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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.
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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.
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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 April 2003 Martin Schneider	Prove It Gone are the days when CRM vendors could pitch features and functionality, close the deal, hit the trail, and never look back. Today's CRM buyers demand proof during the presale that the CRM technology they are considering will deliver the promised results.
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CRM July 1, 2003 Phillip Britt	Eight Building Blocks for CRM Success Companies are continuing to pursue CRM projects in 2003 despite the discontent from many about earlier failures and the harsh business climate. But most companies are now taking a more cautious approach to their implementations.
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CRM August 1, 2003 Martin Schneider	Quick Wins? In CRM initiatives, faster may mean better -- but not always.
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.
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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 June 2, 2003 Martin Schneider	Hosts With the Most (Partners, That Is) ASP partnerships are aimed at giving customers robust CRM at a low price point. But are two vendors better than one?
CRM April 2010 Barton Goldenberg	Your People Are Half the Battle You have a simple choice: Prepare your people or prepare for failure.
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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."
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CRM September 2003 Guglielmo et al.	The 2003 Market Leaders (Part 1) Which vendors are leading the industry? CRM magazine scrutinized CRM suite vendors and related categories to uncover the top-five leaders in each category: enterprise CRM, mid-market CRM, analytics, contact center outsourcers, and consulting firms.
CRM November 3, 2003 Ginger Conlon	Take My Advice -- Please During the recent Frost & Sullivan Sales & Marketing Strategies Executive Summit, we asked the SuperPowers of CRM panelists: If you were in an elevator and had 30 seconds to give one important piece of advice on CRM, what would it be?
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CRM January 2004 Jason Compton	How to use training to get buy-in for CRM Unless CRM project leaders bring to the training table a clear picture of how their teams will accomplish these goals, their CRM strategy may be prematurely grounded.
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CRM May 2004 Martin Schneider	CRM Superstars Every winning CRM initiative has a power user whose leadership makes the difference between a stalled initiative and a stellar success. Here are the stories of three of these frontline luminaries: one in sales, the second in marketing, and the third in customer service.
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CRM March 1, 2004 David Myron	Vertical Focus: Integrators: Necessary Evil or Indispensible Resource? North American companies shelled out $16.8 billion for CRM services last year. Large enterprise customers find professional services firms often add complexity to CRM implementations, but most are likely to use at least one services firm.
CRM February 2003 Lisa Picarille	The ABCs of Global CRM CRM is making it as easy for international companies to share information among offices scattered across the globe as it is for them to share it with coworkers down the hall. The secret to mastering this in your company is to follow these 10 essential guidelines.
CRM February 2, 2004	Why CRM? An exclusive survey reveals the primary motivators for deploying CRM.
CRM July 2005 Barton Goldenberg	Real-Time CRM: A Business Revolution in the Making Three trends are bringing companies to the next logical step and will fuel the next major growth in CRM and help organizations respond to customers' needs in real time.
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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.
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