50 Top Tools for Social Media Monitoring, Analytics, and Management Use these platforms to manage, measure, and analyze your social media marketing initiatives. To succeed in today’s connected world, you need to build a community around your company, brand, and products. Over the last decade, social media monitoring has become a primary form of business intelligence, used to identify, predict, and respond to consumer behavior. These 50 tools distill data in ways that are relevant to your social media marketing plan, enabling you to figure out how to succeed with your audience. Determining which tools are right for you requires a clear definition of your objectives. Connect: Authored by: Pam Dyer I direct marketing initiatives at SolutionsIQ, a leading Agile services provider. See complete profile
How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend (Examples: AppSumo, Mint, Chihuahuas) Noah Kagan built two multi-million dollar online businesses before turning 28. He also looks great in orange. (Photo: Laughing Squid) I first met Noah Kagan over rain and strong espressos at Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View, CA. It would be the first of many. The matchmaker then introducing us was the prophetic and profane Dave McClure, General Partner of 500 Start-ups, which is now headquartered just down the street from Red Rock. Mr. He was employee #30 at Facebook, #4 at Mint, had previously worked for Intel (where he frequently took naps under his desk), and had turned down a six-figure offer from Yahoo. The purpose of this post is simple: to teach you how to get a $1,000,000 business idea off the ground in one weekend, full of specific tools and tricks that Noah has used himself. He will be your guide… Enter Noah For some reason, people love to make excuses about why they haven’t created their dream business or even gotten started. We made the original product for Gambit in a weekend.
Free Link Building Tools from BuzzStream Use our free tools to find link opportunities, conduct link research or automate link building tasks. Free Tools Email Research ToolEnter a name, company and website and this tool will generate Google searches to find their email address. Link Building Query GeneratorAutomatically creates link building search queries to help you find link opportunities. Saves them as an OPML file for easy import into monitoring dashboards. Extract Descriptive Text from a URLTakes a list of URLs, extracts the descriptive text at the end of the URL and saves the list as a CSV file (e.g., turns www.abc.com/programs into "programs"). Tools for BuzzStream Subscribers Link BuzzmarkerTurn a web page into a link contact for link building campaigns. Influence Evaluation ToolImport a list of domains and BuzzStream collects key metrics for all of them (e.g., PageRank, mozRank, unique visitors, cache date, site age, inbound links, etc.) List BuilderFilter contacts to build outreach lists.
On Decision-Making: Be Resolute and Fail Fast | Filip's thoughts on things In an extended 30-minute video filmed in 2005, Dan Gilbert gives us a few arguments why we make bad decisions. The essence of it comes down to a formula pushed forward in 1739 by the Dutch Daniel Bernoulli. The formula is simple enough: Expected Value = [Odds of Gain] X [Value of Gain] and where we fail is to underestimate/overestimate each of the components in order to make a decision. 1. Two heads are better than one, yet, add one more to it and then there is a deadlock. 2. A half-hearted decision is as good as no decision at all. 3. Proving your strategy does not work could be better than not knowing your strategy’s success or failure. Finally, we need to all live with the responsibility of our decisions. Yet, if things didn’t turn out the right way, despite the resolute, single-minded decision making, Mr. van Gaal would have failed fast, potentially paying with his job, which presumably he would have done had it lost by Costa Rica in regular time. f.
Top 10 Logo Design Software To Help You To Design Logo By Yourself Nowadays the importance of custom logo design cannot be really underestimated. It is one of the best ways that can help in marketing a brand and so a lot of companies have started indulging in logo designing. Once your company has a great logo, it creates a good impact on the consumers. Logo is a good way of creating an identity as customers can relate to a particular brand. There are a number of logo design software that will give you lot of prepared icons to use. 1. Page Plus X6 creates logos (including custom logo design) that look great in print and digital publishing. 2. It is considered as one of the best among logo design software. 3. With this software, the process of logo creation becomes very simple. 4. With LogoSmartz, you will have access to a number of things such as high quality templates, vector graphic symbols, fills, filters, fonts, special effects, colors, adjustments and finally great work. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
News Digest News - India Real Time Associated Press Monsoon rains have at last arrived in India’s capital on Thursday, bringing relief to its citizens from soaring temperatures. After arriving over Kerala five days later than predicted, the monsoon had been stalled over central India, triggering a concern that a drought could hurt agricultural production and exacerbate inflation. Social Media Tools, How to Simplify Your Social Media Marketing Are you looking for a better way to manage your social activities? Are you wondering what tools can help your social media marketing? To discover free or low-cost tools to simplify your social media marketing, I interview Ian Cleary for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner. It’s designed to help busy marketers and business owners discover what works with social media marketing. The show format is on-demand talk radio (also known as podcasting). In this episode, I interview Ian Cleary, the founder of Razor Social—a blog dedicated to social media tools. Ian shares why as a marketer you should look beyond Google Analytics and Facebook Insights data. You’ll learn the services available to keep up to date with relevant content and the tools to use to monitor your overall activities across all social channels. Listen Now Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Social Media Tools
6 Creepy Animal Behaviors That Science Can't Explain #3. Blue Whales Are Experiencing Global Puberty Scientists are a weird lot, and they do some strange stuff in the name of science. Case in point, back in the 60s, some scientists thought it would be cool to stick a bunch of microphones into the oceans of the world and record blue whales singing. Forty years later, someone got the idea to study four decades of whale song, presumably to keep the grant money flowing, when they made a strange discovery: Every blue whale in the world was singing deeper every year. How long has this been going on? They have no idea why, but the whales have been going all Barry White on us for at least 40 years. You'll recognize this as the "Tara Reid Effect." But, they must have a theory for this... Everything from global warming to increased noise pollution has been suggested. The fact that one in three whales has purchased a Barry White album only raises more questions. Noise pollution might be a more reasonable solution. #2. Ants have amazed us for centuries.
Readability-Score.com - Free Online Readability Calculator - Flesch Kincaid, Gunning Fog and more ... Natural Gas? Cows Toot Out Most Methane A new snapshot of U.S. methane emissions in 2004 shows livestock — primarily cattle and pigs — were the country's worst gas emitters at the time. The study also found that livestock expelled 40 percent more methane than had been estimated by the Environmental Protection Agency, a result in agreement with a recently published review of hundreds of emissions studies detailed in the journal Science. The animals also bested the oil and gas industry. "We are very confident that livestock emissions were being underestimated," said lead study author Kevin Wecht, an atmospheric chemist at Harvard University in Massachusetts. Methane is less abundant than carbon dioxide, and disappears faster in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. However, it is more effective at trapping infrared radiation (the greenhouse effect). The new analysis led by Wecht took a broader look, by using satellite monitoring of methane gas levels in the atmosphere over the United States. Natural gas numbers off?