Limited by budget? If you utilize Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords), go ahead and make room for another tool – the Performance Planner. Google’s new planner, announced at this year’s Google Marketing Live, provides a safe space for advertisers to forecast performance without making adjustments to current campaigns.

Google claims this tool can drive 43% more conversions for advertisers by identifying ideal campaign spend. This is particularly useful for small or emerging brokerages that can’t always afford to compete at the same scale as larger brands when it comes to ad spend. Yes, the tool will probably advise advertisers to raise budgets. But the planner is accounting for billions of search queries, updated daily and uses machine learning to tweak its forecasts.

The planner can now be found in the “tools” menu of your Google Ads account. To use it, campaigns must have been running for at least 72 hours, received at least 3 clicks in the last 7 days or received at least one conversion. This forecasting tool only applies to search campaigns.

Using clicks or conversions as a key metric, the planner recommends how to distribute your monthly budget across campaigns to maximize conversions. The fun doesn’t stop there! The tool allows you to click around and see the number of conversions you could get if you raised your monthly budget even more. By selecting a date range, you can also compare your planned forecast with past performance.

And while using the keyword planner is essential during campaign set-up, you don’t need to turn to it for tweaks and adjustments. Within the planner is the ability to try out new keywords and see how they might affect conversions (don’t forget to try match types other than “broad”).

For those with limited budgets and/or manpower, this tool can save a lot of time and help eliminate a lot of guesswork. It provides deeper, data-driven insights to advertisers looking to optimize their campaigns. And at the very least, if you choose not to implement any changes based on the outcome of the forecast, you will have a concrete reason to blame a lackluster campaign on scarcity of funds.

Needless to say, Google doesn’t guarantee performance. A disclaimer at the bottom provides a friendly reminder that the responsibility of your campaign performance is of course, yours and yours alone.

Is your company website beyond riveting, or a total disaster? Like a true friend who isn’t afraid to give an honest opinion and some tough love, HubSpot’s Website Grader will analyze your website and tell you if it stinks or shines.

It literally takes less than a minute, so there’s no reason not to try it. Simply enter your webpage and email address, and Website Grader will analyze your site in four categories: performance, mobile, SEO, and security. You’ll receive a report card with an overall grade in each category, plus each category has a checklist of subcategories that also receive a grade. In this way, you’ll be able to take a detailed look at what’s working well on your site and what could use some improvement.

In the category of performance, Website Grader looks at the factors on your site that will generate traffic, leads, and conversions – and ultimately, more profit for your business. A lot of this has to do with just making sure the site itself loads quickly and smoothly and is easy to use.

Luckily, the tool provides suggestions for improvement if there are elements slowing down your site. In fact, in every category and subcategory by which Website Grader scores your site, there’s a link to an accompanying blog post where you can learn more about how to make your site better.

Besides performance, Website Grader also makes sure that your site looks good and is easy to use on mobile devices, ensuring that the site works well on all sizes of phones and tablets. Website Grader will also let you know how well you’re playing the SEO game. It analyzes the titles, headlines, and meta descriptions on your site to let you know whether human users and search bots can easily find your site.

Lastly, Website Grader will score the security level of your site – both in terms of the security features that protect your site from attack, as well as the ways in which users are assured that your site is trustable and that any information they share on the site will be secure.

Finally, the tool gives you a “what should I do next” summary that gives specific recommendations for actions you can take to improve your site in the areas where you received a lower score. There’s also a link to a free trial of Marketing Hub, a package of tools to help you improve your site.

Take a peek at how The NY Times performs as an example:

You already know that building a brand (for yourself OR a brokerage) is a lot of work. There’s not only fierce competition, but there’s a lot of ground to cover.

A huge portion of that ground is being present on social media. This doesn’t just mean consistently posting content that is important and relevant to your brand, but it also means keeping tabs on who is following you and engaging with said content.

That’s why Metrics Coffee is here to help. With this new tool, it helps you keep track of your social media metrics by sending you a detailed email to your inbox every Monday morning.

So, how does it work? First, you enter your email to register (the first month is free, woot woot!) and then you attach all of your social media handles to your account.

Then, every Monday morning, you’ll receive an email from Metrics Coffee with a detailed look at your personal metrics. It’ll show the number of followers on each specific platform, and how much your follower count has gone up (or down) within the last week.

Platforms that it currently tracks are: Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, ConvertKit, and ButtonDown. If there’s a platform that isn’t included that you’d like them to track (we would suggest LinkedIn as it is overtly missing), you can request that they integrate said platforms.

“I recently become an independent developer (quit my job!) and started making courses and conducting workshops. I get most of my audience from my twitter and YouTube channel, so I’ve become more intentional about building an audience, said Metrics Coffee maker, Siddharth Kshetrapal. “[I] started tracking [the metrics] with pen and paper along with my morning coffee, but I would forget doing this all the time! Realized I need it to be a push not pull. And that’s why I built this product! It keeps a track of my social accounts and sends me an email every Monday; including my tiny newsletter.”

Much like one needs their Monday morning coffee, Metrics Coffee is designed to give you a rush of adrenaline and inspiration that will help you start your work week. It’s such a simple concept that we wonder why this hasn’t been around for a decade already.