Why These Are the Best Times to Call Prospects in 2020

Sales development and outbound prospecting are notoriously tough jobs, and any advantage you can leverage for more conversations has exponential results for quarterly revenue. New research from ringDNA has major implications for how sales reps should spend their time.

Why Businesses Need to Manage Customer Feedback—Wherever It Appears

Your customers are giving you valuable input through formal reviews and unstructured feedback across the entire digital world. To get a complete view of customer insight, you have to think of feedback as an ecosystem, and you'll need to manage your reputation across a broad set of sites.

How Microlearning Makes Your Sales and Service Teams Customer-Ready

It is scientifically proven to increase knowledge retention and praised for its ability to pinpoint employees' strengths and weaknesses. But even as microlearning is increasingly embraced, its definition and value is still vastly misunderstood. Here we debunk five common myths about this innovative learning approach.

5 Common Sales Bottlenecks and How to Solve Them

With a few straightforward process changes, and by leveraging technology, you can progress toward eliminating bottlenecks to better optimize your time and resources. But first, you have to know what to look for.

Customer Churn Got You Down? 4 Tips to Increase Retention

Don't spend thousands of dollars trying to find and woo strangers, ignoring the people who already know your brand. Companies that neglect their fans for too long inevitably lose those valuable customers to businesses that know how to show a little appreciation.

CRM Has Evolved to Help Those Who Help Others: Charities

Funding cuts, data protection concerns, and ever higher donor expectations have made it harder than ever to attract and retain donors. But advancements in data collection and analytics can help organizations understand what motivates donors to give, and what discourages them from doing so.

Marketing’s Digital Divide: It’s Not “Digital” Marketing, It's Just Marketing

Many organizations have allowed a separate and distinct "digital" marketing team to evolve. It operates along-side the traditional outbound marketers but may not always work on integrated channel programs with them. This divide creates barriers to achieving the seamless, insight driven, omnichannel experience to which we aspire. Part one of a two-part series.

Real-Time Journey Analytics: Maximizing the Customer Experience with Every Interaction

In today's hyper-connected sales environment, businesses require more than surveys or the Net Promote Score to gain a comprehensive view of the customer. Scalable, cloud-based customer journey analytics give companies their best chance at identifying unmet CX needs.

How to Get the Marketing Performance Insights Your Team Needs

Multi-touch attribution breaks down organizational silos, providing a holistic picture of performance that enables everyone to work toward shared goals, as well as the actionable information that marketers at all levels need to be effective.

3 Ways Your Sales Team Can Help Set Customer Expectations

Great expectation-setting starts and ends with understanding the sales cycle and serving as customers' advocate throughout their entire interaction with your company.

Customer Data Platforms: Striving for a Single View of the Customer

To marketers trying to swim through a flood of disconnected customer data, a CDP can look like the life preserver needed for them to stay afloat. And if it is the real deal, it can be. Here's a look at the CDP field today.

Where CRM Went Wrong (and How to Fix It)

Are you tired of sales software that seems stuck in the '80s and '90s? Join the #NoCRM Revolution, which is less about abandoning CRM and more about finding ways to unfetter your sales teams so that they can deliver real value.

Make Your Email Preference Center a Priority and Your Customers Will Reward You

The email preference center represents the best of both worlds: Prospects and customers can control the communications they receive, and marketers get to send better-quality, more targeted communications.

4 Early Warning Signs You Might Lose a Customer

Customer retention performance is a critical metric in most board rooms. Keying in on certain data points across the customer life cycle will give you advance notice that an account could be at risk.

4 Steps to Secure Your CRM or Customer Experience Platforms

CRM platforms are incredibly powerful tools for growth, but they can also create vulnerabilities, as they may expose your most sensitive customer and internal data. Here are four steps to help you get started securing your platform.

To Get Maximum Benefit From Your CRM, Don’t Overlook These Capabilities

Like anything else, CRM solutions are only as effective as the way you use them, and not all sales teams are fully exploiting the technology's features.

How Emojis, GIFs, and Other Visuals Can Boost the Customer Experience

Customer emotions can be hard to gauge in your CX efforts, but visuals such as emojis and GIFs can help companies crack the code on customer feedback.

How Are CRM and $100 Trillion in Economic Value Connected?

Digital transformation is expected to create enormous value in the coming years, so now's the time to shift to digitizing processes and operations and help your organization support rapid change and innovation.

The Top 4 Fears Salespeople Face—and How to Overcome Them

Salespeople are often their own worst enemy, building up fears of obstacles that don't really exist. But if they face their fears, they can overcome them and be the stronger for it.

Get Over Your Cloud Security Concerns

If you haven't moved key operational functions like managing customer communications to the cloud due to data security concerns, get over it; much of your customer data is already there.