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Without a doubt, one of the most popular shiny new objects of many social media marketing programs is Twitter. There are Twitter books, Twitter conferences, Twitter blogs and numerous articles devoted to Twitter marketing. Unfortunately, there’s not enough time left over after reading all the promises of marketing nirvana from using Twitter to actually implement recommendations.
Fortunately, social media masterminds at companies like Seesmic, TweetDeck and HootSuite — to name a few — have developed tools to make our Tweeting lives easier. Or at least more efficient. We use such tools here at @toprank to grow own Twitter presence as well as for clients on a daily basis and have learned quite a bit about Twitter best practices and which tools work best.
Here are five Twitter account management tools to help you keep your Twitter activity in check – whether you tweet for one account or many.
HootSuite is a great – and free – tool for managing multiple Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Ping.fm accounts.
The Twitter and social media management tool allows you to personalize columns, so you can view multiple feeds from the same social networking account or multiple feeds from different social networking accounts. For example, with my personalized Twitter tab (shown above), I can view my Twitter home feed, Twitter mentions, sent Tweets and a saved search for “online marketing” – all from one screen.
Plus, HootSuite allows you to create a message and choose which social accounts you want the message to be automatically posted to.
Like HootSuite, CoTweet is a free and easy tool for managing multiple Twitter accounts – up to five – with a single login. It also allows brand and keyword monitoring through Twitter search.
This Twitter management tool’s true distinguishing feature is its workflow management capabilities (shown above). When an @ reply comes in to an account, you can assign it to a person on your CoTweet task to respond to. They’ll be notified via email and on their own CoTweet page. Plus, the tool allows you to take notes on Twitter users for your co-users to see.
EasyTweets is a low-cost Twitter management tool for managing multiple Twitter accounts – the more you pay, the more continuous searches, feeds and accounts you can track.
With this tool, you can automatically post RSS feed content and track RSS traffic in Google Analytics. That way, you can easily track traffic from Twitter and understand what users do when they get to your site.
Another useful feature, the Twitter management tool lets you set up continuous searches for brand mentions (shown above), and auto follow some or all users who mention your brand. Plus, you can be set up to send SMS or email alerts when people mention your brand. So wherever you are, you won’t miss your chance to respond to a prospect.
This free desktop browser helps you keep track of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace activities from multiple accounts. Like the other tools mentioned here, you can update your accounts, follow topics with saved searches, and manage conversations with @ replies and direct messages from within TweetDeck.
But the social media management tool offers some more advanced features as well. TweetDeck allows you to record, share or watch video clips, and view YouTube videos, from within the tool (shown above). Plus, you can share and view photos, as TweetDeck now supports Flickr, Twitgo and mobypicture.
This Twitter and social media management tool, currently in Beta version, offers a very simple, visual browser-based dashboard view of social activity. PeopleBrowsr uses an interface similar to email, with the Twitter or other social feed appearing as a list in the center of the screen, and additional options in the left nav (see above).
PeopleBrowsr allows you to create and manage groups by adding public or private tags to any users from any of your different social sites. Then you can view everyone in a group in a widget of their own.
Whatever time you dedicate each day for Twitter – whether its hours or minutes a day – there’s a tool available to help you better manage activities. Try out some of our suggestions, and let us know what you think.
Of course there are more Twitter management tools than what we’ve mentioned here including: Seesmic, Tweetvisor, Splitweet and others. What’s your favorite Twitter management tool?
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If you have ever authored a blog or owned a website, then chances are that you’ve received some sort of commentary via the contact form on your site. Typically, the form will require the person’s name and email address…but have you ever wished that you could receive more information from your contact forms- information that would actually tell you a little more about how people are finding you?
Best Contact Form May Quite Possibly be “the best”
Best Contact Form was developed in order to better analyze converting traffic versus simply analyzing all traffic. For those of you out there who own a business and have an active website, this is great news because Best Contact Form helps you by gathering valuable marketing data based on people submitting contact forms on your website. Now, you can know exactly where your target audience is coming from, the time of day that they seem most likely to visit your website as well as a plethora of other information!
What Can Best Contact Form Tell You?
Some of the neat things that you can find out from these forms include (but are not limited to):
Which keywords visitors used to find your web site
Which search engine they used
Whether the link used was organic or PPC based
The landing page on tour web site
The full referrer (without truncation)
The geographic location, plotted on a map
The person’s web browser information
The person’s operating system
The person’s screen resolution
Which keywords are converting into sales
The date and time each form was submitted
In addition, all submissions are automatically archived and can be exported to CSV; and all of the contact forms also have the option for built-in SPAM protection as well. What’s not to like about that? Visit the Best Contact Form website to read up on more of the features and benefits that it has to offer; or, for those who want something more visual, you can watch the video to see how it all works.