Visit us on    Subscribe to our Blog Follow us on Twitter Follow us on LinkedIn Follow us on Facebook Visit us on SlideShare Visit us on YouTube Follow us on Pinterest

Tag Archives: B2B

Social+CRM=CRM at SugarCon 2013

Posted on

How Social can Help Fulfill the Promise of Delightful Customer Experience Which is better: Social CRM or Traditional CRM? Satya Krishnaswamy says that’s a false choice. The reality is they work together. While companies have wrestled with CRM and integrating social effectively into their CRM, it is actually an huge opportunity when you bring all   …Continue Reading


What can we learn from social media performance of top brands at CeBIT

Posted on

Each year, CeBIT showcases digital IT and telecommunications solutions from around the world. This year, the world’s leading high-tech event was held from March 5-9 in Hannover, Germany. We at NextPrinciples used our Social Analytics & Engagement platform to analyze social media engagement at the event in real time. In our analysis, we analyzed the   …Continue Reading


Customer care in the era of social media

Posted on

As social media changes the way we do business and the speed at which we do it, it stands to reason that it changes our expectations as well. More specifically, it changes customer expectations, when it comes to customer care. Customer care used to be such an arduous task for consumers. And indeed, it was   …Continue Reading


3 Lessons We Learned in 2012 in the World of Social Media

Posted on

As 2012 starts to wind down, we’re all looking toward new technologies and uses for current technologies in 2013. Social media is an ever-evolving entity, no doubt about that. But in order to get a clearer picture of where you’re going, it’s often helpful to stop and take stock of where you’ve been. Across the   …Continue Reading


Social: It seems so easy, yet so daunting! Three tips to getting started!

Posted on

Ever so often, I am asked the question ‘So how do I get started on Social?’ It seems so easy but yet so daunting. Social media is an incredibly vast space. It seems like every day there are new networks or tools becoming available, and all of them with similar – and yet, also different   …Continue Reading


Social Is Not About Organizational Size

Posted on

Hands down, one of the biggest excuses for not getting one’s business involved in social media is the size of the business. “We’re far too small. No one knows us. We’re not one of the big guys. It makes sense for them, but it doesn’t make sense for us.” That’s the line of thinking that   …Continue Reading


It’s time to ‘democratize’ social within the organization and not limit it to the privileged few

Posted on

It feels, sometimes, as though social media might be the least social activity ever, doesn’t it? It’s easy to get caught up in echo chambers or feel like there’s a process that we have to follow – rules that someone else set, and so everyone else must abide. Within businesses and organizations, this rings especially   …Continue Reading


The ‘R’ in Social CRM Stands For ‘Relationship’ – Not ‘Records’

Posted on

Tracking interactions with social CRM adds a completely new layer (or layers, depending on how you look at it) to your traditional CRM experience. Suddenly you find yourself monitoring conversations that are happening quickly – and constantly, it seems. It can be really difficult to keep up. It’s easy, then, to just start recording all   …Continue Reading


OMG! It’s a PR Crisis on Social Channels!

Posted on

We like to think that no kind of PR crisis will never happen to us, but in reality, it can happen to anyone. And the fact of the matter is that as our social media use increases, these crises are actually more likely to be social in nature. As long as you’re using social media,   …Continue Reading


Your customers are too social for you to have just a traditional CRM view

Posted on

Traditional customer relationship management (CRM) solutions have long been helping businesses to manage their relationship with customers and prospects tracking all their interactions that happened over the phone and email – the traditional channels. These solutions make it possible for businesses to monitor leads, make notes following any kind of communication, and to, generally speaking,   …Continue Reading


Free Trial
FREE TRIAL

See for yourself how Social CRM can improve your ROI