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Social Media Success Starts with Listening

Webbiquity SMM

The grandmotherly maxim, “The good Lord gave you two ears but only one mouth for a reason&# applies to social interactions in general, but is nowhere more critical than in social media marketing. Without this information, the company’s social media pronouncements appear off-topic, unsolicited and out of touch.

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

Webbiquity SMM

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. Alterian SM2 Freemium. If Google Alerts had been developed with a focus on social media, this would be it.

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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

While there are unquestionably many ways that social media marketing results can be measured , the debate rages on as to whether it’s truly possible to quantify the ROI from these activities. Some experts contend that because social media activity is rich in metrics , you can and should be measuring ROI constantly.

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The Most Popular Summer Blockbuster Movies in Social Media

Adam Sherk

Alterian recently released some data on the most popular summer blockbusters in social media, focusing specifically on movies with May and June release dates. Share of social media activity: Fast Five 38.46%. Does the Alterian data match what is available through some of the free tools out there?

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Sysomos Acquired By Marketwire

Dave Fleet

In recent months we’ve seen several interesting moves within the social media monitoring/social CRM space. Sysomos offers three core services: Sysomos MAP – a web-based, enterprise-level social media monitoring tool. Acquired by. Jive Software. January 2010. February 2010. April 2010. April 2010.

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Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

Bill Hartzer

More and more businesses are getting into social media – an umbrella term that covers various activities that help bring about social interaction on the internet. Facebook and Twitter are some of the main outlets for social media, but there are numerous types of social media like blogs, wikis, forums, chat rooms, etc.

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Using Social Media Monitoring to Improve Your Search Engine.

Mindjumpers

Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. You can connect with him on Twitter @Conversionation Alterian has launched a series of white papers earlier this year under the name ‘social Media ROI’. Social media monitoring (SMM) can drastically improve your website rank and visibility.