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20 Intelligent Digital Marketing Solutions

1)      Keyhole

Keyhole is a real-time hashtag tracker for Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Its visual dashboard is simple, beautiful and shareable! Keyhole's real-time dashboard shows how many people posted with your hashtag, along with the number of Retweets, Likes and Impressions your campaign is generating. Keyhole tracks the most influential people engaging with your brand. Reach out to them to promote your content and increase your brand's reach.

http://keyhole.co/

2)      Revealbot

RevealBot Paid social media tactics have a much more limited pool of choice for reporting tools. You can automate bid strategies, get alerted to changes in status and review performance directly from the messaging client. Snapchats business model is based around attracting pound campaigns, but its become a popular tool for influencer marketing . It allows users to review the performance of your influencers snaps via open rates, completion rates and estimated reach, which arent accessible through the Snapchat app itself.

https://revealbot.com

3)      Instagram for business

Use relevant, popular hashtags Engage by following others and liking their photos selected images to your Facebook page with a hashtag that aligns with your campaign or brand image to help people who don’t know you’re on Instagram to find you there. Debut Videos Instagram’s recent Video on Instagram has given Twitter’s Vine a serious competitor to contend with. Jordan Crook charts the differences between Instagram and Vine in the image below: Jordan Crook charts Instagram vs. Embed Instagram Video in Your Blog or Website Last month, Instagram released a new embed feature for its desktop web browser version. We’ll talk more about this in Generate a Flexible Posting Plan Carley Keenan offers the following advice on the frequency of sharing on Instagram: “You don’t need to post on Instagram every day. If you start posting a lot, you might saturate your followers’ feeds, and you don’t want to force yourself into the noise too often. There are apps that let users print images, search tags and keywords, subscribe to Instagram profiles via email, download all Instagram photos in a single archive folder, plus many more. Inspire Potential Customers Anna Colibri suggests you post photos that are relevant to your brand and potential customers. Whole Foods Market posts representative photos to promote healthy, wholesome food products, store events, sustainability and their active community of customers and employees. A study conducted by Simply Measured earlier this year found percent of the world’s top brands are now active on Instagram.

https://business.instagram.com/

4)      Canva

Get the most of out of Canva for Android Select a template got over There’s no need to start from scratch, we’ve got thousands of free templates and photo grids created by professional designers to get you started. You can browse through design types or speed things up by searching for a style or event you’re looking for birthday, gold, love, music. You can upload images straight from your device gallery to your designs or take photos on the go in the app. You can edit your photos using filters or get a little more advanced by adjusting brightness, contrast and more with our photo editing tools. It’s easy to design social media posts that pop while presenting a consistent look and feel in your marketing materials by using the same filters for your brand images. Small business owners, musicians, teachers, students, nonprofits, social media managers, real estate agents, moms and dads Canva makes it easy to create images and edit photos.

https://www.canva.com

5)      PickMonkey

Pickmonkey has changed their service to a I have a confession: I edit all my photos, both blog photos and personal ones. Even the family snaps get edited before being uploaded to Facebook or emailed to nanna, let alone before printing them out. Unless you start playing around with all the cool tools and features, in which case you can spend hours editing pictures, but hey, its loads of fun. The first edit is optional and you shouldn’t need to do it on many photos. But if you’ve got a picture that’s sideways or upside down, use the rotate tool to turn it up the right way. You may also want to use the resize tool to straighten your picture if it’s looking a little crooked. The other basic edit is to get rid of No alien uploads of friends and family! Sometimes it’s hard to take pictures of kids who are moving around and so you can use the crop tool in PicMonkey to get a better composition.

https://www.picmonkey.com/

6)      Word Swag

Have you wasted time and money hiring a social media graphic design artist, only to notget exactly what you want?Word Swag is an awesome application for your smartphone or tablet that will allow you toeasily create social media graphics. The toolset in Word Swag is amazing because it easily allows you to import some great photos from their library, Pixabay, or from your own photos. You will get an overview of the interface and how the program I will show you how to import images to begin creating right away. After that we will take a look at some of the best text and fontediting tools ever seen in a smartphone application. Finally, I will show you how to use custom colors and filters in your design before exportingit out as a final image. So if you want to start creating amazing images and graphics today, then go ahead and enroll and I will see you in the first lecture.

http://wordswag.co/

7)      Wask

Wask easily makes your ads smarter. You can put together all your accounts such as Instagram, Twitter, Google, Facebook in one screen. You can make your specific ads for your need with the help of the experienced advisors. Wask provides you a unique AI program to manage your budget and time for you. You can compare your results to increase your efficiency with Performance Comparison, automatically start/stop/delete your ads with Scheduler and you can control your ads daily/weekly/monthly automatically by activating the AutoPilot. Basically, Wask does everything you need for you in a short time.

https://www.wask.co/

    8)      ClearVoice

Self-service platform is like a playground for content people, where brands and agencies can connect with freelancers to create content.Create better content with vetted talent and easy workflow.Manage unlimited clients, content and talent in one place.Pitch to brands, find quality assignments and get paid quickly.

https://www.clearvoice.com/

9)      Waaffle

New tools have recently emerged to meet the evolving needs of busy social media marketers. In this article, you’ll discover six tools that will improve your social media marketing workflow. Waaffle is an useful social media tool. Create Content Feeds With Waaffle According to Yotpo, ads based on content can get 4x higher rates and a 50% lower cost per click than average. Waaffle simplifies the process by creating aggregate custom feeds based on any account or Waaffle’s current “early bird” pricing starts at per campaign.

https://waaffle.com

10)  Later

The photo you want is there, but no text shows Why not just go into Instagram and post regularly through actual Instagram? You could write the text you need on the photo and go around it that way, but that degrades to marketing tactic of the photo. Suggestion for creators: Work with Instagram to get permission for users to select deny or allow Later to post automatically. It would be an awesome tool for hours, but right now it's just not effective or efficient. Minimum $200 Later subscription does not include Facebook and Twitter analytics, and scheduled posts are not reliably submitted. This means the only consistently working social media function is the reminder to post to Instagram is sort of cool, but any wordpress novice can make a simple page that does the same thing on their own site.

https://later.com

 11)  Meet Edgar

One of the most frustrating aspects of any social media update is how quickly they get buried under new social media updates. Add the fact that your followers, fans and connections check their social media accounts irregularly and it’s actually amazing that your updates are seen by anyone at all: Meet the “disappearing updates” dilemma. One solution to this “disappearing updates” dilemma is to each of your social media updates multiple times, upping the odds that it will be seen by your targeted prospects. Unfortunately, adopting this tactic can be very time consuming, even if you use a social media management solution to schedule your updates. If you’re frustrated by the fact that few people see your social media updates and you’re too busy to schedule those updates to up the chance that they’ll be seen, it’s time to meet Edgar . When it comes to automation however, Edgar leaves the rest of the pack behind. Using an library, update categories, and scheduling, Edgar helps your social media updates, as well as any content to which they may link, get the attention they deserve. Edgar’s setup process is an easy way to become familiar with the tool.

https://meetedgar.com/

 12)  Everypost

Everypost is a critically acclaimed social media tool utilized by digital agencies, SMBs, content professionals, and firms. The app makes it simple for a user to construct, schedule, customize, and post content on popular social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn, and others. Social media marketers and content professionals have made Everypost a priority tool for getting content out in the internet across social media platforms. It also facilitates media content upload via One of its biggest strengths is its capacity to deal with a wide range of social media networks as a standalone tool. It can reverse its role by limiting Twitter texts and giving a user the option to choose which social media platforms to blast to. It comes with a support for extracting videos from YouTube, audio from Grooveshark, and images from Flickr. A user will be highlighted with social media networks at the top of the screen, a middle area for inputting text, and list of media format to import from the bottom. Clicking on any social media network will prompt the user to sign in, and if the login is successful, the button will light up.

http://everypost.me/

13)  Buffer

Buffer is a popular social media post schedular software. Moreover, you can manage multiple platforms with Buffer.If you still do not try Buffer, just take a look and you will love it.

https://buffer.com/

14)  Bitly

Bitly CEO Mark Josephson Bitly Techland, like most places, likes stories with extreme outcomes: Startup X sells for a gazillion Startup Y, once valued at a gazillion dollars, goes to zero. So here’s a story that won’t get much attention: A modest success for a company that once had much grander aspirations. That would be Bitly , a company that lets marketers and other businesses keep tabs on customers as they move around the web by generating short, trackable URL links. Salt on the wound: There was a time, back in the early days of Twitter, that Bitly and its investors thought they had something really, really big on their hands. Twitter was just ramping up, and Twitter used Bitly to shorten all the links its users generated, and that meant Bitly knew a ton about the way the internet worked who clicked on what, when, where. Most of Bitlys attention was focused on its free product, and the money it made selling a premium version to publishers and marketers didnt cover its costs. Credit a pivot, which started when CEO Mark Josephson joined the company in 2013.

https://bitly.com/

15)  Click to tweet

Easily view and keep track of all links you've created in the past. Create folders to better organize links by project or campaign. Access to edit, view stats, and copy your links are all easily accessible.Update the text of your links at any time. Use a plain-text link or select an image to embed in your website. Always have your link details up to date.View reports of click activity on all your links. Analytics are tracked for all links you embed inside of your message/tweets, too! Every time someone clicks one of your links, we record where they clicked from and present this data to you on a map. See from where people are clicking on your links across the world.Increase your followers by suggesting your (or anyone's) Twitter account to be followed every time someone tweets from your ClickToTweet link.

https://clicktotweet.com/

16)  Sumall

In “audience shifts,” not only can you see how many new followers you have attracted but also see how the networks of the people you are following have expanded, which increases your own potential reach. You can also find out which of your new followers have the greatest following insight into where to share to best amplify your and how many of your own followers you follow. You can find out who’s engaging with you, who has responded to your social media posts, what the overall response rate is and how responsive you are to those that mention you. The “audience quality” report is a good one to make sure that you are interacting with active Twitter users. The “audience by engagement” section highlights your top ten most active followers on both retweets and You can also see whether they have verified profiles and can check out common profile keywords and how they engage with you. Other sections of the Twitter Audience Insights report look at “audience by contributed reach” people who have expanded your reach by retweeting and mentioning you to their and “network size” followers have the biggest networks. You can even see the timezone that most of your followers fall into and use this in order to schedule social media posts for maximum engagement. As with the other report, there’s an overview page, before delving into the individual “Best performing time to tweet” is but what’s useful here is the rolling average so you get a wider overview of your best days and times and the times when you get the most engagement.

https://sumall.com/

17)  CoSchedule

Posts are easily moved, and social messages attached to those posts move with them. You will then have access to the calendar and team features at CoSchedule synchronize your WordPress post, author, and category information to its servers, but all of your WordPress data remains in WordPress. Social messages, tasks, comments, team members, and other data you create in CoSchedule will be stored on CoSchedule’s servers, and never in WordPress. Managing a team blog or planning your own blog’s content marketing is not easy inside of WordPress. CoSchedule is an editorial calendar that makes it easier to create, move, and manage your blog posts and stay ahead of your plan. It allows for WordPress blogging team collaboration without needing extra outside tools and logins, reducing the time and unnecessary complexity required to plan your blog’s content marketing program.

https://coschedule.com

18)  Feedly

How to Get Started Starting an account at Feedly is easy just sign up with an email address and you're all set. Click on that, then add a blog by copying and pasting the URL or by just typing in the name of the blog itself, for example, TechCrunch. Feedly also gives you categories you can choose to click on any of these categories and featured blogs will appear that you can instantly subscribe to. If you scroll down a bit, even more, blogs that you have subscribed to will appear. You can organize your feeds by topic, helping you read according to what you need quickly. Or, you can toggle each folder, found in the left sidebar, and you'll see all your subscriptions listed individually. Organization The way you organize your categories on the Feedly desktop navigation bar defines the order in which the categories are displayed in the today section. So if you want to things to reflect your interests, go to your feedly page, drag and drop to and then reload feedly. You can also organize your Feedly by clicking on the Organize link on the top here, you can drag and drop categories into whatever order you want, as well as edit names of categories, delete categories, or edit and delete individual feeds. Feeds and reading habits are synchronized across devices, so if you read something on your desktop, it will be marked as read on your mobile app as well.

https://feedly.com/i/welcome

19)  Apphi 

Apphi is a social media management tool that helps you schedule posts on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. We liked it for a variety of reasons; simplicity and ease-of-use is one of them. The main reason for preferring Apphi over Buffer is the sense of automation.

https://www.apphi.com/#/

20)  Sked Social

It’s no secret that Facebook ads create your website brand and help you reach your targeted audience. However, too many ads have made it easier to overlook them on Facebook. Hence, marketers are moving towards less scratched platforms like Instagram.

It provides an easy and efficient way for scheduling media sharing. You can upload bulk content on your Instagram account. The user interface of this tool is pretty simple, so you won’t have to worry about the usage. However, you don’t receive support in the free version.

https://skedsocial.com/

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I WAS FIRED

To an extent, I wish this was an April Fools’ joke. It’s not. I contemplated sharing this over the last few days, but then I realized that if my desire is to encourage others through my faith journey, then it will require me to be transparent and vulnerable – even when it’s uncomfortable. The good thing though is that this allows me to slowly overcome the pressure of always seeming to “have it together.” I mean, if everything was perfect I wouldn’t need a savior, right? For those who have been following my journey since my previous blog, you know that I initially had a difficult time adjusting to my new location for grad school. The culture was extremely different; the student-teacher dynamics were very strange, and I couldn’t find a single person that I connected with. Because of this, I found myself shutting everything/everyone out – including God – in an effort to solve my own issues and become incognito until I graduate. Needless to say, I hit a breaking point and God began to show me why it was necessary to submit everything to Him. As I transitioned into my second semester, I grew better at giving my cares/worries to God, stepping out on faith, and living as if I truly believed that God supplied all of my needs. – emotionally, mentally, physically, socially, and academically. However, things began to change when I started to get challenged with leaving my financial provision to God as well. In case you didn’t know, I’m a stickler for money. Not “stickler” as in always finding side hustles to get money, but “stickler” as in I always try my hardest to properly manage what I have. Until recently, this has always been an easy task for me. As a child, my parents took care of all the major financial obligations, so my only concern was stretching my little earnings across extracurricular activities. While in undergrad, I had a full scholarship, two jobs, a paid fellowship, and again, no major financial obligations. I always planned out my spending so I wouldn’t have to depend on my parents or anyone else for money. It also helped that I had a paid internship every summer while I was in college. As I transitioned into grad school, I was aware of the funding I would be receiving. If any of you are familiar with the politics of academia, then you know it was just enough to cover “adulting” – nothing more, nothing less - literally. I get paid, pay my bills, and am back to ground zero. Nevertheless, I was grateful for God’s provision because a day didn’t go by that I was actually in need of something that He didn’t supply. I did, however, realize that as the semester comes to an end, so does my funding despite the continuation of bills. I began searching for summer jobs/paid internship opportunities because I wanted to ensure that I would be secure for the summer. Within two weeks, I received an email from my department about an opportunity to teach at an institute. I visited the website and was amazed at how much teachers were getting paid [flag #1]. It was almost 4x more than what I am currently making, and was the perfect amount to cover my summer expenses plus save for after graduation. I skimmed the job’s expectations and realized that the workload would also be about 4x the work that grad school required of me, but hey, the money seemed worth it. I applied for the job, then prayed and asked God for guidance and discernment regarding the position [I know, that was backwards lol]. After completing and submitting my application, the confirmation notice said that I should hear back from the institute in about 2 weeks. Surprisingly, I received an acceptance email to the next phase within 2 days [flag #2]. The next phase was a video submission answering certain questions about the job. I had about 2-3 days to review the material before logging on to do my video. Normally, I thrive in public speaking. However, when it was time to do my video, I fumbled – horribly. It was so bad that I literally started laughing in the middle of my stuttering [flag #3]. I couldn’t start over because once you clicked “start” you had to continue. So I humbly acknowledged the fact that I probably wouldn’t get pass this stage lol, and accepted it. Believe it or not, the next week I received another email saying that I made it to the final interview. At this point I began to think two things: 1. This company must be really desperate if they still want me after that video or 2. God is really coming through for me. A 1-2 month hiring process ended up being a 2-3 week process for me [flag #4]. Though I didn’t seek God concerning this job, I assumed that He blessed me with it because I was hired.  I felt secure knowing that this job covered all of my financial needs. I dismissed the fact that the job’s intense workload actually started immediately rather than at the beginning of the summer, but that was okay because in the end, the money was worth it. I began making plans around the money that I’d yet to receive – listing things that I could now buy because my summer money will replace it. I felt protected. Over the next few weeks, after our virtual orientation, I received an email asking for my next available time to schedule an appointment with the company. I thought nothing of it since we had multiple meetings like this up until now. On the day of my appointment, the facilitator says, “I wanted to schedule this meeting to let you know that your position has been terminated.” Um ...What? Who knew that I could be fired from a job that I hadn’t officially started yet? There was basically no explanation provided to justify me being fired, but near the end of the meeting I was given the option to respond or ask any questions. At that moment, so many options ran through my head of how I could “clap back.” I asked myself, “Do they really know who I am? Who are they to fire me? They must not have seen my credentials.” Regardless of these thoughts, all I could say was “Okay, thank you.” It was at that moment that I felt as if a burden was lifted off of me. It was also at that moment that the Holy Spirit showed me that my faith and trust wasn’t in Jesus. I depended on the monetary provision of a company that probably cares nothing about my soul versus believing that the Lord of my life would take care of me. I had placed my security in a company that had an “at-will employment” policy instead of trusting in the perfect will of God. Matthew 6:19-21 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." My heart wasn’t after God. I was more concerned with finding ways to take care of my earthly needs without taking into account that the same God that provides for birds, who neither sow nor reap, is the same one who will provide for me. It’s not a bad thing to desire internships, jobs, or even a pay increase. The issue is when we become so eager for earthly possessions or believe that the world has something to offer us that we neglect to acknowledge the sovereignty and provision of God. I become a slave to this world if I believe that they are the source of my needs. I had to realize that if I never have another job again that God already has things aligned that will take care of me, and that I have a greater reward waiting for me. Yes, I still have bills...actually more than I did before I was fired. Nevertheless, I can't worship God and money, so I've decided to keep my trust in Jesus. If He blesses me with a job opportunity, great. If not, He's still sovereign and I still trust Him to provide in His own way and timing. ​ Who/what are you looking to for your provision? Are you worshiping money or other earthly things instead of God? Read More Matthew 6:24 Matthew 6:31-32 Matthew 19:24 Philippians 4:19 Hebrews 11:6 Matthew 7:11 Ecclesiastes 5:10 Hebrews 13:5 Matthew 19:21 1 Timothy 6:10 Revelation 3:17