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Monday Morning Cool Tool: VSCO

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 – photo editing and media sharing tool, VSCO.

The free version gives users access to standard editing tools, such as white balance, exposure, contrast and a sampling of the available presets.

VSCO saves all the photos you edit into a “studio” for you, so you’ll never lose track of any images you want to post. Users can share their images and videos to the app’s feed and/or share them directly from VSCO to other social media.

Check out a review of the app’s other capabilities here. 

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Zoomerang

This week’s cool tool recommendation is music video editor tool – Zoomerang

Zoomerang is a video creator designed for iPhone. No sign up or account required. Share it on TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat or other platforms right from the app, or save your video to your camera roll to share later.

Cool features include lots of step by step tutorials and templates, transtions and effects to enhance your video creation.

The app is free with the option to upgrade to Pro account after a free trial period. 

 

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Monday Morning Cool Tool: Animoto

This week’s cool tool recommendation is free video-maker Animoto.

Make creating videos for social posts a breeze with this tool. 

Upload your own images and video clips or choose from a built-in library of millions of photos and videos from Getty Images.

Then drag and drop right into your project. Animoto provides you with plenty of customizable templates to make this super easy.

Then select a song to add to your video from a library of thousands of licensed tracks.

Now your video is good to go!

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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.