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Social Media Monitoring and Analysis with SM2 from Techrigy (Alterian SM2) Do you know the process your customers take to buy and connect with you? Their journey is often filled with many steps, stops and starts. What you do to help them along the way makes all the difference in gaining a competitive foothold. Taking action to improve the experiences your customers have within that journey can convert them from shoppers to customers, and then to advocates. Too often customers don’t ask for what they want, and rarely do they behave in the way you expect them to; however, they are telling others directly in social media. Social CRM Software Social Media LinkedIn: See who you know or who can provide you with an introduction at a company Twitter: read tweets of all the people you follow in the Activity Streams dashlet and add the Twitter name to a contact or lead and read their tweets directly in the contact or lead record Email Integration Sugar Plug-in for Microsoft Outlook: archive emails to Sugar and sync calendar, contacts and tasks Sugar Plug-in for IBM Lotus Notes: archive emails to Sugar and sync calendar, contacts and tasks Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and IMAP mail: use the Sugar email client to archive emails to Sugar Send email using your mail account credentials directly from Sugar
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