After a long break, I'm freshening up my own personal business blog: Uncommon Sense (for Software) Occasionally I say some smart things. Occasionally, not. You decide! It's generally about the software biz, as I see it. Here's a list of some of my older articles: Zombie Competition Podcast #1: Coloring Outside the Lines with [...]
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 [...]
SWIX’s 2nd product, Campaign Manager, just went live!
We've had our 2nd product in Beta for some time now and today we're officially launching SWIX Campaign Manager. With SWIX Campaign Manager you can track social media traffic to any page on the Web! When you push out an offer to a landing page through Twitter, Facebook, blogs and other social channels, you [...]
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.
Making Facebook Fan Page Content Awesome
This blog post by Jason Keith may be simple, but I like it. This is why, if you could put Facebook Fan Page strategy into one sentence it would be as Jason said " Get the fans, keep the fans, activate fans ". Well said sir, well said. Your Facebook Fan Page is a great [...]
SWIX featured by Single Grain
We love a good list at SWIX and we are proud to be featured in this one on Single Grain's Blog: 50 Tools Every Online Publisher Should Use. Behold the list: Here are 50 tools that every publisher should use or at least know about: Design 1. GIMP http://www.gimp.org/ When you want the power and [...]
White labelling is here!
By popular demand! If you're an agency or independent consultant who's using SWIX to track your client's social media properties, white labelling the SWIX apps lets you upload your own custom CSS. You can remove any reference to SWIX and brand it as your own service. Why would you want to do this? It helps [...]