Earlier this week, we wrote a post on how hunting businesses should be using Google Alerts.  In addition to using Google Alerts, hunting businesses should also be using a product called Social Mention.  Social Mention tracks the real-time web for mentions of your brand (ie Twitter, Facebook statuses, FriendFeed, Digg, etc).   Visit their homepage and conduct a search on your brand and you might be surprised by what you see.

Social Mention also provides alerts in the same manner Google Alerts works.  Social Mention Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant social media results (blog, microblog, etc.) based on your choice of search phrase.  Social Mention should be another tool your marketing toolbox.

So you are a hardcore hunter who has pictures of your monster buck on Flickr, your own videos posted on YouTube, you’re active on Twitter bragging about your monster buck, you have your own blog where you provided all kinds of details about your hunt, you have a community on Facebook interacting with other hunters, and you bookmark very interesting hunting articles on delicious.  How can one person possibly follow you around the web and keep up to date with all of your hunting material?

Friendfeed is the service that is right for you.  Friendfeed aggregates your personal profiles from around the web into one lifestream.  Now your followers can follow you in one location, but still access all of your cool hunting info from social sites from around the web.

FriendFeed is a service that makes it easy to share with friends online. It offers a fun and interactive way to discover and discuss information among friends.  

It’s fast and easy to start a conversation around shared items, or to show that you like something a friend has shared. You can subscribe to updates from individuals and groups, such as your family or a team of people you work with. On FriendFeed, you and your friends contribute to a shared stream of information — information that you care about, because it’s from the people that you care about.

You don’t need to install anything to use FriendFeed. You can read and share your FriendFeed however you want — from your email, your phone or even from Facebook. If you make your FriendFeed publicly visible, your friends can see what you’re sharing without creating an account, and you can embedyour feed in your home page or blog. FriendFeed also lets you pull in updates from other sites around the web, and even publish your feed to services you already use, like Twitter.