7 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Freelance Reputation
Honest freelancers keep their word to get work done on time. They value their reputation and their strong work ethic pays dividends. An enthusiastic customer recommendation about a freelancer’s performance can bring a number of new offers and better income.
It’s important to have several positive reviews in your profile. However, an experienced employer goes beyond these words and digs into more information about you. To keep tabs on your reputation online here are some simple, free tools that get the job done:
1. Google Search
Don’t be surprised. Google you name. You may find work reviews you had no clue about. Check Google blogs and discussions tabs to see all posts. Besides, set Google Alerts to your name and get email notifications as soon as a new article with your name springs up. Thus, you keep track of your web reputation.
2. Twitter Search
Twitter Search
140 characters are enough to express opinion on a freelancer or give project feedback. Take a look at Twitter search to learn if someone is talking about you. Search for your name, nickname or recent projects. Join the conversation in case it’s necessary.
3. Quora
Quora
Numerous Q&A sites like Quora have tons of questions answered. Maybe one of them can be about your freelance business. Surf these places and keep an eye on important questions. Provide correct information firsthand.
4. Social Mention
Social Mention
Social Mention is a free online service that helps monitor on a topic or person-related comments. The web app works like an information aggregator bringing search, blogs, updates, and forum mentions all together. Social Mention shows top keywords associated with a topic, top authors who posted on the topic and indicates information sources. The app enables you to download reposts or subscribe via RSS. Social Mention is a bit slow; however, it’s free and gives plenty of information.
5. Addict-o-matic
Addict-o-matic
Addict-o-matic resembles Social Mention, but it works faster. It helps analyze potential feedback sources at one place. You can pick up an information channel you want to track among search engines, bookmarks, news websites, blogs, etc. Unfortunately, there’s no report download option.
6. Twitrratr
Twitrratr
Twitrratr is a simple tool to differentiate positive, neutral and negative tweets on a freelancer or a topic. Try Twitrratr instead of usual Twitter search and see people’s opinions immediately divided into 3 categories. Thus, you know your audience’s feelings about your work.
7. Tweetreach
Tweetreach
It used to be hard to measure a tweet’s influence. You had to guess if one recommended tweet will impact your freelance profit. Now it’s easy to measure how many people your message reached with tweetreach. Enter a word and see the volume of tweet impressions.
Good post, I find myself doing the google and twitter search quite a bit.
Thanks Anna for collecting those tools for monitoring freelancer reputation.
Perfect thing I was looking for when I am doing good freelancing work but want to measure it’s worth.
I find it rather funny that twitter makes up almost half of the data searches. It really has become the worlds lifestream.
Great article! There are a few tools I wasn’t aware of…
I find myself checking my freelance identity more than I do my personal identity! As a freelancer, your reputation is your business.
Thanks for the tips!
Good advice.. I know some of them but will add few of this tools to my reputation toolbox monitoring..
Great post and lot of useful information. I didn’t know about many of these sites. It was great to see the things that came up in many of the searches. Let’s me know that I’m doing something right. Thanks for sharing.
gr8 article …. i was not aware of such apps….. it is definitely going to help us a lot
Keeping track of one’s reputation on web is very important and every freelancing individual and business should keep close eye on it.
I have not been a freelancer for a long time so I have not accumulated enough results so far. Still knowing the tools would definitely help.
Thankx for the Advice. I Just Used to do my work , take my payment and Jump to the new project . but all these new techniques are Really useful and handy. I have Implemented a few of them Already, will Hopefully Implement the rest oft them in a few days time. Thankx one mre tym !!
I can’t believe I forgot how powerful some of these options could actually be. thanks for the heads up. But what monitoring tools we can pay to use?
If you are freelancer you don’t need to be afraid from this kind of research. I am feeling fine every time when I see myself in the net. I am sure it the same with you:)