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

Oktopost

B2B marketing campaigns tend to be more like a marathon than a sprint. With a CRM, you can collect and analyze customer data to gain insights that allow you to make data-driven decisions about how to guide your buyers further down the sales funnel. Social CRM: What Is It? How Does Social CRM Differ from Traditional CRM?

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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. Strategy is important.

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Do I Really Need a Social CRM for My Business?

agora pulse

To build and maintain these relationships many businesses use social CRM tools. What is a “social CRM” and what does it do? When you say these two magic words, most of us start thinking of social CRM tools, instead of the actual process. The value of a social CRM tool.

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Social CRM: Tools That Can Help You Know Your Audience Better

Ignite Social Media

Those are just a few questions that brands might have when discussing their customer database, which typically is a list of names along with mailing and email addresses. That’s great to have, but when a brand is looking to connect with their customers on a social level, those things aren’t always helpful.

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

Convince & Convert

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. I did not work on the Klout campaign.

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Social media personalization: The opportunity and risks to consider

Sprout Social

According to The Sprout Social Indexâ„¢ , consumers across age groups agree the most memorable thing a brand can do on social media is respond to customers. Consumers want to feel like your brand is speaking directly to them, addressing their unique preferences and needs. Consumers expect that same level of service online.

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My 2012 Reading Challenge: 36 Books

Dave Fleet

Game-Based Marketing. Brand Turnaround: How Brands Gone Bad Returned to Glory and the 7 Game Changers that Made the Difference (review coming soon). The Social Customer: How Brands Can Use Social CRM to Acquire, Monetize, and Retain Fans, Friends, and Followers ( here’s my review ).