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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

A simple tool like Google Alerts would pick up most stray citations. The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. Alterian SM2 Freemium. Social Mention.

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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. Find out who’s talking. Tweet This!

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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. 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.

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213 Days as an Insider

Koka Sexton

I’ve been using a social monitoring tool called Alterian SM2. There are a few other great plans in the works to make InsideView even more “social&# but I’ll save those for another set of posts. Which brings me to some great analytics we just compiled for the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

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BrainDump: 101+ Things You MUST Know About Social Media For Business

SocMed Sean

29) Learn how to use engagement tools like HootSuite. Doing so, will get you some additional features and tools. 47) Understand how Google’s Adwords tool works. Reddit/StumbleUpon 85) Both of these content sharing tools can drive traffic, if you have something interesting to share. Social Sharing Tools (e.g.