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02/13/2022

Why you should use CRM Software as your Innovation Information System
Innovation is improved with an information system to prioritize innovation ideas, track innovation prototypes, forecast market acceptance and measure innovation program success. You could create a custom innovation system, but a better idea is to append your CRM system. Here's how.

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01/17/2022

Seismic Shifts in the CRM Software Market
The beginning of a new year is an opportune time to assess the trajectory of the CRM software market. A clear understanding of CRM direction aids planning to tap into new capabilities, better leverages CRM software with other technology movements and can significantly accelerate your business and systems objectives. Here are four market shifts that will impact the trajectory and value of CRM software.

4 shifts in the CRM software market create huge potential to use CRM for more strategic objectives and benefits

01/09/2022

The Customer Relationship Management Evolution in 2022
There are a lot ways the Customer Relationship Management software market has evolved. But from my vantage point I find the most telling evidence of market maturity to be based on who benefits. And over three decades I have observed a clear pattern of evolving beneficiaries - from managers to users to customers to communities.

See how far Customer Relationship Management has evolved.

05/23/2021

A 3 Step Framework to Reallocate Sales Time for Improved Sales Performance
Sales managers are acutely aware that sales reps spend less than half their time selling. But Best in Class sales companies pursue continuous efforts that incrementally shift sellers most limited resource, their time, away from nebulous task-based activities to customer engagement that delivers measurable sales outcomes. Here is how they do it.
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04/04/2021

How Much Should You Invest in Innovation?
Apple invests 5% of its revenues in R&D. Facebook invests 13%, Google 16% and Amazon now invests 28% in R&D. So how much should you invest? Here are perspectives and methods to align innovation budgeting with revenue targets, provide comparison to peers and industry averages, and suggest how much money you may want to invest to achieve your innovation goals.

The methods to align innovation budgeting with revenue generation.

03/21/2021

The Salesforce CRM Renewal Dilemma
For many Salesforce customers the CRM renewal comes with a surprise. They are told they need to upgrade to the next CRM pricing tier, or their initial CRM purchase was some type of sweetheart deal that is now expired, or some other factor that results in a price increase. The price escalations often range from 15 to 50 percent. Unless they previously negotiated price caps what choice do they have? Fortunately, they do have options. Here they are.

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03/07/2021

CRM Request for Proposals: Valuable Discovery or Waste of Time?
Most CRM software RFPs fail to surface measurable weaknesses, key limitations and meaningful differences among competing CRM applications. There are three methods to improve upon ineffective RFPs. You can fix them for moderate results, append them for better results or replace them for the best results. This post shows how to improve or replace CRM RFPs.

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02/28/2021

Is Salesforce Worth the Price Premium?

Salesforce is the market share leader. That position has earned the company a significant price premium when compared to alternatives such as Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle CX and SAP CRM. Whether the price premium pays dividends or just results in higher total cost of ownership (TCO) depends on how you use it. This article explains when the price premium makes sense, and when it doesn't.



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02/15/2021

How to Choose the Best CRM Software for your Retail Company.

When looking for the best retail CRM software many novices evaluate technology features. That's a mistake as CRM software features and functions may or may not deliver retail business results. A better approach is to start with the most strategic retail objectives and then identify the CRM software capabilities that directly accelerate those goals.

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01/24/2021

CRM Selection Insights that I've learned from 30 Years of CRM Consulting.
CRM software selection insights share learning that reduces time and increases the likelihood of finding the best CRM software for your company. Based on more than three decades of CRM consulting experience, this post shares some of the most important CRM software selection insights to make the best decision when choosing CRM software. http://www.crmsearch.com/crm-selection-insights.php

01/16/2021

For many people evaluating CRM software, CRM is not what they think it is. Well, that is, if they think that CRM is software. It's an easy mistake to make. The truth is CRM software is a tool to achieve CRM, and CRM is a business strategy aimed at growing mutually beneficial customer relationships at scale. Understanding how the two work together delivers the most impactful results. http://crmsearch.com/what-is-crm.php

CRM is not software. CRM is a business strategy to grow mutually beneficial and profitable customer relationships.

06/10/2019

How To Increase Sales Win Rates
Making even small improvements to sales win rates can yield big increases to top line revenues. Even better, improving sales close rates is a sustainable benefit. However, most sales leaders struggle with this goal as sales win rates are the result of several factors occurring much earlier in the sales process. Here are the factors that will most improve your sales close rates.

12 Best Practices that will Improve Sales Win Rates.