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Moving From Back Pats to Business, Social CRM Is For Real

Convince & Convert

But by blending together social media listening and engagement software with customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, the promise and premise of social CRM is finally becoming a reality, 2-3 years after we started to trumpet it (more optimistically than realistically at first). The New Social CRM Big Three.

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

Convince & Convert

This chart shows usage of five major social outposts by organization type. The pattern holds for YouTube and Linkedin, too. What this means is that in reality, B2C and B2B marketers are largely using the same social tactics. Big List: 13 B2B Social Media Prediction Blog Posts For 2010 =-. Kipp Bodnar´s last blog.

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78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Despite the widespread use of the phrase “social media marketing,&# marketing is not the only business use of social media, as John Jantsch reminds us. Here he outlines five ways that sales can use these tools as well, from social CRM to teaching prospects how to solve business issues.