When Dan and I founded Flowtown we had the dream of building simple and powerful marketing tools that would help small businesses get and keep customers. Today, I am thrilled to announce that Flowtown has been acquired by Demandforce. If Dan and I continued to build Flowtown independently, Demandforce would be exactly the kind of organization we’d envision building. Demandforce’s…
Continue Reading »View CommentsYou can now connect Facebook Accounts and Facebook pages to Timely! Which means your Facebook posts just got a whole lot Timlier This has been the most requested feature since Timely launched last November. From within your Timely account, if you don’t have one get one here, just click ‘Add Account’ and you’ll now see an option to ‘Connect to…
Continue Reading »View CommentsLast November we announced that we’d be discontinuing the Flowtown social discovery service. This was our main feature and the reason people used Flowtown. A lot of questions arose that day and we tried to answer them as best we could. However due to contractual obligations and the sensitivity of the situation we couldn’t disclose 100%. I’d like to go…
Continue Reading »View CommentsToday is a day when Timely (http://Timely.is) get’s 2x more useful. Ever look at your Performance page, see a few Retweets only to wonder who RTed you? You then have to goto Twitter see your @replies to see if it’s a Classic RT, nothing there? Then you goto Retweets, click the drop down, and select ‘Your Tweets Retweeted’. So many…
Continue Reading »View Comments71% of Tweets are ignored and never seen*. Timely helps make sure that when you Tweet, you actually have an audience. And today we’re thrilled to launch Timely + unlimited accounts + unlimited collaborators to everyone! Anyone can now: – Add Unlimited Twitter Accounts: there is no limit to how many Twitter accounts you can add to Timely and/or collaborate…
Continue Reading »View CommentsAs you know, Flowtown is at the forefront of social marketing, and we pride ourselves on our ability to help so many small businesses (now over 26,000 of you) get ramped up and successful on social media. Recently, we’ve been hard at work building the next generation of Flowtown and starting next week we’ll be rolling-out, testing and iterating on…
Continue Reading »View CommentsA big question we hear a lot is: Where does social fit in a day where I have 1,000 things to do and 10 minutes to do each? When it comes to Twitter knowing exactly where you should spend this 10 minutes is the difference between a thriving vs. dormant Twitter account. The acquisition of Who Should I Follow? will…
Continue Reading »View CommentsThe folks over at Web Design and User Experience Agency Digital Telepathy, creators of SlideDeck, have built a rocking Flowtown WordPress Plug-in. Now anyone with a WordPress blog can seamlessly integrate their Blog with Flowtown! What does that mean? Social Notifications. 1. Someone comments on a blog post 2. This person gets automatically imported into Flowtown 3. You get notified…
Continue Reading »View CommentsWe are excited to announce that Flowtown now fully supports Constant Contact. This means that any Constant Contact user can instantly dump a ton of demographic and socialgraphic information into any Constant Contact subscriber list. Segments like Age, Gender, Location, Social Network and influence can be added to any subscriber list in seconds. How’s it work? 1. Choose the Constant…
Continue Reading »View CommentsWe’re really excited to see SnapABug’s Flowtown integration go live today. Imagine This A visitor hits your website You start a SnapABug chat with them You instantly see the visitors name, occupation and influence score (Klout) That visitor gets imported into your Flowtown account as a lead Flowtown follows them on Twitter from your Twitter account Your 30 day follow-up…
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