SugarCRM

DECEMBER 9, 2022

If you’re looking to open more customer service channels without breaking the bank, look no further! We want to help you give your customers the freedom to engage with you where, when, and how they want. The Future of Customer Service. If you’d like to watch the full recording, you can do it here.

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SugarCRM

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But the company clearly didn’t want to negatively color our experience as customers. So instead, the customer service representative placed our call on hold to check with a manager and see what the company could do. What Is the Customer Service Recovery Paradox? Focus on reducing your customer effort score.

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SugarCRM

JUNE 16, 2021

So, how do you keep customers happy? What matters more—customer experience or customer service? Both customer service and customer experience matter when providing excellent interactions with your customers. Why is Customer Experience Important?

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SugarCRM

JUNE 22, 2023

IoT and CRM: Better Together IoT is the connection of devices via the internet, while CRM is the collection of customer data through data mining with the purpose of providing useful insight into customer behavior for marketing and sales purposes. Want to learn more about the unique partnership between SugarCRM and Amazon?

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SugarCRM

OCTOBER 11, 2021

SugarCRM’s mission is to provide a platform that helps our customers serve their customers. If you measure success by revenue growth, then service is a powerful force to drive this growth. Create A Rich Customer Data and Business Process Platform. Create A Rich Customer Data and Business Process Platform.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

No one knows better than customer service managers know how vital customer communication is to the success of a business or its product through every avenue of the company. SugarCRM offers an excellent tool to help your business manage customer communication, and it’s called SugarLive. What Is SugarLive?

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The new 2024 State of CRM Report from SugarCRM is all about that—offering a path forward. Read on to see some of our key findings from 800+ sales, marketing, service, and IT leaders around the world. In addition to sales forecasting, CRM systems contribute significantly to the automation of sales processes.

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SugarCRM

JANUARY 15, 2020

Document automation is enabling modern teams to step away from the manual labor of writing documents and leaving more time for sales, customer service, or marketing. Meet wMobile for SugarCRM , an easy-to-use app that puts the power of W?Systems Document Automation. Hurry up and save your seat!

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SugarCRM

OCTOBER 27, 2022

That’s why we decided to sit down and craft this post to help recap the events that have taken place to ensure our community and customers who could not make it still have access to the announcements, keynotes, and overall highlights of the event! Adrian Swinscoe is a best-selling author on customer service, experience, and engagement.

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SugarCRM

JANUARY 18, 2022

The amount of data from platforms, devices, and social channels helps them tailor their messages and deliver a superb customer experience at scale. Which channel to send your message over. These insights also provide you with strategies to segment and personalize every step of the sales funnel.

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SugarCRM

OCTOBER 15, 2019

IoT has the ability to drive insights throughout sales, customer service and marketing departments. The intelligent coupling of IoT and CRM have the ability to help manufacturers elevate customer experiences by enhancing efficiency and heightening visibility. Increased Sales.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

While in the past, there was a significant segregation between marketing and sales, having aligned strategies and intertwined tools is a necessity. B2B customer journeys can have as many as 10 marketing and sales touchpoints. They don’t have to be mailed around or faxed like they used to be.

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SugarCRM

APRIL 7, 2022

Organizations trying to drive their sales strategies by looking in the rear-view mirror of customer insights quickly found themselves outmatched by competitors with forward-looking sales strategies. Sales teams have found themselves working harder to win hearts and minds. The Buyer Lifecycle.

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SugarCRM

JANUARY 13, 2022

Your customers expect the best across every touchpoint of the buying cycle, from personalization to support channels. Think about yourself as a customer. You now have modern tools to track and identify your customer’s pain points, understand their preferences, and maximize the experience for your target customer.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Customers expect consistency in their interactions with your company, from sales to support. Hence, it’s necessary to get customer experience (CX) right in every area of your organization. A great start is creating an effective culture of caring for customers at all company levels, beginning with customer service agents.

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SugarCRM

JANUARY 7, 2021

Whether you are building a new sales team or expanding an existing operation, finding and reaching new customers is one of the most difficult challenges that your company must address. Cold calling yields some results, but it requires an inordinate amount of luck and good timing not only to make contact but also to land the customer.

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SugarCRM

JUNE 16, 2022

According to figures from PwC , 59% of global consumers feel that companies have lost touch with the human element of customer experience (CX). In contrast, global SugarCRM research found that 58% of companies say their customer churn has increased in the last 12 months. Creating a Holistic Customer Journey.

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SugarCRM

AUGUST 29, 2023

According to a recent report we conducted, 33% of the respondents claimed that the most important part of the buying journey over the last five years is customer service and creating upsell/cross-sell opportunities. Properly used, your CRM can integrate with and synchronize various communication channels.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

CRM vendors are no different: Over the past year, numerous CRM vendors (full disclosure: including SugarCRM) have introduced AI components into their product offerings. This myth has played on our fears for years, but the prospect of automation completely replacing humans in customer interactions would actually do more harm than good.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The Adoption for Growth award celebrates the Sugar customer driving Sales, Marketing, and/or Service adoption of the Sugar platform. Customer for Life is the award that celebrates the customer that consistently delivers exceptional, personalized customer service and support using Sugar Serve.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Train and motivate employees who have direct customer contact to request updates at each customer encounter. This includes call center personnel, customer service, salespeople, and distributors. Smooth the Handoff to Sales. When you have a new lead in your system, you must determine if they’re sales-ready.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

You might think that marketing and sales alignment only applies to lead generation. You might think that passing nurtured leads from the marketing department to the sales department is the only time these two groups interact. You must align your marketing and sales departments to be a viable competitor in your industry.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

That means guiding your people through planned-out processes and giving them the right information at the right time via whatever communications channel is best for the audience. Sales & service. How are you attracting attention and getting potential customers interested enough to engage with your brand?

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SugarCRM

AUGUST 25, 2022

A recent study , based on a survey of 1,600 global sales and marketing professionals worldwide, found that customers are leaving at extraordinary rates, and most companies are ill-prepared to counter this trend in the rebound from the pandemic. Enhance Your Customer Data. Make Technology Easier to Use.

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SugarCRM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To take advantage of these new capabilities, any forward-looking organization must acknowledge that data is at the core of every marketing, sales, or customer service strategy. A primary challenge for many companies is having an incomplete view of customer data. Boost successful targeted marketing. Enhance Productivity.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

At some point, lead management becomes customer relationship management—when the sales team hands over a lead that’s been converted into a customer and customer service teams continue to nurture those relationships to support repeat business and loyalty. Nurture Potential Customers. Capture Contacts.

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SugarCRM

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Businesses revisit their strategic models in an age where customer loyalty is fundamental in the pursuit of profit. With research from Qualtrics XM showing that investing in CX initiatives can increase revenue by 70% within 36 months, businesses must start to see customer service as a profit center. Tailor Your Approach.

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SugarCRM

JANUARY 17, 2018

Editor’s note: the following is a guest blog post in collaboration with Tracy Blanchard, an experienced freelance writer and business blogger, who focuses on providing advice for small businesses, customer service teams, and sales departments. Why should businesses be marketing to mobile-first customers?

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SugarCRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Modern AI CRM solutions that are elevated with AI capabilities help companies to conduct customer behavior analysis and structure that data into appropriate responses that can automatically execute or propose next-step actions to the consumer of the information, namely your team members.

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SugarCRM

JULY 29, 2021

Lately, creating an outstanding customer experience during interactions has become a priority for companies worldwide. While customer service software does play a critical role, so does data. How is customer service data influencing your business decisions? Customer service is the duty of all departments.

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SugarCRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Optimizing customer engagement and experience is a key focus for any sales and marketing leader. Our recent survey shows that customers are leaving in droves—at a rate of nearly 1 in 2 in the US and 1 in 3 worldwide. Customer Centricity. Capitalizing on Data to Fuel the Customer Experience.

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SugarCRM

APRIL 3, 2018

Companies like Amazon and Zappos are lauded for providing outstanding customer service. That has raised the bar for what customers expect from every brand they interact with. So, it’s critical that customers service reps have the tools, data and autonomy needed to satisfy customers.

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SugarCRM

APRIL 19, 2021

SugarCRM offers various tools to help automate sales, marketing, and customer service processes, leaving managers free to focus on strategic initiatives to make their companies more profitable. In fact, many sales professionals spend a large portion of their time not selling but rather on admin tasks like data entry.

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SugarCRM

AUGUST 26, 2019

As a result, organizations are eager to adopt solutions which break the traditionally siloed approach to marketing, sales, and customer service. To do so, businesses require platforms capable of playing the role of both CRM and Service Management to manage and maintain the entire customer journey in a single consolidated space.

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SugarCRM

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Are you looking to drive better sales and more revenue without investing in more tools? See below examples of marketing, sales, and service dashboards within Sugar to promote revenue growth. See which campaigns and channels are your best performing. Find out how your channels and campaigns drive sales opportunities.

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SugarCRM

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Customer experience (CX) is business-critical because it directly impacts the sales, revenue, and profit your business generates. Poor Experiences Drive Customers Away. Customer experience is business-critical because it keeps clients around so you can sell to them again another day. An Ever-Growing Importance.

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SugarCRM

JULY 28, 2022

With just a fraction of our people regularly working today from their local SugarCRM office, I think it’s safe to say that we “get it” now. However, there were challenges along the way, both for many of our customers who were on the same journey and for us. Remote Is the “Old Normal” for Customer Service Teams.

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