Who doesn't like a good social media campaign? Here are are few campaigns that ran this January, that we loved. VW: Fan the Flame This past month at the Brussels Auto Show, VW set the fire under its Facebook Fans to bring attention to their MINI Countryman. Outside the show they set up [...]
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Want to be a profiled SWIX customer?
We’re polishing up a fancy new version of our website here at SWIX and we wanted to put the spotlight on our customers (yes that's YOU! ) We’ve put together a few easy questions and we're hoping to use your answers, your company profile and picture to showcase some of our users. Now's your chance [...]
#SWIXMAS love for Deckster
This holiday season we gifted Mentionbox a free social media search in a campaign dubbed "SWIXMAS". The winner of our contest won a sweet prize; a Deckster swanky tech timepiece that would make any stylish nerd rejoice! If you don't know Deckster or it's creator N-Product, you should. Based out of SWIX's hometown of Ottawa, [...]
Using Campaign Manager: a SWIXmas Review
Right before the holiday season we launched our newest free service: Mentionbox, a social search engine. We decided to run a Twitter contest in order to spread the word about it, and created a landing page to promote our contest. It was an excellent way to take our second product, Campaign Manager for a spin. [...]
Merry SWIXmas – Free Social Search for All!
We're getting into the holiday spirit here at SWIX. Merry Christmas to all those social marketers out there- we’re gifting Mentionbox, our newest free service that helps you discover mentions of your brand in social media. In order to celebrate the release we are also running a "SWIXmas" themed contest. The prize is a Deckster [...]
Introducing Mentionbox – our new free social search engine
The holidays have hit and SWIX has a present for you! We’re gifting MentionBox, our newest free service that helps you discover mentions of your brand in social media! So what is MentionBox? MentionBox is a real time social search engine that helps social marketers find conversations about their brand online and help them make [...]
SWIX Analytics has new metrics for Facebook & YouTube
We are always adding new metrics to SWIX Analytics! Today we are proud to announce two new metrics that some of our clients have been asking for for a while; YouTube video "Likes" as well as Facebook Wall post statistics. Here is the round up of what's changed. YouTube Video "Likes" for Videos The "Likes" [...]
We have a new developer! Meet Richard Blair
Heralding from London Ontario, Richard is the newest dev to join the SWIX team! Young, bright and raring to go, Richard fits right into to our ever growing office. Richard is the 6th addition SWIX and we are beyond excited to have him causing a raucous in our office. Follow Richard on Twitter here Add [...]
Git ‘yer graphin’ on!: Tutorial on CSV Data Exporting
If you’re using SWIX already you know we have some good looking reporting options. But sometimes your client needs more sexiness in regards to graphs. We get it, they like pie charts, color coding, more then one metric on a graph. We appreciate an infographic as much as any other marketing type. If you haven’t [...]
Tips for Live Tweeting an Event
About two weeks ago I had a pleasure to be invited to a local event put on by one of our clients. My job for the day was to cover the event live via Twitter- which proved to be very invigorating but also not as easy as I anticipated! Here are some tips I’ve put [...]