You hear it said all the time! The hardest part of the creative process lies in that spark of an idea that spurs you on in the first place and sets the juices flowing. And who better could there be to come up with those ideas than the people that will benefit the most - the general public and your customers. Buzzsourcing is a new business monitoring and marketing application that uses crowd sourcing to get the answers to your marketing questions. This easy to use app is perfect for businesses that deal with the public and who want to ... Read more
Advertising on social media sites has become commonplace over the last few years. It was a boon to really small shops and small businesses because it gave them free advertising and a chance to talk to their fans on a regular basis. But it still isn't easy to get your word across to a bigger audience. Its a lot easy if you are willing to spend big bucks on your advertising campaigns but that just generally isn't an issue for businesses on small, tight budgets. So thats where a social media monitoring app like SocialCentiv comes in. It is designed ... Read more
Social media monitoring is the big thing at the moment. And rightly so! It's all very well to set up your marketing and promotional activities with the plethora of social networks that are available, but it's another to analyze the results and see which ones work and which ones could do with some fine tuning. MarketingStick is a cost effective way of gathering all the stats and data from all your social networks so that you can view and analyze the results in one neat package. This simple set of tools not only tells you how many Tweets were read ... Read more
After the last US election, Barack Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod's skoffed when it was suggested that his boss had made a gaffe when talking about a particular sensitive subject in an off the cuff interview. At this level of Government, Axelrod stated, nothing is done by accident and every word and nuance is planned to the nth degree. You can also use this logic to produce a perfect marketing and advertising campaign. Businesses that use Instagram as an advertising medium now have a new set of analytical and marketing tools to boost their coffers. Given that Instagram now ... Read more
I'm not so sure that the individual Twitter user will find Tweet Category particularly useful unless they are feeling a little nerdish but for business analysis it's one of those apps that's going to save you a lot of time. This social media monitoring and analysis application for iPad was designed with love and care to try and make some order out of the copious amount of tweets coming your way everyday to enhance theTwitter experience. Tweet Category sorts your tweets into preselected categories so you don't have to even think about the ones that don't interest you ... leaving ... Read more
I think we are all pretty well convinced by now that social media offers a unique opportunity to advertise your brand or event and get your message across in real-time to the very people you are trying to target. If you are new to the game, though, it can be a rather daunting experience when you are trying to decide on the correct approach to your marketing and online presence. Cygnis Media is a social media analyst and strategist that provides fully customized Facebook, web and iOS application development and are at the cutting edge of the industry. Cygnis ... Read more
One of the 'great leaps forward' of recent times in the world of apps has been the unabashed realization that social media advertising can really work for you. The second giant leap has been the provision of great business tools to monitor, market, promote and analyze your campaigns through your favorite social networks. BeeLiked is a new social media marketing platform that specializes in running engaging and easy to create competitions of various sorts. The idea is to keep your customers satisfied whilst offering a chance to increase your return on income. BeeLiked is a new social media marketing ... Read more
There's an interesting story I read the other day about a major retailer who was amazed when confronted with a poll that put his company in the bottom five for satisfactory customer service. He was astounded because his internal reviews had said quite the opposite. I guess the moral of the story is that it's best to find out what your customers REALLY think of you and you can do this one way by analyzing their thoughts about you on your social networks. Social Defender is a social media monitoring application that aggregates all your social media sites under one ... Read more
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
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