by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, Tools & Utilities
When you need to have a drawing.. for a prize or to randomly choose teams for a competition (or whatever else)… it is kind of hard to make a totally random selection. We found a random list generator that will select numbers, names, letters… anything you...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, Tools & Utilities
It has always been fairly easy to find duplicate text content online, using either a Google search or a site like Copyscape. But, how do you find out if an image you created (or had created for you) is being used by others? We found a site that lets you know if an...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, Tools & Utilities
Some people just naturally write using plain English and simple words. For others, it is not so easy (should I say “simple”?). They just naturally use 50 cent words when they speak, and write using the same, sometimes convoluted, words and phrases. To the...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, Tools & Utilities
The file size for images tends to be quite large, and if you have a lot of images on your site, it can affect how quickly it loads. You may not care about it, but Google does. And so do your visitors, most of whom are probably visiting from a mobile device, which...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, Tools & Utilities
We have all heard of the hacking into corporate data bases, and the attendant theft of private information. We are told to be careful when sending private information online, especially passwords and credit card and bank data. So, if you need to send someone some...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, Video - Create, Edit, & Post
At The Marketing Rebel, we use Vimeo to store all our member and premium videos. We used to use Amazon S3, but a couple of years ago decided to make a change, mostly due to the lack of features and poor customer service that we were experiencing. We narrowed the...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, Tools & Utilities
We found a cool tool the other day. It removes backgrounds from images of people. Right now it only works for portraits, but is very easy and effective. We created a very short video to introduce it. There is no instruction involved. Just upload the image and it...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, Tools & Utilities
If you have an Apple device, you know that you cannot play Flash video. This is unfortunate, because Flash is very popular among video creators. I purchased an Ipad a few years ago and always wanted to find a way, because a lot of the videos I watch are Flash. In...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, Tools & Utilities
Audacity is a popular tool for recording audios. It is also free. It is easy to use once you have it set up, but the set up process may be confusing for some, so we created a video to show how to get it working properly. Click on the image to play the video: Here are...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, Tools & Utilities
Pretty links is a free WordPress plugin which creates custom redirect links using your own URL, instead of a standard redirect URL such as bit.ly This gives you a cleaner, more professional look. Also, the analytics are available right in your dashboard. We created a...
