Category: Visual Marketing

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Visme

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This week’s cool tool recommendation is Visme – a browser-based design tool that allows you to create interactive presentations, infographics, banner ads, animations, and more.

Want to create a quick presentation? Visme makes it easy. Log in and click Presentations.  Choose the template that you like and start creating your presentation right away.

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Insert text using Visme’s shapes and icons, images as well as widgets to visualize your data into graphs and tables. You can even add video or record audio.

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Similarly, you can use Visme to create infographics, reports, social graphics, and even e-books. You can search through hundreds of custom templates and fully customize each of them to fit your specific needs.

Useful Links

Presentations:
https://www.visme.co/presentation-software/

Infographics
https://www.visme.co/make-infographics/

Charts and Graphs
https://www.visme.co/graph-maker/

Flyers for Print
www.visme.co/flyer-maker

Pricing

Visme offers three types of accounts, one of which is free. You don’t get everything with a free account, but you get more than enough to start creating content. A Basic account is also a great way to test drive the solution before you buy.

Go to http://www.visme.co to get creating. 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: WordArt

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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 WordArt –  a tool for creating eye-catching graphics out of word clouds or tag clouds.

Word clouds are a visual representation of text data, where the size of each word in the cloud is proportional to its frequency in the original text.

How to use it: 

  1. Visit  https://wordart.com and click “Create”
  2. Click “Input words” and either copy and paste text from, add your own, or enter a URL to generate a word cloud.
  3. Now for my favorite bit. Choose from dozens of shapes, fonts, layout; then hit “Visualize” to see your word cloud.

Here’s a quick visual I created using social media marketing-related words.

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Visit tagul.com  and get creating your own visuals. 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Lumen 5

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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  Lumen5 is a desktop tool designed for bloggers to convert their blog posts into video.

I geeked out over this tool last year when I discovered it. Simply input your blog post’s url and Lumen 5 will import the text and images from that post and auto-create your video. You can then edit it, swap out images, upload other images and add music before you hit publish.  The video above is one I created with  Lumen 5 from an original blog post

The free plan includes unlimited videos, access to 10 million video files, and 480p-quality video with the Lumen5 watermark. You can also upload your own logo. Upgrading to the Pro plan ($49/month) lets you remove the Lumen5 branding, upload your own watermark and outro, and more.

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: StoryLab.ai

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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 StoryLab.ai- an AI copy generator that helps you generate copy ideas, hooks, outlines and ready-made copy for marketing purposes.

Whether you’re looking to create an Instagram caption, a blog title, or ad copy, this tool is designed to inspire you.

Here’s How To Use StoryLab

Begin by selecting the type of content you want to create. 

In the example below, I’ve inputted “social media marketing strategy” as a blog topic and the tool has generated some ideas for headlines. 

Here’s what happens when I input the same term into the email subject line generator.

And here’s what is returned when I ask for ideas for a social media post. I have to say this is by far the most impressive result.

I’ve only recently been introduced to this tool, but I can already see I am going to save some time testing out its features over the coming week.

Pricing

You get 25 “runs” per month for free with StoryLab. Upgrade to a basic package to get 250 runs or unlimited runs with the top-tier package.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: TouchRetouch

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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 photo editing app TouchRetouch.

The app is designed to deal with unwanted content in photos, without having to resort to Photoshop.  It allows you to remove small items from your photos by drawing over them with your finger.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Easil

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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 graphic design tool Easil  an online graphic design tool with templates that are especially useful for Instagram and Facebook stories.

Easil is a simple, browser-based system with pre-made templates that you can adapt in seconds with simple drag-and-drop tools.  The vertical image templates are especially good and make this tool great for stories.  The website also hosts a blog with super helpful design tips.

The free version of Easil is for individuals and limits the types of files you can download. For example, with the free version, you can’t download a GIF or PDF. The Plus service costs $7.50 per month, and the Edge service costs $59 per month.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Quik

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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 favorite tools with you at the start of each week. This week I’m recommending Quik for mobile – a free video-editing tool.

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This tool is easy to use and has both basic and advanced features. The basic video editing features include adding photos, videos, music, and text. You can choose a custom theme with transitions and graphics, adjust the font, filters and graphics and personalize your story with text overlays and title slides. The interface makes it easy to reorder, trim, zoom and rotate photos and video clips.

You can also add a soundtrack – choose from more than 100 free songs or import your own music. What’s really cool is that you can start your soundtrack at any point in the song and Quik automatically syncs transitions to the beat of the music.

Your videos can be saved in HD 1080p or 720p, shared to social media, or sent via a private Quik link text or email.

This really is a super tool and well worth checking out.

You might also like to read 7 Best Video Marketing Practices and Resources For 2019

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: CC Search

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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 favorite tools with you at the start of each week. This week I’m recommending  CC Search — a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.

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CC Search searches across more than 300 million images from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset. It goes beyond simple search to aggregate results across multiple public repositories into a single catalog, and facilitates reuse through features like machine-generated tags and one-click attribution.

There are six main Creative Commons licenses you can use when you choose to publish your work under CC terms. The six CC licenses are based on four conditions. The four conditions and the six licenses are described here.

Looking for more places to find images for your marketing? Check out this list of 10 Places To Find The Best Free Images For Your Healthcare Marketing.

 

 

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: SocialSearcher

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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 favorite tools with you at the start of each week. This week I’m recommending Real-time Social Media Monitoring tool SocialSearcher.

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SocialSearcher allows you to monitor all public social mentions in social networks and on the web. Use it to monitor popular hashtags and trending topics. Quickly measure and track what people are saying about your company, name, product, or service in one easy to use dashboard.

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The free account gives you a generous 110 real-time searches per day and two email alerts.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Woobox

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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 favorite tools with you at the start of each week. This week I’m recommending Woobox a social promotion application.

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Woobox allows you to run sweepstakes, contests, polls, and more across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.

Here are some ideas on how you can use this tool.

  1. Create a sweepstakes contest
  2. Create photo or video contests that let followers submit entries
  3. Create polls and quizzes
  4. Create a landing page or form submission offer

If you want to try Woobox for free you can use it to create up Facebook tabs (up to 100 participants) per month.