Each week I like to post useful tools and resources that you may be able to use for your business. The resources I post here are either free or available at a low cost.I don’t go into much detail here, so feel free to check them out yourself and let me know what you think. If you know of any great tools and services that will help small business owners, please share them in the comments below.
Mention - Create and monitor your mentions online. Track your business, industry and name mentions and see where people are talking about you and your business. Google Alerts provides a similar service, but spotty service and threat of closing the service makes this a great choice.
Backtweets - Free tool that lets you search for links from Twitter accounts, domains and individual url’s. Great way to search and find new connections on Twitter, as well as who’s promoting your tweets.
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I recently started using Mention, and I am very pleased with it. I get much more accurate and timely updates about what’s being published for topics and websites I follow than I did with Google Alerts, even when Alerts was a higher quality product than it is now.
A lot of people have been complaining that Google Alerts isn’t as reliable as it used to be. They may not be dedicating the resources to it, which leads people to think they may scrap it one day in the future, just like they’re doing with Reader. Social Mention is another good tool you may be interested in. Cheers