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Our Favorite Social Tools Right Now

Social media is a powerful marketing tool, but it can be hard to keep up with the trends. It seems like a new social media tool goes live each day and it’s your job to figure out if it could benefit you or not. We’re sharing some of our most recent favorite tools to help keep you on trend.

Topsy

Topsy is a powerful tool for Twitter insights. While Facebook has a robust insights offering for its pages, Twitter leaves you mostly on your own. Enter tools like Topsy  that can track your tweets, popularity and engagement. Topsy says they provide “social insights” and “analyze billions of conversations in real time.” This is a great tool to help you grow and streamline your rebelmouseTwitter activity.

RebelMouse

If you’re thrown off by all of the social network pages you need to visit to keep up, you’re not alone. RebelMouse has created a social front page that can connect many of your accounts and updates the page as you update each account. You can see in the screen shot to the right that RebelMouse takes a attractive approach to sharing your updates. This is a great tool to attract followers from one network to another or to create a unique one page presence online.

bitly

Want to know what kind of clicks the links you share are getting? Enter bitly who invites you to “Do more with your links.” It’s one of my free link shortening sites that provides analytics with each link. According to their site, bitly is available via our website, browser extensions, mobile web, and numerous third-party tools integrated with our open public API.” Use this site for all your links to track click frequency, times, engagement and more.

 

Embed a Google+ Post on Your Blog or WebSite

Google+ is a social networking service offered by Google that allows for status updates, links, photos and more to be shared much like they are on Facebook, but with the added privacy of sharing this information only with certain circles that you set up. If you already have a Google account, setting up a Google+ profile can be seamless. To learn more on how to do this, see our post HERE.

Google+ offers a fun feature that can help you instantly create engagement for a blog post or your website. This feature is the embed post. Any time you share an update on Google+, you have the option to embed that update somewhere else. The embedded update will show up similar to post below.  It allows visitors to instantly comment and interact with your Google+ post right on your blog or website. This is a great option to encourage more interaction or just break up your content with something new.

To embed a Google+ post, go to your Google+ page and share what’s new. Once that new post is live on your page, click the down arrow that appears in the top right-hand corner of the post. Select embed post and HTML code will pop up in the window. Copy and paste that code into the HTML editor of your blog or website and save. Your embedded Google+ post is now live and ready for comments and new followers.


Social Media Marketing Rule: Be Interesting

Social media is a powerful marketing tool if you use it properly. The easiest way to do this is to be interesting. You don’t want to follow boring people on social media and neither does anyone else. Here are a few ways to remain interesting.

Vary Your Content

From video to slides to Twitter pics, there are so many different forms of content you can share socially. Don’t get stuck in a rut of tweeting links to your blog or to the same news source over and over. Get creative with your own content or scour the internet for some to keep people interested in what you have to share.

Expand Your Social Circle

As you build your network it may be easy to keep tweeting and connecting with the same small group of people, but try to avoid this. Keep your network engaged but also continue to reach out to people outside of your network. Respond to tweets from strangers on topics you’re interested in or join groups on Facebook to connect with new users.

 Build Out Your Profiles

Nearly every social site gives you a profile page with a space to say something about yourself. Use this space! Potential followers and downline members will want to learn more about you, so make it easy for them. Build out your profile with information about your and your business. Share things that make you unique and why people should follow you.