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The #SMSS Mon­ster List Of So­cial Me­dia Tools & Services

44 so­cial me­dia ex­perts pre­sented 33 ses­sions at So­cial Me­dia Suc­cess Sum­mit and high­lighted their fa­vorite so­cial me­dia tools and services.

  • There are the usual sus­pects: Hoot­Suite, Buffer­app, Feedly & Co.
  • There’s also a num­ber of tools that I’ve never heard of before.

In this post I list as many tools from #SMSS as I can find while go­ing through the live ses­sions, the Live-Tweets, ses­sion record­ings, and transcripts.

The post is work-in-progress. I’m still go­ing through the ma­te­r­ial, and as the fi­nal pre­sen­ta­tions will be posted this week, I’ll add more tools and de­scrip­tions. I’m open to feed­back and ex­pand­ing the ar­ti­cle. If you want to add some info about the tools, use the comments.

I have in­cluded info on prices and free tri­als. Be aware they can change any time.

Some of the re­sources men­tioned aren’t ‘so­cial me­dia’ tools by de­f­i­n­i­tion. It shows how con­nected the seem­ingly sep­a­rate dis­ci­plines of so­cial me­dia man­age­ment, SEO, con­tent mar­ket­ing, web de­sign and web an­a­lyt­ics are. You can’t just fo­cus on one area and ig­nore the rest. Mar­ket­ing with a long term fo­cus will in­clude all of those areas.

44 (and count­ing) Tools for So­cial Me­dia & SEO & Con­tent Mar­ket­ing & Influence

Addvocate.com

http://Addvocate.com

Ad­dvo­cate is a tool to man­age em­ployee ad­vo­cacy. „Em­ployee ad­vo­cacy” means your em­ploy­ees rep­re­sent and pro­mote your com­pany on their in­di­vid­ual profiles.

Ad­dvo­cate al­lows you to mon­i­tor and im­prove your brand’s so­cial pres­ence by mak­ing it easy for your em­ploy­ees to share in­ter­est­ing content—and easy for you to track their reach. There are tools for the em­ploy­ees to sim­plify con­tent shar­ing to their pro­files, for ex­am­ple a browser extension.

And of course there’s an­a­lyt­ics to mon­i­tor the so­cial me­dia ac­tiv­ity across your company.

There’s a free ver­sion „for the small scrappy startup” with up to 5 users. Above 5 there’s a mod­er­ate pric­ing per user.

addvocate

Ago­ra­pulse Face­book Page Barometer

http://barometer.agorapulse.com

The Face­book Page Barom­e­ter is a free so­cial me­dia an­a­lyt­ics tool show­ing you sta­tis­tics about your Face­book page.

Apart from the barom­e­ter Ago­ra­pulse of­fers a range of paid ser­vices as monthly sub­scrip­tion, start­ing at $29.

Ser­vices in­clude apps: „At­tract more fans to your page and en­gage them with fully cus­tomiz­able vi­ral ap­pli­ca­tions. Quiz, Photo Con­test, Sweep­stakes, Fan Vote, and many more. All our apps are op­ti­mized for mo­bile devices.”

Then of course the oblig­a­tory sta­tis­tics, and a tool to man­age posts on your page.

An in­ter­est­ing tool is the Face­book CRM to man­age your Face­book fans. You can iden­tify your most en­gaged fans, col­lect info about your fans, and ex­port the data.

Ian Cleary: „When you go to the Barom­e­ter, you se­lect your page, and it will show you some in­sights. On the in­sights, it will show you how you com­pare against other peo­ple that have run this tool. So you can see what is work­ing and what is not working.”

barometer.agorapulse

Bitly.com

https://bitly.com/

This pop­u­lar tool barely needs an in­tro­duc­tion. You can cre­ate track­able short links to any URL, then you can use these short links in your so­cial me­dia posts or blog posts or emails and find out how many peo­ple ac­tu­ally clicked your link.

You can see the ad­vanced features/benefits in the screen shot be­low on the right hand side.

bitly

bufferapp.com

http://bufferapp.com/

Buffer­App let’s you sched­ule up­dates to Twit­ter, Face­book, and LinkedIn.

An­drea Vahl: „You can use Buffer­App to sched­ule out the times you want to post and where you want those posts to go, and you can set it very in­di­vid­u­ally. You can say I want it to go out on Mon­day at these times, Tues­day at these times. What hap­pens is, when you’re putting things into the buffer, it au­to­mat­i­cally plugs them into those per­fect times that you’ve al­ready set up with your ed­i­to­r­ial cal­en­dar. So it’s re­ally great to use.”

There’s a free ver­sion with a lim­ited num­ber of posts you can sched­ule. The paid ver­sion is $10 per month, gives you un­lim­ited sched­uled posts for up to 12 so­cial profiles.

bufferapp

BuzzSpice.com

http://www.buzzspice.com/

Buz­zSpice is a tool to man­age your Face­book pres­ence. Their bold claim is: „Spend only 4 min­utes a day, and let Buz­zSpice run your page for you.”

Their fea­ture de­scrip­tion is some­what cryp­tic. Sam­ple: „DNA en­gine di­gests your page and cre­ates your unique sig­na­ture and pro­file. These are based on your page ac­tiv­ity, fans and vis­i­tors, com­ments, likes and other sta­tis­tics that are avail­able for your page.”

Lol, sounds ex­tremely cool, but do you have any idea what it means? Me neither.

Look­ing through the com­plete fea­ture list, how­ever, makes me think they might have some re­ally use­ful tools in their box. It helps find­ing and post­ing share-wor­thy content.

It starts with a free 14-day trial, then $9 per month, which seems ex­cel­lent to me - even for the small­est business.

buzzspice

BuzzStream.com

http://buzzstream.com

Buz­zStream of­fers a set of link build­ing and dig­i­tal PR tools. Their claim is: „Web-based soft­ware that helps the world’s best mar­keters promote
their prod­ucts, ser­vices and content.”

Buz­zStream has 2 sep­a­rate subscriptions:

  • Link build­ing: au­to­mated tools for re­search­ing link prospects and con­duct­ing campaigns.
  • PR & So­cial Me­dia: Team- based soft­ware for build­ing and man­ag­ing re­la­tion­ships with influencers.

Both start at $19 per month. This is the cheap­est of­fer, and it is HIDDEN at the bot­tom of the pur­chase page. The main sign up area pro­motes the $29 subscription.

Ian Cleary: „If you are do­ing a lot of blog­ging and you need to reach out to pro­mote your blog posts, Buz­zStream man­ages this process.

What it does, within the tool, is you can add web­sites on, and it will au­to­mat­i­cally re­trieve in­for­ma­tion, such as their Face­book page, their Twit­ter ac­count, their do­main au­thor­ity, and then you can track all the in­ter­ac­tions you have.”

buzzstream

Buzzsumo.com

http://buzzsumo.com/

Buz­zSumo ti­tles it­self ‘Con­tent Mar­ket­ing Soft­ware - So­cial In­sights for Con­tent Marketers.’

Their claim: „Buz­zSumo pro­vides daily in­sight into the top­ics, sto­ries and in­flu­encers with the high­est en­gage­ment. They fo­cus on con­tent and influencers.”

  • The con­tent tools help you to dis­cover trend­ing con­tent in your niche. One of the fea­tures in this area that got my at­ten­tion is: „Dis­cover guest post and in­ter­view op­por­tu­ni­ties” [#SMSS13 pod­cast­ing ses­sion comes to mind.]
  • The in­flu­encer tools help you to find rel­e­vant in­flu­encers for any topic of your choice.

Lee Odden: „You can use it to re­search in­flu­encers as well as the so­cial pop­u­lar­ity of con­tent. In fact, you can even use it to cu­rate content.”

buzzsumo

Canva.com

http://canva.com/

Canva is a free on­line tool for cre­at­ing graphics.

On a side note: The Canva.com web site it­self is a gem, one of the best ex­am­ples for cur­rent web de­sign trends I’ve seen. Must see!

Ian Cleary: „Canva is a graphic de­sign tool. We may not have all the skills for graphic de­sign, and we can’t go out to graphic de­sign­ers all the time.

What Canva does is it al­lows us to pick from a se­ries of tem­plates. From those tem­plates, we can start cus­tomiz­ing them. We can put in dif­fer­ent texts onto it, we can se­lect dif­fer­ent im­ages that we can add onto the tem­plate, lots of dif­fer­ent im­ages, and then we post this im­age as an im­age or as a PDF.”

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Click­ToTweet

http://clicktotweet.com

Click­ToTweet is a handy tool to cre­ate hy­per­links that will post a Twit­ter sta­tus up­date when clicked.

Click this link now to see it in action.

Can you guess what will happen? :-)

The source code for such a link is some­what com­pli­cated to cre­ate man­u­ally, so this tool re­ally makes it easy. The screen­shot ex­plains how it works.

clicktotweet

ContestCapture.com

http://contestcapture.com

This easy to un­der­stand so­cial me­dia tool ex­plains it­self per­fectly right in the screen shot below.

contestcapture

CustomFanPageDesigns.com

http://customfanpagedesigns.com

A web de­sign agency spe­cial­ized on so­cial me­dia pro­files. Very rea­son­able pricing.

Great con­cept! Great port­fo­lio on their site!

Amy Porter­field: „I al­ways get asked, „Amy, who do you use for your time­line cover photo?” I use CustomFanpageDesigns.com. I’m not an af­fil­i­ate. They’re just re­ally good to me. I al­ways give them a shout-out if you’re look­ing for some­one to help you cre­ate your time­line cover photo.”

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DLVR.it

http://dlvr.it

dlvr.it will auto post your RSS feeds to your so­cial me­dia ac­counts. For ex­am­ple you can have each new blog post pro­moted to your ac­counts automagically.

It starts at 9.99 per month for 50 feeds and 15 ac­counts and is a re­ally use­ful fea­ture for those who don’t have the same fea­ture through a larger so­cial me­dia man­age­ment tool like Sprout­So­cial.

Ian Cleary: „Dlvr.it is an­other re­ally use­ful ap­pli­ca­tion. It’s an au­toma­tion tool to help you share content.

What you can do with dlvr.it is when you post a new blog, it will au­to­mat­i­cally cre­ate a tweet, a Face­book up­date, a Google+ up­date, and also now LinkedIn com­pany pages. So this type of au­toma­tion is es­sen­tial when you have a re­ally good piece of con­tent and you want your au­di­ence to hear about it.”

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eGrab­ber Ac­count Researcher

www.egrabber.com/accountresearcher

At first sight eGrab­ber does­n’t sound like a so­cial me­dia tool. The web site says: „eGrab­ber Ac­­count-Re­searcher is a re­search ex­pe­dit­ing tool. It cuts prospect re­search time down to a few min­utes. Built for Sales-Reps who do their own re­search on prospects and accounts.”

This sounds like tra­di­tional ad­dress provider, but it is not. Far from it!

eGrab­ber re­searches the on­line foot­print of any given con­tact from your so­cial me­dia connections.

In other words: You give it a con­tact, and eGrab­ber „re­searches in real time on hun­dreds of pub­licly avail­able sources at the time you re­quest it.”

Viveka Von Rosen rec­om­mends it to get data for your LinkedIn con­tacts. Sub­scrip­tion is $79.95 / month.

Account Researcher eGrabber

Evernote.com

https://evernote.com

Ever­note is a cloud based ser­vice where you can save your web re­search and con­tent. It will synch across all your devices.

  • Save en­tire web­pages to your Ever­note ac­count with our nifty web clip­per browser ex­ten­sions. You get the whole page: text, im­ages and links.
  • Col­lect in­for­ma­tion from any­where into a sin­gle place. From text notes to web pages to files to snap­shots, every­thing is al­ways at your fingertips.

Use cases for Ever­note are end­less. Given that we’re look­ing at so­cial me­dia tools, here are the 2 most likely examples:

  • As a blog­ger you can col­lect your re­search or blog ideas.
  • For your so­cial me­dia mar­ket­ing you can col­lect post ideas, or info snip­pets you find in other peo­ple’s posts.

Ever­note has a free plan and a paid pre­mium plan with ad­di­tional fea­tures. The web site would­n’t show me the pric­ing in USD, so all I can tell you is, the pre­mium plan is 150 Thai Baht per month. :-)

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Face­book Power Ed­i­tor Chrome Browser Extension

http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facebook-power-editor

Mar Smith: „I’m go­ing to rec­om­mend — I know Jon and I are on the same page about this — that in­stead of us­ing that Boost but­ton that’s ever tempt­ing, you re­ally fa­mil­iar­ize your­self with Power Ed­i­tor. You’re go­ing to have so many bet­ter op­tions. Us­ing the Power Ed­i­tor, you’ll be able to do much more ad­vanced gran­u­lar tar­get­ing and choose your ad placement.

  • Power Ed­i­tor also al­lows you to cus­tomize your bid, whereas just do­ing the boost post doesn’t.
  • You can also cre­ate cus­tom au­di­ences. I love this fea­ture. You can take your email data­base, up­load it to Face­book, and find out quite a bit more about them.”

Facebook Power Editor

Feedly.com

http://cloud.feedly.com/

Ian Cleary: „Feedly is re­ally use­ful. It al­lows you to sub­scribe to the blogs and then view all the lat­est posts di­rectly within Feedly.

It sup­ports Buffer, which is a great tool for sched­ul­ing the de­liv­ery of con­tent to so­cial me­dia chan­nels, such as Twit­ter, Face­book, Google+, and more re­cently they added in sup­port for LinkedIn com­pany pages as well.

You read con­tent within Feedly, and if you see a good item, then you click on the Buffer but­ton to share the con­tent. What Buffer is do­ing is it’s plac­ing that con­tent in a queue and de­liv­er­ing based on the next avail­able time slot that you have set up.”

cloud.feedly

Flare Share But­ton Plu­gin For WordPress

http://wordpress.org/plugins/flare

Flare is one of the many Word­Press plu­g­ins that add a share bar to your blog.

What I like is that it looks beau­ti­ful. Un­like other share bars all but­tons have the same size and a match­ing design.

What I don’t like is that the ‘but­tons’ ac­tu­ally aren’t but­tons. They are hover-ar­eas. You must hover your mouse over the false but­ton, only then the ac­tual share but­ton ap­pears, and then you move your mouse over there and click. Strange con­cept, but prob­a­bly the only way to achieve the nice de­sign that I just praised a few lines above.

The Word­Press Flare plu­gin page says „The Flare plu­gin isn’t in ac­tive de­vel­op­ment be­cause we’ve cre­ated a hosted app ver­sion of Flare that works with vir­tu­ally any web­site or CMS, in­clud­ing Word­Press.” So, I’m not sure what is go­ing to hap­pen to the plu­gin. Use with caution.

Ian Cleary: „If you re­ally want shar­ing, a use­ful Word­Press plu­gin is called Flare.”

wordpress

Google An­a­lyt­ics

http://analytics.google.com

Google An­a­lyt­ics is a MUST for every web site owner and so­cial me­dia marketer.

It gives you lots and lots of valu­able in­for­ma­tion, such as:

  • How many web site vis­i­tors you have.
  • Which pages they visit. How many pages per vis­i­tor, and how long the av­er­age vis­i­tor stays on your site.
  • On which pages you lose most of your vis­i­tors. Important!
  • How many peo­ple find your site through Face­book, LinkedIn, Twit­ter, etc.

Ian Cleary: „Google An­a­lyt­ics is com­pletely free and re­ally pow­er­ful. At a min­i­mum, you should be look­ing at your an­a­lyt­ics every week.”

Google Analytics

Google Ad­words Key­word Planner

Google Key­word Plan­ner re­places the pre­vi­ous key­word tool. Un­like be­fore it’s not pub­lic any­more, but only avail­able from in­side your Ad­Words ac­count. You should def­i­nitely have one, even if you do not plan on buy­ing Google’s pay per click ads.

The key­word plan­ner tool is worth the ef­fort of sign­ing up. Not only will is show you which key­words have high search vol­ume, it will also show you im­por­tant re­lated keywords.

For ex­am­ple I have en­riched this ar­ti­cle about ‘so­cial me­dia mar­ket­ing tools’ with some rel­e­vant, re­lated key­words that I found us­ing Google Key­word Plan­ner. Google gave me re­lated key­words like „so­cial me­dia lis­ten­ing tools” and „so­cial me­dia mar­ket­ing tools.” Can you see what I’m doing?

http://adwords.google.com/ko/KeywordPlanner

Ian Cleary: „Key­word Plan­ner gives you in­for­ma­tion re­lated to how many es­ti­mated searches per month are per­formed on the key­words you’re con­sid­er­ing writ­ing con­tent on.”

Google Keyword Planner

HootSuite.com

http://hootsuite.com

Ian Cleary: „If Twit­ter is where your in­flu­encers hang out, Hoot­Suite is a re­ally good tool to use. At Hoot­Suite, you can fil­ter tweets into dif­fer­ent columns. One of those columns could dis­play the Twit­ter ac­tiv­ity for the in­flu­encers that you want to keep track of, so you’re sep­a­rat­ing out that ac­tiv­ity into this column.

What you do, is you cre­ate a Twit­ter list of all the in­flu­encers and then, within Hoot­Suite, add this on as a col­umn, which is known as a stream. This is a great way of be­ing able to track con­ver­sa­tions from the in­flu­encers. For ex­am­ple, imag­ine the key in­flu­encer ask­ing a ques­tion. You may be able to join in that con­ver­sa­tion, help an­swer the ques­tion, and just in­ter­act with them on a daily basis.”

Adrea Vahl: „If you’re spend­ing more time in Hoot­Suite, you can bring in RSS feeds into a sep­a­rate tab. Just take a look at that, and those will also make it easy to share from there.

Twit­ter lists are a great way to pre­vent over-con­­sum­ing. Just put the par­tic­u­lar Twit­ter names on a list that you want to fol­low and break those out into a sep­a­rate col­umn on HootSuite.”

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IFTTT.com

http://IFTTT.com

James Wed­more: „This is more au­toma­tion. This is more cool stuff. Ba­si­cally, you cre­ate these lit­tle recipes. When you take an ac­tion on YouTube or when some­thing hap­pens on YouTube, it can au­to­mat­i­cally, on au­topi­lot, trig­ger some­thing else to happen.

If you’re on LinkedIn, you can have your video posted to your LinkedIn pro­file or book­marked on De­li­cious and nu­mer­ous other book­mark­ing sites. Maybe you have a Tum­blr blog, and you want your video pub­lished there as well.

These are all things that can be done on autopilot.”

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Knowem

http://smo.knowem.com/

Lee Odden: „An­other handy tool is Knowem SMO, so­cial me­dia op­ti­miza­tion. Ba­si­cally, this tool will au­dit your site in sec­onds for the pres­ence of mi­cro­for­mats for Twit­ter, for Face­book, for Google+, for LinkedIn, as well as some key SEO met­rics or SEO friendly char­ac­ter­is­tics of your site.

By the pres­ence of these things, you’re mak­ing it eas­ier for so­cial net­works and so­cial me­dia sites to use your content.”

smo.knowem

LeadPages.net

http://leadpages.net

Amy Porter­field: „Lead­Pages is my fa­vorite tool. You can cre­ate lead cap­ture pages in­stantly. This is what James Wed­more uses. It’s what I use.

At least go check out the tool. It changed my life — that sounds dra­matic, but it’s true — in terms of how quickly I could build up a lead cap­ture page to give some­thing away.”

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Lead­Player

http://www.leadplayer.com

David Site­man Gar­land: „It’s re­ally that sim­ple: In­stall Lead­Player, em­bed the video us­ing Lead­Player, add calls to ac­tion in your video, and next thing you know, you’re go­ing to be churn­ing out those leads that you might be miss­ing out on right now. So a very, very sim­ple strat­egy us­ing LeadPlayer.”

LeadPlayer

MyBlogGuest.com

http://myblogguest.com

My­BlogGuest is a guest blog­ging community.

  • For pub­lish­ers: you can join free and find au­thors who will write unique guest posts for your blog. You can ei­ther con­tact au­thors di­rectly, or chose from a large num­ber of posts avail­able for pub­li­ca­tion. MBG is dom­i­nated by seo agen­cies or seo free­lancers who use it to build back links to their clien­t’s sites. So, a lot of the ar­ti­cles are repet­i­tive with the agen­cies pro­mot­ing the same top­ics again and again. There are still a few great ar­ti­cles to be found.
  • For au­thors: you need a paid ac­count for $ 30 per month. You can then sub­mit your guest posts to the sys­tem and pub­lish­ers can send you of­fers to pub­lish your ar­ti­cle. As an au­thor you can re­ject or ac­cept of­fers. The qual­ity of avail­able blogs varies widely. There are a few good ones, but don’t ex­pect high pro­file blogs to look for your ar­ti­cles there.

No guest blog­ging com­mu­nity can beat in­di­vid­ual blog­ger out­reach. Yet, de­spite my crit­i­cal re­marks, My­BlogGuest is the best guest blog­ging com­mu­nity I know.

Apart from that mem­bers help each other out with so­cial me­dia promotions.

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Nimble.com

http://nimble.com/

Ian Cleary: „Nim­ble is a use­ful tool to help man­age and nur­ture re­la­tion­ships. It helps you track all the in­ter­ac­tions that you’re hav­ing, and it prompts you when you haven’t in­ter­acted with rel­e­vant peo­ple for a while.

You can also drill down to see a par­tic­u­lar con­tact within Nim­ble. You are able to dis­play all the in­ter­ac­tions a con­tact has on Twit­ter, Face­book, LinkedIn, and Google+ di­rectly within Nim­ble, and that’s re­ally handy. You can then in­ter­act with these up­dates di­rectly within Nimble.”

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Nitrogr.am

http://nitrogr.am/

Ni­tro­gram is a so­cial me­dia mon­i­tor­ing tool for Instagram.

  1. Track the per­for­mance of your In­sta­gram ac­counts and bench­mark them against com­peti­tors’: au­di­ence pro­file, au­di­ence growth and churn, av­er­age en­gage­ment (likes, com­ments) and best per­form­ing posts.
  2. Ac­cess de­tailed re­ports for posts pub­lished on a spe­cific #hash­tag and the au­thors be­hind them.
  3. En­gage with your com­mu­nity from a uni­fied web in­ter­face. Switch be­tween your dif­fer­ent In­sta­gram accounts.

Has a free trial and starts with paid ac­counts at $149 for their ‘Dy­na­mite’ plan.

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OpenSiteExplorer.org

http://opensiteexplorer.org

Ian Cleary: „There’s a tool called Open Site Ex­plorer, from a com­pany called Moz. They have an al­go­rithm that scores web­sites out of 100. The higher the num­ber you are, the bet­ter for you.

So if you have much higher num­bers than your com­peti­tor in search re­sults, then it’s eas­ier to rank higher than them when you write con­tent with sim­i­lar keywords.”

opensiteexplorer

PicMonkey.com

http://picmonkey.com

Ian Cleary: „Pic­Mon­key al­lows me to take an im­age, add text to it, change the look, and put bor­ders on it. I use the free ver­sion. This is great for adding im­ages onto your web­site or cre­at­ing im­ages for Pinterest.”

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PostPlanner.com/

http://postplanner.com/

Ian Cleary: „One of the key fea­tures is the con­tent dis­cov­ery en­gine. If you want to find con­tent to share based on your in­dus­try, you can just en­ter key­words in Post Plan­ner. Post Plan­ner will go off and find con­tent that’s trend­ing on the web re­lated to these keywords.

I can sort these by the most re­cent, or the ones that are shared the most, or the ones that have the most likes. So I am find­ing trend­ing con­tent on the web that’s re­ally pop­u­lar, and now I can se­lect this and add it to Post Planner.

It re­ally saves an aw­ful lot of time for sched­ul­ing content.”

An­drea Vahl: „I love this tool be­cause it’s got some re­ally cool fea­tures. You can add those RSS feeds. It’s got a con­tent en­gine that you can use and pull from. Also, you can put in your own sources by adding Twit­ter feeds and adding Face­book page URLs. ”

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Salesloft Tar­get­ing Tools Prospector

https://salesloft.com/

As you can see it in the screen­shot be­low, SalesLoft is a tool for prospect­ing on LinkedIn.

From their web site: „SalesLoft Prospec­tor searches through LinkedIn’s ex­ten­sive data­base of pro­files to find you the ex­act prospects you’re look­ing for. Add prospects to lists with one click. Once you have your list you can start qual­i­fy­ing leads and track­ing down new leads. Backed by Google’s pow­er­ful search en­gine, you can tar­get unique seg­ments of your mar­ket easily.”

SalesLoft has a free plan which is HIDDEN on the bot­tom of the pric­ing page. The paid plans start at 119 per month.

Targeting Tools Prospector

Semrush.com

http://semrush.com

Ian Cleary: „SEM­rush is a tool for an­a­lyz­ing web­sites that pro­vides a lot of in­for­ma­tion re­lated to traf­fic a web­site gets, the key­word that dri­ves that traf­fic, and a lot more very use­ful in­for­ma­tion. To use this tool, you just en­ter in your web­site ad­dress or your com­peti­tor’s ad­dress, if that’s what you want, and you click on Search.”

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SEO For Word­Press Plu­gin By Yoast

http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

I’ve tested many SEO plu­g­ins for Word­Press, and this free plu­gin is by far the best I can recommend.

Be­sides what Ian men­tions be­low it also takes care of im­por­tant so­cial me­dia op­ti­miza­tions. For ex­am­ple it adds code to your pages that al­low Twit­ter to show post pre­views di­rectly on the Twit­ter web site. How cool is that?

It’s free, plus it has a few com­mer­cial Add-ons. The free ver­sion is very pow­er­ful, you don’t need the paid Add-ons in most cases.

Ian Cleary: „I’ll put in what my fo­cus key­words are that I want to rank on. Then it will ask me: did I in­clude that in the ar­ti­cle head­ing, did I in­clude it in the page ti­tle, and did I in­clude it in the con­tent? This is a very easy way of check­ing if I’m rank­ing cor­rectly for this con­tent. There is a more ad­vanced sec­tion as well if you want.

It’s re­ally hav­ing a look at your key­words, how many searches there are for those key­words, look­ing at where your com­peti­tors are in the search re­sults, and then check­ing to see what their do­main au­thor­ity and page au­thor­ity is. If you are higher and you put in the ex­act key­words, write your post and put it in the ti­tle and the page name, then you have a very good chance of ranking.”

Rich Brooks: „Once you in­stall this plu­gin, a box ap­pears at the bot­tom of every sin­gle one of your blog posts. So I can see what my SEO re­sults are go­ing to look like, and then I can put in a spe­cific fo­cus key­word. Then I get a check­list of what I’ve done right and what still needs to be done as far as SEO goes.”

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SimplyMeasured.com

http://simplymeasured.com/

Sim­ply­Mea­sured is a pro­fes­sional So­cial Me­dia Mea­sure­ment & An­a­lyt­ics Tool, just as the name suggests.

  • Works with Face­book, Twit­ter, Vine, In­sta­gram, YouTube, Google+, Klout, and Google Analytics.
  • Tum­blr, Pin­ter­est, and LinkedIn will be added soon.

The fea­ture tour is im­pres­sive, plans start at $500 which clearly makes it an en­ter­prise tool and not suit­able for the av­er­age small biz or freelancer.

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SocialCrawlytics.com

http://socialcrawlytics.com

Un­for­tu­nately one of those sites that give you next to zero in­for­ma­tion - which is a bum­mer when you want to do a quick re­view. :-) The web site fea­tures 3 ar­eas that promise more info by chang­ing color when you hover, but when you click, noth­ing hap­pens. Us­abil­ity at its best!

Here’s what you can find out with­out sign­ing up:

„Iden­tify your com­peti­tors most shared con­tent. So­cial met­rics, most shared au­thors, sched­uled mon­i­tor­ing and a ro­bust API - ALL FOR FREE!”

Ian Cleary: „What it does is it crawls through the con­tent of a com­peti­tor’s web­site and pro­duces a ta­ble show­ing how of­ten their con­tent was shared out on Face­book, LinkedIn, Google+, Twit­ter, and Pinterest.”

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Spinnakr.com

http://spinnakr.com/

This seems a re­ally cool tool. Spin­nakr an­a­lyzes your site vis­i­tors and can dis­play tar­geted mes­sages to them on your site.

  • For ex­am­ple you could show a spe­cific mes­sage to vis­i­tors from Face­book, that other vis­i­tors won’t see.

This page gives lots of ex­am­ples. I haven’t read them yet, but I’m def­i­nitely tak­ing a closer look in the next days. There’s all kinds of op­por­tu­ni­ties to in­crease con­ver­sions, shares, etc.

They have a free plan, paid plans start at $18.

Lee Odden: „An­other tool that you might like is Spinnakr.com. There’s a nom­i­nal cost to this tool. This is a real-time an­a­lyt­ics tool. What this tool does is it in­ter­prets that data and lit­er­ally gives you a feed of rec­om­men­da­tions in nat­ural language.”

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Statigr.am

http://statigr.am/

Like Ni­tro­gram, Stati­gram is a so­cial me­dia mon­i­tor­ing tool for In­sta­gram, they claim to have 4 mil­lion sat­is­fied members.

„Get your to­tal num­ber of likes re­ceived, your most liked pho­tos ever, your av­er­age num­ber of likes and com­ments per photo, your fol­lower growth charts and more ad­vanced analytics.”

They also al­low to man­age your In­sta­gram pro­file, Stati­gram is „In­sta­gram made more comfortable”

Stati­gram in­te­grates with HootSuite!

It seems the sign up is free, I could­n’t find pric­ing info on the Stati­gram web site.

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Time­line Con­test Creator

http://heyo.com/timeline-contest-creator-live

Time­line Con­test Cre­ator does ex­actly what the name sug­gests. It lets you cre­ate con­tests for your Face­book page.

The point is to in­crease en­gage­ment on your page. Time­line con­test cre­ator of­fers con­test, give­away and coupon templates.

There’s a free trial, plans start at $8.50 per month.

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Twitonomy.com

http://twitonomy.com

Twiton­omy is a so­cial me­dia mea­sure­ment tool ex­clu­sively for Twit­ter. Sign up is free, I don’t know yet if they have paid up­grades, could­n’t find any pric­ing info on their site.

The screen­shot shows the fea­ture list.

Ian Cleary: „If you are on Twit­ter and you need to have a tool for check­ing Twit­ter, Twiton­omy is re­ally useful.”

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WordTracker.com

http://wordtracker.com/

Rich Brooks: „An­other tool I like is Word­track­er’s Find Key­words. The way I rec­om­mend us­ing this tool is you put in a broad key­word term, in this case „or­ga­nize.” Then Word­tracker, us­ing its part­ner search en­gines, gives us a whole bunch of dif­fer­ent key­words that can all be used for blog posts — garage or­ga­nize, or­ga­nize your home, your house, clean laun­dry, what­ever it is.

It gives us a whole bunch of terms. Then, in the next col­umn, it tells us the search vol­ume for those terms, how many peo­ple in the last month have searched on them. Keep in mind this is only the search vol­ume of their part­ner sites, which does­n’t in­clude Google or Bing. So the ac­tual num­ber of searches is much higher.

The next col­umn is com­pe­ti­tion, which is their way of say­ing, „Well, how­ever many sites are out there that are ac­tu­ally rank­ing for it, there are only three sites in the last month that are ac­tu­ally op­ti­miz­ing them­selves for this par­tic­u­lar search term.” So that might be some great opportunity.”

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WP­Touch

http://www.wptouch.com/

Rich Brooks: „There’s a free ver­sion, and there’s a Pro ver­sion. The Pro ver­sion gives you a tablet friendly ver­sion as well, where the free ver­sion only gives you one for the smart­phone. That’s a great way to go.”

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YouTube Tab for Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/appcenter/youtube-tab-app

James Wed­more: „If you just go into Face­book and type in YouTube tab, you’re go­ing to get what’s called the YouTube Tab for Face­book. It will show your lat­est video up at the top and then lit­tle pretty thumb­nails of all your past videos.

That can go as one of your tabs or pages on your Face­book page, and it’s all au­to­mated. This can lit­er­ally take about 45 sec­onds to set up. I’m a big fan of do­ing it once, au­tomat­ing it, and never hav­ing to worry about it again.”

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Zapier.com

http://zapier.com

Ian Cleary: „Za­pier al­lows you to set up au­toma­tion tasks.

An ex­am­ple is when you have a YouTube video. As soon as the YouTube video is loaded, it au­to­mat­i­cally goes into Buffer, and then Buffer sends the de­tails out onto Twit­ter and to Facebook.

The au­toma­tion tasks are called Zaps. So you can set up Zaps and do lots of great automation.”

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22s.com

http://22s.com/ and http://22social.com

22s.com, also called 22Social, is a fan page app for Face­book. Un­for­tu­nately there’s no web site , and on their Face­book page there is­n’t any writ­ten de­scrip­tion to be found what the app does. The sen­tence in the screen shot be­low is as much info as you can find. Pric­ing is se­cret, too.

So, what I know is: you can use this Face­book tool to cre­ate tabs for your Face­book page, and you can do some se­cret stuff that has to do with get­ting ‘real leads.’

An­rea Vahl: „Mari Smith and Michael Stelzner re­cently had an em­bed­ded Google+ hang­out on the Face­book page. Just wanted to high­light that too as some­thing fun you can do. They used the 22Social app to port over the Google+ hang­out into Face­book and cre­ate a re­ally fun, unique ex­pe­ri­ence that way.”

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Fea­tured So­cial Me­dia Suc­cess Sum­mit Presenters

These are the au­thors that I quoted above with their state­ments about the in­di­vid­ual so­cial me­dia tools.

Amy Porter­field | AmyPorterfield.com | @AmyPorterfield

Amy PorterfieldAmy Porter­field is a so­cial me­dia strate­gist and co-au­thor of Face­book Mar­ket­ing All-in-One For Dum­mie. She teaches biz own­ers how to use so­cial me­dia to gain greater ex­po­sure, at­tract qual­ity leads and turn their fans and fol­low­ers into loyal customers.

An­drea Vahl | AndreaVahl.com | @AndreaVahl

Andrea VahlAn­drea Vahl is a so­cial me­dia coach, speaker and strate­gist and also co-au­thor of Face­book Mar­ket­ing All-in-One For Dum­mies. She also uses her im­prov com­edy skills to blog as an en­ter­tain­ing char­ac­ter named Grandma Mary, a so­cial me­dia edutainer.

David Site­man Gar­land | TheRise­To­TheTop | @therisetothetop

David Siteman GarlandDavid Site­man Gar­land is the founder of „The Rise To The Top” and au­thor of Smarter, Faster, Cheaper. David’s in­ter­views have been down­loaded over 6 mil­lion times with guests in­clud­ing Tim Fer­riss, Zap­pos CEO Tony Hsieh, and Seth Godin.

Ian Cleary | RazorSocial.com | @IanCleary

Ian ClearyIan Cleary is the cre­ator of Ra­zor­So­cial. He’s a so­cial me­dia speaker, writes for some of the lead­ing so­cial me­dia blogs and has been pub­lished on So­cial Me­dia Ex­am­iner, Huff­in­g­ton Post and Busi­ness Grow.

James Wed­more | JamesWedmore.com | @jameswedmore

James WedmoreJames Wed­more is the au­thor of The YouTube Mar­ket­ing Book
, and founder of „Video Traf­fic Acad­emy.” He launched his first on­line busi­ness in 2008 with an On­line Bar­tend­ing School. James teaches the im­por­tance of on­line video to small busi­ness owners.

Lee Odden | TopRankBlog.com | @leeodden

Lee OddenLee Odden is the au­thor of Op­ti­mize: How to At­tract and En­gage More Cus­tomers by In­te­grat­ing SEO, So­cial Me­dia, and Con­tent Mar­ket­ing. He is also the CEO of TopRank On­line Mar­ket­ing, a mar­ket­ing and PR agency.

Mari Smith | MariSmith.com | @MariSmith

Mari SmithMari Smith is one of the world’s lead­ing so­cial me­dia strate­gists and widely rec­og­nized as THE top Face­book mar­ket­ing ex­pert in the world. She is au­thor of The New Re­la­tion­ship Marketing
and coau­thor of Face­book Mar­ket­ing: An Hour a Day.

Rich Brooks | AgentsOfChangeCon.com | @theRich­Brooks

Rich BrooksRich Brooks is pres­i­dent of web de­sign and In­ter­net mar­ket­ing com­pany flyte new me­dia. He’s the founder of The Mar­ket­ing Agents, a blog, pod­cast and YouTube chan­nel, pro­vid­ing free ad­vice to small busi­ness own­ers and mar­keters. He’s also founded AgentsOfChangeCon.