Over recent weeks FeedMyApp has reviewed several excellent social media monitoring apps like Postano, Zoniz and Rolio and Social Follows is certainly another one to add to that list. This monitoring and analysis app for social media features a comprehensive set of tools that acts like a damned good personal marketing assistant to define, target and engage your customers like you haven't done before. SocialFollows is highly professional, is easy to use and presents all of your Twitter accounts in one convenient place. And, what's more, it's free for the small business with just a couple of Twitter accounts. ... Read more
You used to have to constantly keep one eye open to make sure your website was running up to scratch but now, with the introduction of tracking tools, you can automatically check to see whether all is well from any desired location. But StatusCake goes one step further. This website monitoring service checks your any number of sites for performance and downtime every five minutes from different places the world over to make sure you know if anything goes wrong. If there are issues, StatusCake will send you immediate notification. It is important to know when your website is ... Read more
It never ceases to amaze and amuse me when I still see what I consider to be intelligent people belittling and refusing to get involved in social media. I hate to tell you this but it isnt going away in the near future. In fact, as more people realize the promotional and advertising potential of Facebook and Twitter etc, the more prominent and essential they will become in our brand promotion and publicity. And that's where Postano comes in very useful by automatically aggregating relevant social content across all your social networks and displaying them on your own website, on ... Read more
Using a social media monitoring application like Zoniz is rather like booking your car in for an executive tune up only to find that the mechanics souped up the engine while it was over the pit. With Zoniz' help you can increase your website's fan base and promote your product by getting more out of your social network. It does this by turning your visitors to your site into instant fans giving you the opportunity to follow up and promote your product directly with fans and their friends. Your potential customers are everywhere. They visit your store. They browse ... Read more
While I'm certainly not calling this website design builder 'websites for dummies' it does impress with its pure simplicity. WebStart Today is literally a do-it-yourself website solution that specializes in providing small businesses with a very affordable way of announcing their online presence. With this easy to use web design app you can choose from thousands of great designs and SEO friendly content in a step-by-step process without any great technical skills needed at all. They also offer free websites published on a shared domain name as well as several well priced paid versions with domain name options. You've ... Read more
It's always a good sign when doing research work on an app to find it mentioned (in a good way, I might add) in lots of different posts. It appears that Linkcious is a rather popular social media monitoring application. So why is it so popular? Well, when you strip it right back, Linkcious is a contextual replacement for Facebook Social Plugins but with the option to add other social networks like Twitter and Pinterest. This means that the app will gather together and track all the relevant clicks, impressions and social interactions and places them on your web page. ... Read more
The first thing to remember is that cloud-computing has changed everything when it comes to online business management applications. And, to be quite honest, the only thing that is preventing small business from benefitting from it is you yourself. ClientFisher is a business solutions and customer relations manager application that offers a seriously cost effective answer to all of your small business needs from website help, management systems, CRM, email and all aspects of setting up and running a business. From sales to handling customers or from advertising to marketing there are multiple processes of business that takes place. ... Read more
Ubilocal is a geolocalisation store locator application for the business with several different outlets. It provides the tools to create and customize all your store locations displayed on an interactive map and can easily be part of an advertising campaign either through its own website, integrated into yours or someone else's site, within an online shop or even via your Facebook profile as an iFrame. It's primarily a service for your customers but can also be yet another part of an overall campaign to grab a little more attention for your brand and add to your increased online visibility encouraging ... Read more
When I first took a look at this impressive set of business tools and saw that the name was ServicePlatform I have to say I was a little underwhelmed. So many of these business apps have funky names and ServicePlatform was so...unspectacular. What the name does tend to project is solidity and reliability and that is pretty much what it delivers. It's a place that manages your entire online presence from your website to your social network sites and any number of things between. It's aim is to provide businesses with the complete online solution that controls your web page, ... Read more
When it comes right down to it, Actwitty is kind of like a trip to the psychiatrist and doc all rolled into one for your social networking feeds. It's a social media monitoring application that takes its job very seriously indeed and, not only does it arrange your feeds from your social networks by topic, but it also aggregates them into one curated home page. Actwitty creates a curated home page of individuals by topically arranging your feeds from Twitter, Facebook and other social networks. Actwitty does a semantic analysis of text to get an intelligent grouping of data ... Read more