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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Portent’s Content Idea Tool

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This week’s cool tool recommendation is Portent’s Content Idea Generator tool.

This tool allows you to generate headline ideas with just one keyword. Be prepared that the tool can throw up some quirky suggestions, but don’t let that put you off. Keep playing around with it until you find one you can work with. I also really like how it shows you best practice tips, such as using metaphors in your writing.

For more tools like this read  7 Tools To Find Inspiration For Your Headlines

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Quuu

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I love learning about new tools to make social media marketing more creative and effective, so I’ve decided to share some of my favourite tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is Quuu, a hand-curated content suggestion platform that connects to your Buffer queue.

How It Works 

Select from over 300 interest categories to receive suggestions that matter to you and your audience. With the free account, you can choose up to 5 interest categories, get suggestions automatically sent to your connected accounts two times a day (six for a paid account).  Relevant suggestions will be queued to your Buffer where you can choose to manually curate posts yourself or Quuu will post for you.

Check it out at http://www.quuu.co

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: HubSpot’s Blog Topic Generator 

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This week’s cool tool recommendation is HubSpot’s Blog Topic Generator tool.

HubSpot’s Blog Topic Generator tool lets you input up to three different nouns and returns five blog topic ideas.

Here are the suggestions generated for me when I input the terms “social media” and “marketing” into the tool.

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For more tools like this read  7 Tools To Find Inspiration For Your Headlines

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Inbound’s Title Generator

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This week’s cool tool recommendation is Inbound Now’s Blog Title Idea Generator tool. 

Sometimes all you need to get those creative juices flowing again is a title and this is where Inbound Now’s Blog Title Idea Generator comes in. You don’t even need to input a keyword — keep clicking on the generate title button until you find the inspiration you need.

For more tools like this read  7 Tools To Find Inspiration For Your Headlines

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Quora

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This week’s cool tool recommendation is Quora.

Quora is a question and answer platform where you can either ask a question about your topic or simply do a search using your topic keyword to find what people are asking about that topic. It’s a super place for market research. Make a list of those questions which you feel you could write about.

You have the option to follow chosen topics in your niche. Once you do so you’ll keep seeing the ‘Top Stories’ (questions) in your Quora newsfeed. You can also check out the ‘New Questions’ option to see the latest questions. When you have written an article or blog post on the topic, go back into Quora and answer a question related to the topic. You can include a link to your post in your answer.

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Freerange

download-24This week’s cool tool recommendation is Freerange which provides free high res stock photos for commercial and non-commercial use.

The photos either come directly from in-house photographers and archives or they are contributed by a growing community of photographers. Images provided directly (in-house) by Freerange Stock originate one of two ways. They are either digitally photographed on Canon DSLR cameras or they are a high resolution (4000 dpi) Nikon scan of an original 35mm slide. Once the image is acquired, the photo is sharpened, color corrected, cropped and keyworded. Some images are manipulated in Photoshop to make them more effective. Then the original is archived and a 2400×1600 version is optimized and output, then posted on the live site.

It’s certainly one of the best sources of stock photos I’ve come across – and it’s free! Try it today.

 

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Photofunio

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I love learning about new tools to make social media marketing more creative and effective, so I’ve decided to share some of my favourite tools with you at the start of each week. This week I’m recommending Photofunio an image editing tool.

With PhotoFunia you can edit photos online for free in a matter of seconds resulting in high quality photo collages. As the name suggests, this tool is a lot of fun to use. It helps you make a mark with your photos by incorporating your photos into mock-ups of background images including billboards, magazine covers, and movie posters.

Here I am as a magic playing card  🙂

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Visit http://photofunia.com and try it for yourself.

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Landscape

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I love learning about new tools to make social media marketing more creative and effective, so I’ve decided to share some of my favourite tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is Landscape, a super-cool image resizing tool from Sprout Social. 

Landscape allows you to crop images for any social profile and resize your images with always up-to-date dimensions for every network.

Here’s how it works

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You don’t have to consult a running list of network and post type dimensions anymore—let Landscape do it for you. How cool is that!