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Today we have an easy way to create support and educational videos and some tools for finding the best hashtags Thanks to Mark Johanssen of podcastgeargroup.org for the tip on this. Tools mentioned today www.screemailer.com (http://www.screemailer.com) www.ritetag.com (http://www.ritetag.com) www.hashtagify.me 

Got a cool tool you use? SHARE IT 888-563-3228 Thanks to Daniel J Lewis of this video (http://www.themifyflow.com/) I'm Tired of Todd Gross Todd Gross is the new Nickleback. He was cool at first but over saturation is leading me to hate him. He seems to be THE GUY to promote every single marketing tools (and I understand, his job is to do voice over, and video work, but apparently he will promote anything - which I feel is bad for HIS brand). Today I play a clip from a video that is built on the backend of Facebook. Is sends automatic messages if you leave a comment. It even will switch up its messages if you leave two responses (cause people will never figure out that they are talking to a robot). My point is I know two companies now that have had tools that worked with Facebook (three if we count Soundcloud) and Facebook changes their backend on a regular basis and it breaks stuff. Support the Show Go to www.weeklywebtools.com/support and shop, donate, or become a Patron

Lead pages has now got into the email list game with DRIP its super powerful, comes with a clean drag and drop functionality (18 different triggers) so it so its kind of Convertkit on steroids. The weird thing is (apparently) you can't order month to month. There are no options on their website. You can only order annual packages. You can try it free for three weeks.  Easy Quiz Player - Make Lists Building Fun This is a great looking, powerful tool to create quizzes. These can be text, photos, videos, scales, and order questions. It looks great and professional. The best part if you can (with the pro plan) keep track of high scores and have tools to let the visitors brag about their score and invite their friends  Then you can later export the names and addresses. This could be a fund way to drive traffic and grow your list. I could see trying it for a month to see what happens Check it out at www.easyquizplayer.com Become a Weekly Web Tools Supporter Go to www.weeklywebtools.com/support and j

Got a Tool? Call in 888-563-3228 Sometimes we come across a tool that makes you ask, "What's the catch?" This week is one of those. Sponsor: Golance.com Freelancers get paid as early as one day after job completion Employers see certifications, reviews and more to get the best candidates. Zero costs for joining, posting or applying for jobs. Get referral commissions Work. Hire. Live. goLance Around The World. (http://www.golance.com) Build Bundles of Amazon and Other Affiliates Products For me, I do the Best Podcasting Gear where I want to group products together. Now I can group items together, and provide a "buy all" button and put in my own personal description. You can then put this widget anywhere. here is an example I made in a few minutes. https://kit.com/podcastcoach/solo-podcaster (https://kit.com/podcastcoach/solo-podcaster) Start Podcasting Today  www.schoolofpodcasting.com/start

Call in your Web Tool 888-563-3228 This episode is sponsored by Golance Work. Hire. Live. goLance Around The World. www.weeklywebtools.com/golance (http://www.weeklywebtools.com/golance) If you are a web designer and have been thinking about adding mobile apps as a service to your customers, then today we have a tool for your. Mobimatic Make Mobile Apps in Minutes You can build apps for iOs and Android and Web Apps. Build apps with a drag and drop interface and  point and click. Easily build apps for restaurants, stores, bars, Coaches, gyms, Marketers, Media Organizations, Schools Governments and Churches. Build and unlimited number of apps Add unlimited pages Contests Coupons Add your QR code, Your website blog Your Podcast Get analytics on the app and audio updates. Each app has its own unique dashboard. To make it super-easy to find and manage, each app you build and sell will have it’s own unique admin panel, enabling you to keep an eye on your overall operations with just

I've used Schedule Once. I switched to (http://weeklywebtools.com/acuity) . If you are a person that books their time, this is HANDS DOWN, as in no contest the best scheduling tool. Here is why. I can create multiple types of appointments (if I want to go there each with their own time constraints) It syncs with any calendar out there (both ways) I can customize my schedule page, and it embeds in everything (they even have a Wordpress plugin) I can create coupons and/or products to upsell. I can have a separate link for each appointment type. For me I have one link for consulting (which involves fees) and another for interviews (which are free) It integrates with a ton of stuff. For me, it creates a client, and an invoice in Freshbooks. It accepts a stripe and paypal (I'm using both). The best part is all of this is $10 a month. If I go $20 a month I get reminder emails and text message If you go to the $36/month they take off the " “Powered by Acuity” on scheduling page. In

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Call in your Tools 888-563-3228 Hotjar Hotjar.com is one of the jaw droppign tools I've found in a while. If you want to know what is going on with your website, this takes ALL the guesswork out of it. You have heat maps, Recordings of your visitors (like I said, no guesswork) as well as suveys and polls.  The best part is you can try it out for free. Check it out at www.hotjar.com (http://www.hotjar.com) My Top Tweet Want to know what got the most tweets? Mytoptweets.com goes over the last 3200 tweets and gives you the results. Want to know what the top tweets of your competitor is? Yep, you can see that too. Check it out at www.mytoptweets.com (http://www.mytoptweets.com) 15% off Dedicated Wordpress Hosting Check out my new Godaddy Reseller account at www.coolerwebsites.com and use the coupon code weekly5 to get an additional 5% off our already low prices (plus a free domain with web hosting purchase) Thanks To Our Patrons Thanks to all of our patrons at weeklywebtools.com/support become pat

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Dave explains how Zapier seems more "business oriented" see Zapier and ManageWP - Automation and Time Savings Both IFTTT and Zapier have free versions.  Dave uses Zapier To add customers from Appointlet to his Freshbooks Adds new students from Thinkific to Nimble Then adds a task to Nimble to check on the entry It will tweet out when a new episode is out from Weekly Web Tools For more information go to zapier.com Manage WP is Wordpress Automation That is Awesome Check it out at www.weeklywebtools.com/managewp Support The Show. Visit www.weeklywebtools.com/support

Freshsales.io is a free CRM tool. For me I wanted a tool that was a simple place to store my contact, and track tasks and this will do it and send me email reminders when a task is due. It also has a mobile app. They have an extensive knowledgebase, but for me, I want a video tutorial that I can play on 2X to blow through the video manual and get to work. I know why companies don't do this.  1. English may be language number two for them.  2. They have to update the videos when they update the software. For me, I found it frustrating. In all not a bad tool. I wil lstay with Nimble as it checks my social sites as well and does everything (maybe not territories) that freshsales.io does.  Support the show at www.weeklywebtools.com/support

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If you are looking for an “Add to Calendar” button or a “Subscribe to Calendar” button or an API for on the fly event creation or an Event Manager for your website or newsletters, then look no further. AddEvent offers an easy, convenient way to create event buttons. It's easy to use and install. So if you want people to add events (Webinars ) to their calendar via your web, or social media, this is a cool tool. The cost is $4.80 when purchased for a year.  Check it out at addevent.com (http://www.addevent.com) Special thanks to Daniel J Lewis of www.theaudacitytopodcast.com I'm looking to get into short codes more in Wordpress. What is your favorite Short codes plugin? Let me know 888-563-3228 Become a patron at www.weeklywebtools.com/support

Today I found a plugin that stops your wordpress site from looking like Wordpress without changing and file structure, etc It's called Hide WP. and it's $23 Did you know you can get free stuff at Conde canyon every month? Check it out (https://codecanyon.net/?osr=tn&ref=jammindave) Support the show become a Patron

Today I'm talking about a membership platform called Thinkific. I heard about it via the Membership Guys who run the Membership academy (not to be confused by Marcus Couch Membership Coach ) . Here is my problem. I'm using Value Add On. I really like it. One of the reasons I purchased is was the price $37 a month. Their support is good. The bad news is you have to use JVZoo to accept paypal through them. JVZoo takes 5% in  addition to the paypal fees. This is not surprising as Thinkific does the same thing and they cost $49  If you want no transaction fees you have to upgrade to the $99 a month, which means you would have to sell over $1980 for that to make sense. So I plan on doing the $49 a month. So it sounds like a dead heat, but its no JVZoo does something I don't see anyone else doing and that is when you setup a product that is recurring, you have to put in the total number of payments. For example if you purchase a three month subscription to the school of podcasting it says on the che

This is a quick tool to help you make lead magnets.  The trick is to wait for the pop up window that provides a one time fee pay model.

Today we have a tool that saves you time when making powerpoint slides. Here are the pros and cons: Saves you time as it makes it easy to find great looking graphics. Depending on how you have it setup, you may have disclaimers stating the images came from flickr. They require you to signup with a credit card -even for a free trial. You can then need to contact support to leave Support will then offer you a deal  When you export your files to PowerPoint, they are formatted in what I can only call a "non-traditional" format (which requires a small learning curve to be squashed). If I did more presentations I might pay the $20 a month (another annoying thing, they don't have their price on their website). So if you are a person who is always looking for graphics for your PowerPoint, this could be a great tool (http://www.weeklywebtools.com/support) get to see my behind the scenes footage of slidebot.  For more information go to slidebot.io (http://slidebot.io)

I just discovered Vidrack.com (http://www.Vidrack.com) this is a free tool that allows you to either Have a landing page where people can leave a video message. - Free Use their Wordpress plugin and have people leave messages on your site - $35/yr The video that you can then download is a .3gp format. The overall bit rate is 205 Kbps. The frame rate is 30 FPS. The bit depth is 8. The audio is 96 kbps mono. For those who want to nerd out on the specs: Complete name : C:\Users\David\Desktop\Darrell Stuff\calenelson.3gp Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : 3GPP Media Release 4 Codec ID : 3gp4 (isom/3gp4) File size : 766 KiB Duration : 30s 592ms Overall bit rate : 205 Kbps Encoded date : UTC 2016-08-03 15:33:20 Tagged date : UTC 2016-08-03 15:33:20 Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : Baseline@L1.1 Format settings, CABAC : No Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=30 Codec ID : avc1 Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding Duration : 30s 534

Today we have some tools I found to help drive people back to your site.  Social Locker does just that, it locks content and the only way you can see it is to tweet, share, +, etc on social networks. This plugin costs $25 Show Down is a Hot/Not Rating kind of plugin used for content or pictures. It's a simple plugin that can have your audience helping your decide on your next logo, tag line, etc This WordPress plugin costs $23 The Photo Contest plugin does a similar thing to Show Down (it appears to have more anti-cheating built into it) It costs $41 (http://www.weeklywebtools.com/contestblitz) which is only $19

https://www.switcherstudio.com/ is an AMAZING software that allows you to create great live streaming or recording to Facebook, YouTube. It's $25/month