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Managing Social Media Customer Service: Strategies and Tips

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Social media has been part of our online lives for a couple of decades now. Providing customer service over social media is much newer, tied closely to the growth of ecommerce and online business. Do you need to offer support on social channels? Sprout Social shares some social response time insights here.

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Unica and Alterian Lead Database Marketers to the Digital Promised Land

Customer Experience Matrix

The connection is that these both support my feeling that many members of the old-line database marketing community have failed to adapt to the new world of digital marketing. They did move from direct mail to email, but those are pretty much the same thing. Industry vendors who support them will thrive.

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Show Me the Numbers: Hard Data on Internet Use and Media Spend

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Summary: Here are links to about twenty studies with statistics on online media consumption and advertising spend. Many are contradictory, but it's clear that marketers need to invest in social media, which might eventually replace search as the primary way that customers find them. So the jury is still out.

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Marketing Vendor Selection: Trends You'll Need to Support

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Social Media. The first wave of marketing automation features for social media is now several years old. These included making it easier to share emails and Web pages, tracking shares through embedded URLs, and monitoring social media conversations. Here are some trends I expect will be important.

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MarketingPilot Offers Integrated Marketing Management for Mid-Size Companies

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MarketingPilot started as an operations management tool for mid-size direct marketers, with features for project management, list and media buying, source code tracking, expense capture, and vendor management.

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Can Old Database Marketers Learn Digital Tricks?

Customer Experience Matrix

By contrast, most digital marketing contacts are initiated by the prospects themselves in response to an advertisement or social media message. Certainly digital marketers can select their advertising audiences, but this resembles traditional media buying more than an outbound direct marketing campaign.

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List of Marketing and Branding Blogs

Customer Experience Matrix

Social Media on the fly Marketing Nirvana Multi-Cult Classics Logic + Emotion Branding & Marketing Bob Sutton SMogger Social Media Blog MovieMarketingMadness UniqueEpitome TheQualitativeResearchBlog MineThatData Experienceology Freaking Marketing Really Small Fish The Orange Yeti What's your brand mantra?