marketing brand, Digital Presence, E-Commerce Tools & finance tools

finance/monetise

Simplified is an all-in-one AI-powered platform for content creation, design, video editing, and social media management, built to streamline workflows for individuals, teams, and businesses. It offers tools for writing, visual content, scheduling, and collaboration in one place.

Komi.io is a platform that helps creators build customizable mini-sites to showcase content, sell products, and connect with their audience—all in one place.

Buffer – A social media scheduling and analytics platform designed to help individuals and brands plan, publish, and track performance across multiple channels.

Para is a platform that helps creators monetize their fanbase through interactive donation tools and personalized support pages.

MyPremo is a platform that lets creators sell content directly to fans, keeping 80% of revenue with no subscriptions or ads.

Jotform is a powerful, no-code online form and survey builder that enables users to create custom forms with drag-and-drop ease, collect payments securely, and manage submissions with tools like Tables, Inbox, PDF editing, e-signatures, and workflow automation .

CAASie is a self‑serve, programmatic outdoor advertising platform that allows users to plan, buy, and manage digital billboard campaigns globally in real time, only paying for ad plays without contracts .

Desygner is an easy-to-use online graphic design platform offering templates, tools, and brand management features for individuals, businesses, and teams. Ideal for creating marketing materials, social media content, and branded documents without needing professional design skills.

Similarweb provides market intelligence and web analytics solutions that help users analyze traffic sources, audience behavior, and competitive performance across websites and apps, supporting strategic marketing and growth decisions.

Semrush is a comprehensive digital marketing platform offering tools for SEO, PPC, content marketing, keyword research, and competitive analysis—used to improve online visibility and track marketing performance.

Stan Store is a streamlined e‑commerce “link‑in‑bio” platform that enables creators to sell digital products, online courses, memberships, coaching sessions, and email sign‑ups directly from their social profiles via a polished mobile storefront .

Gotracksuit offers a platform for marketers to track brand health and demonstrate marketing ROI through user-friendly dashboards and affordable insights from ongoing surveys.

Trendhunter is a vast database of ideas and innovations, providing AI-powered trend reports and a weekly newsletter to help brands gain faster insights.

Soon Futures (SOON Future Studies) is a futures-focused think tank and consultancy that uncovers cultural signals and macro-to-micro insights—through reports, visual databases, and workshops—to help businesses anticipate the next 3–5 years .

MeetGlimpse tracks fast-growing consumer trends by analyzing millions of online signals, helping businesses stay ahead of emerging market shifts.

Laylo is a fan engagement platform that lets creators instantly notify followers about drops like music, merch, or tickets via email, SMS, or DMs.

finance/monetise

ScoreApp is a platform that enables businesses to create interactive quizzes and scorecards to attract and qualify leads. By offering personalized insights and tailored recommendations, it helps convert prospects into clients and focuses on engaging high-quality leads.

Awwwards is a platform that recognizes and celebrates the talent, creativity, and innovation of the world’s best web designers, developers, and digital agencies.

Capterra Australia is a software discovery platform that helps Australian businesses compare and select software solutions through verified user reviews, feature comparisons, and expert insights.

TrendHunter is a trend research platform that tracks emerging ideas, innovations, and consumer insights to guide creative and business strategy.

Carrd lets you quickly build simple, responsive one-page websites.

Blinq is a digital business card platform that lets users create customizable cards they can share via QR code, link, or NFC. It integrates with CRMs, supports Apple and Google Wallets, and offers tools for individuals and teams to manage professional contacts efficiently.

Relume is an AI-powered website builder that enables users to generate sitemaps, wireframes, and style guides from simple text prompts, streamlining the web design process.

Weebly is a drag-and-drop website builder that lets users create websites, blogs, and online stores easily, with built-in e-commerce and marketing tools.

Ocoya – A content automation and social media scheduling platform that combines AI copywriting with visuals and analytics for streamlined multi-channel marketing.

ShipStation is a shipping and order management platform that helps e-commerce businesses streamline fulfillment, print labels, and track shipments across multiple sales channels.

ConnectQR is an AI-powered QR code platform that enables businesses to create, customise, and manage dynamic QR codes with real-time analytics, seamless integrations, and scalable solutions tailored for marketing, retail, events, and more.

Depict.ai is an AI-driven visual merchandising platform that lets brands create stunning, on-brand product imagery in seconds—no studio needed. It transforms e-commerce into curated, high-impact visuals that scale with style.

Klaviyo is a marketing automation platform that helps e-commerce businesses grow by using customer data to deliver personalized email and SMS campaigns, predictive analytics, and integrated workflows.

Square Australia offers tools for businesses to accept payments, manage sales, run online stores, and handle operations—all through an integrated POS and e-commerce platform.

Shopify is a leading e-commerce platform that allows individuals and businesses to create, customize, and manage their own online stores.

Stripe is a powerful payments infrastructure platform that enables businesses of all sizes to accept online payments, manage revenue, and build financial services.

Lemon Squeezy is an all-in-one platform for selling digital products, managing subscriptions, and automating global tax compliance for creators and SaaS businesses.

Audience Monetisation

Revolut — A global financial-app platform offering multi-currency accounts, international transfers, budgeting tools and investment features.

Sharetribe provides no-code and developer-ready tools for building and scaling online marketplaces.

Patreon is a platform where creators earn recurring income by offering exclusive content to supporters.

Ko-fi lets creators accept donations, memberships, and commissions directly from fans without high platform fees.

Buy Me a Coffee is a platform where creators can receive one-off or recurring support from their audience.

Substack enables writers to publish paid or free newsletters and build direct subscriber communities.

beehiiv is a growth-focused newsletter platform to launch, scale, and monetise email audiences.

Ecoomm/Payments

Paddle offers a complete payment and revenue delivery platform tailored for SaaS companies, including billing, tax, and compliance solutions.

Lemon Squeezy is an all-in-one platform for selling digital products with built-in payments, subscriptions, and tax handling.

Stripe provides a global payments infrastructure for businesses to accept payments, manage revenue, and scale online.

Build Your Store – Offers a free AI-powered Shopify store complete with niche-selected winning products, customizable themes, product-optimized pages, plus a complimentary .store domain to jump-start a dropshipping business.

Import.io — a veteran in e‑commerce data extraction, offering bespoke extractor services that retrieve hard‑to‑reach, high‑value data at scale

Square Website Builder (AU) — A fully customisable website and online store builder that lets you choose from professional themes, adapt design elements like banners, layouts, icons, and spacing, and connect a custom domain starting from just A$31.95 per year.

Shop — a versatile app by Shopify that lets users access top brands, track deliveries, and checkout quickly using Shop Pay.

Orb powers usage-based pricing, metering, invoicing, and reporting for modern software billing.

Lemon Squeezy provides all-in-one payments, subscriptions, and global tax compliance for SaaS and digital products.

FastSpring is a global digital commerce platform tailored for SaaS, software, games, and online content, handling payments, subscriptions, taxes, and fraud.

social media marketing

Planable streamlines collaborative social content calendars with review and approval workflows.

Hootsuite helps teams plan, publish, monitor, and report across multiple social networks.

Sprout Social is an enterprise social media management, analytics, listening, and customer care platform.

Planoly provides a visual planner and scheduler for Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest with link-in-bio tools.

Buffer offers simple social media scheduling, analytics, and engagement for growing audiences.

Planet.fans is a subscription-based fan monetisation platform for creators.

Stan Store lets creators sell digital products, courses, and services online.

Cargo is a website builder and portfolio platform for creatives.

Lnk.Bio is a minimalist link-in-bio tool that lets creators and brands curate multiple links under a single profile, ideal for Instagram and other social platforms. It offers customizable layouts, analytics, and integration with major platforms.

Zaap.ai is a creator-focused platform that offers a customisable digital storefront and link-in-bio tool to showcase content, products, and services in one place.

Tally.so is a free, no-code form builder with advanced features like conditional logic, payments, and integrations.

Bento is a digital profile and link-in-bio tool that helps individuals showcase their work, passions, and online presence in a visually compelling way.

Laylo is a fan engagement platform that lets creators instantly notify followers about drops like music, merch, or tickets via email, SMS, or DMs.

AdCreative.ai – A marketing platform that generates conversion-optimized ad creatives using AI, allowing users to produce and test large volumes of ads efficiently.

Blaze is an AI-powered marketing platform tailored for solo entrepreneurs and small teams, enabling users to generate, schedule, and analyze branded content—such as blogs, social media posts, and ads—across multiple channels efficiently.

Copy.ai – An AI writing platform designed for marketers and teams, offering automated content generation for emails, product descriptions, blogs, and more.

social media marketing

Modash provides tools for discovering and monitoring global influencers across platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, with real-time audience insights and campaign tracking.

Favikon is an AI-powered influencer analytics and ranking platform that enables brands to identify, vet, and track creators based on detailed performance and authenticity metrics.

Collabstr helps brands connect directly with influencers for paid collaborations, offering a streamlined platform for influencer discovery and campaign management.

Social Cat is an influencer marketing platform that connects brands with micro-influencers for streamlined collaborations and campaign management.

CreatorFlow — Australia’s largest UGC platform connecting brands and agencies with vetted creators who produce high-converting video ads.

Influee — A UGC creator marketplace giving brands access to thousands of vetted global creators for authentic video-content campaigns.

Emplifi — An AI-powered social, commerce, and customer-experience platform helping brands manage influencer marketing, analytics, and engagement.

Apollo delivers a comprehensive sales intelligence and outreach platform for prospecting and go-to-market teams.

Semrush is an all-in-one platform for SEO, keyword research, competitor analysis, and digital marketing insights.

Customer / Audience Management

Freshdesk offers an AI-powered customer service solution designed to boost agent productivity and streamline support.

HiverHQ is a customer-service platform built for shared inboxes and collaborative email workflows that tie into Gmail and other apps.

SAAS First is an all-in-one customer engagement platform featuring human-led and AI-driven support automation across channels.

Zoho Desk is an online help-desk software from Zoho, empowering agents with contextual tools, workflows and analytics.

Help Scout provides a shared inbox, help-center and live-chat suite focused on simple, human-centred customer support.

Zoho offers a comprehensive cloud-software suite of 55+ business applications trusted by millions worldwide.

Salesforce is a leading AI-enabled CRM platform that unifies customer-data, service, sales and marketing into a single platform.

Missive is an email-centric team collaboration tool that enables shared inboxes, chat, and behind-the-scenes coordination on customer communications.

Front is a shared-inbox and collaboration platform designed to streamline customer communication and team workflows across channels.

Tidio is a website live-chat platform with integrated AI chatbot and multichannel messaging — ideal for small-to-mid businesses.

The CX Lead is a resource platform focusing on customer-experience management, reviews, tools and best practices.

HappyFox is a help-desk and ticketing solution offering automation, omnichannel support and analytics for organised customer service.

Kustomer is a unified customer-service CRM that consolidates conversations across channels into a single timeline for personalised support.

TeamSupport is a help-desk platform built for business-to-business support teams with ticketing, customer-account context and workflow tools.

Keap (formerly Infusionsoft) is a CRM and marketing-automation platform aimed at small businesses, combining pipeline, email, invoicing and automation.

Kovai develops a suite of enterprise-software tools aimed at simplifying complex workflows, integration and monitoring tasks.

Kayako is a cloud-based customer-service platform that blends live chat, help-desk ticketing and a unified customer-journey view.

market research

GWI provides global consumer research data covering attitudes, behaviors, and audience insights across 50+ markets.

Statista aggregates global statistics, market data, and industry reports across thousands of topics.

Loop11 enables user-testing of websites and prototypes without needing coding skills.

Typeform allows teams to create conversational forms and surveys that increase response rates.

Qualtrics offers enterprise-grade survey, market research, and experience management tools.

Google Trends shows real-time search interest to reveal what topics people are looking for.

Tableau transforms raw data into interactive visual dashboards for analytics and insights.

Qualaroo delivers targeted on-site surveys to capture customer sentiment in real time.

Temper measures customer mood using embeddable emoji-based feedback widgets.

BrandMentions tracks brand references across social and web channels for reputation monitoring.

SurveyMonkey provides easy-to-use survey tools and access to global respondent panels.

AnswerThePublic reveals popular keyword questions people search for online.

Make My Persona builds quick buyer personas to clarify audience segments.

BuzzSumo analyzes content performance, social shares, and online mentions for trend discovery.

NielsenIQ provides purchase, retail, and shopper analytics to track consumer buying behavior.

Userlytics offers remote UX testing for websites, prototypes, and digital experiences.

Mosaic by Experian segments consumers into lifestyle-based groups.

market research 2

Clarabridge uses advanced text analytics to interpret sentiment from open-ended feedback.

Brandwatch offers deep social listening and digital consumer intelligence.

Dash Social is a social-media management platform for planning, scheduling, and tracking content performance.

Resonate provides psychographic insights into consumer values, motivations, and behaviors.

Sogolytics provides advanced survey, NPS, and customer experience analytics.

JotForm enables quick creation of customizable online forms for research and data collection.

SurveySparrow creates conversational surveys designed to increase engagement and response quality.

Trustpilot Insights turns customer review data into actionable sentiment insights.

SimilarWeb analyzes website and app traffic to reveal competitive digital performance.

Talkwalker delivers social listening and analytics, including visual content recognition.

Sprinklr provides enterprise-level customer experience and social analytics tools.

Placer.ai delivers anonymized foot-traffic analytics for physical locations.

YouGov Profiles offers detailed audience segmentation and attitudinal data.

Sentient Decision Science uncovers subconscious motivations using behavioral science tools.

Looker (Google) embeds analytics and BI dashboards into everyday workflows.

Ethnio recruits research participants and manages scheduling, screening, and incentives.

MailerLite offers streamlined newsletter creation, automation, and audience management.

All in one marketing

Sender is an affordable email and SMS marketing platform with automation, segmentation, and list-building tools for small businesses and ecommerce.

Kartra is an all-in-one marketing platform combining sales funnels, email, pages, video hosting, and payments for course creators and online businesses.

Ahrefs is an AI-enhanced marketing and SEO platform for site audits, keyword research, competitive analysis, and brand visibility tracking.

Keap is a small-business CRM and automation suite that unifies contact management, email/SMS follow-ups, invoicing, and sales pipelines.

ActiveCampaign is an autonomous marketing platform that blends email, SMS, and CRM with powerful automation and behavioral targeting.

GetResponse is an all-in-one marketing suite for email, automation, funnels, and ecommerce campaigns with AI-assisted email tools.

Zoho is a broad cloud software suite whose CRM and marketing tools can be customized to manage sales, automation, and multichannel communication.

Systeme.io is a budget-friendly all-in-one tool for sales funnels, email marketing, online courses, and affiliate programs in a single dashboard.

Ontraport is a CRM and sales-automation platform that connects contact management, marketing workflows, payments, and subscriptions.

Mailercloud is an email marketing platform for automation, segmentation, and newsletter delivery.

SendPulse supports multi-channel marketing across email, automation, chatbots, and CRM tools.

Flodesk is a design-focused email marketing platform for visually polished newsletters and automations.

Mighty enables creators to build community platforms with courses, groups, content, and memberships.

Ghost is a professional publishing platform for newsletters, memberships, and independent media.

Buttondown offers a minimalist, developer-friendly tool for running simple newsletters.

Medium offers a publishing platform for long-form writing, blogging, and community-driven storytelling.

Mautic provides open-source marketing automation tools for campaigns, segmentation, and email workflows.

All in one marketing

NVivo supports deep qualitative data analysis for interviews, text, and multimedia.

BrandMetrics measures brand lift to show how campaigns impact awareness and preference.

ZoomInfo provides a B2B contact and company database platform for sales, marketing, and go-to-market intelligence.

Askable is an AI-powered research platform that enables rapid consumer and UX research by sourcing participants globally and delivering insights at scale.

Podia supports creators selling courses, digital products, memberships, and community spaces.

Patreon enables creators to run membership programs with tiers, benefits, and direct supporter funding.

GetResponse delivers email marketing, automation, landing pages, and funnel tools.

Moosend provides email marketing, automations, and analytics for small businesses and creators.