You probably heard the many experts telling you to listen and engage with your customers.
Do it! Today!
Get on Twitter!
Get on Facebook!
LISTEN! ENGAGE!
If you just followed the advice you already know that in the long run it just consumes resources for no gain. Sure, you can engage with an upset customer [...]
I had an excellent lunch with my friends at Simplybox (great company, killer idea, well implemented enterprise collaboration- not a client) on Wednesday and we had a sensational discussion on solving problems. They are going through a growth phase and are trying to position their product better based on their customers feedback. We discussed [...]
The driving force for the Social Customer era is the participation in communities both for social and professional purposes. From the structured social networks (e.g. Facebook and Twitter) to company-owned or company-sponsored communities used for support, sales prospecting, or research and development, through communities used internally for collaboration between workers – communities are showing up [...]
It seems that 2010 is the year where Social Media really takes off; everybody is writing about how in 2010:
You will definitely be able to get an ROI from your Social Media investment Social Media is going to take off You can craft your Social Media strategy and make it stick Your Senior Management [...]
I was thinking of doing a predictions post, really, but then Paul Greenberg came along and wrote up all my predictions and added some better ones. So, instead of filling up the streams with more of the same, I thought of a twist to predictions: I won’t tell you what I [...]
Last Friday @VenessaMiemis and I had the following exchange in Twitter:
We exchanged a few DMs offline to discuss a potential way to do it, and then she twitted out to the world.
I then created the #MonTwit hashtag, advertised [...]
This is part of the #MonTwit experiment; several bloggers are writing about the same topic on the same day, each adding their own perspective, so we can share our earned experiences about Twitter and learn more in the process. I will update links at the end of this post as I find them, but feel [...]
I spent the past four months talking to as many people as I could about Social CRM. I talked to thought leaders, analysts, vendors, consultants, C-level executives, corporate managers and directors — anyone who wanted to talk about it.
We discussed definitions, and models, and strategies and plans. What they are doing, what they want [...]
At the end of the year I work on my wrap-up for the year, and prepare for the year ahead.
I go through my notes from conversations, oft-forgotten “blogs that I must read”, books, and everything else that has a tangential effect into my research for next year. I end up with my “predictions” for [...]
There is a lot of noise on whether or not Twitter should be used for Business.
On one hand we have examples like ComcastCares, DellOutlet, JetBlue and many others that have been used as case studies.
On the other hand, there is me. I wrote [...]

