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Lost In Translation 🌎

The same AI experience can feel different across cultures.

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Revive Old Posts

Just because a piece of content is published, doesn’t mean you can forget all about it. Promoting your content is a large piece of the SEO puzzle and Revive Old Posts helps connect those pieces.

This tool ensures you can easily share your blog across all your social channels without forgetting. Posts will be shared more than once on rotation with message and hashtag variations so your Reach goes even further than a single post would. Plus, it can add optimized hashtags based on tags in your post.

Vanilla

Every business needs a system of fielding questions, comments, and concerns from customers. Great customer service is a large part of having a great business. Vanilla delivers a twist by letting customers serve each other.

Vanilla gives your customers a dedicated forum where they can comment and ask questions not just for you, but for the entire community. You’ll see faster resolutions, an increase in customer loyalty, and even reductions in service costs.

Restream

Ready to host your very own live stream? You’ll probably want a solution capable of streaming to all your social platforms at once. If so, Restream is the solution for your live streaming needs.

Start up a stream right from your browser and share it across more than 30 social platforms. You can add your logo and image overlays for branding consistency, display viewers’ comments for a more engaging experience, and add CTAs in your video.

What Runs Where

Do you keep a watchful eye on your competitor’s marketing strategies? Staying on top of a winning strategy entails a thorough understanding of various facets of your market. What Runs Where helps keep an eye on key players and the many moving parts of your market.

This tool shows the top performers in your industry and points out excellent campaigns you can use for modeling your own strategy. You can even create alerts for whenever your competitors publish new ads and content.

The Reddit Keyword Research Tool

Reddit is the forum of all forums. There’s a reason it’s called “The Front Page of the Internet.” Almost anything you can think of discussing has been discussed here. If you know where to search, you can uncover some serious insights, and the Reddit Keyword Research Tool can accelerate your insight discovery.

Start with a subreddit your audience is engaged with. When you enter the name of the subreddit into the Reddit Keyword Research Tool, it spits out the most popular keywords users are talking about. You’ll find a list of keywords with monthly search volumes. A “Context” button further allows you to view the keywords as Google Search results would appear.

Pretty cool, right?

Quickart

You probably have a go-to app for adjusting the exposure, sharpness, and saturation of an image. But what if you want a bit more surrealism in your photo? Quickart is the app for the job.

With just a few taps you’ll be on your way to making striking and imaginative visuals your audience won’t miss. Experiment with double exposures, image dispersions, and all sorts of funky elements the app offers.

WikiGrabber

Having authority on a subject increases your credibility and the likelihood of being found on top search results. But where do you start when establishing authority? WikiGrabber helps fill in gaps for those subject matter experts.

Simply enter a keyword and WikiGrabber will compile a list of citations needed or dead/broken links related to your keyword. If your site is a wealth of knowledge on a subject, let people know via Wikipedia.

Smartlook

Retaining customers requires a thorough understanding of your own processes and all customer touchpoints. Knowing the customer experience is necessary so you may continue improving upon it. Smartlook gives a concrete look into a large part of the customer experience – visiting your website.

Smartlook records user sessions on your desktop and mobile site so you can glimpse into what they do when they visit. This allows an understanding of everything happening between clicks. Get breakdowns of where people drop off in your funnel and rest assured knowing data and analytics captured apply retroactively from the moment you implement Smartlook.

Lessonly

Having brand guidelines clearly laid out is a must. But sometimes there is a bit of a learning curve when it comes to abiding by those guidelines. Lessonly helps teach employees how brand guidelines ought to be followed.

You can create lessons and outline everything employees will need so they can properly capture your brand. Lessons can be presented in various styles with images, flipcards, videos, audio, and more. Onboard new members easily with this tool, or use it as a refresher for existing staff.