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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. The fact is, both tools can do the job pretty well (hence their popularity). Online news release distribution.

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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. Each tool is free unless otherwise noted.

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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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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. Most influencers that businesses target, especially B2B businesses, probably aren’t world famous media moguls.

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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? Which online tools are most helpful for PR pros? Get the answers to all of these questions and more here in some of the best social PR guides, tips and tools of the past year. Interactive PR Guides, Tips and Tools.

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

Webbiquity SMM

One part of the confusion stems from the fact that in PR, as in many other crafts, the tools change and advance but the fundamental skills required remain the same. How can PR pros optimize their use of social media tools? Is there really a difference anymore—or is the boundary blurring?

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6 Things The Army Taught Me About PR

Waxing UnLyrical

This is an important tool in both a counterinsurgency strategy and a PR campaign. Sphere of Influence. The people we want to engage are the “influencers&# – people who have the ability to cause measurable actions. Our influencers and audience may, in fact, reside outside the borders of the United States.

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