Comments for Barry Hurd

Comment on 40+ Social Media Dashboard Tools for Tracking Stuff by Barry

Barry — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:32:03 +0000

Yep, corrected it to the two WebMynd plugins currently available.

Thanks for catching it!

Comment on 40+ Social Media Dashboard Tools for Tracking Stuff by Peter

Peter — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:16:18 +0000

hi, can you correct the link for “Firefox (with the Webmynd plugin)”.. link goes to Google Analytics.

I can’t find that plugin in the Firefox library…

thanks!

Comment on 40+ Social Media Dashboard Tools for Tracking Stuff by Ben Teoh

Ben Teoh — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:54:19 +0000

Wow, huge list, great post!

HootSuite’s a bit of a mixed bag, and I wouldn’t put it as a ‘Twitter Focussed’ tool. It’s being used quite a bit with Facebook, and has basic analytic tools with its own URL shortener, Google Analytics, Facebook Insights etc.

Comment on 40+ Social Media Dashboard Tools for Tracking Stuff by Michelle Sullivan

Michelle Sullivan — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:01:30 +0000

Always great to access these lists – very generous. Thank you.
My contribution: One to add to “Twitter Focused Social Media Dashboard Tools” could be SocialBro. I’ve been finding it provides interesting insight.
Cheers!

Comment on Is Local Marketing Dying? by Barry

Barry — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:30:08 +0000

I agree with parts of the local marketing dying… but that most of the dying elements are actually being marketing and sold by slow moving organizations who can’t shift gears fast enough.

For the most nimble businesses and for the right marketing teams, there is a huge amount of opportunity in the local and mobile space where millions (if not billions) of dollars are going to be made on a niche by niche basis.

The SERPS and the traffic those keywords represent will be a hot commodity in 2012 and 2013 I suspect, until a shift in the mobile space hits critical mass and realtime browsing/search behavior takes a lead role. When that happens I think we will see some pretty interesting changes in the local marketing mix.

Comment on Is Local Marketing Dying? by Joe Beaulaurier

Joe Beaulaurier — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:06:05 +0000

Thanks for doing the legwork on this Barry. It seems that between you and Media Bullseye today, we’re really getting our marketing paradigms challenged.

I have to agree with you that while the players and the gameplay may change, there’s still lots to accomplish for our clients that want to pursue local marketing opportunities. But, again as you point out, the sands are constantly shifting and as such measuring and testing needs to be an ongoing constant.

At the least and regardless of the traffic they pull in, it’s nice to be able to make use of well-ranking local profile pages to bump the competition off of SERPs.

Cheers!

Comment on 5 warnings about social media dog food. by Rene Fabre

Rene Fabre — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:15:22 +0000

Well said Barry… and so true. Especially #3 and #4 as per experts.

Comment on Social Media for Sales (why social intelligence rocks.) by Barry

Barry — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:38:23 +0000

I think one of the biggest areas of opportunity for most people is taking two or three ‘off the shelf’ systems and using them together.

If you use a system like Linkedin the way Linkedin presents it to you… then you are just following a business model.

If you apply critical thinking to a tool like Linkedin and apply a problem set to it you will often find other strategies/tools exceed the capabilities of the vanilla flavored business model.

Comment on Social Media Training – SEO Site Structure and HUB methodology by Barry

Barry — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:35:20 +0000

You could definitely mislead someone to think that it is or is not clickable.

The unfortunately reality is that many user elements for what is and is not clickable have gone out the window.

In practice I sometime use none or all of them. From a personal perspective this is typically related to the site I am writing on and whether or not the specific textual elements look appropriate. On several of my sites the bold, italic, underline, H1, H2, and H3 tags look wildly different and I haven’t always taken the time to make the technical elements look visually appropriate.

Comment on Social Media Training – SEO Site Structure and HUB methodology by Joe Hage

Joe Hage — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:25:13 +0000

I hadn’t thought about bold, italic, and underline before. All three? And I thought underlining was bad form because it confuses visitors into thinking it might be clickable?