These days one of the biggest challenges I hear from people is how to get all this stuff done?
From content marketing, social media, networking, sales, and all the other things that take up time… Really, how do you get all this stuff done when you have a job, clients, a business to run, or live a busy life with family and friends?
While there’s no magic formula that works for everybody I’ve had success by following 3 steps I outline below:
I’ve been testing and using what I consider to be a great application for tracking my social media activity.
SWIX is like Google Analytics for social media. You wouldn’t run an important web-site without tracking your traffic patterns, nor should you invest in social media without understanding how it’s working for you.
Here is what I like about Swix:
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4 Tips to reaching the finish line in social engagement. (image by Rykerstribe)
We had a social media marketing presentation yesterday to a group of entrepreneurs, business owners, and people responsible for marketing. I had a good time and when we give these presentations we hand out a feedback sheet. I appreciate every piece of feedback good or bad as it gives me an tremendous insight about what people feel and think about social media.
One of the most common questions was something along the lines of:
…Now I understand social media now but how do I get all this done?
Here are my brief thoughts on this…
We just found a great new tool that allows you to brand your Tweets on Twitter. Yes, every tweet you do can include a link that is branded to you and links to wherever you want!
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I found a great resource for adding the Google Buzz button to your blog. Keep in mind that this plugin is not yet approved by WordPress.
http://www.clickonf5.org/google-buzz-button-wordpress
Works great, I have it installed on 4 blogs and haven’t had any problems.
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New Media Tools for Social Media Marketer (image from Flattop341)
I wanted to share with you some tools that I use and find extremely useful as a new media marketer. Hopefully you are aware of some of these already, if not I’d jump right in and get to testing the ones you think could help you.
I didn’t go in depth with each tool I just gave what I find to be the biggest features useful from each tool. Also I summarized my thoughts then scrapped how each tool defines itself on their website.
Are you looking to have a rich well designed email signature?
For a while now I have been using the Firefox addon (now for Chrome extension called WiseStamp.
WiseStamp is an addon that lets you have rich email signatures like the one you see below:
It supports Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Aol, Hotmail, Google Apps… plus much more.
Wisestamp allows you to create a very good looking signature and supports the following features:
I highly suggest you check it out, especially if you use Firefox (they just added support for Chrome Extensions).
