#New Marketers

[amayikes]

So on the 27th DeepSeek R1 dropped (a chinese version of ChatGPT that is open source, free and beats GPT's 200 dollar subscription, using less resources and less money) and the tech market just had a loss of $1,2 Trillion.

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[toolsforthedigitalmarketer]

Essential Digital Marketing Tools Anyone Can Master

Mastering digital marketing starts with knowing the right tools to use. These tools are not just for experts—they’re designed to be user-friendly and accessible to anyone wanting to improve their digital presence. Here’s a curated list that will help you get started, even if you’re a complete beginner.

1. Google Analytics: Your Window into Website Traffic

Google Analytics is like the ultimate map of your website’s traffic. By installing it on your site, you’ll see where your visitors come from, what they’re reading, and how long they stick around. The best part? Google provides free resources to help beginners understand the basics. Once you’re comfortable, you’ll be able to monitor key stats like page views, session duration, and which pages people bounce off from, giving you insights to improve your site’s content.

Try This: Start with the Audience Overview report to see where visitors are coming from, and check the Behavior section to understand popular content.

2. Canva: Create Eye-Catching Visuals with Ease

Creating beautiful graphics for social media, blogs, and ads doesn’t require a design degree when you have Canva. With its intuitive drag-and-drop interface, anyone can pick a template, add their text, colors, and images, and voilà—a professional-looking graphic! It’s perfect for social posts, flyers, or any visual content you want to create.

Pro Tip: Start with a template, customize the colors and fonts to match your brand, and don’t forget to explore Canva’s vast library of stock images and icons.

3. Mailchimp: The Friendliest Email Marketing Platform

If you’re interested in email marketing, Mailchimp is a great place to start. Its straightforward interface helps you design, automate, and send emails that engage your audience. With Mailchimp’s templates, you can easily put together a professional email, even if it’s your first time.

Getting Started: Set up a free account, create a small contact list, and use a template to design your first email newsletter.

4. Hootsuite: Your Social Media Organizer

Hootsuite is a lifesaver for anyone managing multiple social media accounts. This tool lets you schedule posts, track engagement, and even see what people are saying about you across different platforms—all in one dashboard. Hootsuite’s simplicity makes it accessible to anyone, even beginners.

Try This: Link your social media accounts, schedule a week’s worth of posts, and track how each post performs.

5. SEMrush: Discover SEO Opportunities

If you’re interested in making your content more visible on search engines, SEMrush is your go-to tool. It’s great for researching keywords, seeing what your competitors are doing, and even analyzing your site’s SEO performance. While it may look complex, SEMrush provides tutorials that help you learn the basics quickly.

First Step: Start with a keyword search relevant to your content or business, and see what similar sites are ranking for. This can help you build an effective SEO strategy.

6. Google Ads: Explore the World of Online Advertising

Google Ads lets you create paid ads that appear at the top of Google search results. While the thought of running ads might feel advanced, Google Ads provides a step-by-step setup wizard to guide you through. Once you’re familiar, you’ll be able to target specific keywords and audiences.

Quick Tip: Start small. Set a low budget, select a few relevant keywords, and track your ad’s performance to see what works best.

7. BuzzSumo: Find Trending Content Topics

If you want to know what topics people are currently interested in, BuzzSumo is your answer. This tool helps you find trending content in your niche by showing you what’s popular across the web. It’s perfect for discovering new ideas and understanding what your audience cares about.

How to Use It: Enter a keyword related to your topic, and BuzzSumo will show you the most shared content on that topic. This can help you brainstorm ideas and create relevant content.

8. Google Trends: Stay on Top of What’s Popular

Google Trends is ideal for finding out how popular a topic is over time. Whether you’re looking for seasonal trends or just want to know what’s buzzing, this tool can guide your content strategy.

Try This: Enter a keyword, set the date range, and explore how interest in the topic has changed. Use this information to plan timely content.

9. Trello: Organize Your Digital Marketing Projects

Trello is a simple project management tool that helps you organize tasks visually. For digital marketers, it’s a fantastic way to plan campaigns, track content ideas, and manage projects. Each project can have its own board with customizable lists and cards, making project tracking a breeze.

Getting Started: Set up a board for your content or campaign ideas, create cards for individual tasks, and move them as you make progress.

10. Yoast SEO: Make Your Content SEO-Friendly (for WordPress Users)

Yoast SEO is a beginner-friendly WordPress plugin that helps you optimize your content for search engines. As you create a post, Yoast will prompt you with tips, like using keywords in titles, meta descriptions, and headings, making SEO feel much simpler.

Pro Tip: Follow Yoast’s prompts as you write, and aim for the “green light” score to improve your content’s searchability.

Conclusion: Start Simple, and Build Your Skills

These tools are not only effective but also designed with beginners in mind. With some practice, you’ll soon be using them like a pro. Each one adds value to your digital marketing skills, whether it’s understanding your audience, creating engaging visuals, or planning content efficiently. Remember, the journey of mastering digital marketing starts with familiarizing yourself with these essential tools.

[bemarketers]

Don’t hesitate to reach out for help. Connect with experienced network marketers who can offer advice and mentorship. Their insights can be invaluable as you grow your business.

(via Unlocking Success in Network Marketing: A Fresh Guide for New Marketers 🚀)

[taffywabbit]

thinking about a parallel universe where furries with big useless bappy paws exist IRL, but so does that one dumbass apple mouse that has no buttons, a charging port on the bottom, and a shape that is extremely uncomfortable to use if you have normal adult human hands

[a-flickering-soul]

OTC BIRTH CONTROL APPROVED BY THE FDA

[destielmemenews]

"Tesla's stock tumbled by as much as 18% in intraday trading — the electric car maker's sharpest selloff in almost five years — before regaining some ground to close down 14.3%, or $47.35. The drop wiped out about $151 billion in Tesla's market value.

The shares resumed their decline in after-hours trading."

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[tobiasdrake]

My understanding of evil, age 0-10: MY NAME IS SMOG SMOKESLY AND I RUN THE POLLUTION FACTORY, IT PRODUCES POLLUTION!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

My understanding of evil, in my teens: You can't really boil things down to good and evil. People are complicated. Everyone is the hero of their own story, and someone who seems evil to you is actually doing their best from their own perspective. If you could walk a mile in their shoes, you'd understand. There is no such thing as evil.

My understanding of evil, in my twenties: Look, it's basically just tribalism. We are all necessarily thrust into competition with one another. There are always going to be winners and losers. Whining about evil is just being upset that you lost the game.

My understanding of evil, in my thirties: MY NAME IS SMOG SMOKESLY AND I RUN THE POLLUTION FACTORY, IT PRODUCES POLLUTION!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[theonion]

Noting the volatility of various retirement products and the long-term uncertainty of global markets, financial advisor Michael Reynolds recommended Tuesday that investors always keep one bullet in the chamber, just in case. “Even if you’re a more conservative investor who keeps most of your savings in bonds and money market accounts, it just makes a lot of sense to have a round locked and loaded at all times in the event of a major financial market disruption,” said Reynolds, who stressed the importance of maxing out yearly IRA contributions and regularly cleaning and oiling the barrel.

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[political-us]

Hands Off Protest Salt Lake City, UT - Apr 5, 2025

[egophiliac]

A-anime?

you know, sometimes I forget that Twst is actually an isekai that starts with the protagonist getting run over by an inexplicable horse-drawn carriage. and every time I'm reminded is a delight because that's AMAZING.

also. look. okay. there's a lot of very fun stuff in the trailer but I am obsessed with that Crowley surprised pikachu face. me when I spend all my keys and gems literally hours before they announce overblot SSRs and drop the anime trailer:

[starcurtain]

Teyvat's "Most Down Bad" Award Goes to Alhaitham for a Second Year Running

Seeing everyone making fun of Alhaitham for his "stalkerish" tendencies in this event is funny, because I feel like a lot of people missed that "Be literally everywhere Kaveh is" has been Alhaitham's MO from the day Kaveh appeared in the game.

From only grabbing his house keys after Kaveh returned from the desert (he couldn't have had both sets of keys at the end of the Archon Quest unless he went home and got Kaveh's copy) to ditching conversations to get back to his house only after Kaveh came home, to showing up without any warning or explanation in Kaveh's hangout with some ridiculous excuse about hearing his voice through noise-cancelling headphones... Refusing to offer any help in the Temple of Silence story quest other than staying in the library with Kaveh...

Since when does Alhaitham willingly cover anyone else's duties?

But this trend of "Be everywhere Kaveh is" didn't start when they were adults. It was already in place when they were still Akademiya students--and it's a trend that didn't end even when they had their fight.

Even when they weren't speaking, Alhaitham dogged Kaveh's every step through published responses to Kaveh's research articles in academic journals. He insisted on keeping a line of communication between himself and Kaveh open, even if the only way to do that was through very public ideological clashes. Pulling Kaveh's pigtails to get his attention lolol. It's implied that, for at least the few years between their fight and Kaveh moving in, this was the only communication between them--Alhaitham's refusal to allow their connection to entirely fade away. (And the fact that this is revealed in Kaveh's character stories--through his precious journal that records the moments of his life that had the most impact on him--shows just how deeply he values the fact that Alhaitham didn't give up.)

Another relevant side note: Alhaitham never asked Kaveh to give up his half of their house. Knowing half of it belonged to Kaveh, knowing that Kaveh may one day want to reclaim his part of it, knowing that it was listed as theirs, Alhaitham moved into the house and made zero effort to change its ownership. He was completely fine with living in "his and Kaveh's house." The stories suggest it was only months later (or even longer) that Kaveh even noticed he had the house, and he transferred away ownership of his portion without Alhaitham ever asking him (or even seemingly wanting him) to do so.

Please, let that sink in. Alhaitham actively left his grandmother's (presumably comfortable) house to move into "his and Kaveh's house," with no apparent explanation for why, and after doing so, he made no attempt to change that "his and Kaveh's" label. He moved into the house with no promise that Kaveh wouldn't show up on the doorstep the very next day and move in too. It almost feels like another deliberate provocation--I've moved into our house, are you going to come stop me? LBR, if Alhaitham had had his way, Kaveh would have been living there with him from Day 1...

There's also the fact that Kaveh literally can't write on a single message board anywhere in the entire nation of Sumeru without Alhaitham hunting his messages down and responding to them (which absolutely no one else does, by the way).

"NUH-UH!" "UH-HUH." "NUH-UH!"

Alhaitham's own character stories tell us explicitly that one of Alhaitham's defining character traits is "He is never where you need him to be," yet somehow...

Shot, and chaser:

Any time Kaveh is in the slightest bit of need or danger or just wants Alhaitham near, Alhaitham is "coincidentally" exactly where Kaveh needs him to be, whenever Kaveh needs him to be there.

Alhaitham didn't just "happen" to run into Kaveh in Port Ormos, an entirely different city from where he was supposed to be working. He didn't just "happen" to read the same terrible book as Kaveh when we know he otherwise would not waste a moment of his time on poorly-written literature...

He didn't just "happen" to appear when Kaveh was upset and needed a distraction in the House of Daena during Kaveh's hangout. He didn't just "happen" to be sitting around waiting when Kaveh needed answers after the Archon Quest. He didn't just "happen" to find Kaveh's academic publications and every single message board posting and respond to them at length and in public.

Which is exactly what Kaveh's mother told Kaveh he needed.

What level of down bad is "Abusing your powers as an Akademiya employee to keep tabs on your crush's library loans"? Just asking for a friend.

The only person for whom Alhaitham just "happens" to be available is Kaveh, over and over and over again--because he is very deliberately making himself a constant presence in Kaveh's life.

(Like, out of all things, I think people really underestimate the devs deliberately paralleling the romantic relationship between Kaveh's mother and father with Kaveh and Alhaitham's relationship. If you want to point to one thing that says "These two characters are intentionally queer-coded," it doesn't get any more obvious than this.)

Alhaitham, are you not embarrassed to be this transparent??? 🫣

[hellenhighwater]

Mother is enabling me. Unfortunately now I have to remember how to do basic upholstery, source some dark bluey-teal short pile non-stretch velvet, and get some HTV gold stars to transfer on so I can make myself a Wizard Throne to sit in at my kitchen table.

This shall be a summer project.

[kacievvbbbb]

I think a major point that the live action completely misses and honestly a lot of people haven’t brought up. Is that in the original Nani WANTS Lilo around. Yes because Liko needs her and no one else understands Lilo like she does. But also because Nani needs Lilo just as much as Lilo needs her. Lilo was just as much all Nani had left same as Lilo. And to just not acknowledge that. To pretend like Nani stayed with Liko just out of some grander sense of responsibility and it’s “what she’s supposed to do” is to throw away their sisterhood.

The whole live action is Lilo talking about how smart and kind and amazing Nani is and how she has all these dreams and how she was really good at all these things until Lilo. Not once does it seem like Nani is even interested in Lilo or her hobbies outside of her responsibly to look after her as her older sister. She doesn’t care that Lilo’s been kicked out of hula class even tho Lilo in the OG loves hula, she immediately wants to take stitch back to the pound and then goes on a whole tirade about how you can’t let Lilo “trick” you into doing all these things, she doesn’t care when Lilo tries to show her the Elvis CD trick, She not there surfing with Lilo cause it’s an enjoyable pastime and something she loves and wants to share with her sister she’s there because it’s her new job.

Through out the movie Nani is part of the people that make Lilo feel ostracized which is completely antithetical to the original movie where Nani is fighting so hard to make the world a place Lilo feels accepted in.

So no the movie didn’t need to be a one to one remake of the original but it shouldn’t be a completely different movie either because then what’s the fucking point!!!

In this version I’m not even convinced that Nani actually LIKES Lilo.

And honestly the film doesn’t try and convince you that she should. Lilo is indistinguishable from any other movie child that is either a bundle of destructive chaos or just a mini adult both played for jokes.

[retrogamingblog2]

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