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What if CRM had not been invented?

ViewPoint

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. What differences in marketing and sales management would have occurred if CRM with all of its benefits had not been a part of B2B and B2C marketing?

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Avoiding Cascading Zipper Failures between Marketing and Sales

ViewPoint

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. In companies that have a lack of sales lead follow-up, they often buy CRM software products to shore up areas of non-compliance, which accomplishes very little.

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Reading the Hype Meter for Customer Experience Management

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I consider that success because that’s when they hire consultants. Better than nothing but not too impressive—think how many CRM conferences there are. Of course, there are several titles related to CRM software (Microsoft CRM, Goldmine, ACT!, How about the big consultancies—McKinsey, Accenture, and such?

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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

Convince & Convert

If it is, we’ll include it in Viral Heat. If it’s not, then we don’t. We are aggregating vast amounts of data, and in our integration with Facebook for example, we don’t open up everything we get because some of it just isn’t relevant. I asked the CEOs about how this is working in practice.

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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

Convince & Convert

She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. You can find her on Twitter or, if you’re lucky, behind a rolling pin making a fresh pie. The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content.

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The “Keystone” of B2B Corporations isn’t CRM or Marketing Automation

ViewPoint

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Thank you Wikipedia). Is it the CRM system, without which so much important information would be lost? Sales Lead Follow-Up is the Keystone.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

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In this scenario, you really need Program/Project mgmt and your consulting partner (in my opinion) should not be your PMO. They were very in sync and collaborative and having them there prevents a large “translation&# effort from what we learned and decided to the partners who will ultimately help them implement.