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Social Media Is CRM

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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Is Social Proof Marketing the Next Big Thing?

Pixlee

It’s a smart way to leverage social proof. Badges and logos: When brands put badges and logos on their website, such as an “Angie’s List” or “Better Business Bureau” endorsement, it chases away doubt. If reputable organizations vouch for the brand, it’s probably reliable.

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

Convince & Convert

39% of the people that check email first still use Facebook daily, but their motivation for doing so remains deal-centric. Don’t Treat Fans Like Cattle To me, the key insight is less about who checks what first (although it would be interesting to see the impact of smart phone ownership on the results).

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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.

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Ignore Foursquare at Your Peril - An Analysis of Potential.

Convince & Convert

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? create their own badges etc?) Point 2 I think is slightly more tricky.

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

Convince & Convert

At SXSW, each attendee had their unique QR code printed on their name badge. Smart phone-toting attendees could snap a photo of each others’ code, and instantly follow one another within the my.SXSW social network. At the end of the day, I hardly used my badge. At the end of the day, I hardly used my badge.