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Socializing with Your Customers and Why It is Effective

Andi Anugrah's picture

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is the model for managing and understanding a companies’ interaction with their customers and potential sales prospects. Utilizing advanced software to organize and unify the practices of a business, CRM combines customer service, technical support and marketing into a single plan that can be executed to help a company fully reach its potential.

Why is CRM Important?

Baby Boomers, andGen-X, and Gen-Y, oh my!

Sarah Hedayati's picture

Every generation has a catchy title and explanation about how they see the world and how they function best. With a plethora of titles for different generations, it’s time to ask ourselves “Do we tailor our service to these diverse customers?”

If you are able to uncover how each generation of customers prefers to access customer service and prefers to be communicated with, you can develop long lasting relationships with customers that secure a lifetime of loyalty.

Baby Boomers – 1946 to 1964

Top 10 Things to Remember When Configuring Your Call Centers IVR Menu

Nicolas D Alleva's picture

There's no argument to defend the reality that complex IVR menus can frustrate callers. Where IVR menus are structured to organize customer requests and put customer service back in the hands of the customers, the complex hierarchy of menus can make someone regret using your company. In the initial days of IVR, there was an accepted assumption that the faster a caller is able to speak with a live agent, the higher their satisfaction level with the overall experience will be. However, recent surveys and studies have shown that regardless of whether the customer is serviced by a live agent, a speech recognition engine based virtual agent, or through self service; what is important is that actual delivery of the service request is fast and efficient. 

How to Make SEO a Success with Keywords & Links

Brianne Walter's picture

Search engine optimization

One of the important elements in search engine optimization is keywords and link as they play impute high return to the website. Moreover the keywords will reflect the reputation of the company and also they are only source which connect the website to its traffic. The reason behind this is when the internet users browse about a particular topic on search engine such as Google, yahoo, they will get few links which will facilitate them to connect with the particular keywords.

 

How Small Businesses Choose Cloud Applications

Christophe  Primault's picture

 

Most small businesses need access to enterprise level software, especially in terms of customer relationship management (CRM) software, but they don't have the budget. Therefore, business owners turn to cloud applications that offer useful technology for a budget friendly monthly rental fee. With the advent of cloud apps experts worried about security, and surely there have been a few instances where that fear proved correct. However, the truth is, a small business can enjoy using secure enterprise level software with cloud based business apps.

 

CRM Software Reviews

Aina Neva Fiati's picture

Top CRM Software Reviews for large, medium, and small businesses. 

Today we did crm software reviews for sage act, sugar crm, planplus online, and zendesk to see what all the fuss was about.

Social Media vs SEO

Amanda Frazier's picture

Social media vs SEO is like men are from Mars, women are from Venus.  SEO would be Mars: cold, rocky, and technical.  Social media would be Venus: passionate, energetic, and inspirational.  Many will attempt to enter these unfamiliar domains, yet few will succeed. 

Apple: a practical human inquiry into service, customer experience and customer-centricity

Maz Iqbal's picture

Is Apple customer-centric?

I notice that I and You often talk about and collapse customer service, customer experience, customer loyalty and customer-centricity.  Should we?  How are these related?  What is the distinguishing feature of customer centricity?  Apple – is Apple customer-centric?  Come walk with me and lets’ use our imaginations to conduct an experiment.

 

20 Tips For Engaging Customers With Social Media

Amanda Frazier's picture

Not alot of companies and small businesses really get the point of social media and engaging customers.  Often, we'll see people attempting to make sales pitches with social media, and wonder why they aren't getting the remarkable amounts of traffic they've heard about.

5 Benefits of CRM on Your Profit

Amanda Frazier's picture

Everyone tells us about the benefits of CRM as engagement, satisfaction, and brand.  But what about the CRM benefits to the company?  The profit in other words.

Statistics show us that the benefits of CRM (customer relationship management) can clearly be seen in our bottomline.  The proof of CRM benefits is in our profit margins.  Our ROI.  So, perhaps we should guess again when we throw our hands up in the air at things those CRM professionals talk about?  Things like customer engagement, customer retention, customer relationship management, and social media.

Email management: nurturing or blowing up your brand, one customer at a time.

Scott  Hornstein's picture

Companies stand united under the flag of CRM, saluting it as the righteous way to profitability. Many, however, apply it with a broad brush, actively undercutting their potential return. Here’s what I mean.

Never Forget Your Internal Customers

Jonathan Farrington's picture

 

Ask a colleague to define the customer and they will probably say ‘Someone who buys from us.’

What about internal customers? Colleagues, other departments, branches, suppliers? They are equally as important and deserve to have their problems and complaints taken seriously.

External customers sense if there is a good working atmosphere, a co-coordinated approach to customer service, teamwork and high morale. It gives them confidence to stay with you.

Passing Blame

State of the Market - A Survey for Marketing and Demand Gen Consultants

Lauren  Carlson's picture

My company, Software Advice, is a free online resource for marketing automation software buyers. We literally spend over 10 hours a day talking to software buyers on the phone, helping them sort through the thousands of systems on the market to identify a short list. After we help them decide on what systems to research, the vendors take over and our job is basically done. However, many customers that we speak with are not only looking to buy software, but also for some additional help along the way.

The CRM Process – Step By Step

Amanda Frazier's picture

A simple, step-by-step guide for businesses implementing a CRM process, also called a Customer Relationship Management process.

 Overview of the CRM Process

Customer Experience Design: it’s not about the process it’s about the human being

Maz Iqbal's picture

The problem with Customer Experience is the Designers

Is the engineering / six sigma way of thinking and approaching the business world the right one for designing and orchestrating customer experiences?  Walk into many business, take a look at who is involved in Customer Experience efforts and the way that they are going about it and the answer is YES.  I am not in agreement with this view, this approach. 

6 Great Examples of Customer Service

Amanda Frazier's picture

This isn’t just examples of customer service; this is great examples of customer service techniques you can use to decrease costs, and better satisfy your customers.

Believe it or not, a business actually has many different examples to choose from when it comes to implementing a customer service process (also known as a customer relationship management process).  The technique you choose should be dependent on who your target market is, the product/service you’re offering, and mostly just…how your customers like to be handled.

Why Is CRM Important?

Amanda Frazier's picture

Why is CRM important?  Because there is no greater feeling in the world to a customer then being understood.  The best CRM software solutions are more than just a customer’s name and telephone number.  They are a roadmap of your customer that will lead your business to success for years to come.  A CRM software will track a customer’s personality, preferences, how they like to be talked to, how they view value, and so much more.  It is exactly what will take your business from being a one-man

The vital link between CRM and the customer life cycle

Rafferty  Nicholas James's picture

There are many elements involved in creating a successful business but one thing is always for certain: your customers need to be at the heart of whatever you do. Two business concepts – the customer life cycle and customer relationship management – can help companies to make the most of their customers, ensuring that they are offering good services and maximising their chances of creating a sustainable business.

Best CRM Software of 2012

Aina Neva Fiati's picture

ThinkAboutCRM.com is proud to present our annual Best CRM Software Awards, featuring the best crm software in each category. Every day we are asked, what is the best crm software? So we've searched through thousands of the best CRM software solutions to test the best of the best.

7-Step Process for Maximizing Webinar Registration, Attendance and Yield

Scott  Hornstein's picture

Webinars serve a dual purpose: to educate or impart specific value; to further the customer conversation, and, as a by-product, generate high-quality leads.

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