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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. Among their features: • An extensive database of professional journalists and social media influencers, with biographical information. User Interface Cision: C- Vocus: D User experience, unfortunately, isn’t a strength of either system.

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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

Blogger and influencer outreach is an area with strong crossover between PR, audience development and link building. Social monitoring tools like Radian6 and PR suites like Vocus and Cision offer the greatest range of functionality for research and contact management. Finding Bloggers and Influencers. Followerwonk.

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Amplify Your Content Strategy with Influencer Marketing

Convince & Convert

Most of us are familiar with the concept of influencer marketing, i.e., marketing to a select group of individuals — such as journalists, bloggers, consultants, or industry analysts — who influence your buyers’ decisions. We have spent the past few years building a substantial content factory that relies heavily on influencers.

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12 (of the) Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Techniques of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

PR pros now use tools like Twitter, PitchEngine , PRWeb and Vocus in place of fax machines, media packets, wire services and Bacon’s , but the fundamental skills of storytelling and relationship-building remain crucial. Many “traditional” journalists now write blogs; does that make them bloggers?

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

Webbiquity SMM

I’ve used this tool on behalf of small clients for finding hundreds of key influencers on Twitter, blogs and various other social networking sites and forums. Vocus provides a rich set of tools for traditional and social media monitoring, media outreach and news distribution. Social Mention.

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

Webbiquity SMM

Identify the key influencers in your market. These are the journalists, bloggers, analysts (industry or financial) and others who can help amplify your content, spread your story, and lend credibility to your messages. Combing these measures provides at least a rough guide to the relative influence of various sources.

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Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Effectively connect with bloggers and other key online influencers in your industry? Vocus and Cision ) to the obscure ( Butterfly Publisher ). Social Media Press Releases and Blogger Outreach. The 5 Cs of Blogger Relations by prTini. ** 5 Stars. How can you amplify and extend new releases through social media?