Regardless of whether you’re just starting an ecommerce business or are searching for additional resources to make your current business processes more powerful, you can’t be a spendthrift – particularly when it is a small business.

Small business demands wise investments in the right resources and not everything that you see others in a similar space utilizing.

Today, there are so many top ecommerce platforms and tools available online to help small ecommerce brands accomplish the highest level of efficiency, and make their presence in the industry. But the real challenge is to know what you need in your toolkit and what you can manage without.

In this article, we would like to share some of our top picks for you to help you create beautiful marketing content that drives results for your online store.

Death To The Stock Photo

Death To The Stock Photo is a free subscription service that emails you a bunch of beautiful photos every month for use in your advertising content.

The fact that you just get a few images sent to you each month can make it hard if you need a particular image for a specific campaign, yet there is likewise a premium option which gives you access to the entire archive of photos and enables you to download them whenever you require.

On a personal level, if you’re a huge admirer of incredible photography then you can subscribe just to get a couple of beautiful photos in your inbox each month.

IM Free

IM Free is a stock photography site that offers a great many excellent stock photographs for free. The photography on the site is far above the average, cheesy stock photos you find somewhere else on the web, and all the images are truly very well categorised so it’s easy to explore a beautiful stock photograph for your marketing content.

Examples of free images on IM Free:

Canva

Want to design a quick Facebook cover image? What about something for Instagram? It’s easy to design anything in Canva. Canva is an incredible tool for creating beautiful marketing pictures.

Canva contains thousands of beautiful stock images and then you can include various elements, such as banners, buttons, text, etc on top to create a magnificent piece of visual marketing content.

What sets Canva separate is it’s drag and drop visual editor, which means you can essentially choose the components you want and drag and drop them to the definite spot you need them.

Graphic River

Graphic River is a design marketplace where expert designers can upload their work and store owners like you can buy it for use in your marketing content. There are more than 285,000 items to be available for purchase on Graphic River and the site is well-categorised with incredible search functionality, making it simple to discover the exact item you are searching for.

For ecommerce store owners like you, there are some incredible icons and banners on the site which can help make your next marketing or promotion campaigns more visually engaging.

Some banner photos for sale on Graphic River:

PlaceIt

PlaceIt is an extraordinary tool for showcasing screenshots of your website, application, or digital product in different devices. You can either upload an image from your PC or enter a URL, and PlaceIt will get an image and ‘place it’ inside the screen of your choice.

What makes PlaceIt so incredible for store owners like you is its wide alternatives of devices and screens, which means you can easily add your screenshots to everything from a Samsung Galaxy sitting on a work desk to a MacBook Pro sitting on a park bench.

Here’s some example images created using PlaceIt:

Over to you

Based on what your ecommerce business brings to the table and the type of visitors your website gets, pick a tools that will compliment your business goals. It is essentials to remember the budget you need to set aside before investing in a tool – if you do, you should give it a minimum 3 months run period to understand if it advantageous to your business or not.

Is there a tool that you use for your small ecommerce store and think should be a part of this list? Don’t hesitate to contribute to this post by us a line on support@builderfly.com