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SageCRM Education and Training Classes

November 16, 2011 by Wayne Schulz

Have you just installed the latest Sage ERP MAS 90 or MAS 200 4.5 – including the free user license of SageCRM?

Interested in some affordable educational classes that walk you through the basics (and beyond) of SageCRM)?

Check these training options from Azamba. They’ve broken down their training in cost effective modules – and the price easily accommodates large groups.

SageCRM Training Classes

Filed Under: Sage 100 ERP Tagged With: azamba, crm, peter wolf, sagecrm

Don’t believe the hype – Twitter and CRM is not your cure all for poor customer service

March 24, 2009 by Wayne Schulz

twitter-mas90-schulzJust recently Salesforce.com announced that the popular Twitter service would be integrated to their CRM software. On the surface this allows their customer service department to monitor the constant stream of
Twitter messages (known informally as tweets) for mentions of displeasure with the company’s product(s).

There are several things wrong with using Twitter as a primary approach to improving customer service.

Mistake #1: Using Twitter to catch disgruntled customers encourages the cell phone model of only giving the best deals to those who gripe loudest

There’s a whole subset of consumers who are onto the model employed by the cell phone companies. The drill goes like this – at the end of a cellular contract some customers have wised up to the fact that there’s a customer retentions department that can offer all manner of promotions to entice a customer to stay.

The  problem with the “retentions” approach is that it places all the customer service focus on the back end business of saving a customer relationship – and not on the front end of nurturing and growing that relationship.

If you’ve noticed, there’s an ever increasing stream of complaints from current cell phone customers that only new customers or those threatening to leave are offered the best deals.

That’s one hell of a way to promote high customer satisfaction – make customers threaten to quit before you reward them!

Mistake #2 – Fishing for Twitter complaints is time that could be better served improving the service in the first place

Spending  time improving  customer service so that there aren’t people complaining in the first place is a better use of your time.

Why only react when the problems reach “I’m going to tell everyone” proportion? Instead – focus on improving the customer experience from start to finish.

Here’s an idea (and one that I’ve used for the last 10 years).

Instead of laying back – waiting for customers to come to you with complaints – how about a proactive marketing approach that reaches out via emails, web seminars, and newsletters (I use constantcontact.com which charges only $25 per month for me to email over 2,000 customers).

Pushing out news and tips that helps customers work with your product fosters goodwill during the relationship – and I think is a much better (and more profitable) business model than trying to salvage a  relationship by waiting for  disgruntled tweets to appear.

Mistake #3 – Monitoring and reacting to Twitter complaints — only encourages more Twitter complaints

Some (but certainly not all) Twitter complainers, like children who learn that if they beg long (and loud) enough for a new toy they’ll get it, will eventually become an overwhelming resource hog.

Instead of fielding true complaints – your company could be lulled into being “gamed” by those Twitter users who figure out that if they complain long enough they’ll get your company’s equivalent of a free toy.salesforce-service-cloud

Observation

Twitter has a place in your customer service arsenal. In my experience it is no better tool than reading and responding to old fashioned complaint letters.

Twitter is also a noisy place — and it’s only going to get noisier and noisier.

My recommendation?

Focus your primary customer service efforts on building  bonds with your customers BEFORE they become disgruntled enough that they’re logging onto Twitter (or a personal blog or message board) and blast your company’s good name.

If you’re doing customer service the right way – you should not be providing customers with a reason to get onto a soap box in the first place.

Filed Under: Sage 100 ERP Tagged With: crm, customer service, mas200, Sage 100 ERP, salesforce, twitter

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