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From the category archives: Customer and Employee Engagement Blog

Blog entries related to customer experience management (CXM) and customer relationship management (CRM)

Process: The Science of Selling

 

Sales is the lifeblood of any company - but sales teams that aren't using a process are operating inefficiently and are not able to improve rapidly. In this article we take a look at why a sales process is so important, and the statistics findings that prove it.


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Revolutionize Business Processes: 7 Reasons to Plan ERP and CRM in Parallel

Learn why planning ERP and CRM projects in parallel is critical to your business and cost-effective. Parallel planning improves data integration, aligns business processes, increases flexibility, and reduces implementation time and costs, resulting in better user adoption.



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Why Integrated Marketing Automation Platforms Are Better Than Best of Breed

This article presents a video case study of a business-to-business organization with thousands of partners and millions of customers that vastly improved sales and marketing results and the customer experience through Dynamics 365 Sales and Marketing.


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Sales Process Automation Toolkit - CRM Technology Review

There are dozens of technologies to aid sales managers, reps and marketers with generating better leads, improving win rates, accelerating deals and expanding margins. If you're not using them, then you're like a carpenter that isn't using power tools. In this article we'll take a quick look at a few of the more important solutions to further automate your selling process.

  

Want to dive deeper? Click here to join C5 Insight for a Sales Pipeline webinar on September 14, 2022 to explore these solutions and get your questions answered.

Sales Pipeline Toolkit Infographic

 

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Beware the Bots! Over Inflated Marketing Clicks

This notice is related to the quality of the metrics you are getting through your Marketing Automation Platform (such as ClickDimensions, Dynamics 365 for Marketing or other similar products).

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CRM in the C-Suite: The Role of Leadership in Customer Engagement Success

According to this article in Harvard Business Review, between 18% to 90% of CRM projects fail! The most telling metric: nearly 90% of executives report that the CRM system is not helping their business to grow. What can c-level executives do to make their project a success?

 

CEO CFO COO CMO CRM Customer Relationship Management

 

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Understanding the ROI of CPQ

Do you want to automate quoting in Dynamics 365 for Sales to streamline your sales process and close more deals? This blog includes a downloadable CPQ ROI calculator and webinar to learn more. Empower your sales reps to do more by removing configure, price, quote bottlenecks.

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Part 1: Forms Processing & SharePoint Metadata

In part one, we provide a detailed overview and instruction on how to build and train an AI Forms Processing model to use in a SharePoint Document Library.



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Is Your Leadership Team Steering or Stifling Progress?

Steering committees aren't just responsible for high-level strategic planning. Learn how to utilize your team to execute the long-term vision for a platform.


 


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How to Track Multiple Customer Issues Using Dynamics 365 Customer Service

Dynamics 365 Customer Service is used to manage customer issues. Learn how to manage parent and child cases using D365 to improve your customer experience.



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7 Tips for Managing Effective User Feedback

Building a framework for user feedback helps foster a culture of collaboration when it comes to system evolution. Learn how to collect better user feedback.

black and white little kid yelling into mic managing user feedback


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SOS: How to Manage the Urge to Implement Everything You See

How do we determine if we really need that new feature or function that we hear about so often? Here's how to strategically evaluate the next "big shiny object" you come across.

Ways to avoid big shiny object syndrome laptop opening with bright colors

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The Complete Guide to Sales Meetings Using CRM and LUCK

Are you a sales manager looking for a step-by-step sales meeting agenda? Learn how to efficiently plan annual, quarterly, weekly, and monthly 1:1 meetings with your sales team.

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4 Reasons Why Using CRM Helps You Manage Better Sales Meetings

In this blog, we'll explore why and how sales managers can use CRM to both run and inform sales meetings and present a plan you can follow for more efficient meetings.



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The Engaged Digital Leader: 5 Ways Executives and Managers Can Improve Digital Engagement

What is the role of executives and managers when it comes to adopting digital engagement practices? Watch the free workshop on The Engaged Digital Leader and learn 5 practices to improve your digital leadership.


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COVID-19: A New Era of Employee and Customer Engagement

For some businesses and their customers, the transition to digital is quite a hardship. Maybe even downright impossible due to the nature of the work they provide. Learn how businesses are handling the digital transition and some examples of how it could work for yours!



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COVID-19 Coronavirus and Your Digital Workplace

What's your business strategy for dealing with coronavirus COVID-19 and the economic impact? C5 Insight is taking steps to protect our clients and communities, and to lead the way with creating more resilient digital workplaces.

COVID-19 Digital Workplace

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What Do Corkscrews Have to Do With Customer and Employee Engagement?

What do wine and corkscrews have to do with creating more people-centric digital workplaces? Quite a bit as it turns out. This article looks at how some everyday things can teach us lessons about customer experiences and employee engagement.

St. Patrick's Day Gift - C5 Insight

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The Future of Work: Microsoft and AI

The digital workplace is being transformed by AI more and more every year as it takes front and center stage at Microsoft's Future Decoded conference. Are you prepared for the future of work? Read how AI continues to evolve, impacting both industries and individuals


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2 Days of Strategic CRM Workshops

Join us for 4 CRM Leadership, Planning and Adoption Workshops over the course of 2 days. 

Targeted to organizations struggling with customer relationship management or launching new CRM projects. Oct. 14-15, 2019 in Orlando FL. Use our discount code for 10% savings.

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Happy St. Pat’s Day!

🍀 Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀

Learn why St. Patrick's Day is so important for customer and employee engagement!

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When You Are a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail

Are you trying to find a problem to fix with SharePoint or Dynamics 365? Then you might be a hammer looking for a nail...

When You’re Are a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail

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My Apps and Processes Disappeared From the Sitemap

Lately I have had several occasions where deleting or importing a managed solution has removed groups and their subareas from the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Experience (from here on out known as CRM) sitemap. The sitemap is the area at the top of CRM used for navigation. The two groups that seem to be affected are under Settings. The Process Center group, which contains the subarea Processes where workflows, business process flows, dialogs, task flows and actions live. The other group getting the smack down is Applications where the subarea My Apps typically hang out.

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Improve CRM Adoption by Asking Why

Struggling with CRM adoption? Maybe it's time to start acting like a 4 year old! Learn why...


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CRM Failure: The Tortoise and the Hare

The struggle is real: Over 60% of CRM projects encounter challenges to adoption or even outright failure.  Apply this simple lesson when you (re)start a CRM project to ensure success.

CRM Failure - Project Plan

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CPR for CRM Study

The complementary paper includes over 12 years of research, recent survey results, and CRM turnaround success stories.

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SharePoint Readiness Assessment

This 60-second assessment is designed to evaluate your organization's collaboration readiness.

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CRM Self Assessment

Learn how you rank compared to organizations typically in years 1 to 5 of implementation - and which areas to focus on to improve.

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SharePoint Feedback Solution

This is a sandbox solution which can be activated per site collection to allow you to easily collect feedback from users into a custom Feedback list.

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SharePoint Upgrade Checklist

Whether you are upgrading to SharePoint Online, 2010, 2013 or the latest 2016, this checklist contains everything you need to know for a successful transition.