Sponsored: Trackur is Giving Away an Apple iPad 2

Now that we have a bona fide managing editor in place at Marketing Pilgrim, it’s probably time to assume that you don’t already know that I’m the CEO of social media monitoring tool Trackur. Hence, the “sponsored” added to this title, just in case.

Anyway, after much success with our previous Apple iPad giveaways, Trackur has just launched a new contest–this time you could win an Apple iPad 2.

Huh? Say what? I didn’t know that Apple had announced the iPad 2 yet, so how is Trackur giving one away?

Oh c’mon, we all know that Apple will announce the iPad 2 in the very near future, so we’re getting a head start and naming it as the prize for our contest. By entering, you have the chance to be one of the very first owners of the iPad 2. It’s a win-win for all of us!

Entering is a piece of cake! You just need a Trackur account (free or paid) and then tweet the message you’ll find on this page.

Easy, huh?

For full details and contest rules, head over to the Trackur Apple iPad 2 contest page.

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Trackur Gets More Klout, Adds Twitter Influence Metrics

One of the cool features about Trackur’s social media monitoring is our InfluenceRank scoring system. For every web site, blog, or Twitter user, we’ve always shown you just how influential they are–with a simple score out of 100.

With news sites and blogs, we provided further analysis with screenshots, traffic details, backlink numbers and more. Today, we’ve added a similar dashboard for Twitter users influence.

As you can see, we have all the info you need to make a quickly decide if this person is someone that is exerting an influence on your brand.

The Trackur dashboard includes:

• InfluenceRank score out of 100. As with our InfluenceRank for web sites, the higher the number, the more influence they have! For this score we’ve partnered with Klout–the leader in tracking Twitter influencers. Click on the Klout logo  in the dash and you’ll be taken to their site for even more insights on the Twitter profile.
• Avatar and profile information. Who are they? What do they look like?
• How many followers? How many are they following? How vocal are they?
• Klout is also providing us details of the topics they are most influential. So, if you are tracking the keyword “iPhone” and you see they are influential in “Mobile” you’d probably want to sit up and take notice.
• Lastly, we have the comments box. This is where you can keep private notes of any contact or notes about the user.

How do you find the new Twitter influence metrics? Easy…

We’re not standing still, either! Look for many new features in the New Year as we strive to ensure Trackur remains a social media monitoring dashboard that is cheaper, faster, and more accurate than any other!

Not using Trackur? Get you free social media monitoring dashboard today!

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Join Me in Hawaii this October 5th for Just $97!

You could attend a conference that costs $2,000+ for registration and travel expenses.

Or….

You could spend $97 on registration and use the other $1,903 to cover the cost of your travel to….HAWAII!

On October 5th, I’ll be speaking at the The Hawaii Social Media Summit at the Ala Moana Hotel in Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu. It’s the excuse you’ve been looking for to tell your boss you absolutely need to visit Hawaii AND the math above will help you justify the expense!

As for the conference, in addition to my presentation on Online Reputation Management, the event will cover:

• How to effectively integrate social media to help grow your business
• Best practices for gaining exposure, website traffic, and visibility with Social Media Marketing
• How to take your current or existing social media strategy to the next level
• Best tools and strategies from national and local industry experts
• How to use social media to build a company’s brand that customers and clients will recognize
• Results from social media campaigns that you’ll be happy about
• Incorporating video into marketing and grabbing customers’ attention before they have a chance to leave
• …and MORE!

All for just $97! Let me put that into perspective for you. The last time I hosted a one-day workshop in Hawaii, the rate was more than $2,000!

Whether you’re already in the Aloha State, or just fancy a Fall break, I hope to see you there!

Register here!

PS. It goes without saying that if you need expert advice on planning your trip to Hawaii, I recommend Go Visit Hawaii!

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Join Me at PubCon Masters Group Training in Austin this July!

I love PubCon. You love PubCon. We all love PubCon!

But, let’s face it, sometimes PubCon can feel, well, a little overwhelming. After all, there are so many great sessions, so many parrellel tracks, that it can be hard to figure out just where you need to be.

So, PubCon founder Brett Tabke has come up with the solution. Smaller workshops. One day only. Just two tracks to choose between. And nothing but the very best training.

PubCon Masters Group Training comes to Austin, Texas on July 21st and will provide in-depth training for both search engine optimization and social media marketing.

The Austin search training program will feature in-depth sessions led by some of the industry’s most respected search professionals, with the SEO track including Michael Gray, president of Atlas Web Service, Carolyn Shelby, Web experience manager at United Way of Metro Chicago, Joe Laratro, president of Tandem Interactive, and Brett Tabke, founder and chief executive of WebmasterWorld.

The social media marketing track will feature Trackur chief executive and Marketing Pilgrim founder Andy Beal, HubSpot.com’s self-proclaimed viral marketing scientist Dan Zarella, and Brian Massey, from Conversion Sciences, who teaches businesses the science of turning Web traffic into leads and sales.

As you can see, I’ll be there–and I hope you will be too! PubCon has kindly granted a 15% discount to all Marketing Pilgrim readers. Simply enter the code mp-3818815 when registering!

See you there!

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