5 Social Media Management Tools You Should Consider
Have your social media activities spiraled out of control?
Are you looking for tools to simplify the management of your social media marketing?
Would you like better insight into your audience or the ability to compare your social activities against the competition?
These are some of the capabilities you’ll discover in the five social media management tools listed below.
In this article I reveal five social management tools that just might make your life a bit easier.
Check out what they have to offer and see if they are a good fit for your business needs. 
3 Social Media Tools That Improve the Sales Cycle
Do you want more leads from your social efforts?
Did you know there are great social media tools that make the sales process easier?
In this article, I’ll review 3 tools to help you get the information you need to generate revenue from your social media activity.
#1: Nimble—Nurture Your Relationships and Get Sales
Nimble is a social relationship manager. Through social media you can build a large network of people whom you connect with, but there is likely to be a smaller group of key people who are potential advocates, influencers or customers for your product or service.
The development of relationships in social media is very important for your business.
How Pinterest Helped a Mom Win Major Brands as Clients
Stacy Teet, a mother of three and former Air Force intelligence analyst, has been described as a Curator of Awesome.
She is a sought-after contributor to up-and-coming social media sites and is a brand ambassador and consultant to national brands.
Keep reading to learn how Stacy stays on top of the changing world of social while managing her busy home life and clients.
Jessica Alba of The Honest Co. and Stacy Teet at the Alt Design Summit.
29 Tools to Enhance Your Business Blog
Are you looking for cool blogging tools to enhance your business blog?
The right mix of blogging plugins and widgets can make it easier to blog and also help you achieve your business goals.
To help you keep up with the latest and greatest, we asked a group of blogging pros to share the favorite new tools they’ve recently discovered.
Here are the latest blogging tools adopted by these social media pros.
#1: Lucky Orange
Nichole Kelly
Arsham Mirshah of Web Mechanix turned me on to Lucky Orange. It allows you to watch activity on your site in real time and play back people’s sessions.
I’ve been using it to watch fall-off and landing page activity. It has heat maps so you can see where people are engaging with your pages, and it even has live chat. You can proactively chat with someone who is on a page and let them know you are there to help or people can reach out to you directly when you have chat online.
How to Enhance Your Instagram Web Profile for Improved Exposure
Does your business use Instagram?
Have you checked out Instagram since they released user profiles on the web?
Previously, the Instagram website only let users edit their account information (and also hosted the company’s blog).
But all that changed with the recent introduction of web profiles.
Here’s what marketers need to know.
Why Instagram Web Profiles Matter
These new profiles act as an extension of the Instagram mobile app, with users now being able to comment, follow, like and view other photos on the web.
Brands, marketers and users alike can use these web profiles to encourage engagement and interaction outside of the mobile app.
An example of the new Instagram web profiles.
For community managers, it’s a plus to have the ability to update and manage your accounts on the web. Having said that, Instagram web profiles aren’t necessarily a game-changer.
3 Tools to Better Manage Your Social Media Presence
Do you want to make more efficient use of your time on social media?
Are you looking for tools that will help you manage your social media efforts?
In this article you’ll discover 3 tools to enable you to become more efficient and effective with social media.
#1: Glyder – Social Media Marketing from Your iPhone
Glyder is an iPhone app that allows you to share well-designed marketing messages as social media updates using predefined templates.
You no longer need a designer to produce imagery to promote your latest contest, offer or status update. With Glyder, you can choose from a wide range of graphic templates that use tried and tested formats and wording to help get the best conversion for your marketing messages.
Glyder helps you improve the quality of the content you share and be more efficient with your mobile device for social media marketing.
Features
- Select one of the templates and personalize it by adding your own text, company name/website address and even change the image.
Choose from a wide variety of templates that help increase conversion and sharing.
Top 20 Social Media Marketing Articles From 2012
Have you kept up to date with the best social media marketing practices?
Are you looking for actionable tips you can apply to your business?
Here are our most popular articles from 2012.
7 New Facebook Changes Impacting Businesses
Did you follow all of the changes on Facebook in 2012?
Facebook made many changes that impact anyone with a Facebook Page.
The new timeline cover photo for Macy’s.
Several of these changes emerged from Facebook’s fMC 2012 Conference.
The overall message was that Facebook is looking at Pages as a “mission control” point (which is where the MC comes from in the conference title).
Read more for an overview of the changes and how brands can take advantage of some of the new features.
