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 [...]
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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. [...]
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 [...]
We’ve changed our pricing!
Good news! We've changed our pricing to make your lives easier. Here's how: We've moved to a 'plan' model (instead of charging just by the brand), so when you sign up for a plan, you'll know what your monthly fee will be until you decide to change plans. This will introduce some predictability for your [...]
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 [...]
Scheduled Downtime for 1AM EST, April 11
There will be some scheduled downtime tonight/tomorrow morning starting at 1AM EST, April 11th for database maintenance and site upgrades. Downtime should last 2 hours.
SWIX’s Guiltiest Pleasure: Jersey Shore
Everyone has guilty pleasures, for the past year the office was taken over by an mild obsession with Jersey Shore. Yes, that's right- the first pumping, booze chugging, guido fightin' MTV show rocked our office. We're not embarrassed, and we aren't the only ones that have lots love for this humiliating guilty pleasure*. Now entering [...]
Scheduled Maintenance: Dec 18, 2010 10PM EST
Update 11:38pm EST: Everything is back up and back to Normal! We will be performing some scheduled Maintenance on SWIX at 10PM EST Tonight. We expect that maintenance should take around 2 hours so SWIX should be available again around Midnight. Thanks for being so awesome! -The SWIX Team
Landing Pages: A Great Infographic
This lovely infographic from Formstack beautifully shows the 10 key landing page features that draw in users. We like it, we like it a lot. Landing pages, as we have said many times, are an incredible tool for social marketers. A well designed page plays a large role in creating more impressions, more click-throughs, higher [...]