How to Hire a Virtual Army of “Online Detectives” to Continually Research Your Market…and Competitors… 24/7/365?
How to Hire a Virtual Army of "Online Detectives" to Continually Research Your Market...and Competitors... 24/7/365?
If you’ve been using the FREE Google Alerts service to monitor your competitors, your websites, your niches, your product lines, and your industry (as you definitely should be), then you’ll really love this new “information gathering” service from FiltrBox.com.
FiltrBox is like Google Alerts on steroids, as it not only compiles data from multiple ONLINE services such as google news, search engines, blogs, etc. but it ALSO includes the ability to search a variety of OFFLINE sources as well.
Its a great idea to use services like this to monitor the competitive landscape of your niche market AND, more importantly, to be able to immediately recognize current and future trends so that you can capitalize on them in the marketing of your eCommerce site or online store…
Per Filtrbox.com:
Filtrbox G2 now monitors public Facebook Groups/Fan Pages, over a million forums (threaded conversation pages), YouTube, Flickr and more. This expanded source coverage will ensure you never miss a conversation regardless of where it starts. All of the relevant conversations are visible in your dashboard providing a single consolidated view for monitoring, alerting and engagement.
The system now classifies mentions into 7 content types to make it easy to see where the conversations are happening and search just the sources that are important to you. We have also added domain traffic data for relevant articles to help you gauge the distribution of each post.
The 7 content types are:
* News – mainstream news and editorial outlets.
* Blogs – weblogs, blogs, the blogosphere, etc. Filtrbox monitors over 25 million of them.
* Social – sometimes known as microblogs. This includes Facebook public data, Twitter, and FriendFeed.
* Forums – online groups and forums. These are sites that provide threaded discussion groups and are extremely popular with online communities and organized groups. We now monitor over a million of them!
* Comments – All mentions found in blog comments are put into this category, and tend to have COMMENT in the title to clearly identify them.
* Video – Filtrbox now monitors YouTube, and classifies mentions and comments that match Filtrs from known online video sites.
* Images – Flickr and other popular online image sites.
Learn more about FiltrBox.com in this video…
