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What is CRM? Customer Relationship Management Explained

Up and Running

Many small businesses are turning to customer relationship management systems(CRM) to better understand customer wants and needs. CRM applications, often used in combination with data warehousing, eCommerce applications , and call centers, allow companies to gather and access customer information. What is CRM? Who is using CRM?

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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

Twenty years ago – in the midst of the Web 1.0 The assumption was that online platforms would completely automate all supplier-customer transactions including retailing, wholesaling, and procurement. As such, successful B2B marketplaces will do the following well: Aggregate suppliers and provide price transparency.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing.

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How Aggregation Can Greatly Enhance Your Business

YoungUpstarts

In order to ensure that your website is able to bring in new customers, it is pertinent to keep your site filled with up-to-date, relevant content. This is where content aggregation can prove to be enormously beneficial. First and foremost, you should familiarize yourself with the basic understanding of content aggregation.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

by Bill Lee, author of “ The Hidden Wealth of Customers: Realizing the Untapped Value of Your Most Important Asset “ The old paradigm works like this: Your company produces goods and services that help customers get a job done. In return, the customers pay you money. The new approach makes so much more sense.

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3 Tips To Help Small Businesses Get More Customers In A Post-Google Search World

YoungUpstarts

In the local space, about 50% 1 of searches are done on directories and map apps – further fragmenting an already dizzying number of ways customers find out and select small businesses. Why wait when you are losing customers right now? Guard Your Social Reputation and Use It To Increase Customer Communication and Intimacy.

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Daily Deals Still A Big Deal In Asia; All Deals Asia Launches iPhone App

YoungUpstarts

The daily deals aggregator says they are seeing more and more merchants listing their deals on deal sites, and consumers haven’t quite had enough of scouting for such deals. All Deals Asia iPhone App. And while some daily deal sites, such as Groupon and deal.com.sg have their mobile apps, they can list only their individual deals. “By

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