customer relationship management

CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, is a company-wide business strategy designed to reduce costs and increase profitability by solidifying customer loyalty.

True CRM brings together information from all data sources within an organization, and where appropriate, from outside the organization, to give one, holistic view of each customer in real time. This allows customer facing employees in such areas as sales, customer support, and marketing to make quick yet informed decisions on everything from cross-selling and up selling opportunities to target marketing strategies to competitive positioning tactics, as it’s well known that buying patterns are showing a clear shift away from sales and marketing applications in favor of service- based software. 

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Original Technorati articles tagged “customer relationship management”

• in IT
  SugarCRM Debuts Business Process Management Integration
  SugarCRM announces integration with ProcessMaker open source business process management suite.
  by gsimon / on Apr 10, 2013
• in Business
  SMS Text Message Marketing Signals Shift in Agency/Client Relationships
  Many agencies are simply at the mercy of the whims of their clients when it comes to mobile marketing.
  by gbassett / on Jul 6, 2010
• in Small Business
  Customer Relationship Management in the SMB Segment
  The art of customer relationship management (CRM) has evolved into a science over the past two decades. Why haven't small business owners caught up?
  by simzaolly / on Dec 21, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “customer relationship management”

 

• Can Customer Relationship Management Increase Sales?

  
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  In any company, the sales force plays a very important part in generation of revenues. The sales force has to generate new leads as well as pitch new products to your existing client base. In addition to the sales force, … Continue reading → The post Can Customer Relationship Management Increase Sales? ...
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• Daily Matching and Merging of Guest Data to Make the Guest Unique

  
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  In the hospitality industry , storing information about guests and their stays is critical to tailoring offers to each guest. Information regarding the guest and the stay is stored in a system called the property management system at the hotel franchise’s corporate headquarters.  The property management system ...
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• Simplify Customer Management

  
  Halloo - Random Musings, Thoughts & News About Small Business Communications — Authority: 126
  Do you remember your first job with a desk and phone? Did you have to use a company sponsored software program? Most likely the customer relationship management (CRM) program provided was unnecessarily complex. With bulky, complex customer tracking software, the volume of data that needs to be entered, let alone ...
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• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Polaris

  
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  In  December  2012,  Microsoft  released  their  next  interim  release  to  significantly  increase  the  functionality  of  Dynamics  CRM.  Microsoft  introduced  a  brand  new  look  and  feel  in  their  user  experience  (UX)  which  they  call  the  “Flow  UX.” They’ve  ...
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• CRM Classifications: Operational, Analytical and Collaborative

  
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  There are many steps in the modern sales process. Automation of these steps can provide your organization with a more complete customer profile and save time and resources. Companies must balance the desire to conduct business quickly and efficiently with maintaining customer relations. CRM (Customer Relationship ...
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• How to Create a Social Support Team for Free

  
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  Do you have customers seeking support via social media? Are people talking about your company online? Many companies simply can’t afford to hire a social support team. So what are your options to manage these conversations with little to no resources? Keep reading for tips on how you can create a free or low-cost ...
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• How to use Drip Marketing to your advantage in SaaS

  
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  Drip marketing helps brands stay relevant to their prospects and build relationships over time. To remain in a healthy state, SaaS businesses should strive to get customers at the lowest cost possible. Drip marketing gives SaaS founders an opportunity to establish their credibility in the market and convert leads to ...
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• Little Bird: A game changer for tracking influencers

  
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  Photo by Jessica May H on Flickr (CC BY license) New social tool helps agencies, businesses mine verticals for the big kahunas Target audience: Businesses, brands, digital marketers, advertising agencies, SEO specialists, entrepreneurs, educators, journalists, Web publishers. I f you know how social media ...
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• How to Avoid Churn and Identify Risk

  
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  When a SaaS customer churns, it isn’t just a sign of dissatisfaction with your product. As Lincoln Murphy puts it, lost customers are literally “threat to your business, your revenue, [and] your ability to grow.” Regardless of whether your company has a churn rate in the range of 5-7%, it’s critical to ...
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• Main Techniques Used in Customer Retention Strategies

  
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  Conventionally, businesses lose about 20 percent of their customers solely because of failing to maintain good customer relationships. Customer loss is consequential in the immediate and in the long-run with implications ranging from slowed development, reduced revenues, loss of the competitive edge and so forth. It ...
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• Monday’s Musings: The Controversy Surrounding Gartner’s CRM Market Share Analysis

  
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  The Gartner Market Share Analysis:CRM Software Report Raises Questions On Accuracy of Market Sizing Reports The recent Gartner report “ Market Share Analysis: Customer Relationship Management Software, Worldwide, 2012 ” has generated some controversy among the enterprise software set.  The report and other ...
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• 3 Ways Analytics Boost Traditional Retailers’ CRM Strategies

  
  Trends and Outliers - TIBCO Spotfire's Business Intelligence Software Blog — Authority: 132
  To reach customers where they live, so to speak, traditional retailers should take a peek at what their pure-play e-commerce brethren are doing – incorporating analytics into their CRM (customer relationship management) strategies to ensure profitable relationships with their customers. For brick-and-mortar ...
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• When Requirements Go Awry

  
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  You may have seen this before--it is a great comic strip on how requirements can go awry.  When you look at how product or service requirements look from each persons vantage point, it is easy to see how they can be misunderstand, misinterpreted, or misrepresented.  Getting clarity of the tire swing ...
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• Online Success Starts with CXM

  
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  Customer Experience Management uses technology to provide a personal and consistent experience for each user in order to turn prospects into life-long clients. CXM incorporates inbound marketing, personalized web experiences, and a customer relationship management (CRM) system to measure, rate and evaluate customer ...
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• It’s tax season….the IRS does not have to be the only ones auditing!

  
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  Enabling auditing is a quick and effective way to help ensure data integrity. Have you ever had a Sales Rep ask who changed the status of a record? Have you ever wondered who deactivated a large set of account records? These types of questions and hurdles can easily be answered through auditing. Turn ...
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• Salesforce.com Wants to Help You Transition to a Customer Company

  
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  Coincidentally or not, my industry analyst career started at about the same time that salesforce.com was founded, back in 1999. And boy, has the vocal cloud software company had an amazing transition over the years—once dismissed as a fad-like niche sales force automation (SFA) vendor with glorified contact ...
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• Want More Customers? 5 Things You Need To Get Them

  
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  She was hot and mad because she had to wait. My client recently told me about a customer who was ticked off  because she had to wait in line to check out to buy a gift certificate. I said “How many people were in front her?” One person.  She didn’t want to wait. Our system [...]
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• Main Street Realty’s $22 Million Warehouse Project

  
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  Main Street Realty, a Louisville realty company owned by Humana Inc., plans to break ground this April on a $22 million warehouse project. The planned 600,000-square foot distribution center will be located in the Cedar Grove Business Park in Shepherdsville, KY. Main Street Realty decided it was time to begin a large ...
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• Content marketing struggles to find a spot with CMOs

  
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  This post is by  Anton Buchner , a senior consultant with  TrinityP3 . Anton is a lateral and innovative thinker with a passion for refocusing business teams and strategies; creating visionary, data driven communication plans; and making sense of a more complex digital marketing environment. CMO’s struggle to ...
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• Customer Relationship Management Made Easy

  
  Halloo - Random Musings, Thoughts & News About Small Business Communications — Authority: 126
  Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems such as Salesforce.com have become the defacto sales and support tool for large enterprise and government organizations worldwide. The idea is pretty simple: manage your business interactions in a central database so that your sales and support organization can leverage ...
  3 weeks ago

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