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Online Tools – Your Own Research Assistant – Google Alerts

Google AlertsOnline Tools – Your Own Research Assistant – Google Alerts

One online tool that I feel every business owner should have in place is Google Alerts.  Google Alerts is a tool from Google that will search the web for you and when new content is found with the search term/keyword you are looking for Google will let you know.  This tool can save you a lot of time.  No longer do you need to perform searches on your own, Google will find the information and let you know when it is there.

This can allow you to stay on top of your field/niche because when new information is available you know!

There are many options available with Google Alerts that will allow you to set the time you search for information as well as how you receive it.  Below you will find links to the Google Alert Tool and links to the Help and Getting Started Section for Google Alerts:

Google Alerts Help and Getting Started

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Online Tools – Gain More Time and Productivity

Online Tools – Gain More Time and Productivity

One wonderful benefit that we  have today as business owners is that there are several tools available to us to help us manage our business and become more productive.  A lot of these tools have been developed to work with the Social Networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.  Many of these tools have been developed to help us find information and even organize our time better.

In the next several posts we will be covering a handful of tools that we have found useful in managing day to day tasks and think you will to.

If you have tools that you use daily in your business we would love to hear from you what they are and why you like them.

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Compare how your company is doing with others in Social Media

Have you ever wondered how your Facebook Page or Twitter Account compares to your competitors or others in your industry?

There is now a great way to find out using a tool from WildFire called Social Media Monitor.  This tool will allow you to put in your Facebook Page info and the information of the page you want to compare and show you where you stand.  You can also do this with Twitter accounts.

 

This tool can be found at:  http://monitor.wildfireapp.com/

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How can you discover pages on Facebook you want to follow?

social Media tipsFacebook is a great resource for businesses to market on.  In fact we encourage all businesses to create a Facebook Page for their business and start using this to engage current and prospective customers.

One question that we often here is how do we find the pages we want to follow?  For our business customers that are creating Facebook Pages we work with them with strategies to let their target markets know about their page.  These strategies include using email marketing, adding a link to their website, adding a link to their email signature as well as some targeted campaigns.

But what ways are there for an average user to locate pages they want to follow?  Facebook heard this as a need and not too long ago launched a tool that allows you to browser for pages.  This tool can be found at:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/browser.php and is called the Facebook browser.

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Tools for your business – Make a call directly to your client’s voicemail

Have you ever needed to reach a client or prospect and get them information, but for some reason you didn’t want to talk to them?  Maybe your were running late or had bad news?  Well now there is a tool that you can use to get connected directly with thier voicemail on their mobile phone.

This tool is Sly Dial and is the perfect tool to help  you out when you only want to leave a voicemail.

Tools for your business - sly dial

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