Free Online Event Registration App
I found this great online event registration program and had to share with you. The site allows you to sell tickets to your event online and expand your audience. You can manage your attendees and cashflow easily.
- The interface is slick and very user-friendly interface. You can build a great looking event page using really simple tools anybody can use. No technical know-how required!
- Accept online payment for your event’s tickets with your own PayPal account. Takes seconds to set up and puts you in control.
- Print a beautiful attendee list or export the data so you can play around with it and create your own attendee badges.
Here is the link to all the features http://www.guestlistapp.com/tour/
Its free for free tickets & charities. And it’s totally free for paid tickets while in beta.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
12 tools to measure social media marketing
Businesses have been unsure of ways to measure social media campaigns, social media ROI and syncing the stats, if any, to sales data and vice versa. Here are 12 tools that I came across that can be used to track the effectiveness of your social media campaigns.
One important fact one needs to remember here is, Social media optimization is not a number race. Businesses need to focus on growing brand awareness, customer acquisition, engagement, interaction, conviction, retention, sales, profits, and customer satisfaction rates.
So without further delay, here is the list of tools I promised.
Google Analytics: Free tool to track and report on a company’s Web site usage and online marketing activities.
TwitterAnalyzer: Free online tool analyzes a company’s influence on Twitter, including number of daily Tweets, users who are re-Tweeting your messages and their unique reach.
HootSuite: Popular free service manages and analyzes multiple Twitter users and accounts. New iPhone app links HootSuite account to mobile phone.
Radian6: Sophisticated tool that tracks conversations about competitors and share of mentions, among other metrics. Pricing starts at $500 a month per profile and $100 a month per user.
ViralHeat: Delivers real-time data from video sites, microblogging platforms and Web sites. Prices range from $9.99 a month to $139.98 a month.
Bit.ly: Free URL shortener that tracks information such as number of clicks, traffic sources and what time clicks occur.
Scoopler: Free real-time search engine that organizes content being shared on the Internet as it happens through blogs and major social networks.
TweetMeme Analytics: Similar to Google Analytics, the app is useful if you use TweetMeme’s re-Tweet buttons on your site. Prices begin at $50 per domain per month.
PostRank Analytics: Suite of tools to measure social engagement on other platforms and services. Shows messages and comments from other sites that contribute to your statistics. Prices begin at $9 a month.
Twopular: Tracks the most popular trends on Twitter at no charge.
Xinureturns: Provides a free overview of your Web site presence on popular search engines and social networks.
Omniture: Captures, stores and analyzes digital transactions from Web sites and other online channels as well as offline channels such as point-of-sale promotions and call centers. Prices vary per user.
Google Analytics Annotations
Google Analytics introduced a small but very dynamic feature called “Annotations” that is tremendously useful both to analysts as well as executives, who are usually not up to date on granular details about website activity.
This newly launched “annotations” feature enables you to annotate and bookmark major campaigns, ebbs & flows in the graphs regarding events that happened on specific days within your statistics for future reference. This will help to explain a spike or drop in traffic to other members within your organization, without having to dig through the past, thereby saving tons of time.
This is a great feature which will end up saving many people a lot of time. The concept here is that there can be real collaboration between those who put together campaigns and those who see the analytics without that important data. Rather than going through old emails to analyze the traffic surge, or shopping cart conversion increased, users can bookmark this event when it happens for future reference. This will sure make end of month reporting a lot quicker!
An easy annotation that outlines a “cause and effect” for the data consumer can save a lot of time and trouble. Annotations complement existing anomaly detection by capturing the tribal intelligence of your company, which tends to be the most expensive and easily lost resource of all. A simple note from a colleague can save hours of real work (and frustration) for an analyst who is tasked to explain a usually dry set of numbers. This short video will show you how to use Annotations.
Another advantage is that different members within your company can instantly see the results of other teams’ actions. In other words, annotations can be created by anyone involved with the production and promotion of a website for everyone else to see.
- The PPC team can announce major changes to their campaigns.
- The SEO team can annotate changes to the website so that results can be tracked over time.
- The PR team can update dates of events, enabling the tracking of offline activities into Google Analytics more easily.
- The media buying team can provide updates of major banner campaigns.
This should help encourage teamwork, as everyone involved will be able to grasp the whole picture and coordinate activities with other teams’ activities. Google has started rolling out this feature and has indicated it should be live for all users mid January!
Google Fusion Labs – Google Data Management and Collaboration Tool
Google introduced Google Fusion Labs in Jun’2009. This web app helps in data management and collaboration and makes working, sharing and collaborating on data sets easier by providing a set of tools to keep the data in sync and available to all the users involved.
“Database systems are notorious for being hard to use. It is even more difficult to integrate data from multiple sources and collaborate on large data sets with people outside your organization. Without an easy way to offer all the collaborators access to the same server, data sets get copied, emailed and ftp’d – resulting in multiple versions that get out of sync very quickly,” - GOOGLE
The new system aims to offer a simpler alternative by “fusing” usual data management with collaboration tools. For now, users can add multiple data sets, discuss on them, as well as make queries and view the data with different visualizations.
You can upload tabular data sets as big as 100 MB and up to 250 MB of data per user. Those data sets or a portion of them can be shared with other users and different individuals can have different access to them. The service keeps track of edits, so the data will always be in sync and it can also be exported as a CVS file.
Fusion Tables offers a variety of visualizations based on the Google Visualization API, for example you can view your data on Google Maps if it applies. The app is already available on Google Labs and the team plans to add more features in the future based on user feedback.
Google Tool To Evaluate The Performance Of Webpages
What is Page Speed?
Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.
How does Page Speed work?
Page Speed performs several tests on a site’s web server configuration and front-end code. These tests are based on a set of best practices known to enhance web page performance. Webmasters who run Page Speed on their pages get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful suggestions on how to improve its performance.
Why should you use Page Speed?
By using Page Speed, you can:
- Make your site faster.
- Keep Internet users engaged with your site.
- Reduce your bandwidth and hosting costs.
- Improve the web!
Supported platforms
- Mac OSX (x86 and PPC)
- Linux (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Windows (XP and up)
Prerequisites
Page Speed requires both of the following to be installed:
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4 or higher (official, non-beta versions) — download from Mozilla
- Firebug Firefox Add-on 1.3.3 or higher (official, non-beta versions) — download from Mozilla
Download Page Speed
Schedule Blogposts With Postlater.com
TweetLater is now offering similar functionality to bloggers who want to better organize their time by scheduling blog posts.
With PostLater you can write several posts when you’re experiencing that energy and inspiration boost, and then drip feed them into your blog. And, you don’t need to tie up your time by being in front of the computer at the date and time you want those posts to appear on your blog.
As you know, some platforms support future-dated posts, others don’t.
What if you could schedule posts from one central console to almost any blogging platform?
That’s what PostLater does for you, whether your platform can future-date or not.
Check it out. The list of supported platforms is impressive.