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  1. Feb 2020
  2. Jan 2020
    1. 15 Best Marketing Tools to Increase your Sales Whether it’s a small business or an enterprise, every business needs to have its marketing game on point. Big businesses invest heavily in marketing and promoting their products on various platforms but, a small business cannot afford big marketing budgets. This article lists best marketing tools By Jenny Targa13th Jan 20200:00/15:0323 claps+20 Share on23 claps+20 Share onShare onWhether it’s a small business or an enterprise, every business needs to have its marketing game on point.Big businesses invest heavily in marketing and promoting their products on various platforms like Google, social media, banner ads, etc. but, a small business that cannot afford big marketing budget hence, lacks behind and fails.Did you know around 90% of the startup fails within the first year of establishment? Do you know why?Well, there are lots of variable factors that result in business failures but one of the major ones is marketing. Marketing is all about running the right campaign based on the products, audience, and channel.To make your campaign optimized and organized you need to have the right tools. In this article, we will provide you with an 18+ marketing tool that will definitely increase your sales.Content Generation Tool“Content is King”You've got to have the best content to see business growth. Whether it’s Google or your customers, everyone expects content that helps them in solving their problems. If you can solve someone's problems, then you are most likely to make him your customer for life.To generate content that helps your customers in solving problems, you need to find the problem first. So, the following tool helps you in creating the best content-Google Google is the most used search engine in the world with 80-85% of market share. Ranking your website for keywords helps you in increasing sales.What do you do when you want to buy or search for something?Google it!But, how Google will help you in creating content that ranks and viewers find interesting?Google can help you in finding the topics or problems people are facing related to your industry. You can then create content like articles, videos, etc. solving that issue. Simple, isn’t it?Just put in the keyword related to your industry and you can get various topics to write about from the suggestion section as well as on auto-fill keywords. People are searching for all these keywords and questions.For example- Search for the keyword “How to start a business” on google.comYou’ll notice Google is providing you with auto refill options. All of these can be your potential content topics.When you scroll down you’ll notice there are few suggestions provided by Google, they are your content topic.And hey, it’s FreeGoogle TrendsGoogle Trends is yet another amazing product that is free and provides you with some amazing results. They are best if you want to find out what is trending and where is it trending.If your customers are from specific demographics like the US, Google Trends can give you location-specific results related to your industry. You can create content specific to that region.You can use related queries or interests by region to create a specific topic for your content. The content created not only ranks for the keyword for a specific region but also brings relevant traffic to your site.EveryDesigns When you are creating content or marketing your business you need to have graphic design services. Around 80-90% of all the people are visual meaning creating a moving design can influence the viewer in buying your products.EveryDesigns provides the best designs by organizing a design contest. You just have to provide the brief and you will receive different concepts crafted by multiple designers.You can then select your favorite design and pay for only that design. It’s the world's easiest way of getting the design, isn’t it?BuzzSumoBuzzSumo helps you in generating ideas, high-quality content, track performance, and identify influencers to promote your content.The above dashboard shows you the engagement with a variety of filters to narrow down your analytics. You can use this data to create content that gets engagement as well as social signals.You can also use this tool to find the best social media channels to get your content shared and increase engagement.Content Optimization ToolNow, you have created high-quality content that not only ranks but also engages your visitors. But, it is important for optimizing content for grammatical errors, keyword density, and other important optimization. The following tools can help you in optimizing your content.GrammarlyGrammarly can help you in removing any grammatical errors and provide you with replacement words. Grammarly also provides you with a content score that can make your job easy. Higher the score better than the content.  You also get to find whether it is engaging or boring based on the writing tone. If you want to make your writing your English professor then you got to have Grammarly.It is free as well as pro versions, you can for free if you are on a budget but, if you have bucks and find a grammar correction tool then this is it.Yoast SEO PluginYoast is an SEO plugin that helps you optimize your on-page SEO. If you use WordPress as your website CMS then this must be your go-to plugin. Yoast not only helps you in writing title, description but also helps in optimizing content by scoring content based on a variety of SEO factors.If everything is green like the title, description, Yoast Analysis then you are good to go, but if you find something in red or orange then improve that factor by highlighting it, until it turns green.Website ManagementHaving an online presence is important nowadays, and what is the best way to be online then having a website?A website helps your business in getting more customers and creating a global presence. If you have a website then you must require a website management tool. The following are the tools that can help in managing your website-WordPressWebsite management is the basic requirement that every business having a website needs. Using a CMS like WordPress can help you in making your job easy.You do not need to learn the programming language to work on WordPress. There are different plugins that help your website from the functioning part and you can use page builders to drag and drop.You can even use WordPress to build your own e-commerce website. About half the websites use WordPress to operate their website.Email MarketingIf you ask me, email marketing is the best way of getting quality sales. You only get those mail ids who are interested in your product. Everyone is not your customer and email marketing funnels downs only your customers.Using this method of marketing, people will visit your website regularly, which sends a good signal to Google and affects your ranking positively. The following are the best tools that you can use for marketing your brand via email-MailChimpMailChimp is one of the well-known email marketing tool that powers hundreds of webmasters in powering their marketing campaigns. The best part is it's free and comes with enough features to make small business.When you start to get more customer base then you can use their paid plan which is as low as $9, Cheap marketing tool isn’t it?HubspotHubspot is not just an email marketing tool but a group of inbound marketing tools that consist of conversational bots, email marketing, and other tools.These tools are designed specifically to create a marketing funnel that drives your customers through various stages of sales. These stages as defined by Hubspot are Attract, Engage, and Delight.Hubspot has free as well as paid software. You can start with the free version and eventually when your business starts getting bigger, you can purchase the paid version to increase the functionality of the software.Social Media MarketingSocial media is one of the biggest channels that has the potential of making or breaking your brand image. The daily visitor count on social media websites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter is in millions, which makes it a potential source for brands to increase their customer engagement strategies.Tracking social media signals from users will ensure that your products or services are indeed perceived as good. If you find people posting a negative review for your service or product quality, you can quickly get into damage control and prevent spoiling the brand image.The tool that can help you in tracking, optimizing and using social media to its full potential is as follows-MeetEdgarMeetEdgar is a social media marketing tool that takes your social media campaign to auto-pilot. The biggest challenge that comes when handling a social media account is finding the relevant content, optimizing it and posting the content. You have to repeat the same process on different social media accounts. This is a lot of work.Tools like MeetEdgar automate these processes and speed up your campaign. There is an A/B testing option, tracking and unlimited library of content, so you don’t have to worry about producing the content yourself.The first month is free so you can try their service and if you find yourself liking the product then it is the best option for you to handle your social media channel.Crowdfire AppCrowdfire App is a software that helps you compile content to post on your social media account. The algorithm helps the user in finding the relevant content based on your niche.It assists you in optimizing your social media, it is a very powerful tool for handling your social media account. There are free as well as paid versions available in the market. The real potential of your social media can be utilized when you get the paid version of the app.Statistics Tracking ToolsStatistics or Data is the most important part of any marketing campaign. Data-driven marketing helps in keeping track of what you did right and what you did wrong?Planning different strategies and organizing different campaigns for your business can be overwhelming for you to track and certainly impossible.Data collection tools help you in tracking your progress and ranking your various campaigns. The tools that are best at tracking your data are as follows-Google Analytics & Search ConsoleGoogle Analytics & Search Console are free tools that help you in tracking your website visitors. These tools have become a marketing standard for every website.These tools are designed to provide data on user activity and engagements within your website as well as Google. The basic difference between search console and analytics is, the search console provides the data on the website performance on Google whereas analytics provides website performance on the visitor side.CrazzyEggCrazzyEgg is another marketing tool that provides valuable stats that the Google analytics and search console lacks. It adds another layer of information that can help you in improving your website performance.Features like heatmaps, scrolling, A/B testing, user site recording, etc. can provide an additional layer of data that can help you in optimizing your website.It is a paid product but the first 30 days are free.SEO ToolsSEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it is one of the most important factors when it comes to online marketing. The main objective of SEO is to rank the website higher in the SERPs for specific keywords.To do so, you would need a variety of tools, the following are the list of tools that you can use to improve your site’s SEO-UberSuggestUberSuggest is another best marketing tool that helps you in making your business increase sales. It is a free tool and provides you with data like search volume, Keyword ideas, content ideas, web traffic, SEO difficulty and much more. If you are into digital marketing then this tool will help you in optimizing not only your content but also helps you in auditing your website and getting backlink data of your competitor.It is one of the best marketing tools that can make your website rank higher in the SERPs, free of cost.AhrefAhref provides you with a list of tools to use for optimizing your website as well as tracking your competitors. One of the most used tools that makes it best in the market is the content explorer. You can use this tool for content creation.The number of tools that you get from Aherf is enough to make your website rank higher. You can run a site audit, analyze competitors for their backlinks, track your backlinks, and much more.You can get a free trial for $7 and the full basic pack for $99.ConclusionMarketing is very important and when you are a small business it becomes a basic necessity. It is a method of helping your customers find your product.How many of the tools have you used before?What are your favorite tools?Or did I miss your favorite tool?

      Whether it’s a small business or an enterprise, every business needs to have its marketing game on point. Big businesses invest heavily in marketing and promoting their products on various platforms but, a small business cannot afford big marketing budgets. This article lists best marketing tools

  3. Nov 2019
    1. Published by the American Sociological Association, the article addresses best practices for meeting the needs of military students in sociology classes in higher education. Drawing on Knowles' andragogy, the authors give tips for course organization, feedback, content, and communication.

      9/10

    1. Some time ago I asked on Reddit: “What’s the consensus among the React community for testing React components?” Shawn Wang replied: “testing is an enormously complicated and nuanced topic on which there isn’t a consensus anywhere in JS, much less in React.” I was not trying to find the best library for testing React. Mainly because there isn’t one.
  4. Oct 2019
    1. Yes, absolutely, no two projects are alike. This step is moving towards a direction where we have a set of best practices for webpack isolated in a bundled package and can be maintained in isolation without impacting upgrades or end-user experience. If you have seen next.js or create-react-app they sort of do they same thing for ease and maintainability. Rails is a great example for this - there are some built-in best practices, opinionated defaults and gems that are hidden behind the scene plus power to do advance things where needed.
  5. Aug 2019
    1. How can incorporating free eCommerce WordPress theme can help you in impressing your customers?

      We all know that “The first impression is the last impression.” Thus, if you want to impress your users with your website design,

  6. Apr 2019
    1. Two commonly used change strategies are clearly not effective: developing and testing “best practice” curricular materials and then making these materials available to other faculty and “top‐down” policy‐making meant to influence instructional practices.

      Would this be predicted by the Cynefin framework? Teaching problems are rarely obvious enough for "best" practices; "better" practices may be the best we can hope for.

  7. Jan 2019
    1. More recently, the United States, Russia, China, Romania, and Japan have been the top teams in artistic gymnastics
    2. artistic gymnastics, the Soviet Union and Japan

      artistic gymnastics- Soviet Union, Japan

  8. Nov 2018
    1. The better way I found to do review is to replace ALL review lecturing with problems that the students  solve in class that cover the material I want to review. 

      I can relate this to my earlier experiences. Active involvement and students' engagement is guaranteed if they are tasked with solving actual physics problems related to the materials being taught before.

    1. List of web 2.0 applications

      EDUTECH wiki is a site that contains a variety of links to lists to hep educators with web 2.0 applications improving productivity Caution: some of the links are not active!

      RATING: 4/5 (rating based upon a score system 1 to 5, 1= lowest 5=highest in terms of content, veracity, easiness of use etc.)

  9. Oct 2018
    1. A variant is useful in standards work, where I ask collaborators to search for the worst possible name for something, in order to avoid long arguments about which is best. You can have a good laugh when someone invokes the "worst is best" rule, and get on with the real work of working together.

      Almost like a pattern. Start off with something, anything, and improve from there.

  10. Aug 2018
    1. Black Americans’ continuous experiences with racial injustice prompt questions: What is racism, and why does it exist? How do we survive in America? And, since no one ought to live like this, what is to be done? That the black experience both motivates and unifies these questions is exactly the reason we can identify and study something called black thought. It is the intellectual tradition concerned with systematically and imaginatively studying and conveying the worst social, economic, and political treatment ever visited on a population, for nearly four centuries, and with no end in sight.

      One invigorating aspect of black thought — whether it is expressed in philosophy, literature, art, film, music or dance — is its clear and direct impact on society. Tied as it is to urgent questions of human dignity, freedom and justice, its manifestations and effects can ultimately be seen everywhere from the graffiti-graced brick walls of America’s inner cities to the halls of gilded centers of art and education.

    2. It is a demand for whites to extend their historical imagination and recognize that the ills of racism are not the result of a few bad police officers or a few out-and-out racists in some far-off corner of America.

    3. While forgiveness and acceptance were hallmarks of King’s and Baldwin’s views, so was an unyielding commitment to self-respect and the demand for social change to institutionalize the idea that blacks were co-creators of the American kingdom.

  11. Jul 2018
    1. What activi-ties, sequence, and resources are best suited to accomplish our goals?

      I think this is very important question that teachers face today. With so many different resources available, sometimes it can be overwhelming not knowing what to use in the classroom.

  12. Jun 2018
    1. must keep the focus first on best practices

      Good practices? Here are a couple of critiques of the phrase best practices.

      1. When “Best Practice” is Bad Practice

      1. Best Practices Are the Worst

      Not trying to nitpick here, but as a teacher I find it more important to be able to look at any writing practice (digital or otherwise) and see how it fits my learners and our learning niche. I am always surprised at what works and what doesn't and how the trifling-est practice sometimes works. I understand, too, that the reason we propose 'best practice' and do research to determine what is best practice is to pare down on the universe of options available to us as teachers and learners. As an experiment ask a student what they might consider best practice for learning a particular thing and I think you might be surprised. Oh, right, students don't enter into best practice except as we practice it upon them.

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      I found myself thinking about the phrase "best practice" when reading this paragraph. All too often in my line of work we seem to be using that phrase more and more and it's beginning to feel like a new buzz word/phrase. The comment of the author "...they also distance us from our own instincts." really makes me stop and wonder about my intentions when saying it. Hmm...

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    1. (It's usually a mistake to pass back the concrete type of an error rather than error, for reasons discussed in the Go FAQ, but it's the right thing to do here because ServeHTTP is the only place that sees the value and uses its contents.)

      Good clarifying comment on when to pass back the concrete type of an error.

  19. Jun 2017
    1. "Fostering student engagement Create a community of learners Foster student-to-faculty and student-to-student interaction Judicious and strategic use of humor Creative and engaging use of videos, chats, podcasts, wikis, and discussion forums Use blogs to facilitate reflective thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge construction( 2) Stimulating intellectual development Create natural critical learning environments Generate provocative acts, questions, statementsReflect on students‟ inaccurate and incomplete preconceptions or mental models Use technology to create engaging and authentic content(3) Building rapport with students Understand one‟s student population and determine the amount of help neededLet students get to know their teacher Use introductory video or other self-disclosure resourcesKeep written records of communication that includerelevant student information Be flexible with deadlines and due dates Provide individualized feedback on assignments and activities"

    1. Where do you rank on Google, Yahoo!, and Bing? If you’re buried behind your competition in the search engine results you could be losing revenue.

      Search Engine Optimization Pittsburgh - Salesleadspittsburgh.com

  20. Mar 2017
    1. Barbra is extremely gracious and thankful. She is nothing but sweet and gratifying. There are a few jokes but overall humility and admiration. “Hello Gorgeous,” indeed.

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    1. Component classes should be lean. They don't fetch data from the server, validate user input, or log directly to the console. They delegate such tasks to services.

      A really good point! Lean-ness is something to strive for.

  23. Dec 2016
    1. You can have a maximum of two access keys (active or inactive) at a time.

      Incredibly useful to have up to two access keys simultaneously. You can make sure a new key is working before invalidating an old key which may still be in use. I wish more API providers would follow this practice.

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    1. even if an interconnected skein of nanotechnology were toextend into all aspects of everyday life

      recent research has proven that personal use technology (internet, smartphones, gaming systems) have decreased the skills of interpersonal communication and emotional intelligence (mostly of the millennials generation)... should we be pushing for technology to be involved in all aspects of everyday life?

  26. Sep 2015
    1. When should I use an attribute versus an element? Use an element when you are creating a component that is in control of the template. The common case for this is when you are creating a Domain-Specific Language for parts of your template. Use an attribute when you are decorating an existing element with new functionality.
  27. Feb 2014
    1. For example, imagine you are annotating the second page of a New York Times article. You probably want to see your annotation when you are looking at the article later as a single page, right? Or perhaps you've annotated the HTML for a PLOS ONE article. Wouldn't you like to see those annotations when you are looking at the PDF version of the same article? If annotations were only associated with the URL you happened to be looking at in your browser then the scenarios above would not work, because the documents being annotated all have different URLs.

      Publisher Best Practices is a great idea that I would like to see codified in the authoring and publishing tools to make the practices commonplace by default.

      I would like to mix PBP with other techniques, though, for richer connection between source and rendering-- I have some source mapping ideas that make it possible to keep annotations linked even as the original source is edited over time.

  28. Oct 2013
    1. Therefore, the first consideration for the student is to understand what he proposes to imitate and why it is excellent.

      Imitation is important and students must choose the best to imitate.