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Please Aggravate Me: Is Gamifying Customer Service a Reality

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Drive customers to your website, email, forums and robust, highly searchable FAQ to answer questions in event they may not need immediate help solving or the use of a live person. Rewards for Using Self-Service Channels. Want to save your organization precious “human CSR capital?”

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Please Aggravate Me: Is Gamifying Customer Service a Reality

Convince & Convert

Drive customers to your website, email, forums and robust, highly searchable FAQ to answer questions in event they may not need immediate help solving or the use of a live person. Rewards for Using Self-Service Channels. Want to save your organization precious “human CSR capital?”

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

It’s really only possible in a reactive sense via social CRM, where individual complaints or questions can indeed be handled. He specifically addresses incremental sales: “Opinion Leaders” or “Fans” are not as effective in spreading WOM that drives incremental Sales because these efforts are “preaching to the choir”, per #1 above.

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Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master

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There is nothing new about social media; it's just modern WoM. There is nothing new about social media; it's just modern WoM. As such, it should compliment, enrich and accelerate the strategies ALL good marketing professionals are already engaging in and, ultimately, the executive vision for the company in question. .&#

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I look forward to getting past the basic questions of application of social media for B2B and starting to focus on things like lead generation and social CRM as we move forward in 2010.-= We have been saying many of these things for the past year. Kipp Bodnar´s last blog. Big List: 13 B2B Social Media Prediction Blog Posts For 2010 =-.

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Is Social Media Too Big For Its Britches?

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Social CRM The new telephone. Social CRM (customer relationship management) is the emerging discipline of providing personalized helpful, meaningful service and support using social channels like Twitter (and increasingly, Facebook ). “Social media&# will change customer service more acutely than it will change marketing.