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✨14 Essential Apps for Marketers
Feel like critical context is missing? Same. Make 2026 the year context travels with every campaign. Discover 14 apps across creative, ads, events, and more that pair well with HubSpot — so your team always has the full picture.
💡 Top 3 Tools of the week
GRANOLA
CALLS & MEETINGS
An AI-powered meeting notepad that transforms your raw notes into structured, searchable summaries. Stay focused on the conversation while Granola captures the details.
💸 Pricing: Free.
🌐 Website: www.granola.ai
TEXT BLAZE
CHROME EXTENSION
Replaces repetitive typing with smart snippets and dynamic templates. Automate text, forms, and workflows across any website or app.
💸 Pricing: Free.
🌐 Website: blaze.today
EXPANDI
OUTREACH
A LinkedIn and email outreach platform built for sales teams, recruiters, and agencies. Automate personalized campaigns, scale prospecting, and book more meetings.
💸 Pricing: From €79/month.
🌐 Website: expandi.io
🤯 Extra Tools & Websites
Essential Apps for Marketers
Email Scraper from maps and social media
Everyone can create websites and apps
Lifetime Deals
Pay once. Use forever. 💸
JoggAI: Turn your ideas, text, links, and images into stunning videos featuring lifelike AI avatars in just minutes. $99 lifetime.
Video to Blog: Convert YouTube videos into SEO blog articles in a matter of seconds. $99 lifetime.
Poppy AI: Drag in YouTube videos, PDFs, and voice notes to write on-brand scripts, posts, and emails with AI. $249 lifetime.
💊 Marketing Pills
Latest news and trends from the web
🍏 Apple WWDC 2026: The 7 biggest announcements
📈 Why so much SEO work no longer drives growth
🧑🎨 Meet the creators defining the internet in 2026
💽 What data can't tell you (but a conversation can)
👩💻 How to make vibe coding sustainable inside the enterprise
⚡ How to build a Growth Marketing Team on a startup budget
🏳️ Why most AI fails social teams (and how social-first AI is different)
📚 # The book of the week: Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World (Rand Fishkin)
🎥Video of the week
Become AI Native in less than 60 mins
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