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Chatter Mobile: Saleforce.com’s Answer To Enterprise Collaboration (Intelligent Enterprise)
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Posted: 10/14/2010
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Salesforce.com recently announced Chatter Mobile, a smart-phone application designed to bring CRM-centric, social-networking-style collaboration to Smartphones by the end of 2010. The Web 2.0-styled consumer app lets Saleforce’s Chatter users collaborate with people at work while on-the-go and in real-time. Similar to following Facebook friends and interests, Chatter enables users to subscribe to and "follow" feeds related to their business, as well as keep tabs on what customers and prospects are saying on public networks like Facebook and Twitter. Partners and customers can also "Chatterize" vertical and custom applications through the Force.com development platform. The free service is featured within the company’s cloud-based sales and service applications, which could help a mobile salesperson stay on top of what matters most as they are heading to meet with their clients.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,
Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,
Telecommunications
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
Experience & Interaction,
Technology Implementation
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business,
Business to Consumer,
Peer Groups & Communities
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Cashing in on Email Buzzwords (Marketing Vox)
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Posted: 08/15/2009
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New research from MailerMailer's ninth bi-annual Email Marketing Metrics Report, demonstrates that marketers who leverage the ten top email buzzwords like "news," "party" and "free” experience higher open rates. Mapping industry trends, the report shows that religious and spiritually-themed emails are opened most frequently while telecommunications, transportation, travel, banking and finance open rates also top the charts. The report reveals that email deliverability is on the rise with more emails reaching recipients' inboxes and emails sent at the beginning of the week, Monday in particular, experience the highest open rates. With more users tending to view emails from their hand-held devices, the report also provides tips to design mobile-friendly emails so you can cash in on these new trends.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,
Telecommunications
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
Content Strategy,
Marketing Communications
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business
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Buying Power: Facebook and Twitter Boost Online Sales (CRM Daily)
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Posted: 01/21/2010
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Taking “social shopping” to the next level, ComScore Inc. revealed that social media sites like Facebook and Twitter impacted 28% of buying decisions during the 2009 holiday season. ComScore Chairman and co-founder Gian Fulgoni said, "We are getting our first real glimpse at the impact social media will play on commerce as we enter the next decade." Retailers like J.C. Penney Co. and Eastman Kodak Co. leveraged the extended social reach enjoyed by Facebook and Twitter to entice bargain shoppers mining for deals. More and more, shoppers are tracking special deals from their favorite brands via social networking sites, reportedly 7% on Facebook and 5% on Twitter.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,
Retail & Products
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
E-Commerce,
Experience & Interaction,
Marketing Communications
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Consumer,
Peer Groups & Communities
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Building Best-Run Businesses With SAP’s Targeted Analytic Applications (InformationWeek)
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Posted: 10/14/2010
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The demand for domain-specific business insight led SAP to launch ten SAP BusinessObjects analytic applications. The customer-centric, problem solving apps include Sales Analysis for Retail; and Trade Promotion Effectiveness and On-Shelf Availability apps for consumer products firms, whose very names reveal how the development process was led by insight from key constituencies within SAP’s customer and industry bases. "These apps attach the knowledge workers to the action so they can make better decisions and help their company become a best-run business," said SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott. While designed with the SAP core customer segments in mind, the apps do not depend on pre-existing SAP deployments so that they will reach across to non-SAP customers, as well. Backed by Sybase mobile technologies, the apps promise benefits like reports and metrics; rapid deployment and actionable analytic insights. Plans to support the apps with mobile are expected to be fulfilled by the end of 2011.
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Industry:
Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services,
Telecommunications
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
Content Strategy,
Experience & Interaction,
Technology Implementation
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business,
Business to Consumer
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Building A Brand Story Greater Than The Sum Of Its Individual Parts (New Media Knowledge)
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Posted: 01/20/2011
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Rather than providing a plethora of tactical solutions, today’s abundance of marketing channels may simply overwhelm marketers. Standard targeted marketing used to be a relatively simple game of point-and-shoot at three main channels (TV, print and direct mail) to cover all bases. Now, with the addition of social media platforms, mobile marketing, web, and email to the traditional channels, adopting a successful strategy can get confusing. Aim the same message at all the channels and the results can be downright disastrous. Multi-channel marketing offers marketers a mechanism to “pull all these conversations together and build a brand story that is greater than the sum of the individual parts” so marketers can keep their eyes on the prize: customer engagement and action. The key is to understand and respect the characteristics of each channel and then execute each according to how it works uniquely for your brand.
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Industry:
Marketing, Design, & Interactive Communications,
Technology, Consulting, & Professional Services
Topic:
Business Intelligence,
Content Strategy,
Experience & Interaction,
Marketing Communications,
Technology Implementation
Region:
Global
Audience:
Business to Business,
Peer Groups & Communities
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