This document discusses how various emerging technologies can impact marketing and customer engagement. It provides examples of using social listening and analytics to generate sales leads. Key points include: 1) Technologies like IoT, AR/VR, AI and social media are changing how marketing works and allowing more personalized interactions. 2) Social media provides opportunities to better understand customers, engage them, build the brand and generate recommendations. 3) By tracking M&A rumors on social media and linking it to a CRM system, a company can identify potential sales leads and notify the relevant account managers. 4) The process involves analyzing social data using NLP to extract deal details, checking against existing databases, merging with CRM