Social media is an ever-changing beast. You almost can’t have a business in this day and age without a presence in the online world and specifically, at least, one of the big eight social media sites. Gone are the days where only teens frequented MySpace to chat with friends. Social media is here to stay, and people are looking online for your business so you’d better present your best.
Quick toolbox for new social media tools, apps, tips, technology of interest to bloggers, content producers, storytellers, marketing & PR pros. Emphasis on practical not techhy, usable not confusable! ;-)
Achieving a fantastic online course is more or less equivalent to creating one or more great videos for your students. Luckily, nowadays video production is not just a privilege of the professionals. Impressive techniques that are popular amongst the experienced moviemakers have become available to beginners too. Affordable software and easy-to-use apps empower you as a course maker and unleash your creativity resulting in impressive instructional videos.
When it comes to video editing, you may be wondering what’s the best tool to use. The plethora of available software makes it even harder to choose. We did the hard work and the testing and curated the best software for you. So, let us guide you through the most popular and consumer-friendly video editing tools on the market.
Here are the top 21 tools we selected and tested for you. Let’s see what suits your needs...
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Terrific collection of video tools. Recommended reading.
Their is an urge to accept it to yourself that you could do a particulat task/procedure using a specific tool. Tools that are availaible like for video editing are never to be confused with instruments. The specifications and general flowchart or iternary that comes along with is only for refference purpouse and never more than that. Now the slot that gets decided as soon as you purchase the first app to edit your video acts only as supplement to the first needs of your video editing that you filled in while putting application for a particular or specific tool. Now after the purchase of tool let us anti-virus tool kit for example Quick Heal Anti-Virus, Anti-fishing and Anti-spamming tool kit. Now first thing that we have to be clear in our mind that the developer i.e. Quick Heal has under sun already has choosen that the Anti-Virus Software that comes along with the Quick Heal Tool Kit will specifically provide only a given solution that comes under the category of mentioned features. This also pre decide the level and specification of the user and also all the related services that comes under the umbrella which are in series with Quick Heal Tool Kit. Now from here a general introduction to video editing in which we could mention lenses which are reason for frame of video wether 80 mm or 8 mm. Does an tool could be made that releases a video within a structured frame that is prepared to resemble requisite heading of the video. Now such video if uploaded will come into exiquensential of a block in which it has got entrance on the basis of minimum requirement procurred after treating it with Tool Kit. Does or does not the further analysis of prepared video will prove it to be applicant in trading the phase two procedure after covering the block face. That tells the true value of Tool Kit. Blog Writer : Ashish Vaid Area.Pin : 134102 vaidashish95@gmail.com
Social media platforms continue releasing tools to generate and distribute videos, to help users reach new followers and build their communities.
Here is a list of new and updated video tools for social media. There are tools for live streaming, collaborating with others, distributing content, editing, and shooting 360 degree video.
Mockup templates are ideal for showcasing your design directly on the appropriate medium. Whether it is an iPhone or iPad, Apple Watch or MacBook, T-Shirt or a giant billboard – you’ll definitely find the right free mockups among these resources.
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A curated list of websites with free mockups of the highest quality, that can be used for personal and commercial projects.
Content marketing is equal parts strategic, creative, and technical. In order to optimize your content efforts to produce maximum impact, you need to get comfortable with the technical side of content marketing.
Content plus tools equals higher ROI! That’s why we’ve put together a list of great technical tips and tools that will help optimize your content marketing results across the board....
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Ian Cleary puts together a list of great technical tips and tools that will help optimize your content marketing results across the board.
In the past decade, Marketing has gained access to a host of SaaS tools that optimize, simplify, and generally improve marketing efforts. Some, like Google's suite of tools, or Facebook's advertising options, have been around for a few years now—an eternity in Internet time—and you're probably already using them. Others are much newer, often with abstract names that don't necessarily reveal how powerful they really are.
What marketing tools should your company be using right now?
Here are 17 for 2017: some new, some tried and true, all totally useful.
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Here are 17 excellent social marketing tools you can put to use right away.
SITEMAPS IN SECONDS Jump from vague ideas to a concrete plan with just a few clicks. Every time you plan a website, WriteMaps helps you to stay 100% focused on the planning, and not lose time on formatting.
SHARE YOUR SITEMAP Simply share your sitemap with a unique URL to get input and signoff from your team or client. With just one click, they have eyes on the sitemap, no wasting time with creating accounts.
COLLECT PAGE CONTENT Share with your client or copywriter to fill with content. With WriteMaps, all your content is neatly organised and you can jump to the content of any page instantly and without fuss.
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Ever wish you had a simple tool to help you sketch out ideas for a website? Welcome to WriteMaps, an awesome freemium tool. I use it regularly and highly recommend it. Easy to use, intuitive, and even the premium features are not too expensive. 10/10
Ever wish you had a simple tool to help you sketch out ideas for a website? Welcome to WriteMaps, an awesome freemium tool. I use it regularly and highly recommend it. Easy to use, intuitive, and even the premium features are not too expensive. 10/10
How do you stay on top of all your social media marketing tasks?From creating and publishing content to analytics and reporting, it can be pretty overwhelming to think of all the jobs social media marketers have to complete every day.
Thankfully, there are a bunch of awesome social media management tools available to help. These tools can streamline your workflows, help you save some time and even ensure your content reaches the right audience at the right time.
But how do you decide which product to use? With so many great social media management tools out there, we thought it could be great to showcase some of the top ones to help you pick what’s best for your business.
Here are 25 of the very best social media management tools out there....
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The best social media management tools are the ones that meet your needs and help you achieve your goals. Here are 25 top ones to consider from Buffer.
The best social media management tools are the ones that meet your needs and help you achieve your goals. Here are 25 top ones to consider from Buffer.
Have you wondered if there is some third-party LinkedIn tools that will help you and save you time?
Want to learn more about the most effective tools to use in conjunction with LinkedIn?
LinkedIn has many features and functionalities that are constantly changing and adapting to the evolving needs of its user base.
However, there are a number of tools that were made specifically to enhance LinkedIn’s built-in functions. Whether your goal is to attract new prospects, create new connections in your industry, or increase the effectiveness and ROI of your social selling strategies, you’ll find that using specialized tools will enhance your results and your overall experience in using the LinkedIn platform.
Below is a list of 10 of the most useful tools to enhance your LinkedIn marketing and lead generation efforts. Check out what these tools can do, and why you should be using them right now.
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Melonie Dodaro shares 10 helpful tools for better LinkedIn results
If your business targets other businesses as potential customers, then you should certainly be on LinkedIn, and use the platform to benefit from the social selling opportunities available. The upward trend of LInkedIn, as a marketing rather than a recruitment tool, has seen the creation of a range of tools to assist in lead generation activities via LinkedIn. Ten of the most useful of these tools, are discussed in this eye-opening article.
The truth about business is that no matter how great your products are, you won’t be able to sell anything if no one knows you exist.
Your business relies on marketing to guide consumers to your products.
And that’s why today, I’m going to show you what makes Facebook such a powerful tool for targeting on social media.
If you’re new to the world of social media marketing, don’t worry. I’m going to show you the step-by-step process to building and managing a Facebook Business page that will convert....
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Neil Patel's tips will get your Facebook Business Page delivering traffic. Simple, clear, effective.
For small businesses looking to keep up with bigger players in their industries, tools have emerged to level the playing field, allowing those of us looking to make our voices heard of expanding our reach.
From ideation and promotion to tools that help your content truly stand out from the noise, consider how the following platforms can serve to help you reach your content marketing goals – whatever they may be....
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These tools will get your content marketing rocking.
Does this sound familiar to you at all? I used to log in to each and every individual social platform to compose new posts, check what’s happening in my streams, follow up on conversations and follower requests, and attempt to manually perform all other bits of social media management that was on my plate.Then, I switched to using tools, and my productivity has soared.
Maximizing your time as a social media manager or business owner is crucial for social media growth and effectiveness. I’d love to share my 6 favorite tools for helping you along in that journey....
A good logo conveys the message and essential truth of a brand. Whether you’re interested in creating your own logo or finding the right designer, there are a variety of resources available to develop your logo with relatively little cost.
Here is a list of tools and resources to create a logo. There are guides to logo design, sites to hire designers, online logo makers, and logo galleries to find inspiration and network with the logo design community.
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Excellent list of logo design resources from Sig Ueland.
Four years ago, FiftyThree—the team of ex-Microsoft creatives who launched a wildly popular iPad sketching app called Paper—was flush with venture capital and full of expansion ideas that they put into action. They started producing hardware: an iPad stylus called (unluckily) Pencil. They expanded the app to work on iPhones as a Post-it-esque idea jotter. They experimented with in-app purchases and a patronage model. They even soft-launched a whole new app called Paste, which lets Slack users pass visual materials back and forth with ease.
But all this activity had a somewhat flailing feel: What was Fiftythree’s core business? Was it about productivity software, or creative apps? Now, with a relaunch of both Paper and Paste, the company seems to have its story straight again. And that story is . . . they’re about productivity and creativity. And making great slide decks....
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The cultishly popular app maker FiftyThree releases tools for people who use visual slide decks at work–but don’t need the bloat of PowerPoint or Keynote.
If you own an Amazon Alexa device, you can use Alexa Skills to be more productive; keep track of your day, finances, and calls; make travel easier; hear the news you care about, and more.
Alexa Skills are built-in capabilities activated by your voice. New ones are added to the Alexa Skill library all the time. Here are the top 30 best Alexa skills for Professionals...
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HubSpot shares the top Alexa skills for productivity, communication, health, lifestyle, work, and more.
Résumons. Comment être plus productif ? En donnant toutes ses infos personnelles à Amazon. Je me demande si l'obsession de la productivité ne commence pas à devenir ... anti-productive, justement. Quand on en arrive à ce genre d'article. Aucun pas de recul. Hubspot me déçoit sur ce coup-là.
Sometimes you don't want to launch Photoshop just for a task as simple as image resizing. For that matter you can use the free online image resizing services.
In 2009, I started a stock media company with a single vision: to provide premium creative content that everyone could afford. This idea grew into VideoBlocks, followed by the launch of GraphicStock and AudioBlocks. Now, we’re adding millions of photos to our new image Marketplace and it’s time to bring our expanding libraries together as Storyblocks.
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Storyblocks is an improved one-stop-shop for high quality stock media at a fraction of the cost, with millions of images, videos, audio clips, and more! A favorite tool, modestly priced and highly recommended. 9.5/10
Formerly Graphic Stock, newly-renamed and upgraded, Storyblocks is an improved one-stop-shop for high quality stock media at a fraction of the cost, with millions of images, videos, audio clips, and more! A favorite tool, modestly priced and highly recommended. 9.5/10
Images are a vital component of any website, and using the right ones can enhance both your content and design. The problem lies in finding the right graphics without resorting to the same free stock images everyone else uses.
If you really want to set your site apart, there’s an alternative to stock images – you can create your own. The best part is, you don’t need to be a designer to get it done. Nowadays, there are plenty of tools that can help you create stylish graphics with only a little practice, and they’re a great option if you don’t have the budget to hire a designer.
In this article, we’ll talk about why images are so important for any website, then we’ll introduce you to three tools that can help you create your own custom graphics. Let’s get started!...
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Some people think they're stuck using stock images for their designs, but you can always learn how to create custom graphics for your website. Three tools reviewed are Canva, Pixlr and PicMonkey -- I recommend each highly.
Some people think they're stuck using stock images for their designs, but you can always learn how to create custom graphics for your website. Three tools reviewed are Canva, Pixlr and PicMonkey -- I recommend each highly.
Google makes the Chrome browser and Google makes Gmail. Naturally, the Chrome Web Store has some excellent extensions to improve your Gmail experience. But it also has several that you don’t need. Let’s sift the gems from the mud.
Note: The extensions in this list work only with Gmail. If you prefer the time-saving Inbox by Gmail, there are separate extensions for that.
Inbox by Gmail is Google's most recent approach to email organization and management. It can give you a simpler email workflow. Find out if Inbox by Gmail can be the better choice for you.
ActiveInbox: Send Mails Later and Manage Email Tasks
If you’re a Gmail power user, this is the best extension you can install. But be warned, ActiveInbox is free for a one month trial, after which it costs $50 per year....
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If you use Gmail, some of these tools will really speed up and enhance your marketing.
Blogging,, designing or creating landing pages and other web content? Download and use any background pattern for free. Terrific resource though search is limited.
Blogging, designing or creating landing pages and other web content? Download and use any background pattern for free. Terrific resource though search is limited.
When starting out with a content marketing strategy, it can seem intimidating to go at it alone, especially without tools, resources, or help from a content marketing agency. I mean, would you ever throw someone into the ocean without a life jacket? Of course not. But when you task your marketing team with the challenge of creating, executing, and measuring a great content marketing strategy without the tools they need to do it well, that's basically what you're doing.
Now, you don't need to assemble a huge team to be successful in content; small content teams can still achieve impressive results. What you do need is to give your team the support, structure, and resources it needs to get the job done.
Luckily, there are tons of free tools out there to make your content marketing process a little smoother. Below, I've listed eight of my favorite free content marketing tools:...
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With the help of these tools, you'll be on your way to executing a solid plan to engage audiences and build influence -- all without spending an extra penny from your budget.
With the help of these tools, you'll be on your way to executing a solid plan to engage audiences and build influence -- all without spending an extra penny from your budget.
This short video was produced to show how quick and easy it is to produce a video from an existing blog post using the free Lumen 5 video tool.
Lumen 5 is an AI-powered video creation platform that turns blog posts into engaging videos. Using the tool is easy, intuitive and surprisingly fast. After producing a few Lumen 5 videos, I expect you could create one in as little as 10 minutes from existing content like a blog post. You can see my original blog post here http://bit.ly/LaoTzu8 to compare it with the video produced so effortlessly.
The creative and marketing possibilities are very intriguing and so far Lumen 5 is free although it may offer more features for a price in the future. For now, it's an interesting tool to explore.
Businesses, bloggers, trainers, authors and really anyone can use it to produce social content to drive audience engagement online. Great thing is you can focus on your message, visuals and creativity without having to touch the technology.
You can get more info and demos for the app at www.lumen5.com.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
With Lumen 5, producing video content for social media is simple, easy intuitive and fast. My demo was taken from an older blog post about writing for the internet. Lots of potential for this tool.
With Lumen 5, producing video content for social media is simple, easy, intuitive and fast. My demo was taken from an older blog post about writing for the internet. Lots of potential for this tool.
Free images for blogs and marketers. I have collected a bunch of sites that give you free images for commercial use. Check it out regularly as we add sites
En marketing, a great image is often a key component of the message. Constant need for pictures can dig deep into your pocket when using stock photography. If you want a particular image, then it makes sense to pay for the stock images as it will be a lot cheaper than to hire a photographer. What to do when you need images all the time, but their marketing lifespan can be measured only in days, maybe hours? Images for Facebook posts, email newsletters, individual slides in presentations that you use only once… Paying 10 or 20 dollars per image for these adds up. So where do you get free images? I have collected a bunch of sites that give you exactly that… free images for commercial use.
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A great INFOGRAPHIC with all the sizes you need in one place to make your Social Media profiles look professional!
Toujours pratique !
Simply useful!