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CRM December 1, 2006 |
The Pulse: In 2007 my Company Plans to... Increase its CRM budget: 40%... Maintain its CRM budget: 27%... etc. |
CRM November 2003 Ginger Conlon |
How Do You Measure Success? Let us count the ways: Sales measures success one way, marketing another way, service another, and IT yet another. For this reason the first step of any CRM initiative should be to set mutually agreed-upon goals and metrics. |
CRM August 2, 2004 |
Who's Who in CRM In May CRM magazine presented a list of some of the industry's key players. This month we continue that recognition with a look at two executives from Microsoft. |
CRM February 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Can't Get No Dissatisfaction In an exclusive survey conducted, CRM magazine finds that a surprising number of executives are pleased with their CRM system -- and with their results. |
CRM August 2003 Paul Greenberg |
Customer Loyalty? Get Over It. Customer Satisfaction? Way To Go. True loyalty is rarely attainable, so set your sights on something within reach: satisfaction. |
CRM December 2003 Paul Greenberg |
Creating Realistic Customer Expectations Lessons about escalating customer expectations of CRM software beyond reason were not learned. |
CRM March 1, 2004 |
Just 1 Question Should companies expect their CRM vendors to help them use CRM to determine who their most profitable customers are? |
CRM March 3, 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Creating a CRM Culture Companies want their people to use new CRM processes, but what's most important is getting those employees to think differently. If your company does not fully embrace CRM, the initiative will stall or fail. |
CRM April 1, 2008 |
The Pulse How Does Your Company Handle its CRM Solution? |
CRM July 1, 2004 |
The Pulse: Does Your CEO Use the CRM Tools Your Company Has in Place? Graph shows that 53% of CEOs don't use CRM tools. |
CRM April 2006 Barton Goldenberg |
Executive Support: The Most Important CRM Success Factor For organizations that have succeeded in their CRM initiative, executive support stands out as the single most important ingredient for success. Let's examine why by looking at examples of three levels of executive support. |
CRM January 2010 Barton Goldenberg |
Assessing Your CRM Situation You can't know where you are unless you look - and look hard. |
CRM March 1, 2005 David Myron |
What Is CRM? Defining CRM as merely a technology solution only distorts its purpose and value. It is better to view CRM as a business process. |
CRM July 2003 Laura Pollard |
Enterprise Schmenterprise Who truly sees the value of enterprise CRM? |
CIO February 1, 2002 Danielle Dunne |
Beware of the CRM Backlash Jill Dyche contends that CRM projects would work better if companies did a better job defining their specific needs... |
CRM July 2010 J. David Lashar |
The Cautionary Tales of CRM Words of wisdom drawn from decades of disappointment. |
CRM February 2, 2004 |
Why CRM? An exclusive survey reveals the primary motivators for deploying CRM. |
Search Engine Watch August 19, 2010 Jacob Morgan |
Interactions With Transactions: Understanding Social CRM Empowering advocates and improving the customer experience is a key focal point of social customer relationship management. An introduction to the philosophy and business strategy. |
CRM April 13, 2004 Ginger Conlon |
People Are the Most Important Part of the CRM Equation Customer focus starts at the very top of the organization. |
CRM November 2003 Barton Goldenberg |
CRM Is Not a Game of Chance Don't commit to any CRM application until first understanding your CRM needs -- then understand which CRM application best meets them. |
CRM January 2014 Marshall Lager |
Bidding Social CRM a Fond Farewell A transformative term is being retired. What does it mean to us? |
CRM April 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Making CRM Pay Off Like any worthwhile endeavor, it takes a great deal of planning and effort to get real results from CRM. |
CRM February 2003 Paul Greenberg |
Making CRM Whole-Brained Metrics and ROI will not materialize unless CRM incorporates major cultural change as an element of success. |
CRM August 27, 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Required Reading Author Russ Lombardo offers practical advice on gathering information to design and plan the right CRM strategy, getting buy-in, and planning for ROI in "CRM for the Common Man." |
CRM May 2003 Frederick Newell |
Who's the Boss? In Why CRM Doesn't Work: How to Win by Letting Customers Manage the Relationship, the author reminds us who should really be in charge. An excerpt. |
CIO May 1, 2002 Lafe Low |
What We're Buying When you look at the IT shopping lists of most companies, CRM technology is consistently at the top. In fact, CRM spending will outpace spending in other infrastructure technology categories such as content management and supply chain management... |
CRM August 27, 2003 Lisa Picarille |
Vertical Focus: Government Some of the major trends in government CRM include increasing the amount of services offered online and improving the metrics to gauge CRM efforts. |
CRM March 2012 Jim Dickie |
Are the CRM Wars Really Over? Existing CRM users would be well advised to test the waters to see if something that would work better for them exists. |
CRM April 2015 Barton Goldenberg |
Social CRM in Action Businesses discover the value of social communities. |
CRM September 19, 2014 Sameer Bhatia |
5 Reasons Your CRM Is Failing (and What You Can Do About It) Don't let these common, but fixable, obstacles stand in the way of CRM success. |
CRM July 1, 2004 Ginger Conlon |
CRM: Alive and Kicking Instead of complaining about the confusion with CRM, we should educate people interested in implementing CRM--the strategy--in their companies. |
CRM June 2, 2003 |
Hot Seat: Ruth Fornell on Data Quality Ruth Fornell, formerly CMO of NCR's Teradata division and now vice president, payment and imaging solutions for NCR's financial services division, knows a thing or two about the role data plays in CRM initiatives. She recently shared some insights. |
CRM December 2003 Ginger Conlon |
CRM Success Is Your Responsibility You can't just purchase CRM software, load it up, and expect it to work. |
Search Engine Watch October 14, 2010 Jacob Morgan |
5 Social CRM Myths, Busted Social customer relationship management isn't a magic solution to what ails your company. However, it can help you solve your problems and meet business objectives around the evolving needs of your social customers. |
CRM May 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Love Is in the Air I recently attended customer events hosted by Onyx and Salesforce.com, during which these vendors were spreading the love. The love of their products, that is. Going to these events gave me the opportunity to speak to customers face-to-face about the results they're seeing from CRM. |
CRM March 25, 2011 Jim Davies |
Applying the Eight Building Blocks of CRM to Social Media How to improve the effectiveness and long-term success of social CRM initiatives |
CRM November 3, 2003 |
Insuring CRM Success A recent Aberdeen Group study found that CRM investment is on the rise in the insurance industry. |
CRM January 1, 2008 Joshua Weinberger |
CRM Market Set to Double Recent studies predict the global CRM market will double within six years, and suggest explosive growth in CRM adoption across every segment - especially on-demand CRM. |
CIO June 29, 2011 Todd R. Weiss |
Is Your CRM System Meeting Your Enterprise's Needs? Your customer needs have been changing. Is your CRM system keeping pace? If you deployed your system 10 years ago, chances are that it's probably not. |
CRM October 18, 2004 |
The Pulse: In 2005 we Plan to... A chart summarizing in what direction companies plan to move regarding CRM spending. |
CRM April 2010 Barton Goldenberg |
Your People Are Half the Battle You have a simple choice: Prepare your people or prepare for failure. |
CRM June 22, 2012 David Mattson |
Combine Sales Training and CRM for a Winning Environment Many people look at sales training and CRM as two separate functions that operate independently of one another. Would it surprise you to hear that they actually complement one another, and that sales training should always include consideration of the CRM strategy? |
CRM September 1, 2004 |
Who's Who in CRM In May CRM magazine presented the first installment in a list of some of the industry's key players. This month we continue that recognition with a look at executives from StayinFront. |
CRM September 2004 Britt et al. |
The 2004 Market Leaders CRM vendors have individually and collectively worked to build confidence in the discipline, and those efforts are paying off. Read on to see what companies prevailed from 2003, and how others are leaving an indelible mark on the industry. |
CRM May 2007 Barton Goldenberg |
A CRM Initiative's Bermuda Triangle Two best practice suggestions for preventing -- permanently -- CRM user-adoption disappearance. |
CRM September 1, 2006 |
The Pulse: Is Your Company Using or Planning to Use Open Source CRM? A Reader Poll: We Use an Open Source CRM Solution: 22%... We Are Planning to Implement an Open Source CRM Solution in 2006: 14%... etc. |
CRM April 2008 Jim Dickie |
The Poker Dynamics of CRM Today's companies are finding a full house of technology options. |
CRM November 15, 2004 Ginger Conlon |
The Changing Face of CRM Customer commitment has always been and will continue to be the ultimate goal of CRM. |
CRM August 2, 2004 |
The Pulse: Is your CRM initiative designed to... What's your CRM initiative designed to do, meet customer needs or internal needs? Results of a reader poll. |
Bank Technology News June 2001 Jan Jaben-Eilon |
Looking for Payback from CRM For banks, good CRM starts with a good business culture... |