Top Six Mobile Apps For Doing Social Media Marketing

Today most mobile applications have emerged with an intention of making life easier for users by providing useful solutions that allow them to effectively tackle their everyday problems. In this context, marketing through social media has not lagged behind and there are several different mobile apps useful in facilitating this process.

If you are an administrator of social media or just want to manage your accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and more from a single platform, here are six applications that you can use from the desktop of your PC, via the web or from your smartphone. This ease of access may allow you to increase your followers and make social media marketing campaigns successful.

So, here are six mobile apps that can be a life saver while doing social media marketing:

1. Google Currents

This app is useful for improving marketing activities and finding content, for creating unique and personalized sales and organizing various sources of information on the web. It also identifies the news or publications that are a trend at any given time on specific topics which can be shared across different social networks to generate interest and participation from the audience.

This app is advantageous because of its ability to take care of finding the content to be shared leaving you with enough time to engage in interaction with your customers.

2. Flipboard

Besides functioning as a content search tool, it also allows the profiles on major social networks like Facebook , Twitter or LinkedIn to connect to each other and enables managing and sharing content in all profiles from a single application.

Thus, it presents a way to quickly check the reactions from the audience towards a publication, thereby allowing users to keep a check on the feelings and reputation that they generated online.

3. Postling

Today it is necessary for brands to have a fresh, dynamic and updated blog for reaching consumers. In this sense, this mobile application allows you to create content that can be posted directly on a specific blog from the app itself, with an option to add almost anything and customizing it to suit the dynamics of each blog. This negates the necessity of sitting in front of your computer for carrying out updates to your social media marketing campaigns.

4. Buffer

To schedule your tweets or Facebook updates, you can use Buffer so that your followers can see updates at different times allowing you to reach more contacts. Buffer is free for a certain number of tweets, however if your contacts are in thousands then you can opt for the paid version to add other team members and enjoy unlimited tweets. You can integrate Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter with this app.

5. Hoosuite

Hoosuite is a platform for managing social media marketing on large websites with high traffic, however with the free version, you can have Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr and Tumblr at your disposal while operating from a single panel. If you need statistics to track campaigns, you have the possibility of hiring a Pro plan for $ 5 a month. This would enable you to carry out activities on the new social network Google+ also. It is compatible with Android, BlackBerry and iPhone platforms.

6. Digsby

Digsby is popularly known as a multi-protocol chat client like MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat but here you can also view and send updates to your Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn accounts. Digsby does not have a panel or functions of Hootsuite but is effective in maintaining social media accounts, emails and daily chats.

There are no two ways about the fact that social media has emerged as one of the largest players in the field of marketing. The traditional rules of marketing viz. activity, participation and interaction apply to social media also. This necessitates the social media marketers to remain active on a number of social media platforms continuously to better engage their potential clients and customers.

With these tools to manage social networking accounts of companies, brands or even individuals, you'll get closer to customers or contacts and be able to send timely updates from one place. This can really be a big boon for all those who target social media as a marketing platform since these apps provide you much ease of access of all those accounts.

Author Bio:

Jason Smith is an online consultant for ABWE. Jason likes blogging about online strategies that are related to SEO, Content, PPC & Lead generation. In his free time he likes to study about web designing and practice Jiu Jitsu.

Animation can bring about great changes

2D animation resembles hand drawn animation and its termed as a classical animation. Traditional animation was attractive but it contained very complicated techniques and mostly was hand drawn. Thus they were quite popular but with passage of time, people have learnt the various usage of the computer and they have innovation with modern and unique concept of 2D animation.

During a few decades, 2D animation has rapidly prospering in all kinds of the industrial field, real estate and many others. If there is a presentation in a company, the presenter always wants to make use of the 2D animation as the presentation will be eye catchy and the targeted audience will be not feeling bored. While presenting a presentation, you have keep in mind that the sole image of the company will depend on the presentation.

The presentation has to be presented flawlessly and has to grab the attention of the audience. Before the presentation, you need to remember the points to be highlighted so that the audience will have a fair understanding about the details of the company. Using 2D animation will create the presentation with an artistic touch and sense of creativity.

All the images will be related to the subject matter of the presentation. The experts are highly skilled personnel to have a fair knowledge about the correct usage of the 2D animation so that the presentation will be of rich standard. The presentation will be eye catchy and the audience will be interested to know more about the history of the company or their business nature.

In the field of the real estate, if you are planning to present the presentation of the whole architecture using 2D animation, then it will be captivating to the customers’ and they will get to know the entire model of the construction before its completion by seeing varieties of images and accordingly they can book if they find the model very attractive. If the customer is not happy with any structural pattern, you can immediately alter it and this can be only possible by using 2D animation.

2D animation consists of static as well as rotating images that are highly arresting, striking and eye catchy for the customers’. If you are in need of promoting a product, this 2D animation Company helps in lifting the brand identity of that particular product and it will have a great recognition in the market. Thus the output is also of high standard. The usage of 2D animation helps in enhancing the business, and also several other companies will come to know about your business nature.

But you must get in hold of the designers who are experts in this profession and since they are into this business for a long span of time, they know the requirements of the customers’ the most and will work accordingly. They are very sincere and dedicated towards their work and will do the work smoothly as their main goal is to make you happy. They have high potentiality to do the work and their work is praise worthy.

The benefits of an on hold phone message for your business

People get bored with listening to music while on hold. To stop them ending their calls, record a good on hold phone message.

It is rightly said that running a business is no mean feat. You need to take care of a lot of things simultaneously and hence the bigger the business is, the more difficult it becomes to handle it alone. Even if you manage to handle your business well, to stay in competition you have to constantly innovate to attract clients or customers. A simple change can make a huge difference to the revenue of your company. For example, getting a website for your company can ensure increased visibility and eventually increased profit through new clients or customer. Hence you see, it is extremely important that you think of all the small details regarding your business and try to innovate to stay ahead of your competitors in attracting clients or customers.

One such small thing that can have a huge impact on your business revenue is what you have as your phone on hold recording. Most businesses have music as their phone on hold and some businesses have nothing whereas some have radio stations tuned in. It has been noted that most businesses spend a lot of time, effort and money on making their phones ring for customer or client enquiry. But it is also a well know fact that most calls are ended by the callers when they are put on hold since no one has the time or interest to listen to some music playing on or some radio station or worse still receive the silent treatment. They would rather call up some other businesses that have something interesting to offer as their phone on hold or provide prompt answering service.

What you can do is record unique on hold phone messages that would describe your company, the products you have to offer, the values of your company and other such things. There are many companies that offer the service of creating unique on hold messages for your business phone. Many businesses that have already incorporated this service have accepted a few facts. Firstly, a well recorded on hold phone message decreases the chance of ending the call while on hold immensely since it successfully holds the attention of the caller. Secondly, many callers express interest in a product that they heard about in the on hold message while calling to enquire about some other product. Thirdly a good on hold message enables the caller to think that the company cares about the caller enough to have recorded an on hold message that would entertain a caller while on hold.

One thing though that you need to remember while incorporating an on call phone message in your business phone is that the message should be interesting. If a caller loses interest listening to your message and ends the call halfway, your reason for incorporating the service would remain unfulfilled. Hence make sure you give the task to a company that is well experienced in this field and has a good feedback from companies who have already used their services. 

Top Ten SEO Tools of 2013

Sometimes a well-designed website that has the quality content is not just enough to divert traffic. What the website needs is a good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tool. A reliable SEO tool will go a long way in successfully diverting traffic to your website. Here’s a list of the top ten SEO tools of 2013.

1.       SEOmoz

SEOmoz is regarded as one of the best SEO suites by many of its users. This software has all that is required to maximize the SEO process. This suite has a lot of user-friendly helpful tools. This is one of the advantages of SEOmoz. What this tool lacks is a report template. As a user you will have to build one from scratch.

2.       HubSpot

If you wish to keep track of the minute SEO details about your business website then HubSpot is the tool that you need to use. This software helps you do almost everything that is related to SEO. This is one of the best tools for analyzing information about the quality and quantity of traffic that is generated to your business website to creating content for website. The keyword research capabilities of this tool are rather weak.

3.       Web CEO

This tool is widely being used because of its ability to suggest relevant keywords for the particular niche. This is an ideal tool that can be used by anyone who wishes to make their website SEO friendly. Depending on the niche of the website this tool provides a list of keywords that can possibly be used. Web CEO also provides traffic estimates.

4.       Raven Tools

If you are looking for an all-in-one SEO solution, Raven Tools is your one-stop solution. This tool gives its users the opportunity to manage keyword research, link building, social media and competitor analytics and report generation all in one place.

5.       SEO PowerSuite

This is one of the most reliable and powerful SEO keyword research tools that is available in the market. This software comes with different applications that perform specific functions. You can use features like Rank Tracker, Link Assistant and SEO Spyglass among others with this tool.

6.       SEMRush

This is one of the most widely used SEO tools to analyze pay-per-click advertising competition. However, competitive keyword research tool that comes with this software will catch your attention. SEMRush also has the ability to provide you with a detailed report of every single back link that you have created for your website.

7.       DIYSEO

DIYSEO is a Do It Yourself SEO. As its name suggests this tool is an action oriented SEO tool that can be used by almost anyone. If you have little or no knowledge about SEO, you will find this software more than just user-friendly. This tool presents its user with a set of results. You do not have to dig for results while using this software. Additionally, DIYSEO also provides recommendations that a user can adopt in order to improve website ranking.

8.       Traffic Travis

This is one of the best tools highly recommended for amateur webmasters. Traffic Travis provides its users with a good range of research tools to analyze keywords. If you are on the lookout for a tool that helps you carry out your SEO activities the hassle-free way, you can consider using Traffic Travis.

9.       Market Samurai

In a nutshell Market Samurai is a keyword oriented SEO tool. It does more than just finding keyword variations for your root keyword. This tool also…

• ·         Gives you an idea about what keyword to use.
• ·         Find the ranking for your keyword.
• ·         Tells you where you can find the right content for your keyword.
• ·         Educates you on how you can purchase the domain name for your keywords.

When you use this tool you will have to put up with stability issues that this software comes with. However, this tool is simply superb with keywords.

10.   Advance Web Ranking

The interface of Advance Web Ranking is clean and attractive at the same time. This tool offers great readability in form of its grid and colored lines that it uses to display data. This software also provides its users with the option to configure and customize layouts.

You can take advantage of any of the SEO tools that you are comfortable using.

This is a guest post is brought to you by Samantha Kirk, a writer for AT&T UVerse. Samantha provides up to date content and information for AT&T.

Evaluating the Capabilities of WordPress 3.5

WordPress the most preferred software by bloggers worldwide is of the open source category and is available free of charges. This efficient content management system tool is based on hypertext preprocessor or PHP helping in web development and creation of web pages that are dynamic in nature.  Among the several features WordPress boasts of, the template system and plug-in architecture are the most sought after by bloggers and web developers.

With the release of the latest version 3.5, the blogging community can now upgrade to this version as there are many new useful functions that are included in this version. The all-new sensitive theme called 20/12 (twenty twelve) is responsive and a new feature from WordPress. In order to achieve a concept that is rich typographically, your best bet is the latest twenty twelve concept from WordPress 3.5. There is no questioning the fact that WordPress has come a long way since inception and as far as media posting is concerned, the latest 3.5 version offers many ways to add pictures and create a collection of images.

With the all-new feature that lets you drag the picture wherever you want and drop it at the very exact place you wanted it in,  plus the re-ordering and caption editing In range allow users to experiment and make best use of these features while developing their blog or websites. Especially for people who own the latest version of the iPad that has Retina Display, the 3.5 version should prove to be a boon as the WordPress dashboard goes well with the device that sports Retina Display, offering superior clarity for the WordPress dashboard panel.

Apart from these new functions that make WordPress 3.5 a sought after bit of bloggers software tool,  users will notice that the Link Manager has been done away with, and when you check the configurations for privacy that used to feature under Settings followed by Privacy has now been changed to Settings followed by Reading. You can now set up the WordPress plug-ins right from your favorites itself. This helps save precious time and keeps you less harried.

However, before you hasten to upgrade your website, preferably on your own live hosting server, you need to thoroughly examine the theme capabilities of the plug-in and the website. In case you are stuck with a plug-in that you have been using for too long, it could need a bit of modification. Hence, you would need to validate it before going in for an upgrade to the newest version of WordPress. You no longer need to hire programmers who will not bat an eyelid when they charge you exorbitant rates for coding the functionality on their own websites. However, today with WordPress 3.5 at your command, you have access to thousands of plug-ins, what’s more, when almost all of them are available free of charge. It pays to read in detail the description of the plug-in, it should be easy with language options available that let you choose the language you prefer. Check to see if the plug-in is compatible with the latest version of WordPress before deciding to use it.

Author Bio: Jem is fond of following the latest trends in technology especially on gadgets, Smartphones, social media, networking, internet and computers. She is currently working for buyVerizon.com - a site that offers savings and current information on Verizon FiOS.

Gaming an essential time pass

Gaming is the latest addiction of many people. It is a fascinating medium which attracts every mankind. Some people love to play because of the graphics, speed and high performance which is achieved by playing various games. Gaming is the perfect term for entertainment especially the young children and adolescents. With the upcoming of many gaming modules like play stations, video games, etc. people are getting more and more addicted to the gaming world. However there are some circumstances where people do not get that much of time for playing games. As for inbounding the pleasure of gaming people master it in their computer and mobile phones.

R4 card the ultimate solution for gaming

And for getting the pleasure more Nintendo DS has enabled an excellent gaming solution by introducing r4 card. It fits best in the Nintendo DS device for performing better and as the device does not have much memory space, the card offers an excellent storage supporting up to 32 GB micro SD. It requires no professional assistance for insertion and can be installed by anyone. The most interesting feature is that it has a multi tasking feature. You can now browse your favorite movies or watch videos without even stopping your game. It makes saves your time by giving efficient service with listening to songs and even surfing the Internet. This card has also the capacity to store several files without using an onboard chip. You can save millions of files of songs, videos and games without even worrying about the space. However there are some advantages of this wonderful card like it does not take long time for downloading and is easier for installation. It gives a good performance of downloading music and in the same time playing games. Playing was never so easy with the facility of performing so many functions at the same time. Another advantage of this card is that you do not have to install extra accessories as it is a media enhancer which does not need any extra components.

Experiencing the wonderful card

It moreover enhances the gaming experience by making the console better in performance. Due to its high speed it has been recommended by every gaming freak. A major advantageous point is that it is not that much cost effective as it comes in a very negotiable price. Due to its availability in every market it can be accessible by anyone. It has been specially made for the fanatics who sit hours and hours in front of their computer screens and indulge themselves heavily by playing games. You can also purchase it online as you will get the better quality product with attractive discounts. The usability of this card by almost 80% of the mass makes it famous worldwide. But beware to buy an original card along with the manual, as there are many duplicate cards found in the market. If you are a gaming freak and also want to experience the magic of this gaming card then do go to your nearest retailer and get yourself an r4 card.