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John Oechsle: How Do You Spell CRM Evolution? With 4 C’s

Bill Quiseng

This is especially true with customer relationship management (CRM), an area that businesses were smart to pay attention to 30 years ago in 1987—and can no longer afford to ignore in today’s competitive environment. Oh, and don’t forget the infamous rolodex, the original CRM. Consistency.

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A History of Customer Support Technology

Team Support

1980s-1990s: The Dawn of CRM Software The next two decades saw the adoption of computerized systems for customer support. Companies started using customer relationship management (CRM) software to manage customer information and interactions. One of the early pioneers in CRM software was ACT!, which launched in 1987.

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SurveyGizmo Launches Activated NPS Solution

SurveyGizmo

Founded in 2006, SurveyGizmo puts feedback into the hands of the people who can take action through the systems they use every day. Activated NPS Solution is available today directly from SurveyGizmo. About SurveyGizmo. We help customers make feedback core to their business.

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ChurnZero Becomes a HubSpot Connect Beta Integrator

ChurnZero

With this integration, Customer Success and Customer Marketing teams can sync account and contact attributes from their HubSpot CRM into the ChurnZero customer success platform to gain an understanding of how customers use their product, asses their health, and give them the means to personalize the customer touchpoints.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Use social CRM to improve.

Service Untitled

Now we have progressed to a Social Customer Relationship Management (Social CRM) which takes us from the original CRM and now adds new communication channels via the social web to concentrate on better customer relationships. Company Support – Social CRM can track keywords and give continued support about a product.

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How to Identify Weaknesses in Your Customer Journey Map

GetFeedback

Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly explained in a 2006 blog post : Open seating has allowed us to build a highly efficient operation by keeping the time our aircraft are sitting at our gate to a minimum. Because the core value proposition is affordable travel. . Aircraft on the ground don’t make money! But don’t stop there!

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New Report: Neuroscience Proves Customer Experience (CX) Isn’t Just Fluff

Natalie Petouhof

Seems the world has gone from being concerned with CRM to customer experience. Since 2006, what has changed slightly is that the average online shopper expects pages to load in four seconds or less. Tweet What’s the Importance of CX? There’s a lot of talk about creating a great customer experience.

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