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Leadly.com sounds like an interesting service. It integrates to let you know how many companies from your email list are visiting your website. The idea is you can uncover a need at the company and make some sales.  Interesting. I went to their website. I read their frequently asked question. The one question I had and I'm sure it's frequently asked is "HOW MUCH IS IT?" There is no answer. Its free to sign up.  No thanks.  I hate companies that do this. Thanks for wasting my time. 

If you've ever gone to those sites that have you pay $30 for a video intro based on some template that makes your intro look like everyone else's then you need to check out Vinci3D that allows you to make a  unique logo for your videos in just  few minutes. The prices starts at $47 a year. 

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Most of my todo items come to me via email, and I've used Asana, and Evernote and both provide ways for you to send emails to those system. Once you memorize the items to put in the title it will automatically sort, stamp, etc your todo item. Cool? yes. Easy? Not so much. I've been able to forward the messages and make a big pile in my default folder and later I would have to sort them. Hard? No. Convenient? Not so much. Todoist is an an that pretty much works on anything. It syncs in the cloud, on your iPad, iPhone, Windows, Android, etc. Check it out at www.todoist.com Supporters get Dave's home made quick start video. Become a supporter today

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I was emailing back and forth with Marcus Couch who is on the WP Plugins A to Z show. I heard him mention weeklywebtools.com/3 (http://weeklywebtools.com/325) 25 You edit everything from the front end, and much like most builders it is HIGHLY customizable. This also means that there are tons of little nooks and crannys that you need to check out so you can get the most out of the software. The video above is kind of long, but it does give you a complete guide to the software. I live the Divi theme, but this one has my attention. At $35 it is quite the bargain. Visual Composer  $34 Cornerstone is $35 Elegant Themes (http://www.weeklywebtools.com/elegantthemes) $69 but you get a whole slot of tools and plugins Plugins that Make My Life Easier This plugin does what the name says it does. No more going into each link to make sure the box is checked. The other plugin I love is the Advanced Image Styles  why? Becuase it allows me to put in some white space around my images. Special thanks to everyon

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Boomerang For Gmail http://www.boomeranggmail.com/ (http://www.boomeranggmail.com/) This tool allows you to schedule email to go later, as well as have it prompt you if a person has not responded to your email. You can also have Boomerang take a message out of your inox and put it back in later. It can help you: Remember to pay bills Schedule birthday/holiday notes when you have time to write them Make sure you follow up with a sales lead Communicate with people in different time zones Clear out travel confirmation emails, returning them on the day of your trip The free plan starts with 10 messages a month, then plans start with $4.99 a month. See What Your Competition is Up To (http://follow.net/?ref=usr-ef30fbc153e2bf79) Over 30,000 people use Follow to gain valuable competitive insights which helps them make better-informed decisions in their own business. You get 50 Free lookups a month under the free account. You can follow websites, and get reports. Plans start at $37 which have

Canva For Business This is a great tool, it allows you to add folders, add some branding to canva, set your default fonts and colors. My favorite is the abracadabra feature where you design one graphic and then order a twitter, facebook, tumblr, etc version and it just spits them out. All you have to do is drag and drop the elements into place and you're done. There is a video on this for patrons. Become a parton today YouTube Audience Retention Report Go directly to the Audience retention report or follow the steps below. Log in to your YouTube account. In the top right, select your account > Creator Studio. On the left, select Analytics > Audience retention. To see audience retention data for a specific video, click the name of the video. Then play the video to see how different parts are doing.

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Alternativeto.net (http://Alternativeto.net) This is a cool site. If you find a tool you like, but maybe you don't like the price. You type in the name of the website or app, and it spits out an alternative to. For example, I just cancelled my lead pages account. I just wasn't using it enough to warrant the $40 a month . It brought up a bunch of landing page alternatives such as Landini, Front Meter (which looks really cool), http://unbounce.com/ Unroll.me Not sure where I found this, but I’ve been using it for my gmail based accounts for a few months.  it’s called unroll.me (http://unroll.me/) . If you’ve heard of this or already featured it, then disregard. But I’ve been using my email address since 2005. It’s been the ONE constant email address through domain changes, job changes and everything else. Rather than try to keep up with dummy accounts for subscriptions, I just had everything into that account. I would get hundreds of e-mails a day. I love “inbox zero” and my OCD about it can

Email Spike This too allows you to put a video into your email that can play (this would be an mp4, and have a backup animated gif so if the browser doesn't display in the browser). You can also create a slideshow that you create write there in the software. You can also make a YouTube gif. This is a 10 second gif inside the email. You can also create a countdown timer that shows in your email. You pick the style of the timer, the end date, the font size, font style, and copy and paste some code into your email. You still need to create great content to get people to open the email, but this looks pretty cool. As I write this it is $47 and the creators say this price could go up to $200 at any time. So here again, a  company that has a scarcity tool is using scarcity. Shocking. If that works for you, then maybe you should use it in your emails by purchasing email spike (http://www.weeklywebtools.com/emailspike) . before the price goes up.

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I was at WordCamp Dayton last weekend and these two tools kept coming up. The interesting thing is with SEMRush, it might be easier to say what it DOESN'T do than what it does.  In a nutshell, you can spy on our competitors, and figure out what keywords they are using, how much they are spending, and what keywords would be a good fit for you The only thing missing from the feature list is a free pair of knives. The price starts at $69 a month and they offer a 7-day guarantee so if you're not sure about the product, block out some time and really jump into the deep end if you sign up. Editorial Calendar Plugin This free plugin makes it super easy to plot out when posts will appear on your website The Editorial Calendar makes it possible to see all your posts and drag and drop them to manage your blog. So with SEMRush you decide what to write about it, and then combine it with the Editorial calendar to figure out when it will be published

Easy WP Local Host (http://jvz3.com/c/59893/202416) AD respark Ad Respark (http://www.weeklywebtools.com/adrespark)  is a Flexible tool for making Facebook Ads. Their video shows you just click a few buttons and it switches it to a banner, or pinterest, etc. I did not have the same experience. I had to do some tweaking as an image for Facebook won't fit on a pinterest icon (in some cases). I don't beleive they purposely mislead you, but it's not quite as simple as their videos show. It is a nice program with the ability to pull in pictures, and use their tool to check to see if your add should pass the Facebook 80/20 rule. I did sign up for one of the webinars and their webinars were some pretty heavy duty selling from their partners. For me, when you have to keep asking, "Are you ready? I want to make sure you're engaged!" How about show me what I signed up to see and I'll be engaged instead of 37,000 screen shots of how much money people are making on JVzoo. So I don't bl

We all know you can click on the fears in the bottom right hand corner of a youtube video and choose to play it faster. This is not an option with videos served on the Wisita platform. So here is the hack around it Use Chrome and go to the page that has the video Right click on the video and choose HD only. Use the keystroke CTRL+SHIFT+J to bring up chrome's java tools Go CTRL+F to bring up the find tool and type "embed" there will be quite a few you typically want the one in the iframe. Click on the code for the video and then right click and choose copy link location Navigate to clipconverter.cc and paste the link into the box and click on Continue. If a bunch of mp4's show up, that was the right link. If not go back and try again When you see the mp4's pick the one you want and choose download. Coming in the next few episdoes A hand's on review of (http://jvz2.com/c/59893/114792) Webinar software for Wordpress. A hands on review of AdRespark. Thank to all wh

I've been seeing a new tool pop up on more and more sites. This lead me to thinking, "What are they using to do this?" When I was using YNAB.com the owner let me know the software had been updated. When I was using Audiometric.io I was told that the system would be down by maintenance. So when I found this tool, and found out that you can start using it for $4 if you have less than 500 contacts in the database - it seems like a complete no brainer. You can take it for a spin for free for 30 days. Here is a video that shows off what it can do (http://intelliplayer.com/watch/f609f1tut)

Today we have two tools that allow you to crate great images. Crazy Kala CrazyKala is a cool web based editor that is similar to Canva.com This is a different business model as there is an up front fee and that's it. With Canva it is free, but you pay for images you use ($1.00 each). It is $27 and expect to be upsold when you sign up. For more information check out crazykala.com (http://weeklywebtools.com/crazykala) Check out CrazyKala in Video (http://intelliplayer.com/watch/837221tu5) Foto Press - Photoshop Type Editing in Wordpress This is another $27 product. This is a plugin for Wordpress. I've purchased it, but haven't had a chance to really kick the tires on it. It looks super functional with tons of features. Here is a video that shows it off. For more information go to wpfotopress.com (http://weeklywebtools.com/fotopress) Check out the FotoPress Video (http://intelliplayer.com/watch/96b7c1tuf)

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