Why is any Social Media Strategy not the same as your CRM strategy?
O.K. So I'm not a genius. I can't type for shirt. I'm not all a twitter. People bore me. I can however read and I just read a book titled “The Facebook Era†by Clara Shih. While I did'nt realize that it was going to be a pitch for Salesforce.com I did realize that in a little line, on the cover of the book, just below the author's name it says “creator of Faceconnector (formerly Faceforce)†At first blush the words were rather benign and insignificant until I was about half wat thru the book.
Why isn't our CRM strategy our Social Media Strategy and why aren't they completely integrated?
I'm not pitching anything. I'm just a car guy dipping my toe in water. I'm throwing this out there because it's already been thought of so it's not like I'm able to take credit for it.
Why don't our CRM systems integrate completely and seamlessly with social sites? Where are the applications like:
Vinspace for vinsolutions, c'mon Matt, you know you want it!
Autoface for Autobase
Dealer Speak for Dealer Peak
Higher Peer
DealerSpoke-it
iMagicbook
DealersPocket
I want to open my clients “file†and see all their posts from Facebook right there. I want to be able to post on their wall and respond, not pitching but people-ing. For some people when I open their file I can see their tweets and probably know exactly where they are at that moment. I know their age, hobbies, interests, location, networks they belong to and all of their friends.
Can you say super laser like, between the eyes, I was just looking for that, marketing?
This happened to me the other day by accident. I get a facebook update on my Blackberry from a bar that I am a “fan†of about a particular local artist performing there that night. Moments later, I get a response to an automated e-mail “Thanks for purchasing from us...†in which the customer states he was overall fairly satisfied but there was a small problem that was scheduled to be fixed the next week. Normally this is the sort of e-mail that gets lost in the sea of communication that we all swim in everyday however this happened to be the artist that was playing that night at the bar I am a “fan†of. I replied to him almost instantly acknowledging his comments bla bla bla. Then wished him luck performing tonight. He replied and was of course a little dumb founded but very impressed. That night I noticed he became a “fan†on our Facebook page and who knows, maybe tweeted about us. Presto! I have differentiation, uniqueness and the start of a real "relationship".
My point is the information is out there. I just want it organized, time-lined, cross refrenced and sorted to make sense all under one tab.
There is enough brain power on the forum to actually get auto retailing industry IN FRONT of others instead of always playing catch up. Hey, while we're at it let's make it open source so everyone can make it better?
O.K. So I'm not a genius. I can't type for shirt. I'm not all a twitter. People bore me. I can however read and I just read a book titled “The Facebook Era†by Clara Shih. While I did'nt realize that it was going to be a pitch for Salesforce.com I did realize that in a little line, on the cover of the book, just below the author's name it says “creator of Faceconnector (formerly Faceforce)†At first blush the words were rather benign and insignificant until I was about half wat thru the book.
Why isn't our CRM strategy our Social Media Strategy and why aren't they completely integrated?
I'm not pitching anything. I'm just a car guy dipping my toe in water. I'm throwing this out there because it's already been thought of so it's not like I'm able to take credit for it.
Why don't our CRM systems integrate completely and seamlessly with social sites? Where are the applications like:
Vinspace for vinsolutions, c'mon Matt, you know you want it!
Autoface for Autobase
Dealer Speak for Dealer Peak
Higher Peer
DealerSpoke-it
iMagicbook
DealersPocket
I want to open my clients “file†and see all their posts from Facebook right there. I want to be able to post on their wall and respond, not pitching but people-ing. For some people when I open their file I can see their tweets and probably know exactly where they are at that moment. I know their age, hobbies, interests, location, networks they belong to and all of their friends.
Can you say super laser like, between the eyes, I was just looking for that, marketing?
This happened to me the other day by accident. I get a facebook update on my Blackberry from a bar that I am a “fan†of about a particular local artist performing there that night. Moments later, I get a response to an automated e-mail “Thanks for purchasing from us...†in which the customer states he was overall fairly satisfied but there was a small problem that was scheduled to be fixed the next week. Normally this is the sort of e-mail that gets lost in the sea of communication that we all swim in everyday however this happened to be the artist that was playing that night at the bar I am a “fan†of. I replied to him almost instantly acknowledging his comments bla bla bla. Then wished him luck performing tonight. He replied and was of course a little dumb founded but very impressed. That night I noticed he became a “fan†on our Facebook page and who knows, maybe tweeted about us. Presto! I have differentiation, uniqueness and the start of a real "relationship".
My point is the information is out there. I just want it organized, time-lined, cross refrenced and sorted to make sense all under one tab.
There is enough brain power on the forum to actually get auto retailing industry IN FRONT of others instead of always playing catch up. Hey, while we're at it let's make it open source so everyone can make it better?