Sales and marketing. They’re lumped together so much in conversation, you’d think they’re a perfect combination — like peanut butter and jelly. But the relationship is more often like oil and water.
Get five suggestions any organization can follow to better align their sales and marketing...
Published: Jan 28, 2016
We asked analysts and industry leaders what customer engagement trends they thought were key for 2017 and beyond.
From cutting-edge technologies such as IoT and bots to a new spin on old ideas, hot topics boil down to five key trends that will define the customer experience going forward.
In this ebook, learn:...
Published: Jul 26, 2017
Here are the key questions every marketer should ask themselves - and their stakeholders - when considering this kind of technology.
Get straight to the important stuff:
A checklist of DMP criteria to make sure you're asking vendors the right questions
A closer look at DMP competencies, nuances and...
Published: May 15, 2018
Your customers have a strong opinion of what makes a company customer-centric.
Customer service organizations must build on a foundation of operational efficiencies in order to deliver the great customer experiences that differentiate a brand. Leveraging tools for process automation and analytics, organizations gain...
Published: Jul 26, 2017
Sales teams work so hard, they can burn out quickly. It’s tough when customer contacts, sales goals, productivity tools, and social networking are all separated and siloed.
Instead of working in separate systems that make day-to-day selling complex, you can help simplify the way your sellers work. And empower...
Published: Feb 15, 2018
Building a sales team and compensating every member of the team properly requires careful planning and thoughtful design, and in order to ensure that you are providing the right incentives to ensure you help your company achieve growth and success, you need to think strategically about the design process of your sales...
Published: Oct 29, 2015
Customers want, demand and quite frankly expect a cross-channel experience where they receive essentially the same message across all of those same channels.
In this particular guide, we’ll discuss some ways to remove any friction B2C marketers may be having as it relates to delivering a cross-channel...
Published: Feb 01, 2016
With the PSD2 and GDPR coming into play in 2018, the financial industry in particular will experience major changes.
Although these two regulations are seen as threats to traditional institutions, they can, in fact, set the stage for innovation and technology to work together on delivering customer-centricity. In...
Published: May 15, 2018
Customer service is a very complex initiative for organisations.
As simple as it sounds to “just answer questions,” the speed at which new terms are introduced, the rise of new channels, and the nuances of implementing new solutions makes it almost impossible for those in charge to succeed. When...
Published: Jan 21, 2016
The 2017 Magic Quadrant provides Gartner’s annual analysis of the contact center infrastructure vendors. The report examines the innovations driving the market and compares vendors based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.
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Published: Jul 26, 2017
Of late, there’s been an ongoing debate in the scientific community as to whether intelligence is fixed or changeable. If intelligence is fixed, then each person’s measure is doled out in the womb, and no amount of information acquisition can increasesomeone’s intelligence quotient, or IQ. But if intelligence...
Published: Jun 01, 2011
If every one of your connections turned to you for help in solving their greatest challenges at every stage of the sales journey, what would that do to your bottom line? If you could provide every new prospect with relevant, useful insights that would make them more successful, how would your sales goals change?
This...
Published: Jan 12, 2018
This review has allowed us to listen to contributions from around the globe about the changing world of sales, but the buyer has changed and to me this is all rooted in buyers. We can debate, discuss and dissect all we like but sellersneed to be where buyers are
Published: May 07, 2015
This paper picks out proven cases which can be adapted into a practical reality to make customer engagement insights matter through smart data management.
An overview of current industry challenges and consumer sentiment, based on research conducted by the DMA in partnership with Future Foundation.
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Published: May 15, 2018