Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

Are you tired of all the fluff you read on marketing?Want a list of tried and tested marketing technology tools and tactics you can immediately implement in your business?

I’m sure you’ll pick off a couple of tips from the list below....

As a marketer, you’re pulled in a million directions at once. Explain this new tool, write next week’s tweets, negotiate a vendor contract, code and send out this email — the possibilities are endless. One second you’re creative and the next analytical. How can you be expected to keep your head above water with changing priorities and each day looking different than the last?

I’ve been on an endless journey to discover the best tools and tactics to help me be more productive, focused, and thrive day-to-day. At NewsCred, I’m frequently asked what the icons in my toolbar are or what a specific program/extension is, so I figured if these tools can help a few co-workers, hopefully they can help you as well. I’ve included a link to each tool below, a Windows equivalent where appropriate (I’m on a Macbook), and a description of how it can help....

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...

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....

Marketers Cruise Capt. Lou Edwards shares a collection of 101 cool tools and technology used and recommended by the biggest names in marketing.

The tools include the following categories: audio, video, communication, social media, management, automation, productivity, content marketing, scheduling, task management, books, and tips. A very useful reference.

Looking for effective ways to streamline your social media marketing tasks?

Have you heard of IFTTT applets?

Applets let you automate social media posting tasks so you can spend more time engaging with your audience.

In this article, you’ll discover how to automate a variety of social media tasks with IFTTT applets....

But we need to ask a question: how do you capitalize on this sales-ready segment of the population? How can you make sure your business is placed front and center before their eyes?

It doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, if you use these four tools, you’re virtually guaranteed a position at the top.

I’ve seen businesses rise from having zero online presence to dominating their local markets simply by using these tools. You can do it too. Here are five tools you should be using....

Being a good juggler should probably be one of the necessary qualifications for a social media manager. Managing multiple social media accounts, keeping them updated, finding content for each of them and engaging with the audience; all of it can be time-consuming and difficult to accomplish in a single day. With all of these activities on hand, you are most likely using social media management tools that can help with the job. However, there are also a number of extensions on your Chrome browser that you can help make your job a little easier and can also save you loads of time.

These various Chrome extensions can help with content curation, bookmarking, passwords and a lot more. You can install these extensions on your Chrome browser so that they are handy, and can be used when you need them. Here’s a look at 15 Chrome extensions that you must try....

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....