4 Ways for Marketers to Maximize Customer Retention

One of the best moves that brands can make in 2021 is to prioritize customer retention, which means reassessing your past strategies and adding value to your customer experiences.

Redefining Customer 360: Building a Better Master Data Management Initiative

In planning for an MDM implementation enabling a 360-degree view of the customer, organizations need to refrain from approaching each master data domain separately and sequentially—"multidomain" should be taken to mean the freedom and flexibility to model only those master data entities and attributes that contribute to the agreed-upon business outcomes.

How the Pandemic Pushed Retail Marketers To Personalize

The pandemic's effect on shopping behaviors will demand more experiences and more personalization in a brand's marketing efforts. Let's take a look at how personalization is evolving, and what marketers can do next to elevate their strategies.

6 Steps for Recruiting Top Sales Talent

Pandemic-related shifts mean that every member of a strong sales team must be adaptable enough to pivot their strategies and processes and engaged enough to learn new skills and technologies.

SMS Marketing: How to Generate, Nurture, and Convert More Leads with Text Messages

Text message marketing holds massive potential for lead generation, but only if executed correctly. Here's a guide to maximize your SMS success.

Customer Value Management: Filling the Value Gap in CRM Tools

Salespeople are always asked about the value customers get from their product or service, but getting to the answer is hard work. CVM can streamline and automate those efforts, letting you quantify the value of each relationship you have.

3 Digital Marketing Strategy Mistakes You’re Making

Marketers must approach 2021 with concrete plans to reach and convert their audience while remaining flexible enough to adapt to evolving preferences and changed sales environments. Of course, this is easier said than done.

Customer Data Unification: The Art and Science of Knowing Your Customers

Customer data comes from disparate sources, and the key to using it for market differentiation is bringing it all together.

How AI Can Bridge the Gaps Between CRM, Marketing, and Sales

A new class of AI-powered solutions now has the ability to harness CRM data, merge it with multiple sources of sales and marketing information, and intelligently predict the likelihood of customer actions and behaviors.

3 Ways Cloud Data Warehouses Help Marketers and Improve CX

No more data silos, no more confusing or outdated campaigns, no unnecessary costs—instead, you engage with your customer as they exist in the moment, not with 15 slightly different versions of that customer.

5 Reasons Sellers Want to Ditch Their Traditional CRM

And here's how to help them: design CRM tools that help them succeed at what they do best—sell.

4 Ways Speech Analytics Can Build the Contact Center of the Future Right Now

To stay ahead in this challenging market, contact centers are turning to speech analytics technology to analyze customer interactions and ensure compliance at every step of the customer journey.

Building Trust with Customers Is Critical. Here Are 5 Ways to Do It

Engineering trust will be a key driver of both customer retention and acquisition in 2021. Brightpearl's CEO proposes five ways retailers can strengthen the bond between their brand and the consumer.

Conversational Mobile Messaging Can Personalize Engagement—and Build Brand Equity

Brands need to interact with diverse customers across many platforms and make those interactions more personable and efficient, not to mention superior to those of their competitors—and conversational messaging is the latest frontier to maximize that engagement.

Why Your Organization Needs an Agile CMS

Agile content management systems are essential for driving timely, seamless customer experiences across channels, as they give marketing practitioners and IT personnel a common set of tools and a shared experience.

How Brands Can Drive Emotional Connection in the Digital Era

The pandemic showed that entertainment brands can't always count on in-person engagement. Here's how to foster an emotional connection that will last.

First-Party Data Is Marketers’ Secret Ingredient for Customer Loyalty

What does the demise of the third-party cookie mean for marketers? That you must develop a powerful first-party data strategy to win the trust and loyalty of your customers.

From CX to EX: How Customer Experience Will Evolve as Ecosystems Take Hold

As ecosystems come to the fore, companies must react to how this intermingling of disparate partners impacts the traditional customer experience. Here's how to shift to an "ecosystem experience" mind-set.

A CRM Agency’s Secret Weapon: The Data Scientist

Everyone has data. It is what you do with it that really matters—like transforming it into meaningful insights that your business can use to make smarter decisions.

Ethically Sourced Data and Smart Market Research: Marketing Predictions for 2021

ResTech has the power to provide marketers with the road map to a successful future.