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Influence the Buying Process With Automated Marketing: 10 Tactics for Improving Revenue and ROI Now

Of late, fast-paced marketplace where buyers are now more in control than ever, communications must support the buying process to improve top- and bottom-line performance. Automating communications should be a hands-on decision and a hands-off process. Sales and marketing work together to define the triggers and touchs: that's the hands-on...

Tags: Process, Revenue, ROI, Engagement Systems, Marketing Research, Roi/Tco, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2009-07-15

Transforming CRM: 10 Tactics for Improving Revenue and ROI Now

Until people have intelligent marketing automation with actionable triggers to qualify leads and detect movement towards a buying decision, the CRM system is a very fancy database. In today's fast-paced marketplace where buyers are now more in control than ever, communications must support the buying process to improve top- and...

Tags: Revenue, CRM System, ROI, CRM, Engagement Systems, Marketing Automation Solution, Marketing Research, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

White papers 2009-02-10

Improving CRM Investments: Optimizing the Customer Life Cycle With Intelligent Marketing Automation

The technology evolution is replacing live human interaction. GPS systems give better directions than a passenger with a map. Elementary schools have changed their curriculum to better prepare students for the day computers become smarter than human beings. Many people spend more time with their cell phones, iPods and Blackberries...

Tags: Automation, CRM, Engagement Systems, Technology Evolution, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, GPS, Investment, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Finance

White papers 2009-01-20

Additional Resources

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

A List: CRM(ish) Reading Worth it.

Sorry to have dropped off the radar for awhile. I was on the road.  First in Chicago having facilitated a customer event with Sword Ciboodle customers at the Union League Club - one that included a presentation by Brian Carey of Sears on what Sears is doing to improve the...

Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Social Media, Customer, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-09-28

VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee

Sounds bad... How about Red Hat's new stuff?A nasty experience... Have a glass of fine cognac to recover. No ice (the horror!), no mixing barbaric, at the perfect temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Cheers. :-)How about Red Hat's new virtualization stuff in RHEL 5.4? Is that a better alternative?http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=1234Salut, Pjotr.RE:...

Tags: Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, UNIX, Operating systems, KVM, VMFS-3, vSphere, VMware Inc., RHEL 5.4, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Enterprise Irregulars Join Social CRM Fray

I'd say that the headline is a bit of an understatement or maybe even a misstatement by me.  Let me tell you why. If your life preference is to cower under bedcovers, then you might not have heard of the Enterprise Irregulars EI.   They are a group of iconoclastic, often...

Tags: Blog, Customer, CRM, Ross, Customer Insight, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?

Not sure about your last question, i guess he would be the best person...to ask.I think that sage, GE, siemans and mckesson do have the experience necessary to make good decisions, but these are also the guys who make software for the healthcare field.Maybe their vested interest also includes self...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Quality, HIT Standards Committee, Kibbe, health care

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Cox Communications Transforms Human Resources Processes to Boost Efficiency and Engagement

Cox's Human Resources HR department created a five-year vision in 2002 to unify HR systems and processes across the entire employee lifecycle and to drive employee engagement. The plan also involved delivering self-service functionality to increase efficiency and allow data capture closest to the source, providing consistency companywide without taking...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Human Resources Inc., Cox Communications Inc.

Case studies 2009-08-01

2010 Honda Pilot Touring

Photo gallery:2010 Honda Pilot TouringHonda did a serious makeover on its Pilot last year, resulting in a big SUV with squared-off sides and room for seven passengers. We looked at a low-trim model last year, the 2009 Honda Pilot EX-L, and found it underwhelming due to poor fuel economy and...

Tags: Honda Motor Co., Acura

Product reviews 2009-07-30

2009 Mazda MX-5 Miata Grand Touring

Photo gallery:2009 Mazda MX-5 Miata Grand TouringThe Mazda MX-5 Miata is the best-selling roadster of all time. With sharp handing and a no-nonsense approach to driving, it's no wonder.For 2009, the MX-5 gains a bit more power and a new look that is either a bit more refined or a...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Premium Package, Mazda MX-5, Bose, Mazda MX-5 Miata, Mazda Motor Corp.

Product reviews 2009-07-24

Coca-Cola Teaches The World To....

"Participating in the community of the consumer." I love that phrase.  That's the way Jim Keyes, Blockbuster CEO described their Facebook group - which is for the most part, despite all our conversations to the contrary, is what most people think of when you say "community" or "social network"...

Tags: Facebook, Fan, Coca-Cola Co., Beverage, Customer, Machine, Coke, Coca-Cola Freestyle, Food & Beverage, RFID, Manufacturing, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM

The debate and discussion about what defines Social CRM a.k.a. CRM 2.0 vs. its traditional parent has been going on for about 2 years pretty regularly and started, according to thought leader Graham Hill almost a decade before that. Personally, I'm done defining it and am moving...

Tags: Customer, Business, Tool, CRM, Social CRM, SCRM Business Strategy, Co-creation, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference: Aggregate and Organize

I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact. That record would be that I have NEVER in 15 years of flying to Boston a hundred times, NEVER, repeat again, NEVER been on time both ways.  This one was resolved quickly because my flight...

Tags: Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference

Wednesday's opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire's Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK's...

Tags: Result, Search Engine, Search Result, Question, True Knowledge, Carla, Tomasz, Questions, Wolfram Alpha Team, Search, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

How badly are your business applications performing?

Due for formal release later this week, a study conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Precise at SAP's May 2009 SAPPHIRE reveals some remarkable stats about systems performance and the response times for problem resolution. 695 persons completed the survey. Some key metrics: ...

Tags: Consultant, Performance, Business Application, SAP AG, Consulting, Performance Issue, Transaction Performance Issue, Performance Management, Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Building a vision for Government 2.0

Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...

Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Washington: Together, we can tackle cybersecurity

Following a 60-day review of cybersecurity in the United States, the White House today released details of a short-term action plan, which includes the appointment of a "cybersecurity policy official" - a cybersecurity czar, if you will. PDF of full report In a nutshell, the report concluded...

Tags: Agency, Cybersecurity, Federal Government, Government, Vertical Industries, Security, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition

I'm going to try something out here. I am ready to cringe as the tomatoes and old iPods are thrown at me, or the praise is showered on me...oh, wait, that's someone dumping buckets of tar over my head. I'm providing an advance excerpt of Chapter 13 of CRM...

Tags: Advertisement, Attention, CRM, New Competition, Engagement Rating, Marketers, Marketing Professional, Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-29