Forrester's Customer Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

CRM is widely used by companies both big and small. As CRM moved to the cloud, business leaders in charge of sales, service, and marketing drove the purchase. Gone are the days when it was purchased as a monolithic on-premise application. Today, it is almost exclusively deployed in the cloud.

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Comm100

APRIL 2, 2024

Customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores are a vital metric for any business trying to track and improve their customer service and support. The scores provide a snapshot of how satisfied your customers are with your products or services, indicating areas of success and those needing improvement.

Strategy 232

Strategy How To Wait Times Customer Satisfaction 232

Forrester's Customer Insights

AUGUST 15, 2023

Every year, our clients at Forrester ask us about trends in customer relationship management (CRM) adoption. To help us answer these questions, Forrester fielded a survey to ask CRM decision-makers around the world about different aspects of their company’s overall CRM strategy.

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CRM Customer Relationship Management Data Customer relationships 48

Optimove

MAY 16, 2021

It is essential for every business to build effective personalization to maximize LTV and retain existing customers. At the same time, customers do not want to be bombarded with a bunch of different offers from your brand that don’t make sense. Yes, it’s the single customer view! What is a single customer view?

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CRM Video Customers Metrics 52

Lumoa

APRIL 28, 2024

Every interaction with your business has the power to build or damage the relationship with your customer – and can directly impact your revenue. 78% of customers have backed out of a purchase due to a poor customer experience (CX). More than 80% of business leaders see customer experience as a growing priority in 2024.

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Self Service Customer Journeys Feedback Analysis 208

Forrester's Customer Insights

JANUARY 25, 2022

CRM strengthens customer relationships, drives company revenue, and as such becomes a C-level priority. CRM technology expands into adjacent tech areas as it broadens its mandate. Insights from CRM uplevel customer and employee engagement, driving operational excellence.

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CRM Contact Center Employee Engagement Customer relationships 49

Optimove

JANUARY 13, 2021

In the world of B2C CRM, we know exactly what are the small steps that marketers can pledge to take next year that will bring the most impact. At Optimove, we encourage marketers to treat every CRM marketing campaign as an experiment. Remember: Top brands are able to drive 33% of the revenue via CRM marketing. #3

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Forrester's Customer Insights

AUGUST 7, 2022

The global customer relationship management market is projected to grow from $63.91 This second wave CRM is experiencing is aimed at transforming engagement and business outcomes across an enterprise, surpassing its initial remit of increasing front-office productivity. Companies use CRM to support […].

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CRM Customer Relationship Management How To Customer relationships 48

Comm100

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The customer service world continues to develop, and each new year can mean a sea change in changing consumer expectations. As new customer service trends arrive, service that was once considered exemplary might no longer meet the growing customer demand. Omnichannel customer engagement software offers a solution.

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Trends Customer Service Chatbots Omni-Channel 215

Forrester's Customer Insights

APRIL 1, 2021

For a 30 year old technology category, it is amazing to see the CRM industry continue to grow at a staggering rate. Because CRM is at the heart of every business that wants to compete on customer experience. It enables companies to access 360-degree views of customers in real time to drive reliable, trusted, […].

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CRM Trends Engagement Industry 64

Maz Iqbal

MARCH 18, 2018

On CX – voice of the customer, journey mapping etc. In the name of customer-centricity – whatever that means. Colleague: Which big company, as in the kind of company … Continue reading "Dialogue on CRM, Customer Experience, and Customer-Centricity". Yet, there is little to show for it.

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Customer Centricity CRM Customer Journeys Customer Experience 54

Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Modern CRM must be used as a foundational technology for customer engagement in order to deliver experiences that keep your customers coming back for more. Here are our top 5 trends for CRM in 2020: Self-service for end-to-end customer journey support increases. CX is still king in 2020.

CRM 52

CRM Trends Self Service Customer Journeys 52

Optimove

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

When it comes to CRM marketing, finding the perfect message-audience fit can make a marketer’s day. And it all gets tricky when you realize what fits one customer may not suit another. And it all gets tricky when you realize what fits one customer may not suit another. Engagement increases, retention reduced.

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CRM Marketing Multi-Channel Communication 52

Forrester's Customer Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Ready to give up on your CRM deployment? Before you do, you should know: CRM is a huge market. Eighty-two percent of enterprises use CRM. It is valued at $63.91 billion today and projected to grow to $145.79 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 12.5%. Yet when I surveyed hundreds of business and IT […].

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Forrester's Customer Insights

JUNE 14, 2023

Industry CRM is a clear choice in economic downturns for companies that are looking to get sustainable value from their tech investments. Our data at Forrester backs this up: Industry solutions grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 13.9%, a rate faster than horizontal customer experience tech.

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Optimove

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In the world of B2C CRM, we know exactly what are the small steps that marketers can pledge to take next year that will bring the most impact. At Optimove, we encourage marketers to treat every CRM marketing campaign as an experiment. Remember: Top brands are able to drive 33% of the revenue via CRM marketing. #3

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Forrester's Customer Insights

JANUARY 25, 2022

Despite the cost, there is widespread agreement that companies require CRM technology for their sales organization. I conducted a snap poll on LinkedIn, and 82% of respondents said CRM will continue to be important in the years to come. They cost companies between $1,200 to $3,600 per seller per year. Yet, when […].

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Forrester's Customer Insights

MAY 3, 2023

Uncover how to reduce tech debt in your CRM operations by understanding your CRM footprint, the CRM vendor landscape, and mapping a strategy to business outcomes.

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CRM How To Strategy Customer Relationship Management 26

Lumoa

JANUARY 19, 2023

Understanding customers is a key step to success, and organizations do it best when they have a customer experience department in place. This department is tasked with analyzing customer feedback and data and disseminating its findings to improve the organization’s processes, products, and services.

Customer Experience 236

Customer Experience Net Promoter Score How To Customer Journeys 236

NICE inContact

APRIL 11, 2019

Today’s customers are digitally savvy, more demanding and expect instant service. Contact centers face a constant challenge in managing customer expectations. . Here are some key customer expectations and some tips towards managing them . Leverage omnichannel analytics tools to understand true customer insights. .

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Customer Expectations Tips Self Service Management 151

Forrester's Customer Insights

MAY 1, 2023

They must balance the need to better serve customers against pressures to reduce headcount. Forrester sees more companies turning to industry CRM to help manage these journeys. Companies must make decisions to modernize while navigating a challenging economic climate. Our data backs this […]

CRM 26

CRM Industry Management Data 26

Comm100

MAY 4, 2023

However, there is one factor that can be lost within digital banking which many customers still long for. Real time communication Live chat lets banks communicate with customers in real-time, providing immediate assistance and support. Personal, human interactions. This is where live chat comes in.

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Banking Customer Experience Multi-Channel Video 130

CSM Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As a result, physical retailers must offer something truly special to entice and retain customers. Key Components of Effective Customer Service Training The human interaction that a retail store can offer is a huge advantage. Comprehensive training is essential for effective customer engagement.

Exceptional Customer Service 52

Exceptional Customer Service Retail Training Customer Service 52

Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Modern CRM is delivered as software-as-a-service and microservices, is modular, and offers APIs for easy access to enterprise applications. Today Modern CRM supports […].

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SurveySparrow

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

What is it that’s making you look for a Customer Thermometer Alternative? The team and I spent a whole day finding the best alternatives to this customer feedback platform. What is Customer Thermometer ? Customization is limitless with instant survey design options and an icon playground.

Multi-Channel 52

Multi-Channel CRM Tourism e-support 52

Forrester's Customer Insights

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

What is CRM? It’s not SFA (sales force automation) and it’s not marketing automation – although many use CRM to reference these two technologies. that is to support customers through […]. . that is to support customers through […].

CRM 40

CRM Technology Sales Marketing 40

Lumoa

MAY 5, 2022

Most people understand the importance of creating great customer experiences —nevertheless, many struggle with the complexity of working holistically and long-term with a Customer Experience strategy. Customer Experience (CX) is far more than traditional customer service and marketing.

Strategy 277

Strategy Customer Experience How To Analysis 277

SurveySparrow

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Customer retention is one of the crucial aspects of business. Since it’s plain as sky that it’s harder to acquire a new customer than to retain one, most companies go retention. Let’s start by understanding the key features a customer retention software must have. And for this, customer support and feedback tools are essential.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

MARCH 24, 2022

CRM is a foundational front-office technology. Enterprises originally used CRM to provide operational efficiencies for sales, marketing, and customer service organizations. Today, CRM is undergoing a second wave of adoption, where it’s used more broadly to support customers through their end-to-end journeys.

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Forrester's Customer Insights

MARCH 24, 2022

CRM is a foundational front-office technology. Enterprises originally used CRM to provide operational efficiencies for sales, marketing, and customer service organizations. Today, CRM undergoes a second wave of adoption where it’s used more broadly to support customers through their end-to-end journeys.

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CRM Sales Technology Examples 26

CSM Magazine

MARCH 13, 2024

Activewear brand, Sweaty Betty, has achieved transformational success by partnering with customer experience (CX) experts Sabio Group to overhaul its customer service experience. Overall, the enhancements empowered customers to engage with the brand on their channel of choice – whether self-service, email, web or chat.

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Omni-Channel Groups Self Service Customer Experience 52

CSM Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2017

Being customer led makes for better businesses. While digital advances mean that the customer’s world is being inexorably re-imagined, the customer needs to be kept close. True insight organisations are building market share by taking customers away from un-insightful, non-listening, non-responsive businesses.

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Customer Insights Customer relationships CRM Comparison 40

Forrester's Customer Insights

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Enterprises are rapidly adopting industry-specific CRM. They are leaning into the promises to speed transitions to the cloud, to modernize the front office, and to enable enterprises to focus talent on creating brand differentiation.

CRM 26

CRM Industry Analytics Survey 26

TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

Customers expect better and faster pre and post purchase services. Whether they need help setting up a new device or to repair a damaged product, the way in which these interactions are handled are at the heart of customer satisfaction. Eric Esguerra, Vice President, Customer Service & Operations at Miele Canada Ltd.

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Customer Service Contact Center Chief Customer Officer Call Center 251

SurveySparrow

JUNE 20, 2023

Customer experience (CX) is vital to success in the dynamic world of business. Organization use the potent tool known as the Customer Experience Dashboard to measure and improve the Customer Experience journey in an efficient manner. That’s precisely what a Customer Experience Dashboard is.

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Customer Journeys Net Promoter Score Customer Experience Social Media 52

CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The customer experience (CX) landscape constantly evolves. With new technologies, increased competition, and higher customer expectation, the ability to deliver exceptional CX continues to be a challenge – so sitting still isn’t an option.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Competitive Advantage Customer Journeys Conference 52

SurveySparrow

MARCH 24, 2024

In the fast-paced world of business, customer feedback plays a vital role in shaping and improving products, services, and overall customer experience. To effectively gather and utilize customer feedback, companies rely on specialized tools and platforms.

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Tools Feedback Multi-Channel Analysis 52