SocialCrush reveals name change to CrushIQ following acquisition of ManoByte

Sept. 22, 2011 - PRLog -- Wilmington, NC –SocialCrush, the popular social media educational and business strategy company announces the company’s name change to CrushIQ. “With our recent acquisition of the online marketing, analytical and networking company, ManoByte, and the addition of ManoByte founder, Kevin Dean, to our ownership team, we believe CrushIQ better illustrates our company’s mantra of ‘being the intelligence behind social business,’” states Tim Moore, CEO and co-founder of CrushIQ.

This acquisition brings revolutionary and proprietary analytical tools, processes and services to CrushIQ’s business development offering. “Social networking technologies and platforms have changed the way we communicate forever and will require companies be able to understand these changes, actively engage with the marketplace and understand what platforms will give them the best bang for their marketing buck,” states Kevin Dean, CrushIQ’s new chief strategist. “That requires mining, analyzing and understanding the data provided through online social channels and innovating in that space is what I’ve built my career on.”

Dean has taken over social strategy development for both CrushIQ and its clients, and will be a featured instructor at upcoming CrushIQ events in Nashville, TN; and Washington, DC.

“We have been very fortunate to add tremendous talent to our ownership team,” says Moore. “I believe that’s because from the very beginning, at CrushIQ, we have believed our hands-on tactical training events, online educational center, consulting, strategy, processes and approach focus on so much more than just ‘social’; our focus has always been on the business behind social.”

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Media: For additional information about this acquisition or to set up an interview with CrushIQ’s CEO Tim Moore or another executive, please contact Kelly Burnette at 1-800-609-0930.

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