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What Is Vendor Sprawl?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

This is known as vendor sprawl. Vendor sprawl, also known as technology bloat, occurs when businesses have software application redundancies across different departments, creating many inefficiencies. Consolidate your spend with one or just a few vendors. Read their story What is vendor sprawl and why is it an issue?

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5 Things Your Financial Services CRM Needs to Have

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Rated as a leader by The Forrester Wave Report™: Financial Services CRM , Salesforce knows service — of any kind. Financial services CRMs are changing and so are the needs of customers. We weed through the noise to bring you exactly what features you need in a financial services CRM. Get the report 2.

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24 questions to ask ABM vendors before signing the contract

Martech

At its most basic, that means investing marketing and sales resources in guiding high value accounts through the journey to conversion. Once you’ve gone through the checklist to determine if you need — and are ready for — an ABM solution, the next step is to identify and contact vendors. Your vendor shortlist.

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CRM Software Selection Guide?

TrustRadius Marketing

The hardest part of choosing a CRM is knowing what to look for and consider. Companies often forget about team input, review sentiment, and research the vendor’s reputation. What is a CRM? CRM tools can streamline major business processes like customer support, marketing campaigns, and lead management for sales teams.

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32 questions to ask sales enablement vendors during a demo

Martech

Sales enablement platforms provide sellers with the content resources they need to engage buyers in a way that adds value, while also educating salespeople on the marketplace through training and coaching. Does the vendor seem to understand our business and our marketing needs? Are they showing us our “must-have” features?

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What is CRM and how does it support marketing?

Martech

Customer relationship management (CRM) is the technology brands use to nurture relationships with their customers. And because 91% of businesses with more than 11 employees use a CRM, marketers would be wise to learn about all they have to offer. In this piece, we’ll dive deep into CRM systems and their impact on marketing teams.

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How to make sure your data is AI-ready

Martech

Leading CRM platforms like Salesforce, Dynamics, Zoho and HubSpot are introducing new AI features for autonomous chats, automatic campaign launches, product suggestions and sentiment analysis. The administrator should be trained by the software vendor and receive whatever support they need from your management team. Act on that.