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830x539_James
May 9 2019
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
Customer-Centricity
March 13 2018
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
830x539_Liz
Feb. 6 2018
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
DOCStratNews
Sept. 22 2017
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
Outside-In
July 19 2017
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
csutomerdata
March 2 2016
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
connect_new
June 23 2014
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
PeopleSmall
April 30 2014
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
TomRoberts_Blog3
March 26 2014
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
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