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Click here to read more CRM, contact centre and marketing articles from leading consultants and research specialists3. Go to Implementation for information about the remainder of the CRM software lifecycle featuring management briefing articles by top consultancy and analyst firms.


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Top Business Issues

CRM's chequered future

Evaluation Centre's overview of the CRM software, contact centre software and marketing software market

...It’s no secret that winning and retaining customers is the key to business growth and success. Easy to say, but not so easy to achieve, particularly in today’s tough economic environment where products and services are being bought and sold through multiple, different channels.

Companies are also experiencing increasing customer demands, as well as the difficulty of introducing and enforcing processes to effectively support their prospects, customers and partners.

Technology can help – but the use of IT to support sales, marketing and customer service teams has had a chequered history…what has generally become known as customer relationship management (CRM) has taken a long time to be fully accepted.

In the early days, the best way to use the technology was little understood and typically it only addressed one issue or business process.

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New Strategic Briefings

Eight biggest mistakes in buying CRM apps

Mareeba Consulting’s Richard Boardman identifies the worst misconceptions when it comes to buying CRM software.
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Risky business?

Rob Brickle of Bsquared Consulting assesses the real causes and costs of CRM project failure.
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Princess Yachts chooses Access

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Email gets poor response rates so Mark Whitehouse of SolutionChannels shows what you can do to improve communication to your customers.
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