Convince & Convert

MAY 20, 2012

The social media software industry offers some amazing functionality, but it suffers mightily from murky messaging and customer confusion. The truth is, many marketing professionals do not know what this software can do, much less what specific companies’ versions can do. The 5 Categories of Social Media Software.

Crimson Hexagon 140

Crimson Hexagon Software Social Media Attensity 140

Dave Fleet

JULY 5, 2010

Jive Software. Lithium Technologies. Audience – a sales- and marketing-focused tool to help measure ROI and optimize marketing and community engagement. Strong analytics. In recent months we’ve seen several interesting moves within the social media monitoring/social CRM space. Acquired by. January 2010.

Sysomos 334

Sysomos Alterian Filtrbox Attensity 334

Convince & Convert

JANUARY 9, 2012

Using Sysomos social monitoring software, we found 500+ tweets mentioning the Tostitos commercial on January 2 and 3. As a marketer, don’t sound the alarm just because you see a few negative tweets or forum comments doesn’t mean all hope is lost. Differences in social listening software are vast. Hell, 12.7%

Sentiment 115

Sentiment Sysomos Crowdsourcing Visible Technologies 115

Bill Hartzer

MAY 26, 2010

Visible Technologies – This social media tool focuses mostly on putting into action effective social media strategies. Visible Technologies has successfully helped many companies manage their online branding by doing something so many companies fail to do – listen to their customers.

Cymfony 152

Cymfony Social Media SM2 Tools 152

Convince & Convert

JANUARY 9, 2012

Using Sysomos social monitoring software, we found 500+ tweets mentioning the Tostitos commercial on January 2 and 3. As a marketer, don’t sound the alarm just because you see a few negative tweets or forum comments doesn’t mean all hope is lost. Differences in social listening software are vast. Hell, 12.7%

Sentiment 87

Sentiment Sysomos Crowdsourcing Visible Technologies 87

Net-Savvy Executive

MARCH 30, 2011

Other acquisitions have tied SMA firms to PR/media (Sysomos/Marketwire, Brandtology/Media Monitors), market research (Cymfony/TNS, Umbria/JD Power, Evolve24/Maritz), and marketing management (Techrigy/Alterian). Enterprise software has noticed social media analysis. Obvious acquisition candidates are getting harder to find.

Radian6 85

Radian6 Cymfony Alterian Jive 85

Proactive Report

JUNE 24, 2010

You can do some keyword research to see what phrases people are searching for, or look into your own analytics to see what words and phrases people search to find your website. There are many monitoring tools on the market now. Visible Technologies. Free Tools. The most basic tool is RSS. ViralHeat Read a review.

Jive 68

Jive Tools Filtrbox Netvibes 68