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PR Monitoring and Management Tools: Which is Best? Vocus vs. Cision

Webbiquity SMM

Vocus and Cision are both powerful and popular PR monitoring and management systems. Competitive and share-of-voice analysis and reporting. Competitive and share-of-voice analysis and reporting. The fact is, both tools can do the job pretty well (hence their popularity). But overall, Vocus customer service was excellent.

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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. Budget: $0 (I have no budget, I need something free!).

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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity SMM

If you’re developing a new social media program, revamping one that’s failed to achieve hoped-for results, or just trying to make an existing strategy more successful, one key component to start with is an analysis of your social media or digital landscape. What your competitors are doing in social media.

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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 Social Media ROI Debate

Webbiquity SMM

You wouldn’t buy a new machine tool or enterprise software application without an ROI analysis, so why should social media be any different? At this point, the adoption of social media tools is so widespread as to constitute just another communication channel. So much for my thoughts. What do other pundits have to say?

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27 (of the) Best Social PR Guides and Tips of 2014

Webbiquity SMM

How can PR pros use social media tools to identify and connect with key influencers? 8 Powerful Influencer Research Tools That Get Results by Blogging Wizard. **5 Jim Dougherty presents an infographic from Vocus illustrating how journalists view social media. Is there still a role for press releases?

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

Convince & Convert

I don't see FB rendering the web site obsolete as much as a myriad of well integrated social tools replacing the traditional web site. A well-designed and populated blog (such as yours) partnered with well-planned use of social tools can replace a web site in a heartbeat today (if done properly). It is a tool.