It is impossible to witness the changes in business over the past few years without recognizing the need for a communications strategy that reaches beyond the document-centric one we know... View More
Customer communications have transformed into conversations. This is because outbound marketing monologues are being replaced by customer-initiated dialogues. For brands, this means taking another look... View More
Over the past few years, there has been a great deal of discussion around transforming the organization to be truly customer-centric in everything that it does. This charge toward customer-centricity has... View More
One of the biggest challenges in developing a personalized customer communications strategy may not be the lack of customer data but whether the data you have is supporting those efforts—or hurting... View More
Smart Communications, the innovator in customer and business conversations, has announced the availability of the next version of its enterprise solutions. With its latest release, Smart Communications... View More
The plague of locusts, partisan bickering, and customer communications management (CCM): Do you see a link? Maybe not at first, but after being in the industry for as long as I have, I sure do. Each cause... View More
There are many components to developing a modern, data-driven customer communications strategy, none of which are more challenging than securing full customer data and preferences. The difficulty lies... View More
Years ago, there was a serious effort to bring customer communications management (CCM) into the broader enterprise content management (ECM) fold. While CCM stood for component content management back... View More
Surprise! Your company is not the center of the universe. Unfortunately, too many companies think of themselves as being the center of their customer\'s universe. While this “may” be true for... View More
It’s not debatable; the digital world is expanding faster than most of us can keep up with. The trends all show an accelerating growth in the connected world. Gartner estimates that worldwide device... View More
Making Every Customer Message MatterIn financial services, communication is often treated as a necessary obligation. A policy document must be delivered, an account statement must be sent, a claim let
Enterprise communications have long been framed as a debate between physical and digital delivery. Organizations pursuing cost savings often viewed digital transformation as a pathway to reducing or e
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Every year, somewhere in your organization, a contract comes up for renewal. Your team prepares. They benchmark pricing, sketch out alternatives on paper and walk into the negotiation expecting a reas
