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Love Them Ipsums

Good ol’ Lorem Ipsum is cool, but random themed Ipsums are better. Sometimes designers need placeholders that can make them smile. There quite a few options out there so here’s a collection of Ipsums we love:

Pirate Ipsum: Go ahead, talk with a pirate voice out loud for one minute. It’s a guaranteed smile. This Ipsum will do the same for your land lubber content. TRY IT

Bob Ross Lipsum: A happy little Lorem Ipsum for you to lift your spirits with nothing but positive vibes. TRY IT

Office Ipsum: Cliches are perfect for placeholder text. This Ipsum may just inspire your next fluffed copy. TRY IT

Legal Ipsum: Need some drier than dust placeholder for a legal template? Use this Ipsum to bore yourself to tears. TRY IT

Fockups

Wanna see your branding out in the real world? Be careful what you wish for.

Mockups and renderings can look oh so pretty and stylized. Floating phones. Perfectly crisp posters and billboards. Palm tree shadows over business cards (we still don’t understand that one). That’s not what this resource is about. Fockups knows the world is not a perfect place, and neither are your promo placements. Rain, or shine, or trash, or wind, they are not going to stay pristine. Check out their mockup templates for your next promo test run.

(It’s the cracked screen for us.)

Channable

We know staying on top of the eCommerce game is hard. To market product listings from one platform, check out Channable. This tool will send your products to more than 2,000 price comparison websites, affiliate networks, or marketplaces. You will be able to better control the flow of your products to each channel and generate more traffic by creating product listing ads from one dashboard.

It doesn’t stop at retail; align with agencies using it for ad management. Some brands have used it for recruitment efforts ,as well. Check it out to see if it’s your next favorite marketing platform.

DashThis

Gain more flexibility in your analytics and reporting. DashThis is a marketing reporting software that allows you to create custom dashboards for SEO, SEM, social media, analytics, and display advertising reports. DashThis offers a variety of pre-built templates and widgets, displaying a whole bunch of commonly used KPIs with the option to track niche ones as well. On top of customizing dashboard components, you can also brand it, add notes, and share in multiple ways. Check it out for your next round of reporting.

ClickCease

Death to bots and spam and fakes 🔪 🔪 🔪

If you are noticing fraudulent clicks on your ads that are draining your ad dollars, it’s time for an intervention from an integration. ClickCease is a solution that prevents fake clicks on your ads. On top of bots and click farms, it includes competitors, brand haters, and accidental clicks. It integrates with both Google, Facebook, and Bing Ads currently, but has integrations for fake clicks on sites and stores, too. See how it can save your ads for genuine clicks only!

Sesimi

Sesimi is a digital asset platform that can help brands create, manage, and share branded content. On top of having your best creative and brand elements in one place, Sesimi has Creative Automation to turn one design into a scaled campaign. It’s perfect for marketing teams and creatives looking to streamline their digital assets while having tools to do more than resize and search for them. Check it out to start organizing and creating more on-hand ads.

ipstack

ipstack is a real-time geolocation API service used by thousands of developers, SMBs and large corporations all around the world. It can help you know where your customers access your website from and customize user experiences based on IPs. If you’re new to geolocation, it has guides and localization data to help implement geographic restrictions on your site, optimize ad targeting, and deliver user experiences customized based on the location of your website visitors.

Jasper

Need some help generating headlines? Jasper is an AI writing assistant created with the help of copywriters. You can get writing help in just about anything including long-form content, product descriptions, video scripts, and even short stories. Jasper has 50+ template options, including its “Perfect Headline” maker. It doesn’t just spit back the same templates with new keywords placed to fit. Instead, it requests information like your tone and target audience so it can come up with headline options that will appeal to both readers and search engines.

Flexitive

Need some help expanding your ad variations and design templates? Flexitive has responsive design and dynamic creative production technology. Marketing and design teams can work together to scale their visual assets that can be used on with different sizes, file formats, and on multiple channels. See if it’s a good fit for your team!