9 Tips to Power Up Your Social Media
Social media posts tell a story about you and your brand. Here are cautions to heed, trends to follow, and steps to take as you build your social media brand personality.
YoungEntrepreneur.com
Barbara Findlay Schenck
5 Social Media Rules Every Entrepreneur Should Know
Learn how big-name entrepreneurs, media elites and other thought leaders engage the masses on social media.
Social Media Briefs: Google+ in your Inbox, Tumblr Domain Updates
Assuming you were busy adding hashtags to your Facebook posts or checking out your Tweets’ analytics on Twitter, you may have missed some of the other social media-related news this week.
Social Media for Small Business: 3 Key Considerations
Lisa Barone, the Vice President of Strategy at Overit, a social media management company, recently spoke with CMSWire about three key factors SMB’s have to consider before launching a social media campaign.
Social Media Briefs: Native Ads on Tumblr, CEOs Lead on Social
This week, while we were checking out the new Gmail or crossing our fingers that we were important enough to have our Facebook pages verified by Zuckerberg, there were some smaller, but significant updates released across other platforms and networks.
These days, your Facebook Timeline can serve as a digital scrapbook of your life: birthdays, graduations, weddings, trips to Disneyland and, yes, the time you got a puppy. A new service wants to help Facebook users move those memories from the cloud into a permanent, physical keepsake.
Likebooks will convert content from your Facebook Timeline and print it in a physical book, as shown in the video above. Your status updates, photos and comments from friends can be printed in your custom book. Content is either pulled from a specific date range or an entire year (as far back as 2007)
Depending on how much content you choose to archive, a Likebook can cost from $ 12 to $ 137 and can range from 25 to 500 pages. They even come in soft or hardcover. Read more…
More about Books, Facebook, Timeline, Social Media, and Facebook Timeline
Mashable
Vignesh Ramachandran
Conversocial CRM Social Media Tool Raises $4.4M Led By Octopus Investments
Conversocial has been around since 2009, but only recently has the team decided to infiltrate the U.S. market with its social customer service software, which brings the social media response team into the call center.
The company has just secured a $ 4.4 million A2 round led by Octopus Investments, including a $ 3.2 million investment alongside a previous $ 1.2 million convertible note. The investment is aimed toward powering the UK-based company’s expansion into the U.S., as well as further product development and hiring.
This latest A2 round comes on the heels of a $ 2.4 million Series A round in May of 2011, bringing the company’s total funding to just under $ 7 million.
Conversocial is a social media management software that is pioneering in the third wave of CRM social tools. Founder Joshua March explained that the first wave of big brands and social media was the act of monitoring what was being said. Very soon, that monitoring turned into ways to push information out to customers, in the form of deals, contests, or promotions.
Now, however, the focus is on customer service powered by the immediacy of social networks. “Users have learned that tweeting a complaint or question, or posting it on Facebook, is a lot faster and easier than calling a customer service line or sending an email,” said March. “Plus, it adds a level of transparency to the conversation because everything is public.”
Conversocial is trying to capitalize on the social media conversations happening all over, by offering software that works inside a company’s call center to help employees prioritize complaints and questions, and answer with speed and care.
The company is now adding two new platform upgrades to its system, a real time management dashboard (which lets users see incoming social complaints and questions, and a Conversations workflow, which will prioritize incoming inquires.
Though Conversocial’s presence is mostly focused in the UK, it has some impressive clients including Barclaycard, GoDaddy, Hertz, JackThreads, and Sephora. In fact, the company has tripled revenue over the past twelve months, and internal projections say this growth rate will continue on.
See, whenever a new customer service tool is made available, it usually results in more overall customer service inquiries, as opposed to a migration from one mode of communication to the next. For example, when the phone was introduced as a way to contact companies, people didn’t stop writing letters. There was just a truckload of new people who felt their problem warranted a phone call, whereas it maybe wasn’t worth the inconvenience of sending a letter.
The same has been true for the introduction of email, and now social media, meaning that Conversocial is fielding more and more CRM inquiries every day.
TechCrunch » Social
Jordan Crook
Social Media Platform Allows Users to Crowdsource Relationship Advice
Can’t just let it be? WotWentWrong.com offers assistance for the dumped.
YoungEntrepreneur.com
Michelle Goodman
13 Qualities to Look for in Your Next Social Media Hire
Question: What’s one must-have trait for a great social media director?
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