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20 FREE Online Stock Video Sites!
Whether you’re working on a commercial campaign, a corporate video, or a low-budget indie, incorporating stock video into your project can really elevate your final product. Here are a handful of sites from around the web that just might have the shot you need — for FREE! 1. Videezy Videezy is a fantastic resource for free HD stock video. 2. Looking for explosions, smoke streams, or blood splatters? 3. Movietools is a great resource for background and graphic video elements. 4. Since the mid 90s, Archive.org has been a digital repository for all sorts of digital media. 5. All of the clips offered by Pexels Videos are totally free, high definition, and available under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. 6. X Stock offers high resolution clips, but suffers in terms of variety of subject matter. 7. The News Market features clips that are topical and newsworthy, as well as many prepackaged news pieces (VNRs). 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. BONUS: Shutterstock
Copy tone — Mozilla Style Guide
Introduction These guidelines are for website content, campaigns and other communications intended for a general audience. If you’re looking for documentation guidelines, please visit the MDN Style Guide at the Mozilla Developer Network. If you’re looking for information about writing support articles, please see “How to write Knowledge Base articles” at Mozilla Support. Mozilla is people. (It’s people!) So many people. Mozillians live all over the world. Whenever a user — or anyone else, for that matter — reads a piece of Mozilla communication, they should feel like there's a person on the other end who recognizes that they are the same. So what does that mean, practically speaking? We should not, however, talk down to people or use overly technical language. The point is, we never want our users to forget that there are real live people behind our products and our words. If you're a real stickler for detail, read all about our copy rules.
Digital Literacy
This is reblogged from my article at PLP Voices The Internet has made a myriad of material readily available to a vast audience. Along with these seemingly infinite resources has come a lot of confusion about how images and other content published online should be legally recognized, protected or used. As educators, we often struggle in navigating that road. I recently read an amusing but instructive article entitled “PSA: Don’t Let Salami and Google Images Get You In Hot Water.” It tells the story of an eleven-year-old boy who posted an image he found online of Salami on a class blog. In my classroom, we use a lot of image-based content. One thing we have learned to look for is material with a Creative Commons License. “A Creative Commons license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and even build upon a work that they have created. Finding Creative Commons & license-free material Always give credit! Image credit: Matthias Mehidau, Creative Commons
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11 Email Blast Examples That Rock | Friendbuy
Standalone email blasts are one of the best ways to promote your referral program and generate more referral revenue immediately. Your email list represents a big batch of folks who are the most likely to refer their friends to your business. And because they’re all in one place, they’re the easiest to reach. Help them help you by sending tightly focused and regularly scheduled solo email blast to remind them of how, where and why they should refer. There are several best practices around the individual components of an effective standalone email campaign. Quick technology note: Email clients (Outlook, Mac Mail, etc.) don’t play well with JavaScript, which is the underlying technology in a referral widget. So here’s how to get the most out of promoting your referral program with email – and promoting anything for that matter… 1. Enticing subject lines are necessary for ensuring your email is opened and not deleted on first sight. Say you’re an ecommerce brand that sells toasters. 2. 3.
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The 7 High-Converting Places to Add Email Sign-Up Forms to Build Your List - Social Triggers
If you have a website, the best way to get more email subscribers is simple: Use more email sign-up forms. Yes, you can overdo it, but the truth is, even when you think you have too many, your forms may be invisible to your visitors. Question is where do you put them? There’s 7 high-converting places, and now I’ll go through each of them. #1 The Feature Box It’s no secret. See it here: This example is from SocialTriggers.com Right now, before you continue, think about how you can add a feature box to your site, and you WON’T regret it. #2 Top of Sidebar If you’re not placing your email signup form at the top of your sidebar, you’re losing out on valuable email subscribers. And yes, even if you place it slightly down your sidebar, under some ads, you’re losing email subscribers. I know this sounds like common sense, but even some large blogs fail to gather emails at the top of their sidebar. #3 After Single Post Think about this: So, why not ask them to sign up right after the post ends? Every.
4 High-Converting Places for Email Sign-up Forms (and How to Add Them In Thesis)
No matter what business you’re in, you need an email list. And how do you get people on that list? Email signup forms on your website. The problem is where do you put them, and how do you get them there? The 4 High-Converting Places for Email Signup Forms Last week I wrote an article about high-converting places for email signup forms. “Great, but how do I build them into my website?” Luckily, if you own Thesis, it’s easy. #1 Top of Sidebar The top of your sidebar is one of the most visible places on your site. To place your email sign-up form at the top of your sidebar, simply paste this code into your custom_functions.php file: function sidebar_email() { ? For tips on increasing the conversion rate of your “top of sidebar” email sign-up form, check out these split testing results. #2 After Single Post If people read an entire article on your site, they often look for what they can do next. Think about it. function afterpost_email() { if (is_single()) { ? #3 The Footer function footer_email() { ?
What Is Tag Management?
On October 1st, Google announced Google Tag Manager, a free tool for managing marketing and tracking tags on your site. I've sensed a lot of confusion around its launch, so I'd like to discuss what tag management is and why it's so powerful. There are a number of companies that have been providing tag management software as a paid service for years (I'm sure they're wild about Google making it free). I won't discuss the pros and cons of different tag management software offerings, rather, just the concept in general, and some directly actionable tips using Google's service. At the end of the post, I'll include links to some of the other, likely more robust, tag management services. What and why? Tags are snippets of code that usually placed in the <head> of a page which enable 3rd-party tracking, analysis, and reporting. Tag management is a concept that was born out of the increasing need for more agile marketing measurement and tracking ability. Let's take the homepage of SEOmoz. Macros
