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    Archie CRM

  • CRM voor het MKB
    CRM zal wel alleen voor grote bedrijven geschikt zijn met evenzo grote budgetten. Nee hoor. CRM is ook weggelegd voor kleine bedrijven, het MKB. The post CRM voor het MKB appeared first on Archie CRM.... Read more »
    Source: Archie CRM | Published: April 29, 2021 - 1:28 pm
  • ERP is geen CRM
    ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is een handig systeem, maar het is geen CRM. Moeten deze twee systemen gescheiden blijven? The post ERP is geen CRM appeared first on Archie CRM.... Read more »
    Source: Archie CRM | Published: April 29, 2021 - 1:17 pm
  • 8 Tips om promotors te maken van jouw klanten
    Leads die voortkomen uit verwijzingen van bestaande klanten, promotors, zijn goedkoper én kansrijker dan leads uit marketing campagnes. The post 8 Tips om promotors te maken van jouw klanten appeared first on Archie CRM.... Read more »
    Source: Archie CRM | Published: April 22, 2021 - 11:49 am
  • Hoe creatief ben jij met Account Based Marketing?
    Steeds meer organisaties omarmen een Account Based Marketing-aanpak. Dit is niet voor niets; ABM leidt tot een hoge ROI op sales- en marketinginspanningen. The post Hoe creatief ben jij met Account Based Marketing? appeared first on Archie CRM.... Read more »
    Source: Archie CRM | Published: March 18, 2021 - 8:32 am
  • Klant centraal bij Economische Zaken gemeenten
    Hoe zet je als afdeling Economische Zaken van gemeenten CRM in bij contacten met ondernemers. The post Klant centraal bij Economische Zaken gemeenten appeared first on Archie CRM.... Read more »
    Source: Archie CRM | Published: February 11, 2021 - 1:01 pm
  • Hoe verhoog je de omzet met klantpiramides?
    Zet klantenpiramides in om je klantwaarde te optimaliseren The post Hoe verhoog je de omzet met klantpiramides? appeared first on Archie CRM.... Read more »
    Source: Archie CRM | Published: January 21, 2021 - 12:51 pm
  • Geef vorm aan customer intimacy
    Interne communicatie is onderdeel van customer intimacy. Met het gebruik van CRM creëer je structuur en geef je medewerkers autonomie. The post Geef vorm aan customer intimacy appeared first on Archie CRM.... Read more »
    Source: Archie CRM | Published: January 11, 2021 - 11:00 am
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    Bob Thompson – CustomerThink

  • Secrets of Customer-Centric Success — Interview with Jeff Puritt, CEO of TELUS International
    Everyone says they want to be customer-centric and deliver a great customer experience. But most companies struggle, despite collecting customer feedback and investing in the latest technologies. The key to turning CX dreams into a real competitive advantage is leadership! Sign up for my new livestream interview show — Hooked... Read more »
    Source: Bob Thompson – CustomerThink | Published: March 26, 2021 - 8:24 pm
  • “State of Service” Report: Pandemic Driving Customers to Digital Channels and Automation
    Salesforce.com just released its latest “State of Service” report with insights into how 7,000+ service professionals are adapting during the pandemic. I’d like to highlight a few key findings with the help of customer service thought leaders. Let’s start with the critical role of customer service in customer loyalty. A... Read more »
    Source: Bob Thompson – CustomerThink | Published: December 15, 2020 - 11:26 pm
  • CX ROI: Making the Case to Improve the Buying Experience
    Sure, marketing and sales leaders want satisfied customers. But they won’t fund a CX initiative if that’s the main benefit. CX pros must show they are a valued contributor to the “revenue team.”... Read more »
    Source: Bob Thompson – CustomerThink | Published: June 12, 2020 - 7:05 pm
  • Is Customer Experience the Key to B2B Differentiation? Yes, the SERVICE Experience
    For years we’ve seen many surveys finding that Customer Experience (CX) is a top priority and the key to differentiation. To the point that it’s become a mantra, accepted without question. Unfortunately, “CX” is used so broadly that it’s not clear whether it means customer service, the end-to-end customer journey,... Read more »
    Source: Bob Thompson – CustomerThink | Published: May 15, 2020 - 6:05 pm
  • CX ROI: How to Justify Improving the Customer Service Experience
    To gain funding to improve the service experience, CX pros must support the KPIs of the customer service department. Improving customer satisfaction is not enough. At first blush, it should be a no-brainer to justify a Customer Experience (CX) program to improve the service experience. Customer Service (CS) is often... Read more »
    Source: Bob Thompson – CustomerThink | Published: May 1, 2020 - 8:33 pm
  • How to Sustain Relationships with Customers and Employees During the COVID-19 Crisis
    On April 23, 2020, CustomerThink’s Advisors came together to support a webinar with tips on how to deal with the COVID-19 crisis. In this post I share my opening comments and highlight some of the content shared by the speakers. I encourage everyone to view the full recording here. Be... Read more »
    Source: Bob Thompson – CustomerThink | Published: April 24, 2020 - 7:00 pm
  • 7 Global CX Experts Reveal How to Prove the Business Value of Customer Experience
    For the past three years (starting with this article) I’ve been banging the drum about a worrisome problem. Namely, less than one in four CX initiatives can demonstrate business impact in the form of tangible benefits. My argument in a nutshell: During a downturn, CX programs that can’t justify their... Read more »
    Source: Bob Thompson – CustomerThink | Published: April 10, 2020 - 9:42 pm
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    crm chart guy

  • Create Record Links From Power BI to Unified Interface and Dynamics 365
    A great dashboard in Dynamics 365, or Model-Driven App will not only show you the relevant data and insights, it will also make it easy to get to the relevant records so you can take action. Drill-downs and clicking on records to navigate to them has been the standard user... Read more »
    Source: crm chart guy | Published: November 4, 2020 - 2:55 pm
  • Use Icons from Power Apps Unified Interface in Power BI
    As Power BI is used increasingly within Dynamics 365 or Model-Driven apps, attention to detail in the user experience is increasingly important. Users should be able to seamlessly navigate between the two technologies, and the visual cues should match between them for a coherent user experience. Visual cues for example,... Read more »
    Source: crm chart guy | Published: October 22, 2020 - 10:28 pm
  • DirectQuery CDS from Power BI
    Last year I wrote a lengthy blog post comparing the three main methods of getting Dynamics 365, or Common Data Service data into Power BI for analysis. Now, at the most recent Microsoft Business Applications Summit, a new method was announced that I was finally able to try out. The... Read more »
    Source: crm chart guy | Published: May 30, 2020 - 4:05 am
  • VideoCompare This Year to Last Year – Unified Interface edition
    Some years ago, I wrote a blog post about how to create a chart that compared monthly sales, to the same month in the previous year. The approach required quite a bit of XML editing and the chart was limited to only comparing this and last year. No data from... Read more »
    Source: crm chart guy | Published: March 31, 2020 - 12:09 pm
  • Comparing the three main ways to get Dynamics 365 data into Power BI
    There are a few different ways to get your Dynamics 365 data into Power BI. Now that the Common Data Service connector has come out of preview and is generally available, I figured it would be a good time to have a look at the different methods and how they... Read more »
    Source: crm chart guy | Published: July 24, 2019 - 4:42 am
  • Power Query (M) Builder for the XrmToolBox (April 2019 update and fixes)
    It has been a little while since the last update, but Mohamed Rasheed and I just added some bug fixes and improvements to the Power Query (M) Builder for the XrmToolBox. If you are new to the Power Query (M) Builder and how it can accelerate Power BI report development... Read more »
    Source: crm chart guy | Published: April 25, 2019 - 4:27 am
  • Embed filtered Power BI reports on Dynamics 365 forms – again – the official way
    I realize this is my fourth blog on this particular topic, and I am sure it won’t be the last. The occasion: Microsoft has released a new built-in, easier way of embedding Power BI reports on Dynamics 365 and filter them according to record context. The approach is not as... Read more »
    Source: crm chart guy | Published: March 25, 2019 - 4:50 am
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    thinkJar, the blog!

  • Off to Greener Pastures…
    …stay tuned for details!... Read more »
    Source: thinkJar, the blog! | Published: December 13, 2019 - 11:59 pm
  • Engagement Defined In One Slide
    I have been accused many times of being “semantically driven” to differentiate myself (that means I am too focused on proper definitions and how to use terms well — see my position on hybrid clouds and social CRM from back in the day… oh, and journeys). I don’t do it for... Read more »
    Source: thinkJar, the blog! | Published: April 26, 2019 - 3:59 pm
  • We Finally Reached Peak of Inflated Expectations for AI
    if you are a fan of Gartner, and who among us is not – right?, you know about the hype cycle. image above, copyright Gartner, Inc. funny, well – i think it is, was that when i used to present as a G analyst i used to call it the... Read more »
    Source: thinkJar, the blog! | Published: March 1, 2019 - 2:03 pm
  • Here’s A Good Article on Storytelling
    https://www.cooper.com/journal/2017/7/people-dont-buy-your-product-they-buy-your-story? Invest the 5-10 minutes to read it, totally worth it. Quotage… “The secret to persuasion, influence, and motivation is a formula deeply grounded in storytelling.” and also… “People Don’t Buy Your Product, They Buy Your Story”... Read more »
    Source: thinkJar, the blog! | Published: February 12, 2019 - 8:05 pm
  • Deep Learning – Is It Really Over?
    this is one of those cases where paying attention brought two very different articles to contrast.  and am not sure which way to go with this – stay tuned. first, I read this article from Futurism on the end of the era of Deep Learning.  Quoting from it: Artificial intelligence... Read more »
    Source: thinkJar, the blog! | Published: February 4, 2019 - 2:00 pm
  • Fun Friday Fact (link)
    well, fifty-two of them actually. check this out, and have a great weekend.  starting now. View at Medium.com View at Medium.com... Read more »
    Source: thinkJar, the blog! | Published: February 1, 2019 - 6:31 pm
  • KM with AI??? Inconceivable??? Nah, Easy Peasy…
    I feel I am truly gifted…. or blessed…. or something. I have good clients that like what I say and write, and they hire me to explore topics that are emerging in the enterprise.  One of these awesome clients is Transversal, and they wanted to see what I could do... Read more »
    Source: thinkJar, the blog! | Published: January 30, 2019 - 6:00 am
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    PGreenblog

  • Life's Philosophy; Science's Purpose
    Much as I like to think and act exuberantly in the celebration of the abundance of life, I have days where I recognize that I’m 64 years old. Some of those days, I embrace the fact. Some of those... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry,... Read more »
    Source: PGreenblog | Published: September 29, 2014 - 2:00 pm
  • How Marketing-as-a-Service Builds Trust and Engagement
    Note: While I recover from vocal cord surgery, I can't do a whole lot. But that doesn't mean that a. ideas stop generating and b. others aren't doing a lot. They continue and they are. So what I... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the... Read more »
    Source: PGreenblog | Published: August 12, 2014 - 11:00 am
  • Happy New Year 2014AND Best Commercials 2013
    Actually, I have no criteria except I love these commercials. Some are brilliantly funny and cray cray adorbs. Some are beautiful, and soar. One will rip at your heart. I still think that good... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from... Read more »
    Source: PGreenblog | Published: December 31, 2013 - 7:23 pm
  • CRM Idol 2013 Voting Starts...NOW!
    Okay, patrons of the arts and sciences. We are down to the final week of CRM Idol 2013 and this is arguably the most exciting of them all. This is where you, the people, get to vote on who you... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The... Read more »
    Source: PGreenblog | Published: December 9, 2013 - 1:00 pm
  • Life Isnt Abstract: The Internet of Pings
    About three weeks ago, I wrote a post on my journey to health (losing weight) via a trip to the Duke Diet and Fitness Center (DFC) and also identified some broad lessons that can be generally applied... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts,... Read more »
    Source: PGreenblog | Published: November 25, 2013 - 12:00 pm
  • Life isn't Abstract: The Duke Diet and Fitness Center, Customer Experience and Me
    This one is personal – and will involve some information about me that you might not really care to hear – or maybe you do. If you don’t, either mentally redact it (though to do that you’d have to... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry,... Read more »
    Source: PGreenblog | Published: November 1, 2013 - 1:10 pm
  • CRM Musings, Miscellany and Doings
    CRM Musings and Miscellany: Short Bits Every now and then I get a hankering to just do these short, pithy (there’s no lisp involved here) things rather than my usual long-winded posts. This is the... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news... Read more »
    Source: PGreenblog | Published: July 1, 2013 - 11:00 am
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    Lynn Hunsaker – CustomerThink

  • Customer Experience Metrics Tutorial
    Customer experience metrics are the most important choices in your CX strategy! What you monitor shapes your mindsets, conversations and actions. Yet recent studies show that only 21% of businesses are “very or extremely satisfied” with their ability to quantify the impact of customer experience on business results.1 There’s no... Read more »
    Source: Lynn Hunsaker – CustomerThink | Published: April 16, 2021 - 7:17 am
  • B2B CX Metrics & ROI Maturity: Linking Customer Expectations to Business Performance
    B2B customer experience metrics maturity is about embedding automatic CX excellence as a way of life in your company. In human maturity, the ability to rise to any occasion and to toggle seamlessly to what’s most appropriate in any situation is deemed ideal. What customer experience metrics can empower your... Read more »
    Source: Lynn Hunsaker – CustomerThink | Published: April 10, 2021 - 3:49 am
  • 10 B2B Customer Experience Myths & How to Improve Your CX Maturity
    B2B customer experience misunderstandings run rampant across studies, articles, CX tech providers, and mainstream commentary. Many proclamations about B2B customer experience have a myopic perspective, focused on sales, service, marketing, digitalization or promoting an offering — without B2B roots or a clear view of B2B general management. Fake-news about B2B... Read more »
    Source: Lynn Hunsaker – CustomerThink | Published: February 4, 2021 - 4:51 am
  • 21 Tips for 2021 Customer Experience Excellence
    https://clearaction.com/21-tips-for-2021-customer-experience-excellence/Customer experience excellence is certainly defined a bit differently now, compared to years past. Some aspects of the new definition are obvious: heightened empathy and benevolence, smoother digitalization, stronger security and safety, greater inclusion and diversity. The 2020s decade is clobbering us over the head with the urgent realization of... Read more »
    Source: Lynn Hunsaker – CustomerThink | Published: January 9, 2021 - 9:02 pm
  • Thriving in Customer Experience on a Tight Budget
    https://clearaction.com/thriving-in-customer-experience-on-a-tight-budget/Customer experience management on a tight budget can still achieve great progress. You can make a vital impact even when customers are experiencing difficulties and use of technologies must be scaled back. Proven winners both during and after a down cycle are those that embrace a slowdown as an opportunity... Read more »
    Source: Lynn Hunsaker – CustomerThink | Published: August 24, 2020 - 8:37 pm
  • Customer Experience Indexes: Modern Thinking
    https://clearaction.com/customer-experience-indexes-modern-thinking/Why are customer experience indexes powerful?  To paint a concise picture of growth strength. An index is like an executive summary of your voice of the customer research. It says: overall, our propensity to grow is increasing or decreasing. One size does not fit all. There are many types of customer experience indexes,... Read more »
    Source: Lynn Hunsaker – CustomerThink | Published: August 21, 2020 - 6:34 am
  • Will 2021 Be the Year of CX as North Star?
    In a time when customer attitudes and behaviors are shifting and evolving rapidly, companies are finding customer intelligence uses — across all functions enterprise-wide — to be vital to survival. Along with widespread thirst for customer insights is the heightened realization that mis-alignment to customers is wasteful and precarious. The... Read more »
    Source: Lynn Hunsaker – CustomerThink | Published: August 4, 2020 - 11:17 pm
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    CRM Buyer

  • Automated or Human, Consumers Demand Smart, Speedy Service
    The fifth annual Customer Expectations Report from Gladly reveals what today's consumers want from brands, especially when shopping online. The report describes how consumers' expectations of retailers have changed in the last year amid a global pandemic and an online shopping boom. Also suggested is that online shoppers tend to... Read more »
    Source: CRM Buyer | Published: May 6, 2021 - 5:11 pm
  • Three-Part Evolution
    I've been writing about the importance of platform as a tool and as a strategy for a while -- and not only with regard to Salesforce. I'd say most CRM vendors have a platform story; others like Oracle and Zoho come up as examples all the time. The difference with... Read more »
    Source: CRM Buyer | Published: April 30, 2021 - 11:00 am
  • How to Avoid the Cost of Churn With Better Customer Experiences
    Customer churn is costing mid-market companies an average of $5.5 million per year. Retailers need to avoid the expensive mistakes that result in such disastrous churn. This presents a clamorous alarm to marketers. One solution to this costly predicament is to get sales teams to work effectively, and consistently, in... Read more »
    Source: CRM Buyer | Published: April 27, 2021 - 12:00 pm
  • Need More From Your Digital Ad Spend? Adopt Contextual Alignment
    Many digital marketers spend too much on targeting an already loyal customer base rather than tapping into new streams. Dr. Jorge Barraza, professor of applied psychology at the University of Southern California, has a plan to help advertisers reach consumers that would not normally buy their products, by using the... Read more »
    Source: CRM Buyer | Published: April 21, 2021 - 12:00 pm
  • Newslettering vs. Blogging
    Newsletters have become popular over the last few years; and especially over the past year during you-know-what when in-person meetings were taboo. Many companies are trying to figure out how to best leverage them, and new software platforms make it increasingly easy to produce one or more. What interests me... Read more »
    Source: CRM Buyer | Published: April 16, 2021 - 11:00 am
  • Transitioning to Hybrid Commerce
    Certainly, the pandemic has caused some upheavals in American business -- and it's true that the record of progress in economics is littered with creative destruction. But the absolutist prognostications about the future of digital commerce taking over the world made me think "here we go again." Trees don't grow... Read more »
    Source: CRM Buyer | Published: April 9, 2021 - 5:14 pm
  • How to Ride the 'Consumer Wave' to Better Customer Experiences
    Even the most customer-centric businesses can overestimate their performance or miss the broad trends in customer behavior. That is why NICE inContact conducts annual surveys that track the customer experience from the perspective of businesses and consumers. CRM Buyer discussed the recent findings and related issues in more detail with... Read more »
    Source: CRM Buyer | Published: April 5, 2021 - 6:42 pm
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    Bodine & Co.

  • Alida Activate Spring Masterclass
    I’m super excited to be part of Alida’s Activate Spring Masterclass on May 6 from 1 – 5pm ET. This is your chance to understand how you can quantify the value of customers’ experiences in your business. Whether you’re launching your organization towards a customer-obsessed future or re-evaluating your current... Read more »
    Source: Bodine & Co. | Published: April 18, 2021 - 5:26 pm
  • Virtual Journey Mapping Bootcamp: May 2021
    Hard-hitting content. Sessions that fit into your workday. Our two-part virtual bootcamp delivers a practical primer on journey mapping that you can immediately put into action for your organization. Part 1: Introduction to Journey Mapping This introduction will help you build a solid understanding of the journey mapping methodology and... Read more »
    Source: Bodine & Co. | Published: April 7, 2021 - 5:17 pm
  • Congratulations To The 2020 Service Design Award Finalists!
    If you’re looking for customer experience or service design inspiration, look no further. We’ve just announced our ten 2020 Service Design Award finalists. (And no, that’s not a typo… Covid through a wrench into our annual awards schedule.) The Finalists Commercial Work CX Transformation For Hearing Care by Smart Design... Read more »
    Source: Bodine & Co. | Published: February 25, 2021 - 10:44 pm
  • Bias Check: Do Your Personas & Journey Maps Reflect Customer Diversity?
    I’m a strong proponent of including a short description of the customer persona on each journey map. (Otherwise, how do you know whose journey is being represented?) That practice often brings up a question during client conversations: To what degree should our personas represent different races, genders, religions, sexual orientations,... Read more »
    Source: Bodine & Co. | Published: February 7, 2021 - 1:17 am
  • One Thing All B2B Companies Can Do To Improve The Customer Experience
    This morning I sent an email to my payroll provider. Not to a generic inbox, but to the real live person who’s assigned my account. A moment later, I received the following auto response: “XXXXX XXXXXXX is no longer employed with us. His inbox is being monitored while your account... Read more »
    Source: Bodine & Co. | Published: January 30, 2021 - 10:06 pm
  • FREE eBook: The 2021 CX Outlook
    Never in my life have I witnessed so many people collectively anticipate the turn of a calendar page. Yet many of the challenges from 2020 still remain. And, at least here in the United States, we’ve ushered in the new year with political turmoil that almost guarantees the year ahead... Read more »
    Source: Bodine & Co. | Published: January 27, 2021 - 3:59 pm
  • A Belated Thank You To Tony Hsieh
    Amazon tells me that I last purchased Tony Hsieh’s book Delivering Happiness on August 26, 2010. The timing was fortuitous. I had recently moved back to San Francisco and, after a less-than-fulfilling detour into the world of marketing and advertising, was doing some soul searching about my next career move.... Read more »
    Source: Bodine & Co. | Published: January 23, 2021 - 8:54 pm
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    CX Journey™

  • New CX Journey Inc. Website Launching!
    Image courtesy of PixabayCX Journey Inc.'s site is growing up! I'm so excited to have a new site going live this week! I'm sharing this note as a blog post as it will be my last post on what is currently www.cx-journey.com. A couple of things to note:This site will... Read more »
    Source: CX Journey™ | Published: June 27, 2019 - 1:58 am
  • Agile Working in Practice: More Tips to Help Analytics Teams Transition
    Image courtesy of PixabayToday I'm pleased to share another guest post by Paul Laughlin. This post originally appeared on Paul's site on March 9, 2019.This is the second in two-part series from Paul about agile working. Find the first post in the series here.In my first post on how to... Read more »
    Source: CX Journey™ | Published: June 25, 2019 - 6:33 pm
  • Agile Working for Analytics Teams Needs a Cu​lture Change
    Image courtesy of PixabayToday I'm pleased to share a guest post by Paul Laughlin. This post originally appeared on Paul's site on February 21, 2019.The term Agile working is being used within more and more businesses. Although loosely defined, it generally refers to a more flexible and pacey way of... Read more »
    Source: CX Journey™ | Published: June 20, 2019 - 7:00 pm
  • Is Your Own Management Stalling Your Customer Experience Transformation?
    Image courtesy of PixabayI originally wrote today's post for Forbes. It appeared on the Forbes site on November 14, 2018. I've made some slight modifications since then, as it turned into a two-part series. This is the second in that series; the first part can be found here.In this follow-up... Read more »
    Source: CX Journey™ | Published: June 17, 2019 - 5:43 pm
  • The Secret Sauce to Achieve Outcomes with Journey Mapping
    In today's post, I reveal the secret sauce for journey mapping success. Are you ready?There's a lot of bad press out there about journey mapping. And there's a lot of bad journey mapping (or what people think is journey mapping). A few months ago, I shared my six-step journey mapping... Read more »
    Source: CX Journey™ | Published: June 12, 2019 - 8:49 pm
  • Exposure is What You Die from in the Desert
    If you're a speaker, thinking about becoming a speaker,  an event organizer, or considering hosting an event in the near future, you'll definitely want to read this. And even if you're none of the above, please continue reading. And feel free to share this whitepaper with anyone you believe will... Read more »
    Source: CX Journey™ | Published: June 10, 2019 - 6:04 pm
  • Has Your #CX Transformation Stalled?
    Image courtesy of PixabayI originally wrote today's post for Forbes. It appeared on the Forbes site on October 18, 2018. I've made some slight modifications since then, as it turned into a two-part series.The good news is that you've embarked on a customer experience transformation journey. The bad news is... Read more »
    Source: CX Journey™ | Published: June 5, 2019 - 7:03 pm
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    Blog – Epikonic

  • Rising to Swift Challenges in App Development
    You may have heard about The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, or the idea of an MVP (minimum viable product). These methodologies say only build what subscribers ask—and will pay— for. Business app development isn’t a one-way street; sometimes a customer will come to you with an idea for a... Read more »
    Source: Blog – Epikonic | Published: May 5, 2021 - 3:00 am
  • What’s hot and important in Customer Service
    The Covid crisis had a profound impact on customer service centers, on sales and marketing processes. Personnel needed to be sent to home offices with infrastructure for this not being really in place. Coordination became more difficult, especially in environments that did not base on trust already before. Morale was... Read more »
    Source: Blog – Epikonic | Published: May 4, 2021 - 11:19 pm
  • Ecosystem Play – One Game at a Time
    It is not that uncommon that a software company creates new software based upon customer requirements. Actually, this is the way things should be done; not exclusively, but to quite an extent. Now, there are few software vendors who are truly independent. Most vendors are, and need to be, part... Read more »
    Source: Blog – Epikonic | Published: April 30, 2021 - 12:22 am
  • How to do Customer Journey Orchestration
    Customer Journey Orchestration is one of the hottest topics in the CRM/CEM/CX area right now. And it is a bigger one than you might think. It involves thinking about ecosystems, actors, outcomes, interactions, jobs-to-be-done and much more. To get into the thick of it, we wanted to talk with someone... Read more »
    Source: Blog – Epikonic | Published: April 29, 2021 - 8:52 pm
  • The history and trajectory of CRM – an expert view
    CRM, in various incarnations, has been around since the 90s. If one counts in contact managers like Goldmine, then we are actually talking about the 80s. Some consider it a strategy, but whether it is or not, is a discussion that has been closed long ago. Still, there is a... Read more »
    Source: Blog – Epikonic | Published: April 19, 2021 - 11:37 pm
  • How to not manage your customers’ journeys
    It is time to talk about customer journeys and customer journey orchestration. Again. The theme of two of my recent articles has been about customer data. First, in my article Why you don’t want a 360-degree on the customer I rubbed the coveted 360-degree view on the customer, which is... Read more »
    Source: Blog – Epikonic | Published: April 12, 2021 - 11:48 pm
  • Only Is a Great Word For B2B Customer Focus
    This post is a guest piece from Richard Rosen, CEO and founder of Fastcall, a Salesforce CTI vendor and one of my clients. I was talking with Rich about customer focus for focused businesses in a crowded market, and our talk drifted into how limits aren’t a bad thing. Our... Read more »
    Source: Blog – Epikonic | Published: April 7, 2021 - 2:43 am
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      Conversational Systems

    • Trends in Conversational Commerce, the Experience Connection
      Customer service has embraced changes in technology over the years, some technologies have succeeded, some, well, have struggled (The IVR has never been very popular). From my viewpoint, success is defined from the perspective of the customer. Fast forward to 2018 and now Intelligent Systems are a game-changer. Some systems... Read more »
      Source: Conversational Systems | Published: October 24, 2018 - 10:13 pm
    • Marketplaces, Aggregation Theory, and a CRM Platform in Disguise
      Online Marketplaces are conversational platforms or CRM systems in disguise, depending on your point of view. Marketplaces are multi-sided, support and require trust building, one-to-one relationships, and the ability to transact – and they need to scale. Within a Marketplace, each conversation is focused specifically towards an outcome. Unique to... Read more »
      Source: Conversational Systems | Published: October 23, 2018 - 3:12 pm
    • Simply Service
      Within information technology, there is no longer a need to call anything “Self-Service”. It is all simply Service. Circa 1996 — I was part of a team that redesigned and rebuilt a customer care system that sat logically in front of a telecom billing system. Customers could go online, see... Read more »
      Source: Conversational Systems | Published: August 26, 2018 - 2:49 pm
    • Reading Between the Lines: Accel-KKR Makes a Significant Investment in SugarCRM
      This is an interesting industry play, a long time in the making. I am able to take a unique view on this news, whether I am accurate in my commentary, only time will tell. I worked at SugarCRM, twice, two tours of duty some might say While working at Ciboodle,... Read more »
      Source: Conversational Systems | Published: August 16, 2018 - 9:32 pm
    • Put One Foot in Front of the Other
      For the past couple of months, we have been working with the fine folks at Helpshift. On August 2nd, we are going to broadcast a roundtable discussion (Webinar, Videocast, or whatever you choose to call it). I am hoping you decide to join the discussion. Within a few weeks after the... Read more »
      Source: Conversational Systems | Published: July 26, 2018 - 4:22 pm