Social CRM Best Practices
Social CRM Best Practices
Social CRM Best Practices
BEST PRACTICES
HOW-TO GUIDE
Social CRM Best Practices
HOW-TO GUIDE
Social media is now part of every business and consumer activity, joining telephone, Web, broad-
cast, and face-to-face interactions as primary communication channels.
This means that all marketing, sales, and service organizations should include social media as
part of their basic activities. Yet social media are still new enough that many organizations are still
struggling to learn how to use them, while others is learning how to use them most effectively.
This how-to guide provides an overview of social media applications and emerging best practices
for deploying social media at your company.
Content sharing sites such as Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Pinterest are yet another version. Social
media tracking systems now often extend to traditional media, such as the online versions of news-
papers, magazines, radio, and television, less because those are truly social than because the
technologies to monitor both types of content are so similar.
But even though social media is now as common as other communication channels, it plays a
different role. Specifically, it allows companies to initiate relationships with people who are other-
wise inaccessible because they are not paying attention to conventional mass media and are not
responsive to untargeted direct messages such as bulk emails.
Social media can also provide an opportunity to deepen those relationships through one-on-one
interactions, while at the same time letting observers see how a company treats its customers.
Finally, and perhaps most important, social media allows consumers to share their own experi-
ences with a company, providing a more credible source of information than the company itself.
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