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Looking to monitor your brand online? You need social media alerts

Date: 2nd August 2010
No Comments Related Categories: Freebies, Tracking, reputation management
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Just a quickie – we’ve recently been using a fab free service called Social Mention that not only offers real time search for the places your name or brand is appearing, but also analyses those mentions for tone and meaning. Find out if the talk about you online is negative, positive or neutral!

They also offer daily Social Media Alerts, which are like Google alerts but for a variety of social media applications – again it’s free and well worth checking out if you want to see where you’re being talked about.

Are your efforts online paying off? Really?

Date: 7th April 2010
Comments: 6 Related Categories: Admin posts, Blogging, Musings, Tracking, facebook, twitter
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TWO DOLLAR BILLIt’s all very well frantically beavering away: Facebooking this, Tweeting that, Blogging here, Commenting there, updating your YouTube Channel and spending an age answering questions on LinkedIn – but  are you tracking and measuring the results of all this activity?

I know that if you do all of this work yourself, in theory it costs you nothing, but your time still has a value, right? Even if you don’t always charge your hourly rate, you must have one in mind, so for every hour you spend on your Social Media and Internet Marketing efforts, that’s how much it’s cost you. OK not in cold hard cash, but that’s an hour / a day / a week you haven’t billed out your time, so for the sake of this example let’s say that’s what you’re spending on your online marketing.

How do I add Google Analytics to my Facebook Fan Page?

Date: 30th March 2010
Comments: 1 Related Categories: Admin posts, Cool Tools, Google, Tracking, facebook
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We’ve been adding Google Analytics to clients’ Facebook fan pages over the past couple of days, and they’re loving it!

It’s not difficult to do – all you need is:

  • A Google Analytics account
  • A Facebook Fanpage
  • The FBML application
  • Some generated code
  • 10 minutes spare

There’s a fantastic guide to it here: How to add Google Analytics to your Fan Page

The basic premise is:

1) Add a new profile in Google Analytics

2) Use the Analytics Tracking code here to generate some code

How can I track my social media marketing efforts?

Date: 15th March 2010
Comments: 1 Related Categories: Social Networking, Tracking
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Anyone who’s known me for any length of time knows that I’m a big ambassador for tracking everything you do. After all, if you don’t track your efforts, how do you know what’s working?

Social Media Marketing is no different, and it’s been on my mind for a while to write a blog about the easiest ways to track your social media marketing activities.

As usually happens, someone got there first, and saved me the trouble :)

Top 10 Free Social Media Tracking Tools

The above blog is a fab list of tools you can use to track your efforts – and they’re all free to boot!

How easy would it be for someone to impersonate YOU on Twitter?

Date: 16th February 2010
Comments: 2 Related Categories: Social Networking, Tracking, facebook, twitter
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heinzThe Tweetvine is abuzz today with the story of Michael Werch and his experience of ‘twitter-squatting’. Michael took on the persona of Heinz, and tweeted as them for a short while, to see how many followers he could build up, and what the consequences could be.

As it happens, he only managed to build up 300 or so followers (rising now!) and a couple of weeks before Heinz jumped on him and complained to Twitter, who changed his profile to make it clear that he wasn’t an official representative.

The interesting part, to me, is this quote: