The marketing landscape has fundamentally changed: long gone are the days of spray-and-pray promotions and untargeted broadcast advertising campaigns that ignore customer preference and lifetime value. Consumers demand relevant, real-time and personalized interactions with the companies they engage with, and are willing to abandon the brands that fall short of their expectations. Meeting those expectations, however, requires knowing who your […]
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Webcast: The Rising Financial Impact of Customer Service
The role of customer service is one that is valued and well understood by many organizations. However, making the leap from correlating customer service activities with overall performance results to investing in strategies that deliver top-notch results is increasingly becoming a key differentiator. Top performing businesses have long understood the financial ramifications of a satisfied and engaged customer and continue […]
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Sales Management 2.0: Optimizing Virtual Sales Team Collaboration
These are just a few examples of how companies can optimize the collaboration of sales teams both internally and externally. And in doing so, they can increase the effectiveness of sales around account planning, sales execution, forecast management, and much more, as well as improve communications within the company. Advances in leading edge web-based meeting technology provide a cost effective […]
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Webcast: Effective Customer Support in our Frenetic Mobile World
The continued explosion of mobile devices, ever-increasing customer expectations, and accelerating pace of business are pushing today’s support organizations to the brink. Luckily, remote support solutions are available which enable these same organizations to not just keep pace, but to continuously improve their customers’ support experiences. On this webcast, you’ll hear: – From John Ragsdale, Vice President of Technology & […]
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67 Tips for Building Live Chat Success
For contact center agents and administrators, delivering an “average” customer experience can be challenging enough, let alone delivering an “exceptional” one. But great customer service isn’t a fantasy—hundreds of great companies deliver it daily. In fact, a recent Forrester study showed that the number of companies with “good” or “excellent” customer experience index scores has steadily increased between 2007 and […]
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Grande Guide to Lead Nurturing
Turn tire kickers into customers (and other lead nurturing cliché’s that actually work). Lead nurturing can seem overwhelming – especially with everyone yelling for it, but few understanding what it’s all about. The key to success is starting small and building a foundation. Read this helpful guide to discover common mistakes and dependable answers for lead nurturing (hint: it’s more […]
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How Marketers Can Earn Respect at the Revenue Table
Your CEO might not care how many emails you sent last week, but they do care about revenue. To earn a seat at the table with your C-suite, enterprise marketers must continually prove that marketing isn’t a cost center — it’s a revenue driver. Luckily, today’s CMOs have technology on their side. The right marketing automation platform, combined with smart […]
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Driving Enterprise Transformation: Managing Change in Your Marketing Organization
Today, CEOs expect their CMOs to be leaders in digital business innovation and growth. But even though marketing automation is at the center of the marketer’s ability to lead digital growth, enterprise marketers are some of its slowest adopters. Positioning your enterprise company to take full advantage of technologies like marketing automation can mean making comprehensive changes that affect the […]
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