Social CRM for dummies

363 Pages·29.718 MB·English

by  Kyle Lacy, Stephanie Diamond, Jon Ferrara

Social CRM

FOR
DUMmIES‰
by Kyle Lacy, Stephanie Diamond,
and Jon Ferrara
Social CRM For Dummies®
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About the Authors
Kyle Lacy is Senior Manager of Marketing Research & Education at ExactTarget.
In this role, Kyle leads an effort to build and distribute an ongoing research
series that sets aside theories and assumptions about consumer online pref-
erences. This series instead focuses on solid data collected through a combi-
nation of focus groups, experiential research, and online surveys.
Kyle is the author of three books, Twitter Marketing for Dummies, Branding
Yourself, and Social CRM for Dummies. Prior to joining ExactTarget, Kyle co-
founded a marketing technology company, helping over 350 clients build and
deliver digital marketing experiences. You can follow him on Twitter at
@kyleplacy or visit his blog at KyleLacy.com. He lives in Indianapolis, IN,
with his wife, Rachel, and their dog-like cat, Harley.
Stephanie Diamond is a thought leader and management marketing
professional with over 20 years of experience building profits in over 75
different industries. She has worked with solopreneurs, small business
owners, and multibillion dollar corporations.
For eight years, Stephanie worked as a Marketing Director at AOL. During her
tenure, subscriptions grew from fewer than 1 million to 36 million. She had
a front row seat to learn how and why people buy online. While at AOL, she
developed, from scratch, a highly successful line of multimedia products that
brought in an annual $40 million dollars in incremental revenue.
In 2002, Stephanie founded Digital Media Works, Inc. (MarketingMessage
Mindset.com), an online marketing company that helps business owners
discover the hidden profits in their business. She is passionate about guiding
online companies to successfully generate more revenue and use social
media to its full advantage.
As a strategic thinker, Stephanie uses all the current visual thinking
techniques and brain research to help companies to get to the essence of
their brand. She continues this work today with her proprietary system to
help online business owners discover how social media can generate profits.
You can read her blog at www.MarketingMessageBlog.com.
Stephanie’s other books include Prezi For Dummies, Dragon Naturally
Speaking For Dummies, and coauthor of Social Media Marketing For Dummies.
Stephanie received a BA in Psychology from Hofstra University and an MSW
and MPH from the University of Hawaii. She lives in New York with her
husband and her Maltese named Colby.
Jon Ferrara, a social entrepreneur at heart, founded GoldMine Software and
lead the company until it was sold ten years later. GoldMine helped pioneer
the Sales Force Automation (SFA) and Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) markets, and GoldMine was used by millions of companies.
After realizing that social media was going to forever reshape customer
engagement, Ferrara entered the start up world again when he noticed a
distinct lack of any products that effectively combined relationship manage-
ment, social listening, and engagement with sales and marketing. Jon founded
Nimble to create an social business platform to fill this gap.
Dedications
Kyle Lacy: To my wife, Rachel, and to all the digital marketers of the world
who are pushing to drive change in their organizations.
Stephanie Diamond: To Barry who makes all things possible. And to my
family for their love and support.
Jon Ferrara: To the man who taught me the meaning of relationships, cus-
tomer engagement and Social Selling, my father, Angelo Ferrara. He taught
me the power of listening and engaging customers, nurturing relationships
and staying top of mind with customers. To the woman who has taught me
the importance of being present with family, friends and who teaches me on
a daily basis the importance of art and soul development, my wife, Arleen
Ferrara. To my children who on a daily basis teach me about myself and
enable me to grow as a human being.
Authors’ Acknowledgments
Kyle Lacy: I often say that social media is multiple minds building a creative
community, and this book is no different. I couldn’t have written this book
without the help of some extremely special people. First off, thank you to
Amy Fandrei and Rebecca Huehls for their absolutely angelic patience during
the writing of this book. I would also like to thank my coauthors, Jon Ferrara
and Stephanie Diamond.
I would like to thank the people in my life and my community who helped me
gain the knowledge, experience, and insights to product this book. I have two
families in my life. My immediate family and my ExactTarget family. Thanks
to my wife Rachel Lacy for her patience and love while writing this book.
I would be remiss not to thank my parents and siblings for building my under-
standing of what it truly means to build community.
Also, thank you to all the Social CRM, CRM, social media, and digital
marketers who helped form the ideas in this book. There are too many to
name, but you know who you are. Thanks for providing content that helps
drive change instead of irrelevancy.
Stephanie Diamond: It has been my distinct privilege to write this book.
I want to offer thanks to my coauthors, Kyle Lacy and Jon Ferrara, and the
For Dummies publishing team at Wiley for lettting me coauthor this book for
their audience of smart readers.
The following people were especially important in creating this book, and I
offer very sincere thanks:
To the great creative group at Wiley, Acquisitions Editor Amy Fandrei, Senior
Project Editor Rebecca Huehls, and Technical Editor Alison Zarrella. They
helped make this project a reality.
To Matt Wagner, my agent at Fresh Books, for his continued hard work and
support on my behalf.
Finally, thanks to you for choosing this book to learn about social CRM. I wish
you enormous joy on your exciting journey into this up-and-coming trend.
Jon Ferrara: To the greater CRM/SFA community of users, analysts, editors,
and VARS who have supported and inspired my entrepreneurial quests, espe-
cially to the GoldMine and Nimble communities.
Huge thanks to Kyle Lacy and Stephanie Diamond for bringing me in to
help with the book they wrote. Much appreciation to Amy Fandrei, Chantal
Kowalski, and Jen Webb from Wiley Publishing for their support, assistance,
and guidance during the course of this project.

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