Business-to-business (B2B) manufacturers today are facing greater demand for frictionless buying experiences. But they face a number of significant challenges to setting up direct customer relationships, including maximizing conversions, taking full advantage of customer data, and dealing with concerns over channel conflict....
Published: Apr 04, 2017
There's a new paradox in marketing. We present a vision for how marketing leaders can balance trust and regulation to begin delivering one-to-one journeys beyond their own organizational walls:
Recent industry insight into how Financial Services marketing can benefit from network effects
Customer...
Published: May 15, 2018
While digital has created a great new way for businesses to interact directly with their customers, it’s also led to a very scary time for marketers.
Marketers are shouldering a heavier burden than ever before; they not only own the branding and messaging but have also taken on commerce, social...
Published: May 04, 2016
Utilities leader Nuon (Vattenfall) switched their marketing strategy from channel vision to one-to-one personalization using the Relay42 data management solution. How, why, and did it work?
Discover how Nuon contended with the challenges associated with energy providers, such as churn rate and increasing...
Published: May 15, 2018
Recent Aberdeen research has uncovered that, on average, sales teams only achieve 55% of their company’s annual sales goal. Based on the performance ranges of all surveyed sales organizations, this result, in itself, should be alarming.
Simultaneously, the top pressure cited by 44% of sales organizations is...
Published: Jun 19, 2018
Businesses today must keep pace with unprecedented change. Some can react quickly, while others struggle. What separates the winners from the losers?
“The New Game Plan for Strategic Planning” is the product of HBR’s in-depth research. The report includes interviews with industry experts, analysis...
Published: Jun 07, 2017
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
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
Forrester forecasts cloud subscription revenues to grow overall by 22% in 2016. This is a result of businesses becoming increasingly comfortable with moving critical systems to the cloud, due to cloud experience and exposure. The benefits of cloud computing have become mainstream and so have cloud contact centers.
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Published: Jul 26, 2017
Dark social is a significant and growing challenge that marketers need to take seriously.
There is a growing body of evidence to show that consumers are increasingly sharing content privately, for example through messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Messenger, rather than on publicly accessible social networks where...
Published: Feb 01, 2018
The key to accomplishing your customer-centric marketing goals is to experiment and test what works for your organization and your customers.
But where to start, and how to streamline? How do you fine-tune and fulfill pieces of the customer journey, to build foundations for the future?
In this whitepaper, we...
Published: May 15, 2018
In our 35-criteria evaluation of sales force automation (SFA) providers, we identified the 10 most significant ones — bpm'online, CRMNEXT, Infor, Microsoft, NetSuite, Oracle, Pegasystems, Salesforce, SAP, and SugarCRM — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.
This report shows how each provider...
Published: Apr 04, 2018
Customers expect more from brands when it comes to convenience, resolution times and agent expertise. Evolving customer preferences are tightly linked to innovations in digital technology, and brands must embrace both in order to keep pace with heightened expectations. The good news is that brands that can deliver on expectations...
Published: Jan 12, 2018
Digitale Werkzeuge ermöglichen schnelleres, effizienteres und präziseres Arbeiten. Es gibt jedoch ein Verfahren, das von vielen Unternehmen noch nicht angenommen wurde: die elektronische Signatur.
Die meisten Unternehmen arbeiten noch mit veralteten, papierbasierten Unterschriftsprozessen. Nach wie vor werden...
Published: Jun 19, 2018