Friday, March 19, 2010

Social Customer, Online Communities, Social CRM and Social Business

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Good friend, professor, thought leader, VP at SugarCRM and great guy to hang out with, Mitch Lieberman has put together a slick presentation using the awesome Prezi.com as only a professor with real world business experience can do.

His post gives some background on the presentation and provides context too. So please ensure you go through it.

His prezi helps you get your bearings if your thoughts center around:
  • whats new with the customer (what does a Social Customer mean?)
  • why is the power of communities increasingly important (what's new with online communities?)
  • how are they affecting Business As Usual (is it all a risk or an opportunity or just a new way of life?)

2 comments:

  1. Gaurav Sharma9:35 PM

    I think first stage of scrm adoption will be about enterprises building communities and also participating in them. At the same time, listening to chatter emanating in social web and flitering it to zero on the data which they will primarily use for sales and support, will also happen at same time. In long run, social identies might get merged with CRM data. But pertinent question right now is how enterprises filter the social conversations and flow the relevant data into thier exisitng operational CRM. Most listening tools in market  are not solving this problem as most eneterprises  have CRM systems behind firewall and listening tools are sitting in cloud. Many listening tools are also building so called "engagement" layers  or workflows inside thier tools which  I think is re-inventing the wheel.

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  2. ScorpFromHell12:06 AM

    Perceptive comments on the state of the #scrm systems as well as what needs to be done. This prezi by Mitch is more about the concepts than the tools. For more on the tools in the Social CRM landscape, you might want to read my older post http://j.mp/scrmarch from last year. :)

    Thanks for dropping by Gaurav. Don't miss the other posts on Social CRM in here. :)

    Regards,
    Prem

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