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Keywords ➡️ Intent

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HelloBar

Email capturing doesn’t always have to be from landing page forms. HelloBar is a simple, powerful tool that can place a variety of areas for email capture on your site. It displays your message and tries to capture as many emails as possible in an inobtrusive, but highly effective way. Even better, they have plenty of integrations and bars that can be used in multiple ways like for cart abandonment and specific funnel triggers. There are several tiers depending on your needs as well as a free option, so try it out today!

Ghostery

No one likes to be ghosted, but it’s pretty easy to ghost bad websites. What if you need to browse them anyway for research or resource purposes? Ghostery has a free browser extension that uncovers the trackers on each website and empowers you to control the ones you don’t want for a cleaner, faster, and safer browsing experience. Now you don’t have to ditch those bad websites every time, you can just adjust what bogs it down like ads and large-sized content. Give it a shot to see how you can help keep your browsing fast and your privacy protected.

Actionable Background

Zoom calls, webinars, and virtual everything are now an expected part of our lives. Complex filters and features are everywhere. Sometimes you just need something simple that can act as a virtual business card. Actionable Background is your little tool to do just that. You can add your information, a logo, or even a QR code for downloadable content or links. It’s simple and free, but may just help you stand out in a good way (not the potato filter way) in your next big meeting.

But Does It Float

Get your creative juices flowing without seeing the same text treatments and compositions over and over. But Does It Float is a never-ending visual blog that has photography, graphic design, art, illustrations, and some pretty specific typography. This can become a rabbit hole pretty quickly and isn’t your run-of-the-mill inspo source. It’s a little grungy and goes against most traditional layouts. https://butdoesitfloat.com/

Planoly

Everyone is on the hunt for a social media planning tool that does the MOST for them. Scheduling, drafting, making an editorial calendar are all some of the big needs when it comes to a good tool. Planoly is a tool that you can try for free with additional pricing tiers based on the number of profiles. It can plan and schedule content, connect with shopping platforms, and is all about the visuals. What sets it apart from other platforms is the visual drafting tools and stylishly designed templates ready to go for stories and posts. Check it out and start social planning today.

Death to Stock 🔪

Death to Stock. It’s a pretty literal name. Un-stockify your stock photos because we all know that they’re boring! This artist-owned co-op is a resource for unique photos and videos to add to your creative. We’ve seen the sins before of the same stock models used over and over again. Avoid it with new work added each month!

Content Discovery Tool

It’s hard coming up with THINGS every day. Content, copy, ideas, topics. And we CHOSE this profession? That’s where Content Strategy Discovery Tool by Builtvisible comes to the rescue. This Google Sheets-based tool finds trending topics across the web — from places like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Reddit, and YouTube. It’s completely free and not only gives you insights into what your customers are reading and asking about, but it also gives you the scoop on oversaturated topics. So you’re writing ✨fresh✨ stuff only. Try it to get the idea juice flowing.

Disco

Someone throw on the Bee Gees 🕺

Keep your remote teams in tune with your company culture with Disco. It’s a platform that supports core values, builds engagement, and fosters team appreciation. Celebrate your wins and stay in tune with your teams. It easily plugs into Slack or Microsoft Teams to make it easy for employees to engage and reinforce the culture where work is actually happening. Try it today to see how you can keep your remote team better connected instead of a see of messages, emails, and Zoom calls.

Mmhmm

It’s probably an answer you hear on video chats a lot: “mmhmm” or a dry “yeah.” Spice up your video calls with with custom effects, backgrounds, and animations from Mmhmm. It’s an app that lets you do all that and design presentations as well. It plays with all your favorites: Zoom, Google Meet, the web apps for Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Slack. There’s a free version and premium features, so try it out on your next call!