You’re busy. You don’t always have time to log into the ever growing list of social networks, so what do you do?
You rely on tools.
And it’s usually in the plural. You have something to auto-respond to followers, another tool to schedule, another to RSS. And don’t even get started on all the places you need to monitor. At MarketMeSuite we realized this was a growing problem for a lot of business users of social media, so we set out to find a solution. And what’s more, it’s a free solution.
1. RSS Posting
Pushing content from your blog is important, and also sharing content from other relevant sites takes a lot of time. There are sites dedicated to just pushing RSS feeds, but did you know MarketMeSuite has a robust RSS manager to push to Twitter and Facebook?
What is really clever is that you can add a Prefix and a Suffix. So, if you wanted to post out all of @FamousBloggers articles you can actually put “RT @Famousbloggers” at the front of the post or add a hashtag at the end. You can set up multiple RSS feeds so that some are catered for the Twitter audience “RT” and some are written specifically for Facebook “Hey check out this article I just found…”
2. Geo-Targeting
There is a ton of noise in the Twittersphere, and if you’re a local business, it’s often very hard to connect with the people who are actually potential customers.
Imagine you’re a chiropractor. With MarketMeSuite you can actually geo-target a campaign just to 25 miles from your office.
This type of geo-targeted tweeting is a tremendous time saver. As nice as it is to chat with someone with back pain in Norway, you need to fill your office in New York. The results are pretty staggering too. 85% of replies sent using this method elicit some kind of reply.
3. Scheduling
It’s a 24/7 world, and if your customers are up when you aren’t, it’s nice to schedule a few posts for their benefit.
You can schedule up to a year in advance, and also bulk import tweets. There is a science to social timing. A recent study showed that properly timing your tweets will lead to a 200% click through increase.
4. User Controlled Mass Unfollow
It’s very important to say “user controlled” because Twitter frowns upon any sort of automation in this respect. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make it easy for yourself. With MarketMeSuite you can populate an entire list of who is not following you back and decide to dump or keep.
A handy feature is that if there’s someone who has no hope of following you back (like @oprah), but you enjoy reading their posts, you can whitelist them so they stop showing up in the unfollow list.
5. Auto DM
This is a feature to be used with care. While it’s not always appropriate for individual accounts, it’s a huge help for business accounts to send a “hey, thanks for following me, and here’s a link to my blog…”
You can cycle through different messages, and turn them on and off as you need. Think of it as an extra little push to get your customers to engage with you outside of Twitter. Be sure to track replies though! If someone thanks you for it, send a real time DM acknowledging it.
Check It Out
There are a lot more than 5 features, there’s well over 30, but this is to give you an idea of what you may have been missing! And trying it is easy, and free. You can grab MarketMeSuite and be up and running in about 3 minutes.
Jerry November 19, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Neat tool, thanks for bringing it to my attention Tammy =)
I’m definitely digging the UI. I think my favorite feature is how easy it makes posting from RSS.
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Thomas November 14, 2011 at 3:48 am
So glad I stumbling on your post Tammy. Twitterfeed has its limitations and I have been looking for a better way to implement multiple RSS feed posting to Twitter and MarketMeSuite seems like it’s the right tool, I’ll give it a try.
Tammy Kahn Fennell November 14, 2011 at 5:32 am
So glad you will be joining the MMS fam!
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Azhar from medical billing services November 13, 2011 at 2:18 am
I have not used this tool. All features seems cool. I will sure try in future.
Tushar Agarwal November 12, 2011 at 11:50 pm
how much i wish that these kind of plugins would have been free. I just cant wait to lay my hands on this.
Wait is such a tough process!!
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Tammy Kahn Fennell November 14, 2011 at 5:32 am
no need to wait, you can go get it now
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Kimberly Gauthier November 12, 2011 at 7:39 pm
What a cool tool! I’ve never heard of this before, but I’ll definitely be checking it out. I’m amazed at how much stuff is out there to make all of this easier for us. Thanks for the details!!!
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Keith Davis November 12, 2011 at 5:52 pm
Another good article Tammy
MarketMeSuite has so many hidden features.
Articles like this really help in uncovering those hidden gems.
Love the software.
John November 12, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Hey Tammy,
I’ve Google’ed a bit about this APP and it seems that it has a lot of potential in the rights hands ( our hands , the marketres).
I’m currently looking on their website, will let you know how it works
emavens November 12, 2011 at 2:03 am
Just downloaded marketmesuite and found that It is one of the most powerful social media marketing tool. I was searching for such kida tool because sometime It is difficult to update all social media network profile , Here I wanna thank you for writing such an informative post and suggesting us such a powerful SMO tool with us !
Tammy November 12, 2011 at 10:29 am
So glad you like it!
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Ming Jong Tey from free backlinks November 11, 2011 at 8:15 pm
Hi Tammy,
This looks good. Does it support multiple twitter account? How about Facebook accounts?
Cheers,
Ming
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Tammy November 12, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Yes! It supports multiple accounts, facebook, and linkedin posting.
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rahul November 11, 2011 at 2:39 pm
I personally dont like Auto DM concept specially with links, these are considered as spam!
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Hesham Zebida November 11, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Rahul, I think it’s OK to send DMs for those who followed you as an appreciation “thank them”, say “Hi”, or start a conversion.. Also to let them know about your other blogs, pages, social profiles… etc!
From the other side, it’s not a good practice to send auto DMs to all your followers at once, however it works in some cases!
rahul November 11, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Auto DM with links spam! atleast it annoys me.
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Tammy Kahn Fennell November 11, 2011 at 4:27 pm
It’s definitely not for everyone, and I don’t recommend doing it on a personal account, but for a business account who is getting followed regularly, it’s a good way to acknowledge the following.
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Steve November 12, 2011 at 10:24 am
I actually agree on the auto DM’s. In fact I never even look at DM’s because of this and certainly don’t use that function. But I still love MMS. It has so many ways to organize and manage your Twitter efforts. I think I would be lost without it.
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Tammy November 12, 2011 at 10:30 am
Aww thanks steve! Yes DM isn’t for everyone, but we do our best to educate folks on the best use for it.
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bbrian017 November 11, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Hi Tammy, this actually looks like an extremely powerful social media marketing tool for bloggers of all kinds. I’m going to go ahead and have a look. I’m in desperate need of better managing my tweets to Twitter and Facebook specifically without interruptions.
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Tammy Kahn Fennell November 11, 2011 at 4:26 pm
I’m so glad! Let me know your thoughts
Tammy
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