Posts Tagged ‘social customer’

Is it a New Social Business – or an evolved Business?

It is certainly quite interesting to hear people discuss “The Social Business” as if it was a brand-new invention, something that we never thought of before.  These are the same people that are claiming that now the customer is in control and we have to turn our businesses to them and vow in their general [...]

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The Roadmap to SCRM, Part 3 of 5

Part 1 – Introduction
Part 2.1 – Pivot Point
Part 2.2 – Business Functions
It is important to recap a couple of things that we said before:

The SCRM Strategy is composed of multiple sub-strategies, some of which you may already have in existence
The roadmap to SCRM is an iterative process, where you will re-visit many times each strategy [...]

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Psst, Wanna Buy Some Social Sales for that SCRM Implementation?

We have been having extensive discussion on Social CRM and (as Mike Muhney puts it) the three Amigos: Sales, Marketing and Customer Service.  We talked about Service extensively, and Allen Bonde (from Evoke CRM) has given us something to think about with his initial post on Social Marketing.
What about Social Sales?
I reached out to Joe [...]

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That Which We Call a Rose by Any Other Name Would Still be CRM

Today’s issue: what to name Social CRM and where to place it within the organization.
Why does it matter?  I have been writing and researching the CRM market for a while and have seen the new terms come and go, most of them leaving little in the sense of progress for the CRM industry.  My “job” [...]

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Paul Greenberg at CRMe09: It’s About The Social-Emotional Customer

I attended the opening Keynote this morning with Paul Greenberg at CRM Evolution 2009.  There were some very interesting things that Paul discussed that I want to share with you and elaborate on.
First the summary of what he covered.
Started by ensuring we all understood that the Social Revolution is not new (remember epinions.com? when yelp [...]

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