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Why The Term “Social CRM” Is Just STUPID!

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Photo by Andres Rueda on Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons For those of you who don’t know what CRM stands for, it’s Customer Relationship Management and it’s a term often used by software vendors like SalesForce.com to describe their products. Social CRM. Does adding Twitter to your CRM process make it more social?

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10 Surefire Ways For A Business To Fail At Social Media

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Consider doing the following: 1) Think of social networking in old-school marketing terms – If you’re “segmenting” or “targeting” or “profiling”, you need to rethink. Want to fail at social media? Social networking is not about sending messages to like-minded groups of people.

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Can Publicly-Traded Social Media Companies Survive?

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Contrast Facebook’s waning success in the market with that of LinkedIn. –Sean *Wall Street image courtesy of ToonariPost on Flickr via Creative Commons. With a share price hovering around $25.00 per share, compared to it’s $38 IPO price…someone ought to be questioning the move.

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