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What is Social CRM and How to Make It Work for You

Oktopost

There’s a wealth of additional information on your customers out there, voluntarily offered up on social media. Social CRM tools can solve this problem by integrating your internal customer data with the information they’re providing on social media. Social CRM: What Is It? Source: Cloudave ).

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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

Convince & Convert

Raj Kadam is CEO of Viralheat , a social media listening platform (disclosure: I am a paid customer of Viralheat). Influence mining is primarily being used in two corners of the social Web – for identifying and engaging with categorical or brand authorities; and for adding information to customer service interactions.

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How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy.

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Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers.

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

Webbiquity SMM

While three-quarters of marketers consider measurement of social media impact important, 70% say that measuring those results is difficult. 79% of marketers measure website traffic from social media, and 68% track engagement metrics on social networks, but just 26% measure the relationship of social media activity to leads and sales.

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

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Or “Throw ‘stuff’ up on the wall and see what sticks,&# versus strategy and planning and metrics analysis. Social rounds it out, helps to expand reach. link] Lauren Faith Great post that can be summarized as the old comparison of shotgun approaches and rifle approaches.

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Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off

Convince & Convert

This is a metric I devised to help me determine the efficiency of the time I spend on Twitter. But, the number of followers you’ve accumulated is a metric that everyone looks at (admit it), and it’s at least a decent barometer of how well you’ve cultivated Twitter. Over the past 30 days, it was approximately 10%.

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

Convince & Convert

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. Look here for some clues [link] Do your homework – start here [link] – social CRM is not Advertising 1.0