Blog: Customer relationship management

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Quaero Featured in Recent Internet.com Article on CRM Systems

Feb 17 2011

"Customer relationship management (CRM) vendors often claim that their software can do practically anything, from revealing which leads work (and which don't) to who your best customers are to which products are the most or least profitable. But what do business owners have to say?

To find out if CRM systems really deliver on what they promise, eCRM Guide spoke with dozens of business owners and managers.

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CRM - The Devil is in the Details!

Oct 6 2009

I work in the business of Customer Relationship Management and have seen many companies achieve considerable success in finding and keeping profitable customers.  However some of my own personal experiences make me wonder whether companies are too focused on the forest and not spending enough time on the trees.  Or, to put it another way, focusing on a concept as grand as the "Customer Relationship" assumes that there are customers out there who think of how they deal with large companies or brands in the same way as they think of their personal relationships.  That is often not the case.  From a customer's perspective, the "relationship" with their bank, say, is often viewed as just a series of individual experiences of specific transactions or events.  There is very little true "loyalty" present, and what little there is can easily be eroded or destroyed by a bad experience.

Let me illustrate using a recent example ...

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