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5 Traits of the Social Sales Person

Janet Fouts

Think of social media as a huge focus group. Social CRM tools like Salesforce , Hubspot and Nimble allow us to see what prospects and clients are saying on social media sites and create relationships with them before and beyond the sale. Rinse, repeat. Keep in touch with clients and prospects.

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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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What Does Salesforce-Radian6 Deal Mean for Everyone Else?

Net-Savvy Executive

Aquisitions say something about the segmentation of social media analysis. The Radian6 deal says a lot about interest in social CRM, or the integration of social media monitoring and customer relationship management. Competitors need more than a me-too monitoring platform to win.

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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

Surveying, physical and online focus groups and opinion polling are still the primary tactics companies depend upon for market prediction and go to market strategy. Before crowdsourcing there were focus groups, which never really worked too well. Market research is as important to most companies as the payroll department.

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

Convince & Convert

This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ. Website surveys, email surveys, Facebook inquiries, focus groups, telephone calls to 25 customers each month. When you find a pattern, create content to address it. Ask your customers directly.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

But I wasn’t the only person doing this, and by no means was I doing it any more than anybody else in the community. There were 20-30 of us posting regularly to make the community great and countless others lurking through the threads.