How Spredfast helps boost your social media marketing efforts

Spredfast launches Intelligence tool

Social media has become an integral part of our daily lives and learning to market yourself and your brand effectively across these platforms has become more important than ever before. There are a plethora of analytical tools available, but learning to use them can be just as complicated as learning to market yourself.

Austin-based brand, Spredfast, a Facebook Marketing Partner, just announced the launch of Intelligence. Intelligence is a new tool aimed at providing insight into marketing strategies by measuring performance and providing competitive analysis, making it easier to uncover the context and relevancy of your next social media marketing campaign.

How Intelligence unveils trends in real time

Intelligence indexes the overwhelming stream of social media data from Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook and provides real time trends. This enables you to discover and predict trends, as well as, helping you find the optimal times to quickly and effectively engage with your audience.

According to Spredfast’s case study, Hyatt used the platform to enable the hotel concierge to respond to growing demand on Twitter more effectively. The average response time from brands on social media is more than eleven hours, but the best in class brands are aiming to respond in thirty minutes (according to this analysis). Hyatt set their sights even higher, aiming to respond to Twitter followers in ten minutes or less.

According to the Spredfast case study, Hyatt reduced their response time by nearly 50 percent, as well as, increasing the total number of answers to social media queries, and boosted productivity related to responding to customers on social media by 180 percent. Intelligence enables companies to identify influencers and see who is sharing links, or driving the current trend on brand or campaign hashtags.

How Intelligence is more than just a listening tool

Here is how Intelligence is different: it goes beyond being a “listening” tool, it is an active searching tool as well. You can receive alerts about the trending topics mentioned above, but you can also scan conversations, influencers, images, and videos in real time. You can also look retroactively (up to thirteen months) by using “social recall.”

This tool allows you to track specific topics and engagement over a longer period of time. Users receive alerts about trending topics, and can now scan conversations, influencers, images and videos in real time (or historically), using a “social recall” interface which can be set to track specific topics and engagement by specific audiences (read: demographics).

Basically, Intelligence can tell you what happened, what’s happening, and what’s going to happen in the future, on one simplified platform. Perfect for tracking trends, influencers, and brands without the hassle of searching them out on your own.

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How Spredfast helps boost your social media marketing efforts

Markit Media Launches New Social Media Network Marketing Strategies

Markit Media grows social media marketing online presence for clients in the Phoenix Valley and Nation-Wide using new social media network marketing strategies that incorporates a diverse set of tools and websites which include social media websites and directories.

Scottsdale, Arizona (PRWEB) April 28, 2015

The growing popularity of social media networking and its effective results has led to social media marketing to become a key component of companies marketing strategies. Markit Media, a full service marketing and web design company in Old Town Scottsdale, builds and manages client social networks around the internet, utilizing many different social media strategies catered to each client.

Markit Media’s social media strategies are monitored and managed to ensure complete customer satisfaction. Each social media strategy offered by Markit Media is designed to engage new and existing customers to grow the business and build an online social media presence. Working closely with each client, the Markit Media social media team creates a strategy unique that speaks to the business identity and brand.

Presently, a website is not enough to fully grow an online presence alone. Social media provides new avenues to connect with consumers and build an ever growing reputation. Markit Media utilizes many social media websites and directories which includes Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, Linkedin, Pinterest, Flicker, Vimeo, Yelp, Merchant Circle, Tumblr, Blogger, Digg, Reddit, Quora, Talkbiznow, Slideshare, Foursquare, StumbleUpon, and MySpace.

A professional social media online presence impresses customers and yields better results with lasting impressions amongst consumers. The Markit Media Social Media team proudly services the valley cities of Scottsdale, Tempe, Chandler, Mesa, Gilbert, Glendale, and all surrounding cities including other major cities and surrounding areas around the country. Hire Markit Media to deliver the best in social media solutions.

Markit Media, a full service marketing and web design firm located in the heart of Old Town Scottsdale, provides social media solutions that incorporates a vast array of social media marketing strategies. Markit Media’s social media solutions monitor and manage online reputation with up to date information of each client’s social media footprint.

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Markit Media Launches New Social Media Network Marketing Strategies

10 Flexible Side Gigs to Bring in Extra Income

Nobody complains about having a little extra cash to spend, and this piece from DailyWorth gives you the easy side gigs you never even knew you wanted. Who said making money couldn’t be easy?

Making extra money is always a bonus. No contest.

Even better? When you can do it in your pajamas or while binge-watching Broad City. Whether it’s because you can’t currently expect to make more at your day job or need an extra few thousand to pay off debt (or make a splurge or invest!), there are some surprisingly easy ways to get paid.

Here are 10 simple side gigs to get you started.

Be a “Middleman” on eBay

“When people think of making money on eBay, they usually think about selling the junk in their garage and basement, which of course offer limited products,” says Nisa Schmitz, media relations manager at Doubledot Media, which offers drop-shipping on eBay.

The genius behind drop-shipping: You never actually ship anything — or handle the product. Instead, as Schmitz explains, “After you make a sale, the company ships the product directly to your customer for you.” And you get a percentage of the sale.

SaleHoo, an online wholesale directory of more than 8,000 prescreened suppliers (such as Gap and Playskool), offers a marketplace for those interested in serving as the “middleman” on eBay, meaning you act as the storefront selling wholesale products. The site explains all the details.

Capitalize on Your Car

If you own a car, you could be making money with it. As the concept of the sharing economy grows, more people are looking to rent other people’s cars rather than purchase their own. Sites like Relay Rides and GetAround can connect you with people who may be interested in renting your vehicle by the hour, day, week, or month.

If you’d rather keep your own keys, consider offering rides to others for a fee. Drivers for Lyft earn up to $35 per hour and set their own hours, according to the company’s website. Lyft currently operates in about 20 cities throughout the United States.

Become a Mystery Shopper

Sue De La Bruere started working as a mystery shopper with Jancyn to make extra money on a flexible schedule without committing to a regular job. Mystery shoppers frequent retail stores, restaurants, and other places of business and report on their experiences to help companies measure their customer service.

“Shoppers make their own schedules and take as many or as few assignments as they would like,” De La Bruere says. “Some shoppers take just a few assignments per week and make perhaps $100. Others consider this their full-time job and make closer to $500 per week.” For De La Bruere, the side project turned into a full-time commitment. She now serves as a project manager for the mystery shopping firm.

Start Affiliate Marketing

“Businesses are always looking for new customers, and some are happy to pay you for them,” says Jennifer Martin, a business coach and owner of Zest Business Consulting in San Francisco. “All kinds of companies, from Amazon to Starbucks to Weight Watchers, are looking for affiliates to help them reach out to new paying customers.” Many of these businesses will provide you with a unique URL (which includes a personal code) to share with potential customers. When a new customer uses that link to make a purchase, you make money.

For instance, Martin serves as an affiliate marketer for a Web hosting company. When people use her link and sign up for the company’s services, she earns a commission. You can find out about affiliate marketing opportunities through specific companies’ websites or affiliate consolidators such as Rakuten Affiliate Network. To learn more about affiliate marketing, visit Affilorama, an affiliate marketing training portal.

Read the full article on DailyWorth‘s site.

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