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Hemingway Editor

Developing a writing style takes time, and people respond better to certain styles. Writing is a science and an art. While your emails may not make it to print as New York Times best sellers, you can still write like a best seller with the Hemingway Editor.

This writing tool gives you immediate feedback on your content. Remove redundant words or see suggestions for maintaining an active voice. This tool also provides simpler alternatives for your writing and disclaimers when a sentence is difficult to read. Your written content will look better than ever.

SEO Minion

“Minion” might conjure an image of a yellow, suspender-wearing, bespectacled being. Thanks to the success of Despicable Me, this image is everywhere. While these minions epitomize the helper on the big screen, SEO Minion is the perfect helper for your browser.

This Chrome extension packs in many helpful tools. Analyze on-page SEO and uncover any issues with meta tags and headings, let it scour pages for broken links or highlight internal vs external links, and use it to preview your page in SERPs.

Feedbackify

Businesses love feedback. Just not the kind you get from a rogue microphone on a Zoom call. Feedback helps you move forward as an organization and better cater to customers. If you don’t have a feedback tool on your site already, check out Feedbackify.

This tool is easily implemented so you can get up and running in no time. Create a general feedback form visitors can fill out and include fields for more custom feedback so you can address more unique issues and questions. Once your feedback is coming in you can sort by feedback type and even see from which of your site’s pages the feedback was submitted.

Twitonomy

Competitors and influencers in your industry are probably all over Twitter. Keeping track of their movements and tactics helps you stay on top of your own. Twitonomy gives you all the info you need so you can refine your own approach on the platform.

You’ll have access to detailed analytics on anyone’s tweets, mentions, hashtags, and more. Put this tool to use monitoring Twitter when

important keyword searches occur
specific accounts post new tweets
collect actionable insights in your personal Followers Report

All this good stuff within one tool!

Project Charter Template

Getting started on something new is easier with a reference. This is precisely why we love templates. No need for reinventing the wheel. Smartsheet has project charter templates so you can knock out your own charter in no time.

Download your template for Word or Excel, or use the template right within Smartsheet. Get your team involved and plan out all the facets of your project in a collaborative document.

The Internet In Real Time

Stats make the world go round. If you searched for it, you could easily find the number of monthly Facebook users, the number of tweets per day, and how much media is consumed in a given timeframe.

But let’s make things easier and take out the need to continuously search for updated information. Influencer Marketing Hub created one intense, interactive tool that took breaking down social media statistics to a new level.

Introducing the Internet in Real-Time infographic. You’ll find a not-so-static view of social media platforms, video/music streaming services, and emails with counts increasing by the second. You’ll see just how many amass in just the time you’re on the site, or toggle the switch at the top for a 24-hour view.

AutoDraw

There are tons of free and paid sites to snag icons, but sometimes it’s more fun designing them from scratch! But hold up, before you non-designers out there try to skip this section, Google Creative Lab has a tool to help you draw like a pro.

AutoDraw pairs machine learning with tons of drawings so the program can recognize what it is you’re scribbling. For instance, start drawing your best version of a tree and it’ll predict what you’re drawing and offer some designs for trees.

Canned Emails

If you work in front of a computer, email is something you can’t ignore. Marketers send and receive countless internal, client, and customer emails. And good grief, isn’t it exhausting?

Check out Canned Emails. This super simple tool offers everything in its name: canned emails. Need to follow up on something? There’s a prewritten email. Need to schedule a call with someone? Just click the template and you’ll be on your way.

Old Blog Post Refresh Checklist

Writing new content keeps you plenty busy as it is. But revisiting an old piece can give you a break from hunting for something brand new and instead allow for refining some knowledge you already have. Jessica Green Marketing offers a handy dandy checklist you can use while refreshing old blog content.

Having defined steps or an outline makes most tasks easier. This checklist will get you on the right track so you can breathe new life into your posts.