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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. The fact is, both tools can do the job pretty well (hence their popularity). Media Database Cision: A Vocus: B+ Both tools offer extensive databases of publications, media professionals and bloggers. Online news release distribution.

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

Adam Sherk

Social monitoring tools like Radian6 and PR suites like Vocus and Cision offer the greatest range of functionality for research and contact management. However utilizing enterprise-level tools is not always an option for smaller organizations, or even large ones with budget constraints. Each tool is free unless otherwise noted.

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Looking Back at 300: Top 10 Posts on the Webbiquity Blog So Far

Webbiquity SMM

PR Monitoring and Management Tools: Which is Best? Vocus vs. Cision (November 8, 2011). Vocus and Cision are both powerful and popular PR monitoring and management systems. 78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 So Far (August 16, 2010). Which tools are most helpful?

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Are Twitter Lead Generation Cards the Email Marketers’ New Best Friend?

Convince & Convert

They are the expandable tweets that typically are used to hold photos or Vine videos, like this one from Lowe’s ( read more about Lowe’s excellent new Youtility marketing program ): Put that old rake head to good use by turning it into a tool hanger. LowesFixInSix #Vine vine.co/v/bYwJZ7JrrEK. v/bYwJZ7JrrEK.

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Clearing Clouds of Confusion – the 5 Categories of Social Media Software

Convince & Convert

” Consequently, I’ve organized 5 categories of social media software not based on company size, or pricing, or platform, or niftiness of logo, but based on your needs. investor), Vocus. The questions you need answered will (and should) guide you to the right type of software. You need Social Influencer Software.

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9 Criteria for Selecting a Social Media Monitoring Tool

Webbiquity SMM

Social media monitoring tools are increasing essential for companies of all sizes as the explosion of social media content renders manual monitoring efforts hopeless. It’s imperative that your social media monitoring tool provides realtime or near realtime monitoring and alerting, so you can respond to critical items promptly.

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