The Blog - Archive for CRM

We’re giving away 5 free websites

by Mark P. Filed under: Case studies,Community,Company

We’ll build you a “support based application” to compliment your existing website. We’ll design it, set it up and host it for you. All you need to do is tell your customers!

Why are we offering these for free? Well, we want to build up some great case studies demonstrating social interaction and “customer listening”. We’ve got five to give away and we’ll let you know by the middle of April if you’re eligible.

There are two types of support applications that we’re offering to build for you:

Customer Voice

Allow your customers to ask questions, suggest ideas and discuss other peoples ideas. Your customers sign in quickly with Facebook or Twitter and can then add a new idea, question, comment or vote up somebody else’s idea or question. View by most recent, popular or just your submissions.

Great for product discussion, quick customer feedback, FAQ’s, etc.

Customer Forum

A traditional looking customer forum deeply integrated with Facebook and Twitter. You and your customers can start discussions about specific topics quickly and with just a few clicks. Presented simply for non technical users making it as easy as possible for you and them to interact around specific topics.

Great for in-depth discussion about any topic.

Both products offer tight integration with Facebook and Twitter, a design that fits your current website and integration with your current mailing system.

[If you can see the form below please try this link instead]

FaceJam – a web toy for parties, conferences and networking

by Mark P. Filed under: Products,Technology

We’ve just put up the first version of Face Jam. A really simple online tool that once “connected” stops you from forgetting all of the those lovely people you met last night…

A user sends a Twitter name by SMS (to a short code) and receives back a message with their full name, location and other networks. The person will also be saved to your online account so that when you’ve sobered up got in front of a PC the next day you can check out (and connect with) the people that you met last night.

It’s super simple and good fun. We’ve got a few neat enhancements in the pipeline too.

Currently it’s UK and O2 only due to the use of the Bluevia Oauth. We’ve got another etcher post coming about the development journey.

Listing contacts by tag [ContactZilla]

by Mark P. Filed under: Products

One of the things I’m getting asked a lot at the moment is “why can I add tags and not filter contacts by them?”. Well actually you can, we’ve just hidden it away a bit for now…

If you type in a tag into the “quicksearch” box you will be able to click it and see the contact list filtered to this tag.This makes exploring hot prospects or Twitter people a breeze. You can then clear this by clicking the “people” link above the contacts directory. You can expect this to improve in the near future.

Random people in Google + Circles

by Mark P. Filed under: Knowledge

Google + is good. It could possibly replace many of the social networks that we already use. I’ll leave that debate for hindsight. One thing that I do keep seeing is how people want to make it tight knit and just have “close people” in their circles. This is missing the point of circles.

A few weeks ago having a way to share information with a large list of people on an ad-hoc basis would be based around Mailchimp or similar. Now with G+ you can do almost effortlessly and the people that engage with you the most can be “promoted” to a “closer circle”… It’s like a bloggers dream come true,

Create a new circle and call it “Random People”. Everybody that you don’t know what to do with, add them here. You can then use this circle as you see fit. I’ve got lots of people that I’ve heard of, or that over the years have connected to me randomly, through blogs, etc. It’s a useful list, you can share things with this circle such as a new product or an announcement. It becomes like a virtual newsletter (virtual virtual!) list.

I’m still not convinced that Google + is a threat to Twitter or Facebook. It is however a fantastic piece of technology that can only get better.

ContactZilla Client Interview

by Sarah Bale Filed under: Case studies,Products

We recently launched ContactZilla, an easy to use Contact Management system, and we thought it was time to get some feedback. The good, the bad and the ugly, we wanted it all!  And who better to help us on our journey for continuous improvement than Nigel Legg, social media and social CRM consultant.

“It does not have a traditional CRM system look and feel (white screen, grey boxes, spreadsheets of history). It’s very clean, clear, simple, easy to use, easy to find your way around the screen.”

“I mean what I say on my website, I really think it is the best product around of its kind.”

Click here to read the full interview.