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Video: Thoughts on Social CRM for Small Businesses

Dave Fleet

Social CRM is a hot topic right now. As companies’ use of social media tools begins to mature from a pure marketing focus to more of a social business focus, the various use cases of social CRM are gaining more attention from practitioners. which weren’t originally designed for business uses.

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Book Review: The Social Customer

Dave Fleet

The author, Adam Metz , takes the reader through a straightforward, easy-to-read summary of the concept and potential for social CRM, but that’s really only part of this book. The Social Customer is divided into three sections: Section One takes the reader through an overview of the topic of social CRM.

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My 2012 Reading Challenge: 36 Books

Dave Fleet

The Social Customer: How Brands Can Use Social CRM to Acquire, Monetize, and Retain Fans, Friends, and Followers ( here’s my review ). Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy (review coming soon). Content Rules ( here’s my review ). This year, I’m shooting for 36.

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Book Review: Engage!

Dave Fleet

then explores some core basic facets of business social media covering: The social media mindset. Developing a corporate social media approach. Current developments such as location-based tools, social CRM and VRM (vendor relationship management). Practical pointers including measurement approaches.

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Why You Should Tweet During a Crisis

Dave Fleet

That’s why I was really interested to see a note from Shashi Bellamkonda on the Social CRM Pioneers group , pointing to some interesting research by Microsoft and Psychster on the effect of companies acknowledging issues via Twitter on the actions and perceptions of customers.

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Sysomos Acquired By Marketwire

Dave Fleet

In recent months we’ve seen several interesting moves within the social media monitoring/social CRM space. Acquired by. Jive Software. January 2010. February 2010. April 2010. April 2010. Scout Labs. Lithium Technologies. May 2010.

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Eight Tips for Scaling Social Customer Support

Dave Fleet

People who are pressed for time and just want to get the answer with no frills may prefer quick step-by-step how-tos, for example, while others look for more social interaction and conversation. If you can, take the time (and/or money) to do the research to identify those needs.

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