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Customer Service: How It’s Failing Your Business

During tough economic times customer loyalty can get rocky. Companies need to retain these customers by providing superb customer service and taking care of frustrated customers. Strong customer service is an important part in providing positive customer feedback as well as higher customer retention. Accurate knowledge and prompt service is imperative in customer service. Employees need to know all aspects …

Convincing Everyone in Your Organization to Embrace CRM

When properly implemented, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software has the potential to drastically improve a company’s performance and efficiency. However, this can only occur if an organization’s employees fully embrace the CRM tools. This may seem a simple concept, but it is often considered to be the biggest obstacle in …

Time for a CRM Evaluation Tune-Up?

As we all know, every business has its own set of individual characteristics: department structures including account management plans sales methodologies established customer processes deal sourcing strategies In addition, every business has its own special requirements needed to keep them on the road to success. One of the elements needed …

CRM Systems and Deal Sourcing

With the onset of the financial crisis, the private equity industry saw a significant drop in the value of new deals and exits being made. Although there has been improvement in the value and volume of deals being made recently, it is still a long way from the record-breaking deals …

The Next 5 in 5 – A Prediction of CRM Capabilities

 Each year, IBM predicts the next five technologies that will likely change the way we work, play and live in the next five years, otherwise known as “The Next 5 in 5.” Following this concept, CRM analyst Lauren Carlson decided to conduct a similar study, wondering where CRM will be …

Ways to Improve Deal Sourcing

David Teten, CEO of Navon Partners, released a study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments. The study was published in the Winter 2010 issue of the Journal of Private Equity. Teten’s findings offer suggestions of how private equity and venture capital firms can find and …

EquityTouch: CRM Client Case Study

Disclaimer: Due to the highly competitive nature of our client’s industry, they have requested that all names and titles be kept confidential. All information, quotes and testimonies are one-hundred percent true. One of EquityTouch’s clients is a leading investment company that provides capital for both recapitalizations in order to achieve …

The CRM Strategy

CRM (Customer Relationship Management) has been a buzzword for almost two decades now, ever since it popped up on the scene when Tom Siebel coined the phrase in 1993.1 Since then, it’s become a somewhat infamous business tool – and by that, I mean that many feel the software didn’t …

Deal Sourcing: Stay One Touch Ahead With CRMs

A recent report by the Private Equity Growth Capital Council stated that private equity firms in Massachusetts invested more than $6 billion in Mass-based companies in 2010, ranking number six in terms of deal value1. That money was invested in 57 companies – an average of $105+ million to each …