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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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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

Influence: a.k.a. Engagement: A level deeper than influence, these metrics include the number of RT’s and #followfriday recommendations you get on Twitter, posts to your company’s Facebook wall, questions answered on LinkedIn or Yahoo!

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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. Popular with agencies as well as corporate users, Radian6 offers a rich set of tools for social media monitoring, responding, tracking, benchmarking and analytics.

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

Convince & Convert

Further, every company has analytics at some level. ” You need Social Analytics Software. Small business alternative: Crowd Booster , Google Analytics (also viable for large business), Swix. I need to understand their passions and spheres of influence. You need Social Influencer Software. investor), Vocus.

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How Arena Stage Uses Initiators to Grow its Audience

Waxing UnLyrical

If you’re embarking on a marketing campaign that includes spreading awareness (and which marketing campaign doesn’t), you might want to take a page out of Arena Stage ‘s playbook and look for “initiators&# instead of “influencers.&#. They use Vocus to monitor “buzz.&#

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The Social Media ROI Debate

Webbiquity SMM

Executives don’t care about shiny sparkly things or the latest fads or buzzwords; you’d better know what you want to accomplish, be able to quantify both expenses and revenue, and have the analytics in place to track results before even murmuring the words “social media&# in the presence of C-level types.

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The Fight for the Future of Influencer Analytics

Convince & Convert

Big news last week as Klout announced a significant overhaul of its influencer identification platform. The first forays into trying to account for offline influence, using Wikipedia pages and mentions as an important signal (since they are harder to fake and game than most social media). Nobody has evenly distributed influence.

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