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Is e-commerce declining or fitting in the post-pandemic world? The answer might well depend on how the limits of e-commerce are drawn in the "new normal" business world, as companies balance their e-commerce focus with the reality that customers likely prefer an in-person shopping experience.

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5 Ways To Boost CRM Adoption in 2022

How can you maximize adoption from the very start of your CRM rollout? Here are Zoho's top tips, based on more than a quarter of a century of experience.

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Dreamforce Goes Back to the Future

Salesforce is reinventing itself. Again. It’s been a long time arriving, but Salesforce is changing by doing its best to change the economy and the ground rules business has been operating under since Milton Friedman’s heyday.

We spoke with Sameer Patel, CMO and solutions officer at SAP CX / CRM about the challenges and benefits of building a strong customer data foundation.

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Implementation of a New CRM Should Be Easy

What’s the best way to ensure your investment in a new CRM pays off? For a start, the CRM you choose should consist of applications and functions which have been designed from the ground up to work together.

As consumers continue to explore virtual shopping in the metaverse, two companies forge the path for shoppers with platforms that make e-commerce more inviting by bringing 3D virtual showrooms and virtual try on rooms to reality.

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The Salesforce Way

The company with a radically different product strategy, and a business model that included all stakeholders, continues to do well and to teach those of us willing to learn how business can be done better in the twenty-first century.

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Oracle Is Signaling

The idea of layoffs might be disconcerting for some. Others might wonder about the acuity of decision making in Redwood Shores or Austin or wherever Oracle does its thinking these days. But there’s a certain logic to it.

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How Not To Do CX, Lenovo Style

I bought Lenovo’s Chromebook Duet 5 for an attractive price from a major national electronics store. In hindsight, that was a purchase I wish I could undo.

Having trouble understanding that person at the end of the support line you’ve called to get some customer service? A Silicon Valley company wants to make those kinds of problems a thing of the past.

The Handwrytten app is part of an automated CRM tool that lets businesses — and individuals with an entrepreneurial passion — integrate computerized automation with personalized handwritten notes to customers. The result is a novel approach to updating one of marketing’s best-known strategies ...

The supply chain debacle and the rising costs of everything have forced consumers to make critical choices in how they spend their rapidly disappearing dollars. Retailers can no longer rely on personalization strategies alone to win over or retain loyal customers.

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Oracle’s ‘Box of Chocolates’

Oracle's acquisition of health IT company Cerner could turn out to be pure genius. But right now, I see a Gumpian box of chocolates, and what I notice acutely are the missing jobs and resources in CX.

With inflation in the U.S. hitting 9.1% in June, merchants are facing enormous challenges when it comes to building customer loyalty -- and keeping it. These clever strategies can help brands meet their engagement and customer loyalty objectives.

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