The economic downturn witnessed across the world has made people from various discipline with a continuous headache.
Pretty much everyone in marketing space I have spoken to in the last month of two have mentioned budget cuts for the forthcoming year without any adjustment around returns expected, and incidentally the aforementioned folks were talking about approaches to optimize the budget in an effective fashion.
The situation reminds of the old-but-still-relevant saying “need is the mother of all invention”
Barring the fundamental issues around economic downturn, a telco operator in Australia is kind of …

In the last couple of months I had the opportunity to meet a few established players with specific customer management KRAs in financial services industry.
Though its been a couple of years of India waking up to the Customer Management and associated priorities in business management, my initial interactions with aforesaid folks, reemphasized upon the state of affairs being still nascent and yet to grow, the statement of Campaign Management as a priority item in the scheme of things its quite a good evidence on the industry’s nascent stage.
I respect their …

Many marketers in the Asia Pacific region I have talked to in various occasions have asked if the entire marketing (campaign management, specifically) process can be automated. The response to this question is technically YES, it can be automated.
However, the real question is, do you, as a marketer want to automate the entire process? You might ask, if it is a relevant question? Yes, it is!
Let me give an analogy in aviation industry. The role of technology in aviation space has increased so much; flying a passenger aircraft from Helsinki …

50 Ways to Improve Your Customer’s Experience
Three years ago I shared with readers a list of 50 ways to be more customer-focused and deliver a better experience.  I’ve decided to update the list and publish it again.  It’s a bit long so you might want to print it out and read it later.  Even better, check off those actions you and your team take on a regular basis.
Here are 50 Ways to Improve Your Customer’s Experience:
1. Open the door for your customer whenever possible.  This is especially important if …

An interesting offering from AeroMobile for frequent fliers. You will be able to keep you mobile phone on while cruising at some permissible altitude and be reachable to business and family.

Imagine you are running one of the leading enterprises (in your area of business context) and tomorrow one of the prospects who enter your premises happened to be Japanese. If you are interested in winning him as your customers (assuming he has some requirement), you might consider bowing down to welcome him and engage in a dialogue.
The reason for you to bow down to welcome him/her has happened basis what you know about the customer – Essentially, you had some information that can be used to serve your customer well.
Getting …

I urge you to read this post on Forrester Blog before going further on this article, without it if you continue to reading here you may not be able to get the crux of the points discussed.
In the last five odd years, whenever I have presented strategies and recommendations for customer management, enterprises I have worked with often requested us to build a strategy without having to relook into the customer data.
Organizations that played the Data Warehousing Game in the last half-decade without attaching tangible and intangible roles of the warehouse …

Everyone likes to be treated with fairness. There is no change to this equation in any aspect of business as well, and Marketing has no exception. If your marketing consultant or partner or any associate is recommending any sort of unfair approach to be practiced in marketing, don’t think twice and fire ‘em at once.
After finishing some reading on the net last evening, I was chating with a gentleman who asked me to check a particular link in crm2day portal - The referred link led me to a white paper download …