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Are Social Media Monitoring Tools Really Expensive?

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A social media monitoring tool helps you stay in touch with your followers and listen to what people say about you and your industry. Some tools just give you the basics while others provide a more comprehensive, social CRM style solution. It will also help you craft more effective marketing strategies.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. According to these numbers, the audience using Twitter actually declined from August to December, 2009 (during the same period, Facebook went from 250 million to 350 million members).

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Ignore Foursquare at Your Peril - An Analysis of Potential.

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Now, I’m not suggesting Foursquare will ever approach Twitter’s level of ubiquity, much less Facebook’s. It’s never going to be Facebook (unless Facebook buys them), but don’t ignore geo-location apps. I’ve personally discovered several restaurants that way). Go for it in the comments.