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What’s a social CRM going to do for my business?

Janet Fouts

According to Altimeter Group’s Jeremiah Owyang , social CRM will give businesses a way to really focus on listening to what their customers want and still have time to do business. “Jeremiah Owyang’s vision of Social CRM where products that we want will find us, will be realized.

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Eight Tips for Scaling Social Customer Support

Dave Fleet

Companies like AT&T (rated highly for social support by Forrester ) and BlackBerry (disclosure: client) have been successful at developing highly active support forums where customers interact with and help each other. Help customers to help customers.

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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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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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Facebook Success Summit - 22 Sessions on Everything Facebook.

Convince & Convert

link] [link] NeoTour Forum RT @jaybaer: Facebook Success Summit – 22 Sessions on Everything Facebook [link] [link] Becky Pearce @TheMartaReport Runs from Oct 5-26 w/a couple sessions, couple days a week. @marismith @jaybaer @briansolis @mike_stelzner @ekaterinawalter and the likes. link] [link] amitapaul Facebook Sessions to kill for!

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

Convince & Convert

The Best of Twitter 20 From the forward: I’m sitting in a ballroom in Indianapolis in September, 2008 watching Joseph Jaffe give a masterful presentation on social media transforming corporations, when I come upon the idea to interview him on Twitter.

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Please Aggravate Me: Is Gamifying Customer Service a Reality

Convince & Convert

Drive customers to your website, email, forums and robust, highly searchable FAQ to answer questions in event they may not need immediate help solving or the use of a live person. Rewards for Using Self-Service Channels. Want to save your organization precious “human CSR capital?”

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