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My Face Builds Links! So Should Yours!

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

If you aren’t building and leveraging a personal brand as part of an overall business strategy, then you are wasting your time. Brands, whether personal or corporate, exist to make money, not get free drinks at the next conference. There are many ways to leverage a personal brand for business ...

Stress Balls and Army Squirrels at SES San Francisco and Affiliate Summit East

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Next week the Raven Tools team will attend Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Francisco and Affiliate Summit East in NYC, and we’d love to meet with you! SES San Francisco Stop by our booth (No. 817) and grab some awesome Raven swag! We’ll have Raven T-shirts AND Matt Cutts stress ...

Tip Tuesday: Display Settings

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

As we roll out new features to Raven Tools virtually daily, we’re mindful of how these new additions are displayed for you to see and use. Because our customers use the tools in a myriad of ways, we wanted display settings that were as flexible as possible. But sometimes these ...

Raven Launches New Twitter Tool

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Raven Tools is excited to announce our new Twitter tool, which helps agencies and in-house marketing departments better monitor, manage and report on their Twitter campaigns. Like Facebook, Twitter has become an important, necessary social network for connecting with customers. We’ve done a lot of secret research and development around ...

Google Wave Created More Problems Than It Solved

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Google will abandon Google Wave in 2011. Before I rant about what I think was wrong with Google Wave, and why I thought it was doomed to fail from the beginning, I must first admit that I, too, manage an imperfect product. As Raven’s product manager, I can look at just ...

Tip Tuesday: Adding Google Analytics Accounts to Raven

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Reporting back to your boss or clients used to involve going to several different tools across the web and compiling the data in the best way you could. We realized that analytics data was some of the most important data out there, but instead of reinventing the wheel, we wanted ...

Raven Tools Q&A with Jon Henshaw and Taylor Pratt

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Today at 3 p.m. CDT Jon Henshaw and I will be running the weekly Raven webinar and we’ve decided to mix things up a bit. Instead of walking you through a specific type of tool, we’re going to open up the chatroom to answer any questions you have about any ...

Create a Secure Raven Login Page on Your Own Website

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

If you have a Pro, Agency, or Enterprise account, you can white label your account with custom colors and your own logo. When you add your own logo, it replaces the Raven logo with your own. If you create a custom subdomain for your account – myname.raventools.com – your login page ...

Feature Friday: Meh and the Tweese

Friday, July 30th, 2010

This has been one of those weeks where most of our developer resources were spent on bigger, long-term projects. However, we were able to squeeze out a few updates, albeit minor ones. Minor Feature Updates CSV Export for Contact Manager We added the ability to export all your contact records ...

Tip Tuesday: Facebook Monitoring and Reporting

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

We’re going to add a new weekly series to the blog: Tip Tuesday. Every Tuesday I’ll be giving tips, tricks, and hints to help you get the most out of the tools within our system. Using the Facebook Tool Today I want to tackle Facebook monitoring and reporting, the newest ...