Tools we love and trust!
Here are just a few of the tools that Gandy-Draper trust and use on a frequent basis. Some are used monthly, some weekly, and others are multiple times per day.
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Tools for your website
We love love LOVE Siteground and now use it for 99% of our hosting services, both shared and dedicated.
In addition to its 99% uptime, the customer service is excellent!
There are various packages available, or you can just host using us and let Elle take care of everything on your behalf.
GoDaddy is the supplier we use to purchase the vast majority of our client domain names.
There is a plethora of reasons why, but price, support and ease of use are the major reasons.
We’ve been using them since 2006 and can’t foresee that changing anytime soon.
WPML is the ONLY translation software that we recommend to those clients that want more than auto-translate on their website.
It comes with oodles of tools and help files to set your website up for multiple languages.
It can be pricey going direct but our clients “ride” our licence for a much smaller fee.
UptimeRobot is the world’s leading uptime monitoring service with a user base of more then 2 million happy users – including us!
It’s a great way to monitor the uptime of your website… although if you’re hosting with us, you can enjoy a minimum of 99% uptime anyway. It’s really easy to use. Click below to get started.
Tools for marketing and email campaigns
MailerLite is a website that we frequently recommend to our clients. It has so many tools to send your marketing campaigns out to your subscribers.
The free version is enough for most businesses but upgrading to their premium subscription gives you even more!
Using SmarterQueue, the social media management tool that boosts engagement by 10x, has saved us hours and hours of work each week.
If you share lots of Third Party content across your Social Media accounts – this is the product for you.
Get a free extended trial with the link below
You can use Benchmark to create and send email campaigns.
It comes with more than 400 email templates and you can learn what engages your customers through split A / B testing. It’s like having your own crystal ball.
Click the button below to start with a FREE plan today!
Tools for Search Engine Optimisation and Monitoring
Sheer SEO is a great tool that allows you to monitor your search terms.
You can receive a weekly email from them which is a great way of catching any drops in your rankings, so that you can head off and tweak to get you back on top.
Click the link and pop your website URL in for free for instant results.
Rank Math is a MUST for anyone that puts extra time and effort into their SEO and expects great results.
We always recommend it for our more advanced clients.
If you are an existing Gandy-Draper client – we can take care of this for you of course!
Tools for your wallet
Revolut is a fantastic way to manage your money and pay for goods online.
You can send and accept money in oodles of different currencies and the fees are always either minimal or for free!
Click the button below on your mobile device and it will take you to the app store.
We also use Wise for sending & receiving payments and for managing our money.
You can send and receive your cash in multiple currencies and with low or zero fees!
Click the button below and it will take you through the steps to open your own Wise account