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In today’s EdTech Charts series, we are sharing with you a collection of some of the best web tools and mobile apps to use with your students to design creative comics. As is the case with previous charts, the titles we include have aunleash their imaginative potential and experiment with a number of various multimodal creative activities.
Check out the chart belowll been reviewed here in previous posts. Our purpose is to provide you with a handy resource where you can access teacher-tested tools to use in your classroom. And as we have argued elsewhere, using comics in your instruction can be a great way to engage students in learning activities and boost their motivation. Students can use them to and share with your colleagues. Enjoy...
It doesn't matter if you have a well established business or a new one, everyone can benefit from learning to use social media better. But which platform is right for you? The What Social Media Platforms Are Best Suited For Your Business infographic from Quick Sprout helps you determine which platform your target audience uses so you can save yourself some time.
Wondering if you should be thinking about implementing a marketing automation tool?
If I said that you could easily double your revenue online with the right tool, would that get you to read this article?
If you’re marketing online and are not thinking about marketing automation, you’re losing out on revenue.
This article will help you make the decision over what type of tool you need and if you need one!...
Our brain has the ability to be able to process images 60,000 faster than it can text. So the use of visual content is vital as it helps to draw your audience in further.
Using the right images means that readers are more likely to engage, like or share.It therefore goes without saying that when it comes to social media marketing, the use of images or graphics is a must do strategy.
Most people shy away from using images as they don’t think they have the skills to create stunning shareable images . The good news is that there are plenty of online tools that you can use that will allow you to create great images. These tools will help you to create professional eye catching visual content that can be used on twitter , facebook, instagram etc.
Below are 10 of the best tools that you can use to create some amazing social media images....
There are marketing tools that are talked about in just about every single blog post you read nowadays. The HootSuites, the Buffers, the Mozs, and alike.
While those are great tools, they are not the only ones out there. There are lots of amazing tools that are getting people results in their business, but are not getting nearly enough air time.
I decided to ask some of my favorite marketing experts what tools they use, but rarely get talked about. Unlike most surveys, this one produced 42 marketing tools from 42 experts with no repeats.
Without further ado, here are the marketing tools you should consider, from A to (almost) Z...
To find the best social media management tools for big, medium, and growing brands, we surveyed 1,133 social media managers who build their companies’ brands online.
The answers are now in.
For enterprise, Oracle is surprisingly good, as are Sprinklr and Komfo. For smaller companies, Meshfire, Sendible, and Hootsuite lead the pack. And for the midsize company, Sendible, Meshfire (again), and Oktopost are leaders. Other tools you can’t ignore? TweetDeck, Buffer, SocialFlow, Spredfast, and Crowdbooster. Those are just a few of the results...
The best things in life are freemium.
Whether you’re a start-up or small business looking to keep costs down, free online tools and services are always useful.
Here’s the 10 best new free tools for start-ups and small business I’ve recently come across....
Small businesses are eager to find valuable tools thattake a lot of the time and trouble out of social media marketing and that do so without costing an arm and a leg. I think we’d all want tools like that, fight?
Well, I went searching for just this kind of simple, easy, cost-effective tool, and I came up with 61 that made the cut. I tried out more than 100 in total, and I’m sure I missed a few along the way (please tell me in the comments or on Twitter which ones deserve a look).Hopefully you find one or two here that you can use in your small scale marketing that can get you big results....
Do you want to manage social media more efficiently?
Do you have the right tools?
To streamline your approach, you’ll need resources that work well with your business.
In this article I’ll share the best tools to manage and optimize your social media marketing.
What are the right products and vendors to use for my business? At Docstoc, we have over 30 million registered members, and our small business owners & operators have always asked us this question.
Sometimes we didn’t have the answers, so we built a free service, ExpertCircle to help business operators discover the best products and vendors other professionals use. Here are my personal reviews on 30 of the top terrific tools for small businesses, feel free to add your own reviews and thoughts on these products by clicking the links....
GoAnimate offers predesigned content and templates, but also lets small-business owners add their own video, images and audio. There is plenty of data pointing to the enormous value of images and video when conveying a specific message. One statistic from ComScore suggests there are more than 180 million unique video viewers poking around the Internet. Another piece of data claims that a person's purchasing appetite increases up to 85 percent after watching a product-related video....
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Social media analytic tools are essential for any Brand to measure always the impact on your activity , for competitor analysis and know always Customer needs and inquiry. Consumers and businesses alike have something to learn from just about all of your social media interactions.
How many people did your post reach? What sort of links do your followers like best? Does anything you do online even matter?
The rise of social media has been accompanied by the creation of tools to that analyze the impact of most of your social media activities.
Here are 50 top social media analytical tools to help your business....
If you’re a small- or medium-sized business (SMB), money and time are often rationed like water during a drought. But you still need ways to find and maintain customers.
The good news: some marketing platforms that target this market offer freemium levels without a time limit and/or inexpensive plans. Here is a sampling of ones that have at least three different, integrated marketing or customer relationship management functions for free or under $100/month....
You need to spend time optimizing your social media efforts. Once you do, you will save time and get better results in terms of engagement, traffic, and conversions.
One of the fundamental ways to do tasks more efficiently is to use tools.There are hundreds of social media tools specifically designed to make the lives of social media marketers easier.
I’ve put together a list of 17 of the best social media marketing tools. I’ve also highlighted the most important features and will show you how you can use them to improve your social media marketing....
As I share my screen with my students to show everything practically, so in one class one of my students pointed my browser extensions and requested to explain each and every extension. Although I explained to them in the class, but that sharing was limited to only handful of people.
So today I decided to share all the extensions with you.These extensions can give you more flexibility to do research, check SEO, add productivity, and too many other things....
The entire online shopping industry has literally revolutionized the way we have been purchasing goods since Stone Age. Today, about 44% of online shoppers begin by using a search engine. The social platforms are playing a huge role in drawing customers towards making those long-term purchase decisions.
I was surprised to know that 45% of in-store consumers turn to social platforms on their mobile devices to influence their buying decisions. That’s not a small number and given the social media bubble we live in, it’s quite obvious to expect such an influence on an everyday basis....
I’ve had the chance to check and recheck dozens of different social media strategies in managing a social media platform of 11 million. How do I do everything that I do? And what do I do, specifically? Well, I’d love to share the details with you!
It is always a fan favorite and for good reason. As marketers, we love learning about new tools.
This year’s list is our longest yet. There were a ton of new tools and a lot of great feature adds for existing tools. For instance, I had no idea that you can now edit Instagram captions (#1 on the list). I clearly need to up my Instagram game a bit.
We want to know what new hot app every cool kid is using so we don’t miss out on it. This year those are Buzzsumo (#4) and Slack.
We want to know what tool is going to save us time. Look to Edgar (#10) and Likeable Local (#8) and Coschedule (#5) for that.
Or even what new tool will make us money, Facebook Video Ads (#3)....
Social content creation is definitely not an easy job! You need to know how and what to write in order to have engaging content that attracts visitors and makes people talk about your site, blog or page. Any company that wants to promote its brand using social media (successfully) knows that simply posting information on a blog or Twitter account won’t solve anything. Your online content needs to be dynamic and creative in order to reach its main target: the client.
As the person in charge with creating engaging content, your life is pretty busy. In order to make your job a little bit easier, we compiled a list of top 10 tools that can help you create amazing content....
Startups are exciting, bewildering and hugely risky things to be a part of. There’s the constant worry of the whole thing imploding under the weight of your multi-pronged business ideas. There’s the fear of being chewed up and spit out by larger competitors with deeper pockets.
There’s also the need to attract the fickle online customer and retain their loyalties for as long as you possibly can.In this race against time and resources, every smart e-commerce startup could do with some tools that make their lives just a tad bit easier. Here are my top four picks....
Everyone loves free marketing tools that can make your work easier. Give this list of 29 simple tools a try for greater marketing efficiency.
...Finding a good marketing shortcut feels especially great, considering all that we marketers have to do in a day.
That’s why I went hunting for the top free marketing tools in a variety of marketing categories. These tools – all quick hits you can get started with easily – focus on everything from research and writing to benchmarking and analyzing. Here’s hoping you find the perfect shortcut for your work!...
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Sometimes a laugh or a smile communicates more than a heavy post or deep insight. These comic strip tools might just offer an interesting solution or add variety to your blogging, content marketing or social media efforts.