CRM Update – Apr 28 : 3:06 pm

There are so many things that can cause the numbers to be different. You will want to take one stat at a time as you are trying to reconcile. First start

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.What’s New This Week?Google+ Introduces the Share Button: Use the new Google+ Share button to encourage visitors to share your content with their friends.This button is perfect for content that users may want to share but not +1.Google AdWords Come to YouTube: “With Google AdWords for video, you only pay when someone chooses to watch your ad, and you can create and manage video campaigns from the same platform as your search and display ads…

In the three years that Square has existed, the company and its hugely popular line of smartphone and tablet-compatible credit card readers have grown consistently in terms of both merchant usage and consumer popularity.
Regardless of the tangible success at Square, no one was prepared for the announcement that came this week from the company – perhaps not even some employees at Square. As it turns out, the Jack Dorsey-founded firm has experienced a payment volume increase of 25 percent since last month alone…

8thBridge has launched a new platform that will help retailers integrate their social commerce offering with their other sales and marketing channels. Retailers partnering with 8thBridge will be able to offer their customers a seamless online shopping experience.
The Graphite platform has been built from scratch to make it easier to integrate social media and other marketing channels.
“Real social commerce scale required it to move from its point solution beginnings to a more integrated approach,” said Jon Kubo, the Chief Product Officer at 8thBridge…

A few daily deals sites such as LivingSocial and Scoutmob have been offering editorial content apart from coupons and offers. In the case of LivingSocial, its SocialStudiesDC, was mostly an attempt to ensure that people spent more time at its site. The interesting content ensured that people spent more time at the site, thereby, making them more likely to click on the link to the daily deals list.
Even though the intent behind providing content was marketing, the staffers and others who wrote the blog did provide a lot of interesting reading on arts and entertainment…