CRM adoption

Free vs Paid for CRM

Free vs. Paid for CRM

What am i missing out on with a Free vs. Paid for CRM. The answer is more involved than you may first appreciated. CRM is one of few things which is available both free or alternatively you can pay £1,000s. So why select a purchased CRM over a free version. There are multiple factors to …

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Using Excel as a CRM

Using excel as a CRM

We all have been using Excel as a CRM for years. It may be down to keeping our Christmas list up to date with our friends addresses or recording who has purchased the new soccer gear for the local kids team. However, for businesses it is not sustainable as a business grows. More than half …

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How to avoid CRM failure

How to avoid CRM failure

In this blog I consider some of the main ways how to avoid CRM failure within any organisation. There’s been a Failure against CRM in recent years with 25-30% of companies that implement CRM solutions feeling that they are getting the return they expected. The findings of a poll of 100 SME organisations with CRM …

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Customer Experience Management

WHAT IS CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT?

Customer experience management (CEM) is the collection of processes a company uses to track, oversee and organize every interaction between a customer and the organization throughout the customer lifecycle. So is Customer Experience Management (CEM) just a new term used to sell re-packaged Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software? WHAT IS Customer Experience Management and how …

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CRM Adoption

CRM Adoption

Sales’ Most Underutilized Resource The success of CRM deployments is fundamentally down to how successful the CRM adoption is within the team or the wider organisation. Recent research shows CRM utilization in organizations that are performing at world-class levels far exceeds that of the general population. So how can we ensue that our CRM adoption …

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