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Thursday September 16th, 2010

Business strategy : connect with your customers through social networks.

People are online. All the time. From any location. With any device. And they use them. To dialog, to chat, to express themselves. They use different tools to do this. Mostly social networks : Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, photo repositories (Picasa), video sites (YouTube), … These are not marketplace where you can sell, these are the social places where you can network with them, to learn about them, what they like or not, what they do, what they think, etc.

Social networks are the place to be. As I said, not to sell directly (people do not go to a café to sell their products, you do this in a shop or on a market place). But it is the place to talk, listen and convince. Netlog is a competitor of Facebook in Belgium. ING is their banker. ING provides virtual money on there. It is the company playing a part in their social game with a high visibility. The step to their real life bank services is small. They got the message.

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Tuesday July 6th, 2010

Better sales through social networking

ModCloth is one of these american success stories of two people starting to do something which seems to fit a certain niche in the market. The concept grew further to full maturity today. Although I already mentioned in one of my articles that we would combine sales and social networking online, I never thought it was already a fact today.

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Tuesday June 15th, 2010

Improve brand loyalty with “social currency”

I ran across this very interesting document about “social currency”. The value of the concept lies in the fact that the higher your social currency is, the higher your customers’ brand loyalty would be. It is a method to measure your customers’ perception and allows you to change your social strategy.

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People & vision

Monday June 14th, 2010

“How to handle technology and mobility, that is the biggest challenge.”

Danielle Jacobs, BELTUG

The demand for mobility has thoroughly changed our vision of ICT and the role of the CIO. “What is striking there is that the technology is no longer the biggest challenge,” asserts Danielle Jacobs, general manager of BELTUG, the Belgian independent ICT user group. “It’s a question of finding the right way to integrate the new communication tools into the business processes.” Read more

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Friday May 28th, 2010

The internet is in its second phase

During an interview, John Doer, an investor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, stated that the most influential enterprises are Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook. It’s all about mobility, social media and new e-commerce. At first it does not surprise that much, but when you think about it, things have changed.

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Thursday August 20th, 2009

We’re on Twitter

Yep, we’re on Twitter. Yep, we made a group OneMagazineBlog, so you can follow what is happening on our blog without having to come and visit every time you want to know what is happening. You can join here. Read more

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Tuesday August 4th, 2009

Does LinkedIn spell the end of the recruitment industry?

Companies search for staff through social networks

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You probably know people in your circle of friends who came into contact with their current employer through a social network such as LinkedIn. Perhaps you have searched for new employees on these networks yourself? The fact is that the social networks are increasingly being used as databases for the CVs and contact details of potential recruits, while this information used to belong to the exclusive domain of recruitment services and headhunters. Specialists say the recruitment industry still has an important role to play, as long as they actively embrace the social networks as an extra channel to generate added value.

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