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

Webbiquity SMM

Other than your company’s website, most mentions were likely in well-known online news sites or trade industry publication sites. An easy-to-use, graphically rich tool that provides monitoring (who’s talking about you, your competitors, key industry terms and trends, etc., blogs, microblogging sites, social networks, etc.).

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Fewer PR Organizations Plan to Increase Focus on SEO and Social Media in 2011

Adam Sherk

The results of the Vocus 2011 PR Planning Survey are out and the number of organizations that plan to focus more on SEO and social media has declined. The PR industry has made good strides in its understanding of SEO in recent years but more often than not implementation beyond basic best practices falls short.

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Social Media Dominates 2010 PR Planning, But SEO Increasingly in.

Adam Sherk

Both rightly deserve credit for increasing awareness industry-wide. Another chart of interest in the Vocus whitepaper demonstrates how social media monitoring has become an essential part of the PR practioner’s toolkit: News monitoring and online media databases have traditionally received the lion’s share of PR tool spending.

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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

The prospect or buyer likely had several other exposure points to your brand prior to that click (visiting your booth at a trade show, hearing someone from your company speak, seeing an ad, reading about your firm on a blog or an industry trade press article or analyst report, etc.).

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

Webbiquity SMM

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. If you’ve got the budget, the quickest and easiest way to build a list is by using a PR and social media monitoring tool such as Cision , Vocus or MyMediaInfo.

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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 ). deep vertical industry knowledge, writing, relationship-building) also make them natural link builders for SEO. How can you amplify and extend new releases through social media?

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

Adam Sherk

But the same general approach applies to any industry. Social monitoring tools like Radian6 and PR suites like Vocus and Cision offer the greatest range of functionality for research and contact management. Then building relationships with those users over time and coming up with ideas for outreach, content development and promotion.

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