Social Networking

Everyone’s Doing It: Blogs and Your Business

Customer Support Applications

Blogs and news about blogs are becoming more and more prevalent in today’s well-connected society. Bloggers can be anyone from a kid to a corporation. The topics blogs cover can be virtually anything, from child rearing to what is new in your company, or any topic in between. So what exactly are blogs and why [...]


How Twitter Has Changed the Face of Customer Service

Twitter

Social networking can be a useful tool for providing customer service within your companies customer relationship management (CRM) program.  Integrating more channels of communication with your patrons can only offer genuine support.  Twitter is just one example of social networking that can bring you and your customers closer together.  Connecting through social networks promotes quick [...]


LinkedIn to the Business World

Lead Management

Social networking sites are no longer for just personal use. Now, these websites are commonly used among businesses as tools for gathering leads, advertising, marketing, and staying connected with customers. LinkedIn is a social networking site specifically designated to businesses professionals. By May of 2009, LinkedIn accumulated over 40 million members world wide. What makes [...]


MySpace and Customer Relationship Management

Social Networking

As technology evolves and people become more savvy, businesses are finding it necessary to adapt their business practices to the times. For many companies, in addition to having the latest hardware, becoming more tech savvy also means adapting their practices to embrace the Internet and its many offerings. Millions of users are connected to the [...]


The Connections Between Social Networks and Cloud Computing

What Is Cloud Computing

We are living in the world of Web 2.0, where hundreds of millions of people are connected to the Internet and millions of those people are connected on social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter, using blogs, and posting on YouTube and Flickr. The vast amount of ways in which people can be [...]


The Fundamentals of Social Marketing Tools

Contact Management

With the sudden rise of social media tools and services, it can get confusing trying to decipher who is who, and what does what. But what it all comes down to is relationships. An everyday social media user may not recognize the power of what they are doing. Businesses may also not recognize how they [...]


The Relationship Between Social Networking and Analysis

Social Networking Analytics

Before Facebook, there was MySpace. Before MySpace, there was Friendster. All of these social networks brought people together from all parts of the world. Careers were made when members harnessed the power of the network and used it to their advantage. As networks grow, so does the interest in how they’re used, and who is [...]


Tweet, Tweet: CRM and Social Media

Application Integration

It didn’t take long for businesses focusing on customer relationship management (CRM) to follow the trail to social media. With opportunities like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the ability to reach customers grew by leaps and bounds. Not only is it easier to reach them, it’s easier to communicate with them. That communication is a key [...]


Why Blogs Matter To Customer Service

Customer Service Software

Far too often problems in customer service arise from a lack of communication. Opening the channels improves your customer relations and increases business morale. Social customer relationship management systems, such as blogs, can lead to open dialogue about needs, complaints, and services that your consumers want. Enabling the flow of communication to open between your [...]


Implementing Marketing Tools Through Social Networks

social marketing crm

Social networking is not just for teenagers and college co-eds anymore. With the growth of sites like LinkedIn and Twitter, social networking has expanded to many audiences that have been untapped for so long. Social networking isn’t just about being friends with someone online; it’s about developing a relationship with them as well. Marketing professionals [...]


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