No Code for Marketers β Hereβs How It Can Be Useful
Lisa Dziuba
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No code tools for marketing + its benefits. Long-read π
Iβve been working in the marketing space since 2012, leading a design & development startup and then SDK marketing for $54M in funding US company. Since that time I have used various tools to speed up my work.
Today, while leading all the marketing for WeLoveNoCode (https://welovenocode.com/), a marketplace to hire no-code developers, I became very familiar with the no-code space, using no-code tools almost daily. While I knew about no code and used it before, especially in product development (https://www.producthunt.com/stories/how-to-ship-faster-with-design-sprints-and-no-code), I never thought it could be powerful for marketing.
π€ So how can no-code tools boost our marketing performance?
In marketing, we need to work fast and deliver results: users, traction, MoM growth, and constant testing of new marketing channels. Therefore, marketing functions should have cross-functional support from designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, and automation experts to move so fast.
π If that support is not there, marketing teams can use no-code tools (yes, marketing can learn those tools). With these tools, people with little or no programming skills can build products/apps/automation easily and quickly. The main benefits for the marketing team from using no-code are:
π Speed of releasing new marketing initiatives.
At WeLoveNoCode, we have several Tilda temples for marketing pages, and the marketing team can easily edit, improve and launch them almost instantly.
π Ability to automate processes in marketing.
Marketers can also take advantage of no-code by building integration between various systems, having robust reports and workflows.
π Ability to keep tracking of marketing activities and spending with no-code tools. We track all marketing OKRs, projects, initiatives, paid and content campaigns, all that in Airtable. Go-To-Market planning with having all activities in one Airtable/Coda makes everyone perfectly aligned. If you add integration to Slack with changes updates, you will have almost a smooth flow.
π Ability to organize marketing researches and knowledge base simple and fast. Tools like Coda, Notion, or Airtable are perfect for competitive research, database projects, and keeping all internal knowledge synchronized and organized.
π Simplicity of user research.
With no code tools running simple surveys and analyzing them becomes super simple. Furthermore, tools like Typeform can be integrated everywhere in several clicks.
π Let's talk about several no-code tools for marketing, which marketing teams can start using right now:
π Tilda, Carrd, and Webflow β can be used for creating high-converting landing pages to inform and guide customers. All of the tools have simple interfaces and a rich built-in UX. You can also create pages fast to test hypotheses from available templates done by your team or bought from the templates marketplaces.
π Typeform and Google Form β can be used in creating questionnaires, UX research, feedback gathering systems, and all ways of getting customer data for further marketing segmentation.
π Zapier β can be used to integrate two or more apps and automate workflows. For example, when you collect a new lead, it can be automatically synced to a CRM and sent a personalized message.
π Airtable β can be used for campaign management, content, social media planner, product launches, lead management, and even hiring.
π Coda β can be used for organizing information and learnings, which I can share with the community.
π Notion β can be used as a knowledge database, kanban board, project briefs.
π Miro and Mural β can be used to design user journeys, empathy maps, personas.
Update, more tools to check:
Siter.io
TallyForm
Sembly Personal
I plan to make an ebook book π on how marketers can use no code with step-by-step guides for every part of the marketing process. If that is something interesting for you, let me know in the comments.
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Imtiyaz @imtiyaz922
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Thanks for writing up this article. Really liked the each briefing you mentioned above.
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Designmodo
Addition to landing page creation is https://siter.io/
Designmodo
@lisadziuba Siter.io is a free-hand tool with direct deploy to live website, like figma + sketch editor.
Candle
Are there any no-code tools for easily a/b testing a website?
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Ecoisme 2.0
Looking forward to read the ebook π
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@adiatlov you can enjoy our Marketing for Startups ebook:
https://welovenocode.com/marketi...
Love the resources. Mentioned in another comment, but Shopify and some of the landing page apps that sit on top of it (e.g. PageFly) are highly underrated IMHO. I'm moderately competent at writing Liquid (Shopify's open source language built on Ruby) but for the most part I don't have to use it because the no code apps in their ecosystem are powerful and easy to test out.
Voiceflow is another great one, v. useful for marketers in creating voice & chatbot conversation flows https://www.voiceflow.com/
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@joecardillo Thanks for sharing! voiceflow is very interesting but I didn't have a chance to use it yet.
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Super happy that community loved my post π©π»
Sembly AI
Nice collection!
You can add here a π Sembly Personal β as well, can be used for record&transcript marketing team online meetings, coming with notes, bookmarks, sharing etc.
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Sembly AI
@lisadziuba yes, Zoom, Google Meet (only Google Workspace versions for now), MS Teams (business), and more exotic Cisco Webex
The next big release coming soon, but Sembly Personal is here, and it is free to use!
Adding TallyForm to this no code marketing hub [https://tally.so/] βοΈ
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@simona_stamatovska do you use it?
@simona_stamatovska @lisadziuba Thanks a lot! Happy to help with any questions about Tally (https://tally.so)
WeWeb.io
Great list of tools and benefits π
I'd add Copy.ai for copywriging and TexAu or PhantomBuster for automation.
Angle Audio
Damn, thanks for sharing all that! I'm already using many of these tools, but I'm also seeing a few I've never heard of. Will definitely check them out. π
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Notion and Coda are my best friends, and I really can't imagine my workflow without them)) We use Coda in our company as a source of truth, where we collect all the data about features, researches, quarter plans, etc. And for personal planning and notes, I use Notion.
@valia_havryliuk Thank you for this! Regular Notion user, but haven't tried Coda before, going to check it out.
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@valia_havryliuk @joecardillo love Notion and love Coda!
You can easily get free tools to growth your acquisition but SEO stay the best way
If you want to know more the https://theconsultantmarketing.com/
Bookmarked to have a proper read through later!
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P.S.: If you want to learn more about the no-code movement and understand how to build your idea, marketing automation, or MVP you can book a free consultation call with no-code experts from my team: https://welovenocode.com/freenoc...
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My top no-code tools:
Airtbale
Adalo
Tilda
Wix
WordPress
Webflow
Zapier
Personally, I like Typeform. I've integrated them successfully with other nocode tools in some of my projects.
That book would be great!
Hmm helpful. What are the best NoCode tools to automate emails?
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@danyagorenko
the tool which don't get your emails in spam π
As someone who came to NoCode from marketing, I completely agree with the article. NoCode is great for testing different concepts as well as creating a quick MVP for users.
I used several of above mentioned tools, it really works. Thank you for sharing!