The Crowd Factory Blog

Okay, this is it.   Drum roll please.  The semi-finalists for the CRM Idol Contest for 2011 are (in alphabetical order) Aplicor Assistly CrowdFactory FuzeDigital GetSatisfaction GreenRope CRM JaguarTPM Nimble RO|Innovation SalesNexus Soluciones SA Stone Cobra thedatabank In addition to the 13 semi-finalists, we are calling out 3 companies for special recognition, who, while they didn’t [...]

Small companies – at least in the CRM software related world – and that means social software world, in this case, too – abound. There are thousands of companies out there that are possibly innovative, possibly commercially viable in a big way, possibly the next big thing. This past week Crowd Factory went up for [...]

Crowd Factory has had an incredible amount of great social media news and awards over the last few months. You are receiving this update because we wanted to let you know about two major developments as well as ask for your help! In the last 4 weeks Crowd Factory has seen these 2 headlines pass [...]

For the first time since Crowd Factory created its unstoppable social marketing platform, a proposed panel has been submitted to the famed South by Southwest festival.  WE hope you will check it out and vote YES for our very own titled: Forget Radio. Let Your Fans Market Your Music (http://bit.ly/sxswcf) Here is a brief description [...]

CrowdFactory hopes your summer has been filled with warm weather, relaxing vacations and of course successful social campaigns! Because Crowd Factory is based in San Francisco, the temperatures have been a bit cool, but the presses have been HOT! The current edition of our newsletter is chock full of amazing announcements, customer news and partnerships [...]

Finding, keeping and engaging fan is obviously crucial and although there is a myriad of social media services to help you do exactly this, it is a disorganized landscape.  The following article appeared in Billboard Magazine this past week and gives a great overview of how Crowd Factory is helping to keep fan energy high [...]

Crowd Factory has had an amazing 2011 so far in part to the amazingly creative & fun working people! We have prepare our entry for the Forrester Groundswell Awards, take a look and let us know what you think! My Forrester Groundswell Awards How Britney Spears Used a Group Deal to Debut at #1 Britney [...]

Are you enjoying your summer so far? JLO wants to know how you LOVE? to spend your summer! How is this for a social campaign: Tweet a picture with the hashtag #imintoyou, JLo will retweet, and feature one lucky LOVE?R each week on her official website every Monday! And now you can win an autographed [...]

Crowd Factory, an industry leader in Social Media ROI applications, all smiles today after being named to the AlwaysOn “OnDemand 100 Top Private Companies for 2011”.  AlwaysOn named Crowd Factory to the list in the Business Management Applications category.  And now a brief excerpt from the article: AlwaysOn is excited to announce the 100 top, [...]