through, but to a large extent, Grammarly saves me from embarrassment (not just when writing articles, by the way – it also works for social media and forum comments).

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6. Yoast

Yoast is one of my favorite tools for writing SEO-focused content.

It’s a sort of “all-in-one” WordPress plugin for SEO that helps do pretty much everything, including optimizing content for a keyword, previewing and editing meta-descriptions and URL slugs, abstracting away technical SEO tasks, and suggesting relevant internal links.

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They have over 9,000,000 downloads, 4.9 out of 5 stars in the WordPress marketplace, and just anecdotally, everyone I know who uses WordPress uses Yoast. It’s just a great plugin.

7. Buzzsumo

Buzzsumo is a great multi-purpose content marketing research tool.

One of the main things it can do is help you analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor. You can see metrics like social shares, backlinks, and which influencers are sharing as given piece of content.

They also have great influencer reports so you can see who the thought leaders are for a given topic area.

  8. Ahrefs

Ahrefs is my personal favorite SEO tool, and I use it just about every day. It’s great for everything from tracking the rankings of your keywords to analyzing your competitors’ keywords and traffic and much more.

Everytime I think I’ve mastered the full functionality of Ahrefs, I find a new feature that surprises and delights me. The basics, such as keyword research or site analyzer, are wonderful. But I also love reports like “top pages” (where you can analyze the most valuable pages on a website), or “content gap” (where you can see what competitors rank for that you don’t).

  9. Vidyard

Vidyard is a video marketing platform that helps you host, share, and promote video content on your website.

They have a sales solution as well to help you close more accounts, but the marketing solution is what I’m most used to. Vidyard’s video analytics are robust, you can run A/B tests and personalize videos, and you can even gate videos at a certain time length to help capture leads.

10. Loom

Loom is a tool that I’ve more recently begun using, but at this point it’s a staple for me.

It’s a simple tool, but one with powerful use cases, even beyond content marketing. What it does is allow you to create, edit, and share screen share videos. For content marketing, I love this, because I can create and embed tutorials for technical walkthroughs.

Organizationally, I love it as well. It’s great for communicating quick questions or explaining concepts to other team members (without requiring a full, synchronous meeting).

11. Trello

When you really start producing content, you’ll need some way to manage the process. This is particularly true if you’re working with many staff writers or guest writers.

My favorite tool for this is Trello.

Trello is a simple kanban and project management tool, which means it can be used for many purposes. In fact, I’ve used it for tons of things, like growth experiments, sales pipelines, and product feature roadmaps.

But I really like it as an editorial calendar tool.

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12. Airtable

Airtable is another project management tool, though it’s a little more complicated (though also customizable). It’s kind of like a mixture between spreadsheets and Trello. Again, with Airtable, the use cases are many, but I really like it for two content marketing purposes:

Editorial calendars

Influencer/writer management

I’ve also used Airtable for several other things in the past, including growth experiments and general team operating documents.

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13. Google Analytics

When talking about content marketing tools, you can’t leave measurement out of the discussion.

Surely, you can get some good insights from SEO tools like Google Search Console as well as previously listed tools like Ahrefs. But you’ll also want a digital analytics platform so you can track business metrics.

Google Analytics is one of the most widely used platforms online. It’s easy-to-use (at least the basic configurations), and it’s free. Two big benefits.

However, it’s also very powerful if you’re technical and know how to setup a proper configuration. You can not only track goals, like form submissions or product purchases, but you can also set up behavioral events, like scroll-depth.

14. HotJar

HotJar is my favorite user experience analytics tool. It’s got some qualitative tools, such as on-site poll, surveys, and session replays. Where Google Analytics can help you uncover the “what” and “where” of user behavior, these tools can help you start to tiptoe into the “why.”

In addition, they also provide some quantitative tools such as heat maps. These allow you to get a good visual picture of where you visitors are clicking and scrolling.

One use case I love HotJar (outside of CRO) for is to source interesting content ideas:

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15. Google Optimize

We’ve got a quantitative digital analytics tool (Google Analytics) and a qualitative insights platform (HotJar), so we presumably can know a lot about our readers and our website at this point. But what if we want to make a change to our blog or landing pages?

My background is in optimization, so if there’s sufficient traffic, I like to set up A/B tests for site changes.

There are many tools out there for this, but I wanted to list Google Optimize because it’s free. It’s also a good starter option to get used to. If you do want to explore other options, here’s a good article comparing the market solutions. But Google Optimize is a great start.

16. Mutiny

A/B testing is one thing; personalization is also an interesting avenue to explore.

Where A/B testing is a controlled experiment with a limited time-horizon, personalization allows you to deliver different unique experiences to subsets of your overall audience.

For example, you could target mobile users with different popup forms. Or you could target visitors who have read three blog posts with an offer for a specific e-book. Or you could target people who scroll 75% of the way down a certain blog post with an in-text CTA.

The options are endless, only limited by your time, resources, creativity, and prioritization.

Anyway, Mutiny is my favorite platform in this space. It’s designed for B2B, so if you’re in ecommerce you may want to look at another tool like Evergage. But Mutiny is a good and promising newer player with lots of functionality.

17. TheStocks.IM

Most good content marketing includes imagery, so it only makes sense to include a stock photo site here in our list of content marketing tools.

I like TheStocks.IM because it aggregates several free stock photo sites, including Unsplash (my favorite) and Pixabay.

  18. Canva

What about when a stock image doesn’t cut it, and you want to make your own imagery?

Canva is a great option here.

With Canva, you really don’t need to have excellent graphic design skills. I’m a horrible designer, and I can make decent looking graphics with Canva. It’s really designed for the layperson.

This tool is great for all kinds of content marketing imagery, like social media images, blog cover photos, Twitter cover photos, etc. It’s pretty all-purpose.

19. Adobe Photoshop

Now, what if you want to make your own imagery, but you actually are good at graphic design?

Well, in this case, Photoshop is the gold standard. It’s great for editing photographs as well as creating images such as Facebook photos, blog cover photos, and even screenshot tutorials.

I find that, just as with SQL, little bit of skill with Photoshop goes a long way.

Not all of the content marketing tools on this list are free, though many of them are. 

As such, if you’re a content marketer on a budget, look into the following tools, which can all be used or at least tested out for free. 

13 Free Content Marketing Tools in 2019

HubSpot

WordPress

Google Docs

Grammarly

Yoast

Loom

Trello

Airtable

Google Analytics

HotJar

Google Optimize

The Stocks.IM

Canva

Content marketing tools won’t save a bad content strategy or a bad product

… but they’ll certainly help you get the job done faster and more effectively.

Obviously there are many more content marketing tools out there, but for this list, I tried to only list those that you really need as well as the tools that I like the most.

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25 Ways Google Drive Can Help Power Your WordPress Business

Google Drive has saved my life (professionally, at least) on any number of occasions. I know that some people are wary of services like Google Drive or iCloud for fear of being locked into a single company’s ecosystem (or walled garden, as they’re usually referred to), but there are a lot of benefits to using Google Drive if you’re running a WordPress business. We use it here at Elegant Themes, and it makes putting things into your hands so much easier.

What is Google Drive?

First off, let’s establish what Google Drive is. Google, the omnipresent power that it is, has created a suite of tools that when put together are called Drive. Included in the (default) suite are

Docs

Sheets

Slides

Forms

Drawings

My Maps

Sites

Pixlr Editor

If that’s not enough for you, just hit Connect More Apps and you are taken to the Chrome/Drive app store where you can integrate as many of hundreds (if not thousands) of first- and third-party tools as you want.

In addition to the apps you have, Drive also functions as a, well, drive. You get a certain amount of cloud storage for free with Drive, and you can upgrade that for a monthly price. With that, you can sync between any number of computers and the cloud to always keep your files up to date. In this way, it works pretty much just like Dropbox.

In many ways, using Google Drive as a primary tool for your WordPress business isn’t so much about the power of the tools themselves, but the flexibility and efficiency that you’re able to achieve with your workflow. The entire suite of tools works together so seamlessly (and with other apps like Slack and Trello and even WordPress itself) that taking advantage of these feature will no doubt increase your company or team’s efficiency.  Which will then (hopefully) increase revenue.

So…with all that said, now that we have a foundation of what the platform is, let’s jump into how you can use it to drive your WP business to the next level.

1. Real-Time Collaboration

The biggest selling point of Google Drive in almost all respects is the inclusion of real-time collaboration. You and your team can be in the same document at the same time, making real-time edits. While this may not sound like an out-of-this-world, blow-your-mind feature, it absolutely is. As a member of a team who works a world apart from one another, being able to get on a Google Hangout and work on a post, meeting agenda, or planning document is invaluable.

If your WordPress business specifically relies on content via articles and posts, Google Drive can really speed up your editorial process if done correctly. Instead of sending drafts back and forth between writers and editors, you can be in the same document at the same time, making real-time edits. Even if you use the Submit for Review and Pending status in the WordPress dashboard, being able to work together prevents back-and-forth messages like these:

Editor: Hey, yesterday’s article needs a fix. I set it back to a draft for you.

Writer (half an hour later): Okay, I submitted it to pending again.

Editor: I set it back to a draft one more time because of this other thing.

And so on and so forth. That probably looks familiar to a few of you. Taking advantage of the real-time editing instead of using it for simple document sharing will really power up your business. Especially if all your writers’ permissions are set to “Suggest Edits” instead of editing outright.

2. Live Chat

In addition to the real-time collaboration aspect of Drive, each document has a live chat option if you have more than one person in the doc (or sheet or slide) at a time. You just need to click the chat icon next to the document participants. As people come in and out, they are added to/removed from the chat. I realize that many of you (us included) use Slack or something similar for your team communication, but that shouldn’t keep you from using the integrated chat.

Reason being, it’s more efficient. Keeping Slack open in another tab or as a separate program means you’re always going back and forth. You’re getting separate notifications. And you have to divert your attention from the work you’re doing. If you’re using the chat option, you can toss pertinent links, commentary, and everything right there in the document. And you can search it later and keep the whole conversation in context — which is perfect when you need to go back to a previous project and instead of having to go through thousands of messages archived months and months ago in Slack, you can simply look at the chat archives here.

But what about comments? you may be thinking. And comments are great for anything that is a one-off that may need a single reply and can then be resolved. But if you’re dealing with a discussion, comments are not your friend. Plus, you may get emails about every single comment message, and trying to search through them for to track a single conversation is simply unbearable, even with the comment-thread feature (beside the open chat button).

3. Hangouts

In much the same way that live chat is used, you can do the same thing with Hangouts. Hangouts does have a chat in the window it opens (which is great for meetings, but not so much when collaborating in real time in a document), but you can keep the call open in the background while you work. Again, it’s not any different than another VOIP service or call (Skype, or even Slack calls); however, since it’s integrated into Drive, anyone who’s involved already is just a click away from a video/voice call to collaborate on any given document or project. It’s a quality-of-life inclusion that you can’t fully appreciate until you’ve used it, I think.

4. Slack Integration (Among Others)

Now, I’ve said a lot of stuff that may come across as Slack is great, but…, and knocking the service. That’s not what I mean. So let me say this: Slack is great, but… (haha) Google Drive makes it even  better. Really. You can install it to any Slack workspace you want from their app store.

There’s no way all of these features don’t enhance your WordPress business. Sure, they don’t directly tie to WP itself, but they make creating content for WordPress sites much more pleasant. I can’t count the times that I have personally been working on a post, only to receive a Slack notification of a comment, revision, or invitation to edit that was time sensitive far quicker than the automated emails came through (if they came at all, in a few cases).

The same integration is available for Trello and Basecamp and any number of other project management and team communications suites. Google Drive is such a pervasive and ubiquitous tool that you should absolutely take the time to (or have your admin) integrate whatever apps are available to link Drive into your service.

5. Using Google Sheets as a Team Dashboards

Admittedly, I am pretty wary of spreadsheets. They’re functional, but they’re not sexy. Apps…now they’re sexy. When it’s possible to use an app or program to do something that someone suggests a spreadsheet for, I opt for the separate app. But honestly, sometimes having a separate app just isn’t possible. And if you’re trying to keep everything within the same ecosystem (Google Drive in this case), keeping your data in a spreadsheet just makes sense.

Luckily, there’s an addon for Google Drive called Supermetrics. It really supercharges what you can do with Google Sheets, and so that even people like me can get them to perform adequately.

Basically, you can set up an entire analytics and monitoring suite for your business using Drive (and even bringing in Google Analytics, too). It lets you have have an at-a-glance rundown of what is going on with your site, SEO, the blog, social channels, and anything else you need to import and look at. This kind of dashboard for your team is not a replacement for a suite for tracking services or their built-in tools, but it works amazingly well for aggregation, analysis, and pinning down improvement areas (not to mention highlighting successes).

6. Sync with Google Photos

Since Google Drive has file storage as a primary foundation of the service, I’d be remiss if I didn’t show you one of the more useful connections to WordPress regarding that. In addition to being able to export backups and large media files from plugins like UpdraftPlus or services like Zencastr, the official Jetpack plugin supports Google Photos media library imports. Again, powering up your WordPress business is about efficiency. Keeping your photos in one place (for free and with unlimited space) and then being able to import them into your WP media library is invaluable.

If you run a WP business, you are probably on the go a lot. You may not even use the same computer or device day by day. Cloud storage is your friend, especially when you don’t know where and when your next hard drive will be coming from. You may work from public computers (raise your hand if you’ve lost something important because you forgot to back it up before your session ended). Plus, how many times have you been told “Sure, you can use my computer. Just don’t download anything at all.”? (That’s a rarity these days, but it still happens.) You might even have to put in whole days of working on your smartphone.

Regardless of why you’d need to keep pics in Google Photos, you should be. And honestly, probably are regardless. So linking the service to WordPress and then being able to import your Google Photos directly into your media library will increase efficiency just enough that you will wonder why you’ve downloaded/uploaded/Recycle Binned images for so long.

Note: Currently you aren’t able to access/import Google Photos from your wp-admin of self-hosted Jetpack-enabled sites. You will need to import those photos from your site at WordPress.com in order to see them on your self-hosted site.

7. Dictate Documents Like a Boss

I sometimes imagine what it would be like to sit back in my office chair (feet up on the desk) and dictate important emails and notes to my personal assistant. I would use cool phrases like “next line” and “new paragraph” as I rattled off a symphony of the english language. Well, with Google Doc’s voice typing functionality, this dream has become reality (kind of). I don’t really sit back in my chair, I have to click a button to start dictating my text, and I have to check the final draft for grammar just to be safe. But at least I still get to use some cool phrases even though I have to say “new line” instead of “next line”. And I find that it is really useful for things other than drafting emails. It is also a convenient way to record notes during client meetings without having to interrupt the flow of conversation with typing. And I sometimes use it to record blocks of text from images or screenshots of content that I need to add to my website.

8. Store and Embed Videos

If you are looking to host your large media files (like Videos) outside of WordPress, Google Drive will allow you to link to those files within your WordPress site. Also, Drive makes it easy to embed videos directly on your website.

Once the video has been uploaded to Drive, open the video in a new window.

Now all you need to do is open the file in a separate window. Open settings again and click the “Embed item” link in the menu.

Copy the embed html code and paste it on your webpage.

9. Google Slides for Webinars (and other presentations)

Webinars are a popular way to educate customers about your product, grow your email list, and, in the end, make more money. But a lot of the webinars I’ve seen have pretty horrible presentations, mostly due to the design of the slides. Google Slides can help ease the pain of designing a template for your webinar slides. And you can just launch the presentation and deliver your webinar straight from Google Drive. Once done, you can easily share your slides with your audience for reference.

You can also easily add Google Slides presentations to your WordPress website.

10. Use Google Forms for things like Contact Forms, Client Questionnaires, and Surveys

Any online business will need a reliable method for collecting and storing important information from their customers. Google Forms offers a convenient platform for creating forms for many different use cases. You can easily embed a Google form to your WordPress website and all the results can be accessed from Google Drive.

A WordPress business could use google forms for many different use cases, including contact Forms or Client Questionnaires for on-boarding.

Google Forms can be a simple yet powerful solution for surveying your visitors for market feedback, employers for happiness levels, customers for reasons they jumped ship. You can even use a survey to improve your website experience. Whatever the reason, you can easily embed a google form on your site or send users to the designated form page on your Drive.

If you want to use another software like Typeform, don’t forget that you can easily create a zap to store all those entries neatly in a Google Sheets spreadsheet.

11. Integrate Docusign with Google Docs

Running a WP business usually means most (if not all) of your meetings take place online. That means contracts, and other important documents, need to be signed electronically. DocuSign is a popular e-signature online service that works with Google Drive. All you need is to get the extension from the chrome web store and you can easily send/share your documents right from Google Drive (or Gmail) and then automatically store them securely in your Drive. Unless of course, you enjoy using a printer, scanner, or fax machine (they do still exist).

DocHub also has another popular extension for editing and signing PDF Documents and Word Documents straight from Gmail.

12. Google Drive File Stream

I don’t know about you, but I like keeping files in the cloud because I hate overloading my hard drive with files which I know are full of things I don’t need anymore and I don’t have time to sort through. But I also like the convenience of being able to search through my files (or cluttered mess) on my computer. The Google Drive File Stream application seems to have provided a way to have my cake (or cloud) and eat (or search) it too. This may seem like a small convenience, but don’t underestimate the annoyance of an overloaded hard drive when running a business.

The Drive File Stream is available with their Business plan and is a step up from their Backup and Sync application which is free for personal plans.

13. Backup Your WordPress Site on Google Drive

There are a ton of solutions/plugins out there for backing up your WordPress website. But, not all of them are free, and those that are tend to store your backups on your server (which can crash). Google Drive does provide a good amount of free storage space (15GB) which can be used to store your backups to a remote location, accessible from anywhere.

You can Create a Drive Backup of your WordPress Website through the use of a WordPress backup plugin like UpdraftPlus – for FREE.

14. Import Blog Posts from Google Docs to WordPress

If you have ever tried to copy content from Google Docs into a WordPress blog post, you may have noticed that things don’t always transfer cleanly. The html gets some additional formatting that you don’t really want. But there are ways to merge the the two effectively. Wordable offers a premium service that allows your to import posts and pages directly from Google Docs with a click of a button (see review here).

There is also free solutions including the WordPress.com to Google Docs Chrome extension and the Mammoth .docx converter plugin.

15. Embed Google Calendars in WordPress

I realize that Google Calendar is not technically Google Drive (all these apps blend together in my mind after a while), but I thought it worth mentioning considering the popularity of calendars for WordPress and and WordPress business.

No one wants the headache of managing one calendar for your website and another on Google. Thanksfully, adding a Google calendar to your website is pretty simply. Once you customize the calendar within Google Calendar, you can generate an embed code that can be pasted anywhere on your WordPress site. The code is an iFrame which simply means what you see on the website is actually hosted on Google. So styling the calendar will challenging using CSS in WordPress. So if you need more control over the calendar design, you can use a plugin like Simple Calendar.

16. Showcase Google Calendar Events on WordPress with A Plugin

Instead of settling for a Google Calendar embed code, there are WordPress calendar plugins that integrate with Google Calendar to open new doors for customization and display options. Simple Calendar and WP Google Calendar Manager will do the trick. Both make it easy to add Google Calendar events to WordPress

17. Integrating Google Sheets and WordPress

If you are familiar with Google Sheets, you know how easy it is to convert your spreadsheet data into a beautiful chart or graph. It is pretty “mathi-magical” stuff. And there are ways to display these beautiful illustrations of data directly on your WordPress site. You could opt for a WordPress plugin like the Inline Google Spreadsheet Viewer which can turn your Google Sheets data into dynamic spreadsheet, charts, and tables and insert them anywhere on your website (learn how).

Alternatively, you can publish a spreadsheet (or chart) to the web directly from Google Sheets to get an embed code you can paste to your webpage.

18. Use Google Slides to Create Images for WordPress

Not all businesses are lucky to have a skilled graphic designer on hand to create those custom images needed for their website. That’s why there are many options available to bridge the gap between businessman and photo editor for your WordPress images. Google Slides is one of those options.

The great thing about Google Slides is there are wonderful free templates/themes out there that will jumpstart the process of designing your own images from scratch.

All you need to do is design a slide and download it in JPEG or PNG format.

19. Google Meet for Video Conferencing

Google is constantly evolving their communication products. This includes Google Hangouts. Now, Google Hangouts is branching out to include Hangouts Chat to create a more Slack-like experience for your business. And Google Meet (or Hangouts Meet) is becoming a prize fighter in the video conferencing industshery.

So if you have access to G Suite, you may find Google Meet to be just what you need. For $5 a month, you can host up to 25 video callers with some other useful features similar to most of those video conferencing software giants out there. The G Suite Enterprise edition allows you to connect with up to 50 people.

See if Google Meet is the right fit for your business videoconferencing.

20. Search and Access Docs from Email

This one has been around for a while, but if you live on Google Docs the way I do, it is a valuable resource. When composing your many emails from Gmail, you can insert Google Drive files directly from the email interface. Just click the Google Drive icon at the bottom.

Then you can search through all your folders and insert your file either as a link or an attachment.

21. Take Advantage of the Specialized Linking System in Google Docs

Google has some helpful features to help you link to different areas (headers) of your Google Doc. This is a great time saver for combing through large docs containing weekly meeting notes on certain projects. The only think you have to do is make sure you organize your doc with proper headings. Google will take care of the rest. Google has a built it Document Outline display that will turn those headers into a clickable table of contents on the left of your doc. Simply click the view tab and select “Show document outline”.

But sometimes it’s just easier to create another doc instead of having all your info in one long page. Google makes it easy to create links to other documents to speed up the process of accessing related info. It also helps you organize a network of related content.

Just create a link and start typing the name of the doc or folder in the link box. Your documents will start to appear below for easy access.

22. Revision Tracking

When multiple people are working on the same Google Doc, you need to be able to know who made certain changes and when those changes are made. This is crucial for any project manager. Google Docs has the ability to show these revisions based on user and time. Simply click the File tab and select Version history > See version history.

Now you can view all revisions in a left sidebar and click the revision you wish to view.

Now you can work together revisions in a snap.

This revision tracking is also available in Google Sheets, Slides, and Forms as well.

23. Use Google Drawings to Sketch Wireframes and Design Infographics

Google Drawings has an intuitive UI for creating all kinds of helpful illustrations easily. Sure, it doesn’t pack the same punch as Illustrator or Sketch, but it can be useful for sketching wireframe and designing infographics.

Wireframes are useful for sketching out a blueprint of your website before it reaches the design phase. It can save your WordPress Web Design business a lot of time. So if you are looking to save money, Google Drawings can definitely do the trick. It offers all the shapes and text elements you need to create and align your wireframe.

If you want to up the scale of professionalism for your wireframes, there a many free wireframe templates available. A quick google search of Google Wireframe templates should get what you need.

And if you need an infographic to display on your website, Google Drawings can be a simple solution. Your infographic may not go viral or win awards, but it can boost your website with extremely helpful illustrations. And, because you can create charts and graphs based on actual data in a Google Sheet, you can speed up the process of design by inserting those charts created automatically.

24. Connect Google Drive Apps with Other Apps with Zapier

Zapier is a popular online software that allows you to share data between more than a thousand apps you use everyday. And yes, you guessed it. There are a lot of connections (or zaps) you can create with Google Apps. You can even create zaps to connect Google Drive with WordPress to create backups of your posts on a Google text file or log WordPress posts to a Google Sheets spreadsheet. And that is just a few examples. You can even connect different Google apps together and create Google Calendar events from a new Google Sheets spreadsheet row (or Google Form entry).

This kind of integration can automate tasks for your business and save you time and money.

25. Security

Security tends to be a luxury we take for granted until, of course, we don’t have it. Google does seem to take security seriously, building their core security infrastructure into all of their services. Plus, there are ways to make your account more secure with things like 2-step verification.

Google Cloud Storage also seems to have a security model that your WordPress business can trust. I’m not saying it going to be the best fit for your company, but it may be a smart solution for Google fans.

Drive Off Into the Sunset

Chances are that you already use Google Drive in some way for your WordPress business. That’s great, and you probably have seen how much it can help. Hopefully, though, we’ve hit on some ways that you and your team can really get more out of the service. Not everything will work for every one, but as we’ve implemented a lot of these around here at ET, we’ve definitely noticed a difference in how much more work we get done and how much nicer it is to get that work done.

How do you use Google Drive to power your WordPress company? Let us know in the comments!

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