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Two Twitter Surveys That Need 2 Minutes Of Your Time

I am sure that you all have heard about Twitter and many of you have a Twitter account. But do you think all the twittering is worth the effort? I have designed two Surveys to understand how people measure the success on Twitter. I will make the results available on this blog and also Tweet about it ( @anilbatra ) Survey 1: The intent of this short survey is to understand if and how people track URLs they post on Twitter. http://batraonlinetwitter.questionpro.com/ Survey 2: The intent of this survey is to understand the Click-Through Rate on Twitter URLs http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=1289844 If you can please twitter about this survey or post it on your blog that will be a great help. Tweet This Comments? Questions? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking to fill your Web Analytics or Online Marketing position? Post your open jobs on http://www.web-analytics-jobs.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------...

Free Social Media Monitoring Tools for Small Businesses

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One of my blog reader sent me the following question in response to my blog post, Social Media Analytics Part I Anil, are there any free tools for social media monitoring (twitter) that you can recommend? Tools, that a small business can use until they can justify the budget for one of the mainstream tools? Short answer is "Yes, there are free tools for Social Media Monitoring". Below are two of the tools that I suggest. 1. Google Alerts Google Alerts is one of the best free tool for monitoring the social media. Google Alert is an email alert service from Google that monitors news, blogs, twitter, sites, youtube etc. and sends you an email whenever a keyword, specified by you, appears in those places. You can access Google Alerts at http://www.google.com/alerts Google Alerts provides 6 types of alerts - 'News', 'Web', 'Blogs', 'Comprehensive', 'Video' and 'Groups'. According to Google Alerts FAQ A 'News' alert is an emai...

Upcoming Conferences and Events

I will be participating in following events this month. If you are attending any of these conferences we should meet. Send me an email at batraonline at gmail.com Web Analytics Wednesday - July 15th POP will be sponsoring WAW in Seattle. I will be doing a short presentation on Social Media Analytics This is a great opportunity to network with other Web Analytics, Optimization and Online Marketing professionals from Seattle area in a very informal and fun setting. Please RSVP at Web Analytics Wednesday site or send me a note at batraonline at gmail.com (or @anilbatra on Twitter) so that they we know how many people to expect. Location: POP 1326 5th Ave, Suite 800 Seattle, WA 98101 POP Date: July 15th Wednesday Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Moderator for Making Social Media Behave at OMMA Behavioral – July 30th The social media explosion has flooded the Internet with a mosh pit of user attitudes, preferences, and billions and billions of un-monetized page views. How can behavioral tracking an...

Web Analytics Wednesday in Seattle

After a long hiatus, Web Analytics Wednesday (WAW) is back in Seattle with a POP. This is a great opportunity to network with other Web Analytics, Optimization and Online Marketing professionals from Seattle area in a very informal and fun setting. Do we have a speaker or any presentation? Nothing planned yet but if you are interested in speaking then please send me your proposal for a 30 min presentation. Do you have topic that you would like to discuss with fellow analysts? If yes, send me your thoughts as well. Need another reason to attend? How about Free Beer and snacks. Please RSVP at Web Analytics Wednesday site or send me a note at batraonline at gmail.com (or @anilbatra on Twitter ) so that they we know how many people to expect. Location: POP 1326 5th Ave, Suite 800 Seattle, WA 98101 http://pop.us/#/about/what-we-do/optimization/ Date: July 15th Wednesday Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Tweet This ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking t...