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Social Media Success Starts with Listening

Webbiquity SMM

Use social media monitoring tools to find the people who are talking about your company, your competitors, and key industry terms. Social Mention , Alterian’s SM2 Freemium and Google blog search are helpful free tools, and a growing number of commercial suites are available. Ask and answer questions. Tweet This!

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Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

Bill Hartzer

What is needed are powerful methods, and tools to track your brand in the social media paradigm. While there are many more tools available out there, here is a list of some of the best monitoring tools and sites available that you can use to monitor your brand across the social media landscape.

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3 Reasons To Dig Deeper In Social Listening

Convince & Convert

Tweet Guest post by Connie Bensen , the Director of Community Strategy and Social Media at Alterian , which provides leading marketing products for the enterprise. For example, the benefit of using a professional tool such as Alterian SM2 is that it shows the distribution of conversations across all channels. Identify Advocates.

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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

Others argue that social media is a tool , not an event, so applying an ROI to social media is akin to calculating the ROI of your phone, or that at this point the business risks of ignoring social media are so great that ROI is immaterial. . This category can also include metrics like blog visitors and RSS / email subscribers.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

Convince & Convert

Better question: How can we optimize and improve our existing social media programs? Better question: How can we encourage existing customers to truly engage with our clients on the social Web? Better question: How can we encourage existing customers to truly engage with our clients on the social Web?

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The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011

Webbiquity SMM

Expert Community Manager with the Focus Expert Network, a network of thousands of leading business and technology experts who answer questions and post thought leadership content. Connie is the Community Strategist for the Alterian (formerly Techrigy) SM2 social media monitoring platform. Becky Denniston. Jenara Nerenberg.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. What questions are you trying to answer? How much can you afford to spend on the tool? • And that’s how I pick the right social media monitoring tool for the job.