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Matching Social Media to Your Needs and Resources

Customer Experience Matrix

Here are some ways to match social media to your business objectives and resources. In my mind, it’s really about helping marketers choose among the ever-increasing media options available today and in the future. I won’t go into the details of the presentation, but thought I’d share this chart for selecting among social media.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

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Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year. But no one knows how best to use it, which has led to a wide range of offerings under the social media label.

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Alterian Pushes Into Social Media Management with Techrigy Acquisition

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Summary: Alterian's purchase of Techrigy marks the first integration of serious social media management with marketing automation. Marketing automation vendor Alterian yesterday announced its acquisition of social media monitoring company Techrigy. What really impresses me is that Techrigy is a serious social media monitoring solution.

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Venntive Adds Communities to Small Business Marketing Automation and CRM

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It also includes full Web site management and social media monitoring and posting, but those are natural extensions for sales and marketing. Members can share discussion forums and Wikis and be assigned rights such as access to specified information about each other. So far pretty normal. The Web site builder is much more robust.

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Day Software Acquisition Adds Some Marketing Features to Adobe, But Gaps Remain

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Summary: Adobe added Web content management, digital asset management and social media features to its arsenal when it purchased Day Software last month. But Day fills out its line by adding enterprise-class content management, digital asset management and social (blog, Wiki, etc.) publishing.

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150+ Questions for Your Marketing Automation RFP

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In theory it should be possible for social media to provide a public forum for such issues. If this really takes off, perhaps the list can be maintained in a communal form such as a Wiki. But I don’t see a way to do this without having self-interested parties distort the results. So there will be time for updates.

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New Marketing Automation Options for Small Business in the VEST Report

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The media library supports images, files, articles, and videos (through Vimeo integration); the calendar provides full event management; surveys can change questions based on previous answers and include automated follow-up actions. Supported channels include email, SMS, direct mail, surveys, landing pages, and social media.