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Marketing collateral created by Hampton Marketing for current clients and previous employers.

Time to get current in marketing lingo. Here are common "menu" styles in the digital age. You've heard about "hamburger menus" of course (right?). Well, check out others! How many have you seen?

Friday 8/25 is the last day to file a claim against Facebook for violations of users' privacy.

Time is running out to file claims for Facebook's $725 million data privacy settlement | CNN Business Anyone in the United States who had a Facebook account in the past 16 years has roughly one week left to file for payment in a data privacy settlement case.

Had to follow that ridiculous shopping site with an awesome site of a friend of mine's. https://www.glassoholics.com/ Crazy handmade upcycled glass jewelry at crazy low prices. Great for gifts!

Here's a crazy great website home page (but crazy silly prices)! https://debonnaire.com/ click to see the animation.

Haven't posted on my little page for a while because I'm happily working full-time for a great company (OnSolve) but thought to share this event I'm doing on the topic of work/life balance. The presentation is for proposal professionals at a virtual summit but if anyone is interested in I can share a link to the slides.

Don't write gobbledy-gook. Actual company email received today...

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Do you write notes on LinkedIn 🤓as well as Facebook? Here's an easy copy and paste page of emojis to spice up your message. (scroll down👀 the page for the cut & paste ones) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tips-using-emojis-linkedin-julie-mason/

Tips To Using Emoji's On LinkedIn Love them? 😍 Hate them? 😡 There are some big benefits to using emoji's even on a professional platform like LinkedIn. Scientific research says that using emoji's (emoticons) can make you appear friendlier, grow your popularity and even make you happier offline.

More fun & free graphics. Duotone delivers up "black & white" type 2-tone images (from Pixabay or your own image). See examples: https://duotone.shapefactory.co/?f=26b7a0&t=3d3f4c&q=dinosaur

Bookmark these for free images:
* https://www.pexels.com/
* https://pixabay.com/ and
* https://unsplash.com/

2.5 million+ Stunning Free Images to Use Anywhere Find your perfect free image or video to download and use for anything. ✓ Free for commercial use ✓ No attribution required ✓ High quality images.

If you happen to see this and do ANY graphics online...watch tomorrow: FEBRUARY 17th at 2 PM EST. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G7NAF0PY2M

The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Slides and Images Death by PowerPoint! Images that don't mean anything! Graphics that just don't work. Either you've done it or know someone who has you've made a mistake that...

Bored with email? To quickly access the emoji panel on Windows 10 computer, press the following keys:

Win + .

Do you have a favorite app for helping you write effective copy? Just learned about the Hemmingway app. A little hard to find out how to use the FREE online (vs. paid desktop) version but a good tool to learn about. Try it and/or bookmark for your next writing session: https://hemingwayapp.com/

So I had a video shared with me on Google Drive and wasn't able to use my go-to app Descript to create a text doc of the content. Here's a great work-around: https://www.theverge.com/21368867/transcription-google-docs-live-transcribe-how-to-zoom

How to use Google’s free transcription tools Google Docs and Live Transcribe can provide you with free text transcriptions.

Do you have a friend with a restaurant or other small business that might want reviews? Both Yelp and Tripadvisor offer merchants free stickers to request reviews. Here are the links:
YELP sticker: https://blog.yelp.com/2015/04/want-a-find-us-on-yelp-sticker-request-one-here
TRIPADVISOR sticker: https://bit.ly/3jqyBG3
And remember to claim your Google My Places...it's the most popular review site of all!

Are you a fan of the easy way to do things? I am! Bookmark this site for converting text quickly to title case for headers & subject lines when writing. https://titlecaseconverter.com/

Title Case Converter – A Smart Title Capitalization Tool Automatic capitalization of titles and headings in AMA, AP, APA, Bluebook, Chicago, MLA style or NY Times style.

From PC Magazine: How to Stop Facebook From Spying on Your Internet Activity https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-stop-facebook-from-spying-on-your-internet-activity?utm_source=edit&utm_medium=notification

How to Stop Facebook From Spying on Your Internet Activity The Off-Facebook Activity tool reveals which websites send information about your online activities to the social network, while Facebook's Privacy Checkup tool helps you review and tighten your privacy.

Does your business schedule appointments with customers/clients? You can add a free appointment feature to your page. https://www.facebook.com/help/233101683907312
(NOTE: You'll have to have access to something called "New Facebook"...look for an update soon on how to get it)

Set up appointments for your page

Confused about Gen X, Y and other generation names? Here's a handy chart for ages of the different generations for 2021, followed by another for 2019, which calls older folk the Silent Generation...

Why you want a second eyeball on your marketing collateral...

Here's a site to bookmark: Buzzfile.com Do a search of your own business's public-facing info or a competitor's.
https://www.buzzfile.com/

Also try Manta: https://www.manta.com/

Select Your Interest

Here are 2 Ways to do a SEARCH BY IMAGE.
1) Tineye
https://tineye.com/
&
2) Reverse Image search by Google, as explained by https://neilpatel.com/blog/reverse-image-search-backlinks/

I've always been a fan of free creative tools for communication, ideation, and visualization. Canva was a like a candy box when I discovered it. Here are 2 new tools you can try: Sketch https://www.sketch.com/ (for Mac users) & Figma (for Mac, Windows, & Chrome users) https://www.figma.com/ They are both collaborative design platforms.

Figma: the collaborative interface design tool. Build better products as a team. Design, prototype, and gather feedback all in one place with Figma.

Some copywriting fun for the holidays...

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