I came back last night from the RightNow Technologies User Group meeting (you will see another blog today about my “experience” getting here).
It was a great experience; it corroborated what I’ve been thinking lately: SCRM is not at the 101 (introductory) level as we all thought, it is actually at the remedial level.
We [...]
Cloud computing and social business enablement are more closely linked than most people realize. The success of one will likely increase the likelihood of success of the other.
First part is available here for your review.
This was supposed to be part 2.0 but an exchange in the comments section to part one convinced me that I was assuming a lot of things were known when in reality they may not be known. So, instead of 2.0 this [...]
I had to let some time go by between the latest definition controversy and this post so I could say that this is not about definitions. Those are done.
This is about how a business undertakes the road to becoming a social business while dealing with customers (fine, how does a business [...]
(I know I have been lagging publishing lately, but been reading, researching, thinking and trying to put together the SCRM roadmap. Coming soon)
These are some thoughts I had today while talking to Allen Bonde, exceptional marketer and great thought leader for the CRM world.
We were trying to figure out a [...]
Master Interviews: 1 – Frank Eliason (@comcastcares) talks about justifying SCRM Master Interviews: 2 – Marshall Lager (@Lager) talks about the Future of SCRM Master Interviews: 3 – Bob Warfield @BobWarfield) talks about the World of SCRM
In [...]
Paul Greenberg put the stake in the ground by defining SCRM and said that we needed to grow if from there.
I agree. And it is in that spirit that I want to introduce this post. A little bit longer that most of my posts, but a way to start [...]
I have made adjustments to the way I think about Loyalty.
I want to thank everyone for participating, reading, commenting, and for providing very thoughtful point-of-views that I had not considered before. I went through all the comments and summarized them into six lessons learned:
The choice of loyalty remains [...]
Today is a loyalty-as-you-conceive-it-does-not-exist type of day.
First, I read this well-written piece from Roderick Morris (@roderickmorris), where he states
Operating under the idea that loyalty can be measured, monitored, and the resulting insights applied, CEM looks to create customers that make the conscious decision to purchase, not of inertia [...]
Value, the final frontier.
That is not just a bad attempt at a pun, it is a reality of what people through times have thought of value. There are many “types” of values: legal, economical, ethical, quantitative, qualitative, and financial value – just to name a few. There are also issues of perceived, realized, and [...]

