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Cello

Cello helps you accelerate growth by setting up a referral program that seamlessly integrates with your SaaS product.

Just embed the referral experience inside your product to make it frictionless for users to share across channels. Cello integrates with payment providers and handles all the billing and payouts.

All that’s left to do is track your word-of-mouth results.

New Google Chrome Feature for Android Users

FYI: Google Chrome Android users can now transition between native app and web content via Minimized Custom Tabs, which streamline the usually clunky in-app web browsing UX via a compact, picture-in-picture window.

Kino

This is a professional video app for iOS from the team at Lux. It helps you achieve that know-it-when-you-see-it film style by circumnavigating the iPhone’s usual space-saving shortcuts that degrade video quality.

Instant Grade is a one-tap color grading feature that lets you select from high-quality presets or load up your own styles. AutoMotion gives you the best exposure settings for that cinematic motion-blur effect.

It’s intuitive enough to be approachable, but technical enough to hold the attention of videophiles.

timeOS

Nothing like scrambling from one meeting to prep for the next. timeOS is AI-powered New Tab page that briefs you ahead of your meeting with relevant notes, Gmail threads, and LinkedIn info. Just hover over an event to revisit the summary of a past meeting. The customizable AI chatbot joins, records, transcribes, and summarizes your day, like an executive assistant that manages itself.

reMarkable

A few folks on the Carney team recently adopted the reMarkable Type Folio keyboard and have been loving it. Here’s Rich’s take:

“Using the reMarkable Type Folio keyboard helped me realize how much of the writing process is really just putting off writing… Opening a blank document, monkeying around with font choices, clicking back and forth to different tabs for ‘research’ and inspiration.

The reMarkable clears that all away so that you are forced to get down to the business of actually writing. Text options are intentionally limited, but sufficient for actually writing something. Margins and whitespace are generous.

The cursor is positioned in the middle of the screen as you type. That means you don’t see too much of what you’ve already written, tempting you to scan back up the page in the name of ‘revision’ when you really should be writing.

And if you really need to look up a fact somewhere else, you can go to another device. But since the entire Internet is not a tab away, there’s just enough friction to make you pause and consider if you really need to break the flow of your writing to go down a digital rabbit hole this very moment. Turns out you usually can come back to it later.”

Told

Told is a simple popup survey tool for collecting feedback from your users and customers. Use the no-code editor to prompt feedback at the right time across apps, websites, and survey links.

Validate your idea, measure long-term customer satisfaction, evaluate your payment funnel, measure your product market fit, or gather suggestions.

Also, the colorful gradient design is easy on the eyes.

mymind

Our minds have been taken captive—say the minds behind mymind—by social media, vanity metrics, data tracking, external pressures, newsfeeds, and ads.

mymind is a private database of your notes, images, quotes, and highlights—each filed, categorized, organized, and tagged by AI. It’s an extension of your brain and a personal search engine, all in one.

ChatSlide

ChatSlide is an AI generator that can very quickly turn any website, video, or document into a presentation or social post. No tedious copying and pasting.

Plus, convert slides or content into video seamlessly with customized digital avatars, voiceover, and automated scripting.

Diversify Your Blog Traffic

It’s been a turbulent year so far for bloggers. As Google core updates and SERP shakeups continue, it’s critical that content creators diversity their traffic sources in 2024. Here are some viable options:

Microsoft Bing. Submit your site to Bing Webmaster Tools, set up a sitemap, and take advantage of IndexNow real-time indexing. (Hint: This is built into Yoast, RankMath and AIO by default).
Pinterest traffic. Pinterest is the third fastest-growing platform and can send considerable traffic to blogs. Take a Pinterest course or work with an expert to invest in Pinterest as a monthly priority.
Facebook traffic. It’s the third most-visited site behind Google and YouTube. Over two-thirds of all monthly users are online daily. Commit to understanding the algorithm and creating a strategy to exploit it.
Instagram traffic. Instagram is still your top choice if your target is between 18 and 34 years old. Optimize Stories and Reels to boost engagement with Gen Z and millennials.
Reddit traffic. Reddit has benefitted from Google updates and recently introduced Reddit Pro BETA. Sign up to try additional tools for understanding where and how to communicate on the platform.
YouTube traffic. Bloggers can’t ignore a potential ad reach of 2.49 billion users and over 100 million paid users on YouTube.

Check out Search Engine Land for more strategies to recover traffic.