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Social Media a CRM perspective

Social Media Network Marketing

Tying this invaluable data into a CRM solution generates sales leads, ideas for product direction and strengthens a company's image and brand. Opinionated social networking users become a virtual focus group, praising or complaining about a company's offerings, and coming up with suggestions for improvements or new products or brands.

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What Does Salesforce-Radian6 Deal Mean for Everyone Else?

Net-Savvy Executive

The announcement's not exactly a surprise—Radian6 was the obvious acquisition target in social media analysis (SMA), and their platform had supported Salesforce integration since mid-2009. Aquisitions say something about the segmentation of social media analysis.

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity SMM

Social CRM is still confusing. Only 16% of companies say they currently have a social CRM system in place. 21% plan to implement such a system in the coming year, but another 17% “don’t know what a social CRM system is and why businesses need it.” iMedia Connection ). eMarketer ).

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

More and more I'm seeing sentiments like: 'Developers can completely bypass Apple’s money-grubbing, dictatorial policies.&# What I found most interesting is the continued shift in the perception of the Apple brand. It use to be that Apple was the scrappy underdog and white knight to Microsoft's evil empire. All rights reserved.

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Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive | Social Media.

Convince & Convert

One company I know of discovered that after two or three months of customer-retention-focused outreach answering questions and resolving issues via social media, their brand's negative sentiment was increasing in the monitoring tool. link] > @jaybaer [link] Stephanie Wonderlin Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. In particular, sales and leads (as opposed to chatter, sentiment, buzz, purchase intent, etc.).