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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Pikwizard

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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 a free stock photo site called Pikwizard . 

As regular readers know, I am obsessed with visuals in marketing, but it’s hard to find medical related stock images that haven’t been used ad infinitum.  I was really pleased to hear about Pikwizard and find a super selection of medical-themed images. The site is particularly good for aesthetic procedures and dentistry-related images.

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Image Source: Pikwizard

Pikwizard hosts over 100,000 completely free images, with over 20,000 of those exclusive to the site.  Adding new images to their stock library daily, the site’s ultimate goal is to get to more than 1 million images!

Visit  www.pikwizard.com next time you need an image to enhance your medical marketing. 

 

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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!

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Biteable

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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  Biteable – a desktop video creation tool which bills itself as “The World’s Simplest Video Maker.”

You can choose from a selection of pre-designed Templates or you can build your video from scratch yourself. Biteable hosts a large collection of video clips and images (many of these clips are included with the free plan) to add to your templates.  It also provides simple animation and claymation sequences to help you produce engaging explainer videos in just a few hours.

Biteable’s free plan allows you to create five projects per month and publish HD-quality video to YouTube and Facebook. The paid plan ($29/month) offers unlimited videos, 85,000 stock footage clips, and no watermark.


For more information on this and similar tools, check out this post 3 Low-Cost Video Tools for Social Media Marketers

 

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Ripl

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 Ripl is a mobile app (iOS and Android) that lets you create short animated videos with professionally designed templates.

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Ripl was created to empower every small business owner to build an amazing brand. We made the Ripl app simple, quick and intuitive because business tools should do the work for you, not make more work for you.

You can choose from 200+ animated designs to easily create posts that fit your unique brand. You can add your photo(s) and text, choose a design template, customize the post for your business, and share in one tap to your social media accounts.

Ripl is integrated with the major social media platforms, so sharing your final video is easy. Once you’ve connected your social profiles to Ripl, you can post directly to Facebook, Facebook groups, YouTube, LinkedIn, and more. You can export your videos if you want to use them outside of your social media platforms.

Ripl is free to download and includes an assortment of free designs. Additionally, we offer Ripl Pro—a paid subscription that offers more designs, more music options, logo and brand customizations, scheduling features and more.

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: IM Free

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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 royalty free stock image resource IM Free.

IM Free is a “curated collection of free web design resources, all for commercial use.” The royalty-free stock photos are organized by themes such as inspiration, recreation, and ambient. On the site you’ll also find free templates, icons, button makers, and more.

Check it out at http://imcreator.com/free

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Pixabay

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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 royalty-free stock image resource Pixabay.

Pixabay hosts over 650,000 free stock photos, vectors, and art illustrations free of copyrights under Creative Commons. You may download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Burst

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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 royalty free stock image resource Burst

Burst is powered by Shopify, with many of its collections created with entrepreneurs in mind. “Business Ideas” features free photo collections and case studies that revolve around trending ecommerce niches. The free photo sets include both the product shots and lifestyle images, so that you have all the stock images you need to create a professional brand for free.

Check it out at https://burst.shopify.com

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Picjumbo

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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 royalty free stock image resource Picjumbo.

Picjumbo is free stock photo site created by designer and photographer Viktor Hanacek in 2013. Users can click through the different categories of over 600 free high resolution photos, with the option of upgrading to Premium for new unpublished images to power your social media marketing.

Check it out at https://burst.shopify.com

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Unsplash

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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 royalty free stock image resource Unsplash

Unsplash gives you access to a bank of 50,000+ free-to-use photos. All photos are licensed under Creative Commons Zero, “which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash.”

Check it out at https://unsplash.com

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Morguefile

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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 royalty free stock image resource Morguefile.

Morguefile is a free photo archive “for creatives, by creatives.” Founded in the early Internet days of 1996, the site was created to serve as a free image exchange for creative professionals and teachers to use in their work. This same mission remains true today and all photos found in the Morguefile archive are free for you to download and re-use in your work, be it commercial or not. The photos have been contributed by a wide range of creatives from around the world, ranging from amateur photo hobbyists to professionals.

Check it out at https://morguefile.com