147 Handpicked Ecommerce Tools To Help You Succeed [2018]

By: Arun Kothapally

Here is a collation of ecommerce tools I have used and see it work for my digital marketing peers and clients. This is a long list and something you want to come back to repeatedly. I suggest you bookmark this blog post for future reference.

Idea Generation

Ideas by themselves don’t hold much value. The work is to bring them to life by making it concrete. These apps help you put your idea on paper and communicate it better with your team.

Milanote – Milanote is a tool for planning creative projects. You can collaborate your ideas, notes, and research with your team in a single place. If you are brainstorming about your online store design or your latest marketing campaign or creating your own new product then you can use Milanote as a place to brainstorm your ideas and give shape and structure to your creative research process. Milanote is a free tool.

Curator – Curator lets you collect visuals, graphics, websites, sketch intro text. Once you have all the necessary information you can organize and present your data in the form of a PDF presentation. You can even share your ideas with your team and client if you have their email ID. Curator has an IOS app if you want to ideate on the go. Curator is a great option if you are planning the launch of a new collection of products on your online store.

Xmind – Xmind is the perfect mind mapping tool. If you have a vague idea of a concept then Xmind helps you make it concrete by means of a mental mapping structure. You can pick a mental map template from the library and start putting your thoughts along with rich clipart and text. You can export your ideas in the form of PDF, PPT, Word and HTML documents. If you are writing a business plan or an article on your blog and still in the ideation stage then Xmind is a good tool to get started.

Skitch – Skitch is my favourite tool and I use it often for my blog. Skitch is the best tool to capture screenshots and annotate and give commentary in the form of text, sketches, shapes, and pointers. You might get many ideas for your online store while browsing your competitions online store or reading blog articles. You can take a screenshot of all such ideas, annotate and share it with your team or explore the idea at a later date. Skitch integrates with Evernote so all your notes are stored in a single place.

Design

The design is a critical aspect of an online store. As an online store entrepreneur or marketer, you might want to communicate certain aspects of design to your implementation team. You might want to provide all the necessary resources possible to your design team to execute on your idea. Following are few tools which will help you with the same.

UI Cloud – If you are designing anything on the web then you will need a bunch of UI elements like buttons, breadcrumbs, dropdowns, forms, navigation, and menu. UI Cloud is a search engine for all such elements. UI elements are also available for mobile and desktop apps, HTML5 and Vectors. The best part is these UI elements are available for free download as long as you give credit to the original work.

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