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The New Dropbox

We’ve been using Dropbox for a long time and we know a lot of you use it as well.

Yesterday, Dropbox unveiled the ‘New Dropbox.’

There are a ton of new features including, easier ways to organize your content and share across Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. If you’re currently a Dropbox user, you can opt-in to the new desktop app through their early access program.

It’s a brand new experience. Check out all the new features here.

The Right Message

Today’s tool is 🔥

Most websites today pitch the same content and offers to everyone. RightMessage flips the script by segmenting your visitors and displaying the right offer at the right time to the right person.

Check it out below.

Go Yoast

There’s a reason Yoast is used on over 10m websites and is the most popular SEO plugin on Wordress.

It’s legit! We highly recommend.

Here are some features, directly from their site:

Content & SEO analysis: Invaluable tools to write SEO-friendly texts.
The snippet preview shows you how your post or page will look in the search results – even on mobile. Yoast SEO Premium even has social media previews!
Full control over site breadcrumbs: add a piece of code and you’re good to go.
Set canonical URLs to avoid duplicate content. Never have to worry about Google penalties again.
Title and meta description templating for better branding and consistent snippets in the search results.

Get your Yoast on.

Swish!

Wanna make amazing videos in 3 minutes or less?

Swish is a video maker app that gives you the ability to create and customize your own video ads.

Swish allows you to easily add your logo, design elements, music, templates, etc. It also doubles up as a solid video editor.

The free version is enough to get you started.

Your New Content Calendar

Is your content calendar stuck in a spreadsheet? Tired of copy/pasting, old versions, and struggling to find what you need?

Today’s tool takes the stress out of content marketing. It’s called Airtable.

It’s your one-stop-shop for all things content. Store assets, plan out your content pipeline and automatically see deadlines on a calendar.

Folks in our Facebook group love it. See the thread here.

Save yourself time & headaches – try it for free today! Yes, free.

Get Speechify

Today’s tool is 🔥.

It’s called Speechify.

Speechify allows you to convert text to audio with ease. Let’s say you stumble upon a long-form post about marketing right before your commute home.

Why not listen to it?

All you have to do is copy the text and paste it to Speechify and boom! You have yourself an audiobook.

The best part; it’s free.

Get Your Customers to Talk to You

One of our favorite tools for collecting customer data is HotJar.

The interface is seamless and the pricing is more than fair for what they offer.

From heatmaps to survey pop-ups, HotJar has everything you need to learn about your customer’s behavior.

Try it for free today.

Preview It

There’s a good chance you’re using Google at least once per day. The search engine behemoth receives over 228m searches per hour. 🤯

Today’s tool should make searching more efficient and eliminate some open tabs.

It’s called ‘Google Results Previewer.’

This free Google Chrome extension allows you to view web pages from search results without any clicks, directly from Google.

Give it a try.

Get More Done Now

Whether you’re trying to find a micro-influencer or plan next month’s content calendar, one thing is for certain; it takes time. It doesn’t have to though.

Today’s tool comes in the form of a real human being. For only $49/month, you get to choose from hundreds of fully trained marketing apprentices that are eager to show off their skills.

We’ve personally used GenM and are big fans. From content writing to social media and everything in between, you get 40 hours of work per month for only $49 bucks.

To sweeten the deal, GenM is offering $25 bucks off for Daily Carnage readers. That’s a win-win right there. Give it a try.