Social Media Monitoring and Management with Alerti

January 19, 2012 · 75 comments

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This is a guest post from Murray Newlands sharing a new social media monitoring and management solution.

Social Media Monitoring

It’s the new year, and if you’re like me, you’re taking a good, long look at your business goals and the services you use to achieve those goals. If your goals include lead generation, networking, becoming a thought leader, engaging in more conversation, or understanding your competition better, then I want to introduce you to Alerti social media monitoring and management service.

This short (under 2 minutes) video shows how to set up alerts in Alerti:

Alerti is launching their new English language service and iPhone app this week in the US and UK, and I think they have the tools to stand out in the crowded social media monitoring and management service space. I’m excited to be working with them. In short, Alerti provides simple, effective tools in a single interface for the real-time collection and management of the relevant information from around the web.

They give you all the standard metrics of the big boys, from sentiment analysis to custom graphs, along with an efficient work-flow dashboard in a single interface. You can delegate results out to your team and respond to social media posts from your own Twitter or Facebook profile without leaving the Alerti interface. You can create as many queries as you need, and you can customize your graphs.

Social Media Management and Monitoring Tools

I was reading Media Bistro recently and found a survey of people who use social media monitoring and management tools. One of the things that caught my eye was that only 1 in 3 consider themselves “happy” with the social media monitoring service they are using. Really? Don’t you deserve a service that you are “happy” with?

Social Media Monitoring Tools Satisfaction Survey Results

Excerpt from KissMetrics OneForty Infographic: Social Media Monitoring Tools Satisfaction Survey Results ~ Click Image to view Entire Infographic Enlarged for Easy Viewing

What did those respondents say was most important? The metrics offered, the interface design and the integration with social media networks.

Social Media Solutions Drawbacks:

The biggest complaints those respondents had were:

  • Excessive lag time/ fails to provide reliable, accurate data
  • Excessive bugs/ Confusing to use/ Lack of innovation
  • Too pricey- features don’t justify the cost

Alerti Benefits:

Here’s how Alerti stacks up:

  • Results are updated throughout the day so they are always fresh.
  • Their team is constantly keeping the service efficient and innovating. The reason they created the service was out of their own need for a simple, efficient tool- it’s why they put everything in a single interface.
  • The plans start at $15/ month. This is for the same features many companies charge over $100/ month for, mind you.

Want to try out their service for FREE for 3 months?
Go to Alerti and register with the “GROW” Bonus code.

Do try out their service for Free for three months (see offer just above). I look forward to hearing what you think :)

Murray Newlands is the founder of Influence People and author of a recent book on Social Media Monitoring.

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Tablice magnetyczne February 20, 2012 at 2:27 am

Our small business is struggling in this field. I think it is a good tip and we will try it sometime in the future to monitor our social media efforts.

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Megan from pressure cleaning sydney February 16, 2012 at 5:41 am

Is that has the same features with RSS feed?

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fresh salsa
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February 16, 2012 at 2:10 am

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i will have to try Alerti for myself…i am hearing good thing about it
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February 16, 2012 at 1:54 am

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there a a lot of tools but so far i am liking Alerti…it’s quite fun and accurate

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Website Designing Delhi February 16, 2012 at 12:31 am

Sounds like great tool, will definitely remember to use it in near future!

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stevebill who writes about forex February 13, 2012 at 6:47 am

Alerti looks to be a great tool. This post is favorited, and I am considering Alerti in the future. Keep writing!
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February 10, 2012 at 5:24 am

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Very good post. I really like your Blog the all point is to be yourself and share the good stuff.
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Pune Directory February 6, 2012 at 3:41 am

To manage our social medias was always a pain. I mean you fill some excel stuff, forget where you stored it, delete it or whatever.
I will give Alerti a try.
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Jade who writes about Anaheim Toyota January 31, 2012 at 11:31 pm

Monitoring of the results of any effort is very important. It gives you the feedback that whatever we are doing is correct or not and give us the chance to perform better. Alerti seems to be a decent tool for measuring social media promotion, will definitely try this one it. Thanks for sharing the information.

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Deep who writes about blogging and seo January 29, 2012 at 4:35 pm

Alerti that’s something new but it appears worth finding out some more. Thanks for the review.
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January 29, 2012 at 4:33 pm

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Hey thanks for this post Alerti really has some great options for monitoring social media this can be very helpful for business. I think it would be cool to check it out.
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Katie Woodard who writes about Hip Hop Blog
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January 29, 2012 at 2:53 pm

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This sounds really cool. I’m glad they have an iPhone app so I can try it out while I’m on the go. I feel like this will keep me on top of what is going on in my niche.
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J.D. Roberts who writes about Credit Repair January 26, 2012 at 7:32 pm

Three months for free is pretty enticing. I’m sure that after three months of using anything you couldn’t go without it afterward! Thanks GrowMap!
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David Sneen
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January 26, 2012 at 10:18 am

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Alerti looks to be a great tool. This post is favorited, and I am considering Alerti in the future. Bookmarked!
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Jack who writes about games January 26, 2012 at 4:39 am

Hello, Alerti has some nice features that other monitoring tools don’t. Considering some of the google analytics alternatives, I could try this one.

There is a way to monitor social media statistics through GA, I read a great post on Kikolani blog about that one.

Cool info.

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tom buck who writes about instant payday loans
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January 26, 2012 at 4:32 am

Twitter: @tophatmoney

we just started using this tool, after reading this article. So we’re reporting back as we find stuff. So far it’s working well, I like that having set up an alert you get email notifications when that alert is updated so you can go in and address/reply to the new messages that match your alerts.
The only thing I think we’ve found so far that isn’t great is that you can’t restrict your search to one country. There is a country drop down but it is inactive and set to worldwide, for some searches it is important to narrow a search down to comments originating from one country or even one city. Maybe this is a feature that is to come in the future? Or maybe it’s just not working for us? Anyone know?
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Rolly who writes about palm beach air conditioning January 25, 2012 at 4:29 pm

Im learning social media research and monitoring I guess I have t try out this tool. It’s great to have a 30 day trial. I’ll get back here as soon as I tried using it and give some comments about it.

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Farrell January 25, 2012 at 10:03 am

I haven’t used a social media monitoring tool before. I have always spent most of my time promoting my sites and making social media campaigns that i forgot to keep track of the result. I will try this tool that you have shared. I hope my efforts are fruitful.
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Jason who writes about Guarantor Loans
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January 25, 2012 at 9:33 am

Twitter: @loans4tenants

This is the first I’ve heard of Alerti, but it seems like a handy tool. The statistics surprise me regarding how dissapointed people would be… I know for a fact that I’d be very dissapointed, all I can think is that the 51.2% who would be somewhat or not dissapointed- are not getting the most out of Twitter, or the OS they are using isn’t offering a good experience.

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Daniel Wood who writes about video production January 25, 2012 at 4:40 am

Hmm your post inspired me to try Alerti. Fact is that i was not using any tool to monitor my social media efforts but i think i should. Your video was good but at some places screen was not that much visible. I would like to ask you one thing do we need to add sites that we want to track?

I mean to say as you show in the video to monitor the forums and articles sites we just need to click the forum and article box. I want to ask whether we need to add which forum and article sites we need to track or is there any inbuilt database for these sites and Alerti will track on its own?

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tom buck who writes about instant payday loans
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January 26, 2012 at 4:27 am

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Hey Daniel, we just started using this too, so am reporting back as we find stuff. When you set up a new alert you chose which verticals to monitor, eg you chose articles and/or forums and/or microblogs (inc twitter) and/or social networks (inc facebook). It’s not more specific than that, so no you don’t have to select individual news sources or social networks etc., Alerti decides which sites within each vertical to monitor, more likely, rather than only monitoring a fixed list of sites the query string for each vertical searches for particular signatures that mark documents as belonging to that vertical; blog docs or micro blog docs or network messages etc.
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J Armstrong who writes about conservatory prices
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January 25, 2012 at 3:38 am

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I have never used Alerti! but honestly it looks like a great tool to manage all you social medias at one place. Can i use it for other android devices also?
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Martin January 25, 2012 at 1:37 am

This service is undoubtedly one of the ultimate for every IM guru. I in particular am glad that so many technologies are coming up to make our tasks easier. Thank you very for sharing such a vital tool. Will surely try it out.

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