I will happily admit that I am not one of these technology guys who hangs out exclusively with other technology guys. I’m more likely to hang out with people in other industries – my best friends’ jobs include graphic designer, race car body fabricator, Range Rover mechanic, senior assisted living facility manager and, yes, a … Continue reading »
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Are you a bit player in your customers’ conversations about you?
A while back, I wrote a very long piece on the idea of using social media for service. One of my star sources with Brent Leary. Brent is a star when it comes to helping small business with CRM; it’s too bad that we can’t clone Brent and put a copy of him in every city … Continue reading »
Scaling up with Technology, and then Scaling Back Down for Relationships
On Wednesday and Thursday this week, I attended DemandCon, the first of what will hopefully be an annual show dwelling on demand creation, funnel management, marketing automation, and the many other technologies and disciplines that revolve around sales and marketing. It was great to hear these marketers and sales thinkers mulling over the issues that are … Continue reading »
People. Process. Results.
Good day to all! This post was supposed to be done yesterday, however, I was a bit waterlogged! For those not located on the east coast of the US, Boston picked up between 5 and 7 inches of rain, and if that was not enough, I traveled to New Jersey to enjoy the rain….again. I … Continue reading »
Things I Think I Know About Social CRM…
It is amazing how quickly the marketplace around “social” fragmented into different focus areas. I guess this is to be expected. I mean, the nature of social media is pretty darn fragmented as it is. So it follows suit that the supporting market break off into several directions. I have had a lot of mildly … Continue reading »
SugarCRM Storms CeBIT!
Just a shout out to all of the German and EU at large readers of Outsiders who are attending CeBIT this year. SugarCRM will be well represented at the event – with some of our partners showing off cool integrations and customer success stories. Sugar partner PSTech will be exhibiting its Sugar/Cisco integration – powering … Continue reading »
Join us for a Great SugarCRM Success Story Webcast
Just a quick note to invite the Outsiders crowd to join in on what is promising to be a great conversation between myself and a great Sugar user Control Technology. The webinar is being hosted by 1:1 Media, and you can register online here. The webinar will take place Wednesday, October 28 at 11Am pacific … Continue reading »
CRM Acceleration Recap
The past few days have been a whirlwind to say the least – three cities in three days, filled with great conversations with great people. The CRM Acceleration road show kicked off to great success in Austin, Houston and Denver. It is great to see the different types of CRM enthusiasts in the Sugar universe … Continue reading »
Deploy with SugarCRM – Get Appointed to High Government Posts (Well, Maybe…)
Just thought I’d share this cool news that just came across my inbox. One of SugarCRM’s earlier large deployments, athenahealth has a very smart and capable co-founder named Todd Park, who really took Sugar to the limit early on. Thanks to his innovative take on technology, healthcare and simply improving processes around people and systems … Continue reading »
SugarCRM: Four for the Price of One?
Just had an interesting talk with a prospect, and would be interested in hearing from current Sugar users around this… The prospect deals in software they distribute to both customers and partners – and thus have software bugs they track with a stand alone app. Ideally, bugs would be tracked to customer cases, but the … Continue reading »
