Account Planning Toolkit (see below) is a collection of links to offbeat and non-obvious tools for account planners and strategists - ideally, with instructions about how and why to use them. If you have written something on your blog (or elsewhere) that fits, I'd love to feature a link.

Account Planning Toolkit

Behavior Change Strategy Cards
Behaviour Wizard : Step-by-step guide to achieving behaviour change
Bookworm: How often has your brand name been used in TV shows/movies?
Brand Personas: Create a visual profile of how the Internet 'sees' your brand
Change-maker Cards: How to influence customer behaviour towards sustainability (PDF Link)
Consumer Barometer: Insights into how consumers use offline and online information during the purchase process
Consumer Trend Canvas: A framework to unpack and understand any trend (PDF Link)
Data Visualisation: 30 Simple Tools
Dictionary of Numbers: Put large numbers in easy-to-understand terms
Digital Strategy Toolbox
Empathy Mapping to uncover consumer insights
Find The Data : Compare publically available information
Free Research: 8 resources every marketer needs
Google Drawing : Completely intuitive drawing photo-manipulation utility
IBM Manyeyes : Create visualisations based on user-defined datasets
Lexicalist Trends: Popular slang in the US (by demographic)
Market Research: A Sampler of Free Market-Research Tools
MECE: A list of qualities lists should have
Minimum Viable Ethnography
Open PlanningWare : Free for all planning charts
Personas: 100 questions to ask yourself before creating a buyer persona
Personas: Approaches to creating Qualitative and Quantitative Personas (PDF Link)
Phoenix Checklist: Checklist of questions used by the CIA to think thru problems
Plannersphere Search Engine: Customised search that returns results only from planning blogs
Sample Size Calculator : Calculate sample size based on target population
SlideFinder : Search the internet for slides from publicly available presentations
StrategyDeck iOS app: All communication strategy tools in one deck of tip-cards
The Planning Canvas : Organising the process of strategic planning
Twitch Point Planning
Twitter: 8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams
Typeform: Create free (and attractive) online surveys
Vocabulary Wheel: Find the perfect word to describe consumers' feelings
Web Seer : Compare Google Suggest results
Worksheet to create computer free digital experiences
Worldometers : World statictics updated in real-time

Planning Craft

How to win an IPA EFffectiveness Award (in 24 simple steps)

Presentation Resources

Cassette Generator
Catalog Card Generator
David Armano's Visual Thinking Archive
Flip Title : write upside down, like this [uʍop ǝpısdn ǝʇıɹʍ]
How to embed Youtube videos in PowerPoint presentations
Image Mosaic Generator: Convert any of your pics to an image mosaic
Periodic Table of Visualisation techniques
Quotes for Planners
Speech Calculator: How long will your ___ word speech take?
Spell With Flickr
Twitlogo: Generate Your Own Twitter Logo
Wordle - create word clouds

Utilities

Capture Full Page : Screenshot entire web page as a continuous image
Convert PDF Documents to Word and vice versa
Copypastecharacter: Copy and paste accented characters and symbols
Down for everyone or just me? - Check if a site/blog is down for only you or for the rest of the world
Gridzzly: Create printable paper with customised lines and dots
How to delete accounts from any website
MediaFire (File Transfer utility)
Melt Mail: Create temporary email addresses that forward mail to your own and are discarded after a preset time
Time Zones: A visual representation of time zones
Universal Viewer : Open almost any file format
Verify e-mail address: Check if an address exists or not

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