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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 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 March 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Stand by Me One of the main reasons companies implement CRM is to foster customer loyalty. But as a customer of CRM vendors, how loyal should you be? |
CRM January 2, 2004 Ginger Conlon |
Great Service Is Your Call There is no CRM success without communication. |
CRM September 2004 Barton Goldenberg |
Don't Put the Cart Before the Horse Process excellence helps some companies enhance business processes like streamlining new product development and improving CRM. |
CRM May 2008 Barton Goldenberg |
Is Your Contact Center Built for Multichannel Customers? The boom in self-service doesn't mean your agents are off the hook. |
CRM May 2004 Barton Goldenberg |
Customer Self-Service: Are You Ready? A new generation of customers want service on their terms. Here are five self-service stragies. |
CRM April 1, 2007 Collins et al. |
Satisfying a Double Standard How to capture the real self-service opportunity. Satisfying the double standard of attempting to drive customers to lower cost channels while improving the experience is the key to success. |
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. |
CRM February 2, 2004 |
Hot Seat: Self-Help Alters the Service Landscape As Web self-help grows in popularity among both customers and the companies that serve them, CRM magazine asks: Can Web self-help solutions enable companies to bring outsourced customer service efforts back in house? Why or why not? |
The Motley Fool October 26, 2005 Tom Taulli |
RightNow Is Getting It Right The CRM software provider is poised to capitalize on circumstances in its market. Investors, take note. |
CRM July 8, 2013 |
New Survey Highlights the Growth of Web Self-Service Web and mobile apps are gaining ground on interactive voice response systems as the self-service channel of choice. |
CRM August 2, 2004 Jerri Ledford |
Reducing CRM's Total Cost of Ownership How organizations increase the value of their CRM initiatives while keeping costs low. |
CRM April 3, 2015 Robert Johnson |
5 Tips to Supercharge Customer Services A teamwork-centered approach is an essential foundation. |
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 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. |
CRM April 1, 2005 Coreen Bailor |
Self-Service Satisfaction More customers are adopting Web self-service, but not all customers are satisfied. |
CRM December 1, 2006 |
The Pulse: In 2007 my Company Plans to... Increase its CRM budget: 40%... Maintain its CRM budget: 27%... etc. |
CRM August 2005 Coreen Bailor |
Do It Yourself Web self-service done right, in the right enterprise, can return some real benefits. Here, a review of the five top vendors with robust, integrated solutions. |
CRM January 2005 Barton Goldenberg |
5 Ways to Refocus Your CRM Efforts This year, seize new opportunities for gaining--and keeping--customer loyalty. |
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 September 26, 2014 Jake Wobbrock |
Changing Consumer Behaviors Make Self-Service Growth Inevitable To give today's customers what they want, help them help themselves. |
CRM April 1, 2004 |
Heard and Overheard Quotes from business people: Charles Phillips, copresident, Oracle... Peter McCullagh, group vice president for CRM strategy, Siebel Systems... etc. |
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 March 3, 2003 Ginger Conlon |
Take My Advice, Please Several CRM industry executives answer the question: If you could give one piece of advice to CRM project leaders, what would it be? |
CRM January 2004 Barton Goldenberg |
Is Government CRM the Next Big Boom? Citizens are customers, too. And government agencies are looking for better ways to serve them. |
CRM April 2015 Barton Goldenberg |
Social CRM in Action Businesses discover the value of social communities. |
CRM June 2005 Jim Dickie |
A Little Help From Your Friends A new crop of CRM services firms help solve data-related frustrations. |
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 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 December 2006 Marshall Lager |
The New World of Sophistication From mashups and analytics to melanges and intimacy, in the coming year CRM's evolving opposable thumbs will add dexterity to business processes. |
CRM October 2007 Coreen Bailor |
Help Them Help Themselves Web self-service means having your customer become her own customer service rep -- but without making her resent doing what a real CSR can do in a fraction of the time. |
InternetNews August 17, 2010 |
Microsoft Ships Self-Serve Virtualization Tool Software giant unveils version 2.0 of a service that enables corporate users to create and maintain a virtualization infrastructure on a self-serve basis. |
Bank Systems & Technology March 29, 2006 Phil Britt |
Help Those Who Help Themselves Customer expectations are raising the bar for bank self-service. |
CRM July 2003 Laura Pollard |
Enterprise Schmenterprise Who truly sees the value of enterprise CRM? |
CRM April 2010 Barton Goldenberg |
Your People Are Half the Battle You have a simple choice: Prepare your people or prepare for failure. |
CRM March 2004 Barton Goldenberg |
People Make or Break a CRM Initiative What drives CRM success is getting the people, process, and technology mix right. The people side of a CRM initiative accounts for 50 percent of its success, so it is especially important to tackle that aspect from the outset |
CRM August 2003 Martin Schneider |
New & Noteworthy Enterprise CRM Oracle has released updates to Oracle Service and Oracle Marketing... Online CRM Salesnet announced that it has integrated instant messaging capabilities from AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo! into its wireless CRM application... etc. |
CRM April 1, 2006 Colin Beasty |
Business Problem: The Call Center Is Overwhelmed with Basic, Repetitive Inquiries With the average agent-assisted phone call as much as 30 times more expensive than a Web self-service interaction, properly implemented Web self-service solutions can save a company time, resources, and money. |
CIO November 1, 2002 Christopher Milliken |
A CRM Success Story The CEO of Boise Office Solutions suggests that giving customers greater economic value might just lead to a better ending. |
CRM September 1, 2004 Jason Compton |
The Siren Call of the Midmarket With so many choices and so many CRM vendors beating down the door to win midmarket business, customers need to be choosy without being paralyzed. |
CRM April 1, 2007 Colin Beasty |
Required Reading: A Peak at Sales Process An interview with Russ Lombardo about his new book, CyberSelling -- Using CRM Technology to Help You Sell. |
CRM January 2010 Barton Goldenberg |
Assessing Your CRM Situation You can't know where you are unless you look - and look hard. |
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 January 2004 Martin Schneider |
The Hard Sell Selling ice to Alaskans is a breeze compared with selling CRM internally to executives who resist commitment and users who shun change. Although the benefits of CRM may be clear to you, the challenge is to convince everyone else. Here's how. |
CRM December 2006 Barton Goldenberg |
Getting Executive Buy-In: A Pocket Guide Don't take it for granted, define the CRM initiative's goals from the jump, and closely link the organization's business direction to the initiative. |
CRM August 2010 David Myron |
Social CRM Gains Social Acceptance The emerging tools and technologies have already influenced the outcome of this year's CRM Market Awards. |
CRM August 8, 2014 Karnail Jita |
The Missing Piece of the Customer Experience Puzzle Visually enabled IVR picks up where apps and self-service leave off. |
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. |
Bank Technology News May 2002 David Rountree |
Meandering through the Commonsensical Middle Customer relationship management has a few inherent disadvantages in maintaining its good name. With CRM, data quality is job No.1. Training must be a close second... |