The Internet Consultant

Ever had issues with trying to track twitter traffic to your site? Guess what you’re not alone!

Twitter is a key tool in your social media toolbox regardless of your business. Generally speaking you’d use a bit.ly address to track your tweets, however there’s a somewhat of a discrepancy between what bit.ly says my twitter traffic is and what my website analytics says my twitter traffic is.

Introducing Twitter Analytics (can you say it’s about time!).

Currently being rolled out to a pilot group, the product promises to track these types of stats and should be available to us regular folks in the next few weeks (YAY!).

• See the amount of traffic being sent your website from Twitter
• Understand just how much of your site content gets shared across Twitters network
• Measure the effectiveness of your Tweet Button integration (really valuable!)

Excited?  I knew you’d be!

Just got off of a little webinar training with my friends over at StomperNet where they were reviewing the Market Me Suite. For those of you not familiar with this product is a powerful social media management tool that up until recently would set you back around $150 if memory serves me correct.

I’ve been a periodic user of the MarketMe Suite for just over a year now, having made the switch from a competitor of theirs that was recently acquired by twitter (no names) . Like most tools that I purchase I like to try to get around with minimal guidance and learn on the fly through trial and error (my wife would call this being hard headed… I call it my manly instinct). Regardless I was extremely satisfied with the feature set offered by this tool, but I was always left with a feeling that I wasn’t using the social media management suite to it’s fullest potential. Can you now figure out why I was on the StomperNet call?

Well it just finished and if I had to choose one word to describe what I just learned, it would have to be… IMPRESSIVE! I can’t believe what’s been sitting on my Mac for the past year and that many of the daily tasks that I run for my clients can be done with the click of a button through this application.

These guys blew me away, so I decided that I’m going to put together a little video training series where I walk you through some of the features that I’ve been using with MarketMe Suite as well as some of the more advanced features that I learned from today’s call.

If you’re seriously considering playing in the social media game, I highly recommend this tool!

Get started now fill out the form below – it’s Free. (There’s no catch and no annoying sales rep will contact you )

MarketMe Suite Features

• Update Twitter, Facebook & Many more using Ping.fm
• Schedule, Manage and post scheduled Facebook Updates
• Take advantage of the increased Twitter Api Rate
• Search for and keep persistent searches for topics, editable for each column
• ReTweet in the style you want – Twitter Style or YOUR Style
• Use a variety of different URL shorteners with more being added all the time
• Manage your conversations, @replies and Direct Messages Easily
• Connect with people all over the world, or local with our unique targeting features
• Manage multiple Twitter and Facebook Accounts with Ease
• Your data, settings, and accounts will all be synced ready to go on any computer
• Use Scheduling to save time and effort for more important things
• Say “No!” to Twitter spam, can it right inside our app using Twitter Spam Features
• Geo Target your Twitter Campaigns to find Local Connections
• Auto Direct Messages to get networking as soon as you’ve followed back
• Allow multiple users to login to MarketMeSuite at any time
• We use OAuth secure encryption, your Twitter logins stay private
• Receive a daily email on your mentions of the day
• Ping.fm integration to message other social networks in one swoop
• Use any Google Calendar supported device to schedule on the go
• Organize your Tweets with Dotted Content – Perfect for Team Collaboration
• Get more clicks back to your website by setting up a Facebook Signature
• Monitor your progress with Klout integration – see YOUR social influence
• Plus much… much more…

For the first time ever in the history of the web U.S. Internet users spent more time on Facebook in the month of August than on all of Google’s sites combined! Maybe it’s time that we all take another look at how our marketing strategies are using social media marketing?

Is your business using Facebook as part of your Internet marketing strategy?

Important Facebook change I strongly recommend you implement… like RFN!

Need to turn off the ability for friends to check you into places (imagine the impact of having “friends” check you into a strip club or other embarrassing place when you weren’t even there!)

To do so, go to Account > Privacy > Things Others Share > Friends can check me in to places > Edit Settings > Disable

I recommend you do this NOW!