In recent months I’ve been recommended some really cool free sites that will make any business owner a happy camper.
EMAIL OVERWHELM?
Are you like me in that you get way too many emails? Adding to that you may have multiple emails and that’s when it’s easy to get to miss the emails that matter. What to do? Get this free app, UNROLL ME and start breathing. You have the option to select what emails you receive directly to your inbox and which ones you wish to include in the daily digest, and you can adjust that at any time. In my case, I now get 1 email per day instead of the 50+, and with that peace of mind (thank you Jacq for this one).
ONLINE IMAGE SIZE OPTIMIZATION
Do you work with online images and struggle with sizing them correctly? Trick #1 is to make the image double the size of what the recommended field is; for example, if the image box is 100×100 px, you make the image 200×200 with a 72dpi resolution and now have an image that will be crisp and clear on retina screens.
I recently learned that the ideal image size for online images is really 100-300 kb; using the trick above there is one more step you can take to minimize the image without losing quality. Go to KRAKEN and try their free service (for images smaller than 1 MB), drag and drop your images and see them shrink as much as possible without losing quality. This is a really cool app.
And if you’re looking for royalty-free and free images and haven’t heard of UNSPLASH you’re in for a treat. I’ve used images from this site for a couple of years when I don’t have the images myself. Amazing pictures are shared on all kinds of topics. Check it out.
After taking the above steps to optimize my images my website loads much faster and with that more people hopefully stay on the site and browse it, instead of clicking on to the next. As many of you know we have 6-10 seconds (max) to make a first impression online, so load times count!
SOCIAL MEDIA BLOG POSTS
Do you blog and want to be more visible on social media but simply never get to it? If so, check out MISSINGLTR. What’s cool with this program is that they pull quotes from your post and create a campaign spread out throughout the year. No more trying to figure out that you don’t replicate your posts. A free version offers two campaigns on one platform and paid options for more campaigns and social media platforms.
Do you have some fun apps to share that save time and increase your productivity? Then please share below in the comments section.
Have an awesome day!
