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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Related Words

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 Related Words a tool to help you find words that are related to a specific word or phrase.

Here’s how it works using the search term “social media” to illustrate.

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Use this tool to help brainstorm content ideas and keywords for your social media marketing.

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Filmmaker Pro

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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 Filmmaker Pro, an app that lets you edit landscape, portrait, and square video clips.

A unique feature of this app is that it lets you install custom fonts.

It’s available for free for iOS,

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Tweriod

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 Twerioda  Twitter tool that helps you identify the best times to post on Twitter for your audience of followers.

Use the tool to pinpoint the days and times of the week when your followers are online to maximize the reach of your tweets.  Here’s a snapshot of my account showing me that engagement is highest on weekdays between 4 pm and 5 pm; 6 pm and 7 pm and 10 pm and 11 pm.

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Try it for yourself and adjust your tweeting schedule to reflect the results. Use a tool like Hootsuite or Buffer to schedule your tweets according to the optimum times for your audience on Twitter.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: ImageQuote

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 ImageQuote –  a super easy tool to create quote images for sharing on social media.

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You can choose from high-quality background collections or use your own photos for images. Then choose from 50+ creative font choices to customise your text. When you’re happy with your image you can export it to Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter for easy sharing.

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Trendsmap

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 Trendsmapa real-time map of the latest Twitter trending hashtags and topics from anywhere in the world.

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Click on a word, zoom into your area of interest, and explore. You can also jump directly to  Locations or Top tweets.

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Tapping into cultural trends is all about marketing in the moment. This works because people are most interested in “what’s happening now.” This tool is super useful to help you keep tabs on trending topics on a daily basis.


You might also like to read How To Leverage A Cultural Trend

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Missinglettr

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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 blog promotion tool Missinglettr.

Missinglettr turns each of your blog posts into a 12 month social campaign, which is then dripped out to your social channels.  It creates a whole sequence of social content and branded imagery (fully cropped and optimised for each of your social accounts). Simply review and edit if needed.

You can choose from a default evergreen (6 or 12 months) or blast (2 weeks or 2 months) campaign or create own based on the number of posts, duration and posting days. Over the next 12 months, your campaign content is automatically sent to each of your social profiles, driving traffic back to your site and increasing engagement across your social channels.

Pricing starts at $22 per month, but you can try out Missinglettr with a 30-day trial to see if it’s the right tool for you. 

 

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: PickFu

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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 Split Testing tool called PickFu.

This tool uses polls to give you real-time feedback – an objective third-party point-of-view on your project. You can also use it to slice and dice responses by age, gender, ethnicity, income, education.

Basic polls are simple:

  • ask a question about one or two options
  • get 50 responses from the general population
  • each response includes a vote and written explanation
  • see age and gender of each respondent
  • usually done in 15 minutes or less

With the free plan, you have the simplest features and the results are publicly viewable.  You can upgrade to keep results private and add more features.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: GTmetrix

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 website speed test tool –  GTmetrix.

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GTmetrix has a suite of features and options to make optimizing your website clear and easy. It gives you insight on how well your site loads and provides actionable recommendations on how to optimize it. You can also use the tool to analyze the page load of your site from 28 servers in 7 different regions around the world.

How fast your website loads is critical – a good site will load in 2 seconds. Research shows that a single second delay in site load time can reduce your conversions by 7 percent. If your site is taking longer than that, consider that around 40% of people will leave a website if it doesn’t load in 3 seconds.

The faster your site, the better. Google announced back in July 2018, page speed will be a ranking factor for mobile searches too.

Visit https://gtmetrix.com to try out this tool’s features.

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Apester

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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 digital storytelling tool called Apester

Described as a novel way to tell any story visually and natively blend it into any webpage, Apester’s plug and play tool mixes text and images with interactive content to create compelling stories. More cool features include the ability to create interactive content such as polls and quizzes.

Amazingly for such a super cool tool Apester is totally free! Check it out at apester.com

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Boomerang for Gmail

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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 Boomerang for Gmail.

Boomerang allows you to schedule messages to be sent or returned at a later date. Write a message now, send it whenever, even if you’re not online. Track messages to make sure you hear back, and schedule reminders right inside Gmail and know whether your email got read with cross-platform read receipts.

Boomerang also helps you to postpone (“snooze”) incoming emails, by making them disappear from your Inbox into a folder or label, then bringing them back to the top of the message list at the specified time. It helps you keep your Inbox clean, without losing track of important messages. I also like to use the Inbox Pause feature to temporarily pause my Inbox so I can work more productively.

Price: 10 Free message credits per month; unlimited credits $4.99 pm.