Monitor Social Traffic
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SocialAppsHQ has revised their pricing plans.
https://www.socialappshq.com/home/pricing?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pricechange
We have been using both their Apps and Social Monitoring. The Apps has worked pretty well for us and the revised pricing will actually be cheaper for us, so I'll likely continue with that feature. As for the Social Monitoring, perhaps I'm not using it effectively, but I get notice of social traffic too late to be really useful. To help generate viral lift in Twitter, for example, I need to be notified within an hour or so that someone has mentioned our product. If I am notified eight hours after the original tweet, then many on the east coast are already asleep and I can't retweet effectively until the next day, and it looses impact when the discussion is cold. Also, the revised pricing makes this feature much more expensive for us. What services can you recommend that will give us rapid notification of search phrases on FB and Twitter?
Best,
Christopher -
Thanks, David, I've been testing Raven Tools for the past month. I really like the ability to not only monitor many types of social accounts, but the ability to post to a variety of social accounts from within one centralized tool.
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Christopher -
Thanks for the heads up, Dana. I like the idea if being able to create triggers. I'll take a closer look.
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Christopher -
Hi Christopher,
I hope you are well! Have you considered using IFTTT? (http://www.ifttt.com) I am thinking there may be a way to create a "recipe" that goes something like this: "If" someone mentions my company/product/brand on Twitter "Then" send me a text message. That might be a scrappy way of accomplishing it, but it might take a little maneuvering because I don't think you can use Twitter directly. If I had zero budget, but some time on my hands, I might try playing around with that. There may even be someone here in the Q & A who's already figured out how to do it.
If I had a little budget, I'd consider Email2DB. They have a 30-day free trial so it might be worth exploring:
Hope that helps a little!
Dana
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Raven Tools has a social media monitoring tool. I haven't used it myself in a while and I beleive they recently updated it. Check it out here: http://raventools.com/tools/social-media-monitor/
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