Guest Post
Content Marketing: 5 Tools to Help Drive Your Instant Results
The post discusses five essential tools for content curators: Scoop.it, Pinterest, Zemanta, Storify, and List.ly. Scoop.it assists in gathering and organizing content based on keywords; Pinterest is ideal for image curators; Zemanta offers a WordPress plugin to facilitate finding relevant posts and images; Storify aids in sourcing and sharing extensive details, and List.ly is built entirely around creating lists. These tools aid in making curating process easier, effective and engaging, focusing on relevance to the audience based on location.

The ability to gather the information and properly arrange the content based on supportive skills. Because of this, all the information has been sent to everyone and out there in various resources. What makes you stand out from the targeted audience based on the location and present it? The main thing is that you should make the curator a smarter way of content, and you will find out the tools to make the work easier in a prefect manner based on the website requirements. The five effective tools for making the perfect curator allow social marketers to make things easily. The five supportive tools are:
Scoop.it
This tool provides services that allow us to make the search based on a series of niche or keyword categories on the web page. First, you should select the topic you want to follow and start gathering information based on the collection of supportive articles, social media, and any other content to get into your account. Your collection has ended up based on the essential things from the blog posts and social media content to engage the video. But what really about the scoop.it tool has allowed you to make things quickly based on the relevant content that you need with the essential making of your role to create the content curator much easier with the support of this tool.
Pinterest
Pinterest is not only the leading social media, but it is also supported as the best tool for making the content of image curators. If you don’t know about Pinterest for supportive to make the pins interesting images, you will find the web content to select the random boards based on your specific themes. The main thing is to create the boards with the great fuel of your curator, especially for reaching the targeted audience. But, it takes a different approach to make the Pinterest resource, and this is one of the social components as well as an easy way to get the people for your board with the support of an image curator and even share your content with others or any other resources.
Zemanta
The Zemanta tool has plugin for WordPress, and it is much easier to use as well as to find out the relevant posts and images based on your requirements. The particular use of this tool is to add the image suggestion that will be added on the sidebar. Mostly, any curator can spend ten minutes and trying to hunt down the attribution. This set of features can potentially save your loading time otherwise, you will spend on the scouring of your web page. The additional thing is if you have to link with any other blog and this tool recommends your post in the sidebar. So, make use of the curator and make sure to use the posts that are linked in order to make your own content perfectly as well as relevant to your website. This tool is very useful for providing support to social marketers, and they know the value of content resources for the blog.
Storify
It mainly focused on the longer and needed detailed information about the content for the social curation. Storify allows websites to search through a large number of sources, and you have to find the content that you want to share easily through the support of this tool. This is the easy way to measure the level of each individual piece of content, and it simple process to identify the content with the most essential value of resources. Particularly, this tool has made the supportive to the social marketer to reach the targeted resource based on the support of relevant blogs and images or any other resource. Another main advantage is the effort to create a viral part of the social network based on the unique resource.
List.ly
This tool is built entirely around lists, and you can use this tool only as a way of representing the list, such as images, websites, and other things because this tool has made a great way of driving the traffic level and proper way of engagement. It is more supportive to the marketer and the most popular list across the network resource.
Jamie Noel is an Associate Inbound Strategist at SEO Resellers Agency Platform. She works with B2B & B2C brands to drive more out of their search engine optimization efforts. Her focus is always on integrating SEO into digital marketing plans, link-building, and content strategy.
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Beat Recession Blues with These PHP Web Development Best Practices

With the recession taking over the majority of economies across the globe, securing your job has become the topmost priority. The scenario is the same across different verticals and for programmers, it is even worse. As the resource pool of PHP developers is expanding, the crunch of right projects and jobs is also deepening. Organizations are paying emphasis on quality rather than quantity. It’s all about the survival of the fittest.
Getting your hands on a handsomely paying project is not just a matter of luck. It also readily depends on the quality of services rendered by you as a developer. A PHP web development project requires you to have in-depth knowledge of the language and deploy industry best practices. As you scan your clientele in hope of grabbing onto the next breakthrough project, here are some coding best practices that can get you through the stringent quality evaluations of even the daintiest clients:
- Get Friendly with Single Quoted Strings: Using single quotes over double quotes gives you a marginal performance benefit, especially if you are coding some intricate project. A PHP string that is surrounded in double quotes is misinterpreted as variables and special characters by the PHP interpreter. If you want a single-string output, it is best to use single quotes. It enhances the performance of your PHP application as the string doesn’t get parsed.
- Don’t Use Regular Expressions Unnecessarily: Keep a safe distance from ereg and preg function groups as and when possible, especially if you are performing basic string operations. When str_replace and strtr functions are faster than preg_replace, why do you wish to stick with old school functions? Move on and save your application from those crunch cycles.
- Short Open Tags are a Big No-No: Are you still torturing your PHP application with short tags? It’s time you show some mercy. <? Is just a bad code form and creates conflict with XML parsers. It will also annoy people who will try modifying your code in PHP directives. So, you won’t find even a single justification for using open tags. Use full tags instead and let your application breathe.
- Keep Functions out of Loop Declarations: Using functions inside loops is not a great idea. It is annoying to see how some developers stake the performance of the application to save an extra line of code. If you use a function inside a loop, it will get executed as and when iteration initiates. If you have a bigger loop, this will mean you are increasing the execution time, which is not a bit user-friendly.
- Document Your Code: You might have heard it a hundred times, but it by no means depreciates its value. Documenting your code means you value your hard work as well as your client’s investment in the programming phase. Many organizations will hire you just on the basis of your documentation habits.
- Variable Initialization is a Must: If you don’t initialize a variable, PHP will create it automatically, but it is best not to rely on this feature. The code becomes sloppy and God forbids if you have to track down the initiating point of the variable, you will have to scan through the entire code. Moreover, incrementing of an uninitialized variable takes more time than that of an initialized variable. So, it’s best to initialize a variable.
PHP web development can be a tricky job, especially when so many others are keeping a watch, waiting to grab any opportunity that comes their way. It is best to follow best practices and adhere to stringent quality standards, to rapidly increase your client base.
Author:- Steve Graham is an expert in PHP Web Development, who has been blogging on the niche for the last 6 years. Currently, he is associated as a freelancer with a PHP development firm that deals in PHP Development Outsourcing.
Guest Post
The Best Christmas Apps for iPhone 5

The Christmas spirit is often one that takes a little while to get into, however, iOS devices and the Apple store have your back with a range of amazing Christmas apps that will put you in the mood for the holidays and put the happiness back in your heart.
Fortunately, Christmas usually coincides with the arrival of a new phone, meaning many of us will have the new iPhone 5 for Christmas apps. So, what are the best fun iPhone apps available for Christmas?
Blabber Box – Christmas Edition
There’s nothing like a bit of a laugh to lighten up proceedings and the good people at blabber box have provided a giggle or two with the Blabber Box Christmas Edition. Choose from one of four characters and then record and animate your vocals over some half-minute cartoons of Santa, a nutcracker, Rudolf, and of course an elf. It’s silly fun, but a great way to lift those Christmas blues.
Christmas Fire
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire – it sounds idyllic, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, many of us don’t have the liberty of an open fire at Christmas. However, for those who fall into the aforementioned category, there is an answer – Christmas Fire from the App Store. The app creates the crackle of a fire and even has a number of Christmas tracks included. The perfect alternative to the Christmas fire – well, maybe not, but cool nonetheless.
White Christmas
We all dream of a white Christmas and with this app, you can have it. The live photo-taking app will create the effect of snowfall on your iPhone, allowing you to create a snowy Facebook profile photo. There’s also the option to add Santa and a number of other festive templates to the image. It also uploads directly to social media.
Santa GPS
If you have little ones then you will certainly have to await the excitement of Christmas with eagerness. Of course, it can be hard to know how Santa is doing and where he is. Fortunately, there is an answer with the Santa GPS. This app shows you where the man himself is on the night in question. The app even has a Good and Naughty list that allows you to check your position.
oChristmas Tree
This app really encapsulates the feeling of Christmas. From the crackling fire to the snow falling outside, this app has it all and even allows you to choose from up to 63 ornaments for your tree. These also include a range of animations and sound effects with ornaments and you can then send your tree with festive lighting and all to friends and family.
Festive Holiday Baking
Christmas is about food and this festive app has a wide range of great baking recipes that are made with less than 8 ingredients – most of which you will have. It’s a nicely laid out app that will provide a festive feel for your stomach.
Christmas Music
This app has over 10,000 free songs for you to play throughout Christmas and with this sheer number, we would say you can play without repeat from November to January.
Christmas apps are a great way to get into the spirit of things, so why not download a few and have some fun?
Cormac Reynolds writes for Festive-lighting.com a UK-based company that supplies all your decoration needs for the festive season.
Guest Post
5 Unique Business Card Designs Your Clients Will Love

Business cards are an excellent way to share your information, especially if you’re self-employed. The only problem is that business cards can be boring. The key to surviving in today’s world is standing out, even when passing out business cards. This means thinking outside the box with a business card that makes it easy to remember. The following are just five unique business card designs your clients will love.
Multipurpose Cards
When giving out a business card, why not give customers something they can use. For example, your business card may serve as a ruler or ice scraper for your car. It’s best to match your multipurpose business card to your business. A bookstore owner may have business cards that serve as bookmarks or an illuminated business card for nighttime reading.
Edible and Drinkable Cards
It doesn’t matter what type of business you’re in, edible and drinkable business cards will get you noticed. You might have business cards that have teabags attached or have a bakery make cookies with your business information. These would be great for conventions.
Comb Cards
Those running a hair salon or beauty supply store should definitely consider comb cards. These are just what they sound like, a plastic business card that features a comb on one side. It’s unique and something that customers can throw into their purses. Remember, when business cards are useful, they’re more likely to get noticed rather than tossed in a drawer.
Dog Tag Cards
Dog tag business cards are something that stores that cater to men should definitely look into. It’s something that men are going to find truly unique and memorable. For example, those that run a gun and ammo shop or a shooting range would greatly benefit from this style of card.
Map Card
Want more people to find your business, then make it easy for them to do with your business card. There are business cards that unfold into a map or those that feature a map on the back. Remember, you want something that is unique. You might even have the map drawn out on cookie business cards. Now that would be memorable.
Business cards don’t have to be the same old thing. Unfortunately, even cute designs are getting old. With more and more people working for themselves, you need to stand out and a regular business card won’t get the job done. That’s why you need to design a unique business card. Whether it’s an edible card or even a comb, this is something that should be memorable to your customers.
About the Author: Marlin Morrisroe loves finding unique ways to market his business. Cookies, anyone?
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