Is Your Enterprise Ready for Direct-to-Consumer Business?

The final point of sale in an omnichannel marketplace is shifting

Don’t Repel Sales Prospects You’re Trying to Attract

Here's how to get your foot in the door with a professional approach

A Simple Way to Set Your 2020 CRM Enhancement Priorities

With hundreds of sales enablement solutions from which to choose, how do you assess what you truly need?

Let Hope, Not Hype, Be Our Guide in 2020

A big reason why innovation is so slow to take hold in the industry is the short time frame CX leaders are given to prove ROI.

It’s 2020! How Did Our CX Predictions Work Out?

Let's look at how we've responded to customers' rising demands

How AI Is Impacting CRM (Already)

More customer data leads to smarter AI, and the sky's the limit

Why Are We Still Talking about Silo Busting (Among Other Things)?

While some of the predictions for 2020 involve revolutionary, cutting-edge technologies like blockchain, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence, many more of the predictions involve strategies and technologies that have been around for years but have yet to be adopted.

3 CRM Lessons From This Year’s Conferences

Some key themes kept coming up among the CRM intelligentsia

Early Adopters of AI for Sales See Tangible Results

Vendors are investing heavily in AI, and early returns suggest it's paying off already

Luddites Like Me Like Personal Interactions

Any texts I receive from companies must be relevant, must provide value, and must be personalized.

X-Data + O-Data = Better Customer Journeys

Combining experience data and operational data can make a big difference for your customers

Amid Economic Uncertainty, Optimize, Don’t Downsize

Department heads need to look beyond simple expense trimming and instead focus on optimizing what they already have

Is Your CRM as Intelligent as It Should Be?

CRM platforms must capture and organize ever-increasing amounts of data, and AI can help

6 Steps for Creating and Leveraging a Digital Assessment

Here's how to ready your organization for digital leadership

Making Sense of the Acronym-Laden Industry

Companies can now use an API to incorporate AI into their KPI, all to get more ROI and provide a better UX.

AI Is Top of Mind for Everyone in CRM

The consumer uses for AI are numerous, but just as real are the business use cases.

Don’t Let AI Distract from the Real Problem

It is clear that many organizations still struggle with the same issues they had 10 or 20 years ago.

Data Is Useless (at Least on Its Own)

Marketers should view data as just one ingredient in a successful recipe

How Do You Define CX Success?

When you put customers at the heart of your decisions, you're bound to succeed

Put Customer Insights at the Center of Business Transformation

Digital transformation initiatives are still giving customers short shrift