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SOCIAL MEDIA Faster, better, stronger! Top tools for social marketing success BY CATHERINE HEEG DO YOU REMEMBER when a video recorder was as big as a shoe box? Or when photo editing involved a scissors and glue? Back in the day, we felt like pretty savvy travel marketers. The tools of the trade have changed. Today we can carry nearly everything we need in our pockets; it’s a matter of choos- ing which ones are the best fit for the job. Let’s look at some tools that will save time, provide inspiration and help create even more compelling marketing stories. Video tools Fifty-two percent of marketing profes- sionals worldwide named video as the content with the best ROI, and what we do with the video just after we shoot it is the key to its success. If you’re record- ing video on your phone, here are some editing tools to use in