Tag Archives: CRM Best Practices

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 …

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 …

Ways to Improve Deal Sourcing

by Michael Lupacchino 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 …