Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Customer relationship management (CRM) strategies and systems are excellent tools for modern businesses. They streamline operations, improve customer experiences, and set the stage for sustainable growth. This guide outlines how CRM systems empower businesses to manage data effectively while driving business growth.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are everywhere, as the industry could be worth about $55 billion by the end of 2024. These systems help manage customer interactions and provide useful data that drives success, making them incredibly valuable for organizations of all sizes. What is CRM Reporting?

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Martech

AUGUST 12, 2024

Prompt: How might a marketer for a large B2C company incorporate a CDP into their martech stack to improve the customer experience, increase customer engagement, and increase conversion rates? Centralized customer data management Unified customer profiles: A CDP aggregates data from various sources (e.g.,

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Martech

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While many brands talk about focusing on the customer, few do it. Less than a quarter (24%) of global brands are mapping customer behavior and sentiment, according to Braze’s 2024 Customer Engagement Review. What’s worse, only 6% apply customer insights to their product and brand approach. “At They see a brand.”

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Hubspot Marketing

JUNE 6, 2023

Building and optimizing your tech stack with the best B2B marketing integrations improves the customer experience and streamlines operations. How Marketing Leaders are Shifting to Meet Customer Expectations Growing economic challenges have led marketing teams to refocus their plans. And consumer expectations are higher than ever.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Fortunately, CRM workflow automation can save you an incredible amount of time and money. Automating repetitive tasks within Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems streamlines processes, reduces errors, and frees up valuable time for more strategic activities. What is CRM Workflow Automation?

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Sprout Social

JUNE 26, 2023

Enhanced customer satisfaction, high customer engagement, and increased revenue are good reasons to develop an omnichannel customer experience. It takes a strategic approach, continuous optimization, a customer-centric mindset and a well-planned omnichannel strategy to make it all possible.

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Martech

OCTOBER 9, 2024

How it helps you This new feature helps you turbocharge your data management by combining more than 40 firmographic, demographic and technographic attributes to keep CRM records accurate and up to date. How it helps you Video content is powerful but traditionally time consuming to edit and repurpose.

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The CMO Survey

APRIL 24, 2024

The emphasis in managing Martech is reported to be on “optimizing existing tools,” “identifying tools for a stronger customer experience,” and “identifying what can be linked together to form powerful capabilities,” while “hiring or retaining talent” and “creating a shared cross-enterprise strategy” are given less attention. Yet, only 56.4%

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 29, 2025

CRM and marketing automation integration is a well-defined process that combines and improves the alignment between marketing and sales activities. It lets businesses automate prospecting, data entry, customer management, and other time-consuming business operations. What is Customer Relationship Management (CRM)?

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Sprout Social

JUNE 8, 2023

We all dread dealing with customer service. Traditionally, customers call a toll-free support number or send an email to the help desk. More customers are turning to social media for their customer service, which creates a goldmine of valuable insights into their activities. Enter: customer service social media tools.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2024

We’ve talked to a lot of customers about what they need from their tools to grow, and it always comes back to these three words. Two words: legacy CRM. The concept of customer relationship management (CRM) has existed for decades, and there are more tools than ever for understanding and engaging with customers.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Remember when your martech stack was manageable — maybe just one CRM platform paired with an email automation tool? When the tipping point turned Over the past 25 years, the digital landscape evolved dramatically, altering how companies approach customer retention and engagement. Fast forward to today and your SaaS expenses ballooned.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 30, 2023

If you treated your friends the way your brand treats your customers on social media, what kind of relationships would you have? Yet, only 8% of social marketers believe themselves to be leaders in customer care on social. What is customer relationship marketing?

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Martech

AUGUST 2, 2024

How well does your organization know how customers engage with your brand? Customer journey maps can’t fix all of these problems, but they do give businesses the opportunity to visualize the various touchpoints and experiences our customers pass through as they move from awareness to post-sale. But we’re rarely sure.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Businesses need to meet their customers with the personalized service they’re accustomed to on other channels. In the early days of social media customer care , speed was the most critical performance metric. Read more about how top brands provide exceptional customer service and support. when you walk in the door.

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Martech

DECEMBER 6, 2024

While structured data has long been the foundation of CRM, unstructured datalike conversationsholds the key to deeper insights into customer sentiment, behavior, and intent, said HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan in a company release. The terms of the deal werent disclosed. Email: Business email address Sign me up! Processing.

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Martech

JUNE 12, 2024

So, why don’t we consistently use those strategies on existing customers with a higher brand understanding? Many marketing teams neglect the opportunity to engage and upsell customers using proven, data-driven prospecting techniques. Customer marketing and prospecting are not the same. Watch for patterns in page path analysis.

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SocialPilot

JANUARY 15, 2025

Reviews are powerful as they serve as social proof and help customers learn about the quality of goods and services a business offers. Well share proven tips and strategies to encourage customers to write reviews to help you turn those happy customers into raving online reviewers. Unhappy customers will let you know.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Of those, 71% have seen a positive ROI, and 72% report increased employee productivity. But how does AI stack up when it comes to customer experience specifically? Keep reading to learn how to leverage AI-driven customer experiences — and why you should. Meanwhile, 64% say AI helps make customer interactions more personalized.

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Lynton Web

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Running a business without a strategic customer journey in HubSpot is like navigating a ship without a compass. The truth is that companies that master their customer journey in HubSpot aren't just seeing incremental improvements they're transforming how they operate. Each chapter has its own goals, tools, and measures of success.

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Martech

AUGUST 13, 2024

Misnomer or not, the term has stuck, and in essence means the possibility of CDPs activating data within a customer’s data warehouse (or “lakehouse”). “Be absolutely engaging,” is the motto of customer engagement platform Braze. Does that mean the data is being copied into Braze?

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Customers.ai

JANUARY 6, 2025

Customers expect more now. Were diving into strategies that push beyond the basics, using real-time data, predictive analytics, and omnichannel precision to help you connect with your customers. Advanced marketers know its no longer about who your customers are its about what they do. Todays customers expect personalization.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Organizations often claim to be customer-centric. Many companies operate with rigid boundaries between the marketing, sales and customer success departments. This creates artificial barriers that negatively impact customer satisfaction and the company’s bottom line. UX/UI is in charge of making life easier for customers.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Engaging today’s customers is like trying to hit a moving target. This article reveals how to implement the technologies and strategies necessary to understand, align and act on individual customer contexts for situational engagement. Collect and integrate diverse data types to build comprehensive customer profiles.

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Martech

JUNE 13, 2024

Pega solutions like Customer Decision Hub, Knowledge Buddy and Blueprint are aimed primarily at large enterprise clients. It takes some digging to understand the architecture of these solutions so it helps to hear from Pega customers about use cases. On the business side there are many products beyond network connectivity and Fios.

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Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

Leading CRM platforms like Salesforce, Dynamics, Zoho and HubSpot are introducing new AI features for autonomous chats, automatic campaign launches, product suggestions and sentiment analysis. The systems they use to manage customers, fill their pipelines and generate new revenues are often outdated, incorrect and missing information.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Quick Takeaways Marketing management software automates and simplifies tasks like campaign management, content creation, and data analysis, boosting productivity and saving time. These products include: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems to manage customer data and interactions.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A martech center of excellence (COE) bridges strategy and execution, turning marketing ideas into powerful customer experiences. Central to this is the execution team — a skilled group that includes UX designers, web experts, email marketers, social media strategists, CRM managers, campaign analysts and operational strategists.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 24, 2024

All you and your team need to do is grab a social media customer service template and hit Reply All. Even if you’re not in crisis mode, templated responses or messages can save you tons of time and improve your social media customer service. This blog has every and any social media customer service template you could ever want.

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Martech

OCTOBER 1, 2024

My two previous articles on personalized customer experiences focused on the need to embrace AI and the goal of AI that truly understands customer data. In the end, I chose “Agency” because I continue to believe we all have to personally embrace these martech trends in order to drive better customer experiences.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 13, 2023

For that reason, it's important to create one that accurately represents your products and services and makes it clear why you're the best choice. Value Proposition vs Mission Statement Your value proposition details what you offer customers and why they should choose you, while a mission statement details your objective as an organization.

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Martech

JULY 26, 2024

An optimized website is key for customer engagement and retention, impacting every phase of the customer journey. Here’s why a strong digital presence is indispensable: Strategic engagement : A website that strategically engages visitors with personalized experiences enhances customer loyalty and drives conversions.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Step up live call productivity with AI-powered Copilot assistance. Updated CRM object merge behavior to be aware of. Deliver in-app customer support with mobile chat SDK. Flexible editing with drag-and-drop areas in custom email templates. Seamlessly connect HubSpot tickets to Microsoft Teams.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 30, 2024

Understanding your customers is critical because you need to give them what they want to keep them coming back. About 63% of consumers believe businesses are dishonest about how they use customer data, and 54% think brands use data to benefit themselves, not their customers.

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Martech

APRIL 22, 2024

Today’s B2B buyers expect a personalized experience tailored to their specific needs, industry pain points and stage in the customer journey. Rather than promoting your products or services en masse, this strategy involves segmenting your target accounts and prospects into distinct audiences.

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Martech

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Dig deeper: 7 strategies for getting the most from your martech stack “This may be the turning point where the number of commercial apps in the tech stack peaks and future growth of the stack — which overall we think could be exponential — will come from custom software, a cornucopia of custom apps, agents, and automations.”

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