Cool Social Media Combos That Save Time

by Kim Harrison on December 6, 2009

Social Media Time Savers!

Social Media Time Savers!

If you are like me, you belong to at least 6 social media sites where you post updates and photos to your profile. It is a very cumbersome process to keep up with all of them and provide updates. Sites that previously did not allow you to add contacts or provide updates are now adding that feature because they understand how engaging connecting with your network can be. They want you to spend more time on their site and adding connections is a way to do it.

Social Media sites are scrambling to ensure users can connect across multiple sites. Hootsuite created a new social media forum where users can provide one update that simultaneously updates other sites. It was originally a twitter update site but has added linked in, facebook and Ping.

Anything that makes my life easier – I’m all for it.

I also love Twitter lists. I have an incredibly wide variety of followers and it can be maddening trying to follow a conversation and topics vary widely.

Hootsuite has a beta test where you can add your twitter list do a key word search, groups and your other social network feeds. Very cool. Again, I’m loving Hootsuite.. It is making twitter more useful and saves me time updated multiple social media sites.

Another awesome feature is the tracking.  Hootsuite’s tool will reduce your need to go to google analytics and makes it very easy to see the activity on each tweet you make!  It also reduces your need to go to tiny url to shrink  a long url – it does it for you right in the posting section.

I’m sure there will be many more sites developed to help social media users save time and money – now how do they make money??

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2009 has been a rough year for most businesses.  Marketing budgets key projects and staff have been cut dramatically.  This makes it much more challenging for marketing teams to deliver.  Every marketing dollar must work harder than ever…

While many predict that 2010 will begin our road to economic recovery, most agree that the process will be slow.  In the interim, marketers must find new solutions to help them meet their marketing objectives.  Increasingly Marketing Directors are beginning to outsource marketing projects to get more done with less.

Top Ten Reasons Why You Must Hire a Marketing Consultant in 2010

  1. Boost Marketing ROI!
  2. Make Your Job Easier!
  3. Free up key staff to focus on mission-critical projects
  4. Objective viewpoint
  5. Access expertise your team does not have
  6. Motivate your team
  7. Lead a Pilot Program
  8. Stay ahead of your competition
  9. Boost Employee Morale
  10. Make your boss look good
  1. Boost Marketing ROI – Adding experienced talent to your team on a project basis will enable you to complete more projects and be more efficient which in turn increases your overall Marketing ROI.  No salary, benefits, vacation expenses – all this adds to your bottom line and boosts Marketing ROI.
  2. Make Your Job Easier! New job requisitions may or may not be in your near future – hiring an outside consultant will add marketing muscle to your team at a fraction of the cost of a new hire.  You can accomplish more with less.
  3. Free up key staff to focus on mission-critical projects. Your staff of four marketing managers has twenty-two projects to complete in Q1 2010.  They all must be completed but some are more critical than others.  Adding temporary marketing staff will allows you to complete them all, assign your top staff to the most critical assignments.
  4. Objective viewpoint. Bring a new fresh perspective to your business by outsourcing projects.  Hiring a consultant who has extensive experience in your industry can be a tremendous value to your organization over the long term.
  5. Access expertise your team does not possess – Your team may lack experience in a specific area – like social networking or e-mail marketing.  Outsourcing allows you to access that expertise on a temporary basis.
  6. Motivate your team – Hiring an outside marketing expertise will certainly motivate your team to do better.  Even though they are hired on temporarily, your staff will still view this as competition – there is always the possibility that they could be replaced by this new talent…
  7. Lead a Pilot Program – Don’t use existing resources to manage a new unproven marketing concept.  Hire a consultant to lead the launch of the program and allow your team to continue to focus on the proven money making initiatives.
  8. Stay ahead of your competition – Using an experienced consultant can help your leap over your competition by completing a research assignment or keeping track of competitive activities – something your team may not have time to do or time to do it well.
  9. Boost Employee Morale Employees who have survived layoffs are grateful to have a job but are very stressed out with the large workloads they have been left with.  Marketing departments have been cut to the bone and stressed employees don’t perform as well.  By alleviating their workload on a temporary basis will encourage higher quality work.
  10. Make Your Boss Look Good. When you exceed your marketing goals you make your boss look good which in turn is good for you and your staff.

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Social Media Posts Impact Personal Brand

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HootSuite and Ping.fm Make Social Networking More Meaningful

November 6, 2009

I could not enjoy Twitter until, I discovered Hootsuite – a free tool that allows you to manage your twitter account and decipher meaningful messages. You can also integrate hootsuite with Ping.fm to add other social media as well.
This way you can go to hootsuite to update all of your social media profiles. [...]

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MUST TRY: BING FOR MOBILE!

October 31, 2009

You may remember my post a while back on MSN’s bing and how much I liked it.  While it is very cool and has some great new features, I cannot say that Bing is now my main search engine – Google is still ingrained in my brain.
However, I have recently discovered the Bing mobile App [...]

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