Summary...

1) Canva

2) PlaceIt

3) HubSpot Image Editor

4) Death to the Stock Photo

5) NounProject

6) 55 Free Content Creation Templates

7) Google Fonts

8) Skitch

9) ColorPicker

10) GIFBrewery

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One of the biggest challenges for content marketers and creators is idea generation. If you're feeling stuck or creating content has become a chore, here are nine different strategies to quickly discover, develop, and test content ideas.

Intermediate/ Summarized...

-- >  Google's Keyword Planner

-- >  Quora

-- >  Google Trends

-- >  Google Webmaster Tools

-- >  Delicious

-- >  Scoop.it

-- >  If you sometimes have great ideas and then forget them or wish you had a better organization to track inspiration from various sources, try Evernote.

-- >  If content development is a team effort at your company, check out Trello

-- >  If your primary goal is more traffic to your site, InboundWriter is a tool worth considering.

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Try these 11 social and blog content creation tools to get organized, inspired and more efficient at creating content your audience loves.

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1. An Editorial Calendar

2. Google Reader

3. Twitter Lists

4. Ubersuggest

Ubersuggest takes your word or phrase and scrapes Google Suggestions to offer the hottest related topics people are searching for.

5. Audacity

Try Audacity for recording interviews and editing audio.

6.  Screen Capture by Google

7. Evernote

8. Kapost

If you have multiple authors or different employees/agents working on social content and blog posts, Kapost is a great way to manage it all.

9. Social Search Engine Topsy

Topsy takes whatever keyword or phrase you give it and analyzes the social web in real-time. Basically, they’ve indexed every corner of the public social web, giving you access to critical time-sensitive insights as they occur.

10. SocialMention

11. Zemanta

Not big on research? Zemanta will bring images, articles and other web content to you as you write your content into WordPress or Blogger. This content discovery tool allows you to retain editorial control, so although you’re exposing similar content, you won’t be publishing about competitors.

One of the most common problems marketers have with content is ideation. This is especially true with companies that have relied on just a few individuals

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Using a tool like Wordle, content marketers can tap into different data sources that reflect frequency of interest related to customer interest. Some of those data sources include:

• SEMRush - Look at the organic keywords for your own site, competitors and industry leading publications. Export those phrases as a CSV file and import to Wordle for a visualization of organic search phrases most associated with those sites’ visibility on Google. 
• Google Keyword Tool - Take a keyword research list and all the variations, permutations discovered and import to Wordle for a visualization. 
• Majestic SEO Anchor Text – Run an inbound link report and filter by anchor text from the most authoritative links. Scrape that text into a text file and import into Wordle to visualize the most often used anchor text that’s boosting competitor search visibility. 
• socialmention – Search for concepts or competitor names and download the social keywords displayed in the search results (as a CSV file). Import those words into Wordle for a visualization of the most popular phrases in a social context. 
• Ubersuggest – Google auto suggest provides search phrases that are arguably most popular. This tool helps with such research for Google.com, Google News, Image and Video search. Import to Wordle for a visualization. 
• Tweet-Cloud – Take any Twitter handle and run it through Tweet Cloud to automatically create a word cloud based on the past X number of tweets. It enables visualization of what you, your competitors or industry influentials are posting most often on Twitter.