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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Quotes Cover

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 Quotes Cover.

Quotes Cover turns quotes or short text into images for social media and high resolution image for posters or other print design.  It’s so simple to use. Simply enter your quote or text and then choose your preferred design elements, such as font, shadow effect, and color.  You can upload your own image as a background, or keep it plain as I have in the following example.

When you are happy with your design, simply save in JPG or PNG format and it’s ready for you to use on your chosen social media sites.   Here’s my finished design:

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Life of Pix  

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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 recommended tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is stock image site Life of Pix.

Life of Pix offers free, high-quality images that are available for personal and commercial use. Each comes with a helpful color palette so you can plan your visuals accordingly.

Visit https://www.lifeofpix.com.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Kaboompics  

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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 recommended tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is stock image site Kaboompics 

Kaboompics offers free, high-quality images that are available for personal and commercial use. Each comes with a helpful color palette so you can plan your visuals accordingly.

Photos from Kaboompics appear on sites like BBC, CNN, Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Yahoo, iSpot, BuzzFeed, Hubspot, The Huffington Post, Lifehacker

Visit https://kaboompics.com for more information.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: ISO Republic 

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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 recommended tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is stock image site ISO Republic

ISO Republic provides free stock photos for creative professionals. Since launch, it has published over 3,000  images under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This means the pictures are completely free to be used for personal or commercial purposes with no attribution required.

Visit https://isorepublic.com for more information.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: FreePik

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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 recommended tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is stock image site FreePik.

FreePik offers users, high-quality graphic designs: exclusive illustrations and graphic resources. It operates on a freemium business model which means, the majority of the resources offered at Freepik can be used for free, only having to credit the author of the illustration to Freepik. In addition, for a small fee, you can subscribe to the Premium plan and use the illustrations without any accreditation whatsoever.

 

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Qzzr

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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 recommended tools with you at the start of each week. This week’s cool tool recommendation is Qzzr a tool to create engaging quizzes, polls, and lists to drive social traffic.

The basic plan is €24.99 per month, but you can try it for free to see if it’s right for your marketing.  if you are looking for a more advanced interactive marketing solution, check out Ceros for quality, interactive e-books, infographics, microsites, and more.

 

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Text Readability Consensus Calculator

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 the Text Readability Consensus Calculator. It takes a sample of your writing and calculates the number of sentences, words, syllables, and characters. It then takes the output of these numbers and plugs them into 7 popular readability formulas to help you find out the reading level and grade level of your materials and help you to determine if your audience can read what you have written.

Here’s what happened when I plugged the above paragraph into the tool.

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And the result

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So I come out with a difficult to read score – ironic given that I took much of the text from the description of the tool pasted on the website! That aside, it’s a good reminder to us to write more clear, accessible, and understandable copy when we write for a general audience.

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Recite

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 Recite, a tool to create quote images.  Quote images are one of the most popular types of content on social media and Recite is a really simple tool to try.

You simply enter your quote into the editor on the homepage, and then select a layout from a gallery of templates.

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Try it for yourself at http://www.recitethis.com

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Foller.me

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 Foller.Me a simple, yet effective tool to get insights about any public Twitter profile.

How It Works

Foller.me is a Twitter analytics application that gives you rich insights about any public Twitter profile. The tool gathers near real-time data about topics, mentions, hashtags, followers, location and more. It then analyzes the tweet’s contents and tells you about topics usage in form of “tag clouds” so that you can easily understand which words were the most popular. Here’s what my tag cloud looks like:

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Foller.me is a free tool – visit https://foller.me to try it for yourself today.

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Infogr.am

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 Infogr.am – a free design tool which makes it super simple to put together an infographic.

How to use it:

1. Go to https://infogr.am and log in with your Google or Facebook account.

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2. Choose from one of the three available themes – Infographic, Chart/Graph, or Map  – or you can click on “Data import or source” to start with your numbers.

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3. Pick a theme for your project.

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4. To your right, you’ll see the settings bar that lets you set the width, theme, add a custom logo, and specify a share button. To your left, you’ll see several icons. Clicking on them lets you customize your infographic with a map, a chart, text boxes, pictures, data, and even videos.

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5. When your project is complete, give your infographic a title and description. Decide on your permission settings. Do you want to make this public? Or is it just for your own use (public is the default setting; you will have to upgrade your account to keep it private)?  Click “Share” to send out your infographic to your social networks, or to get an embed link to add it to your blog or website!