The old way of managing customer relationships in online social media is undifferentiated and inefficient. Google+ changes this by introducing Circles. This post looks at how businesses can take advantage of Google+ Circles to customize its online social media efforts and integrate those efforts with traditional CRM.
Yuping Liu-Thompkins, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Marketing & E. V. Williams Faculty Fellow at Old Dominion University, and a 2010 Fellow of Society for New Communications Research. Dr. Liu-Thompkins is an expert on Internet marketing and customer loyalty. Her work has been published in a wide variety of journals. She is also an editorial review board member for Journal of Marketing Communications. More information about Dr. Liu-Thompkins can be found in her curriculum vitae (PDF).
