For a decade now, marketers have been striving to obtain email addresses for their clients and prospects as the most critical piece of data for keeping in touch with customers. In many cases, companies would incentivise sales forces and telemarketers if they could obtain that single piece of information from a client. Because email as [...]
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For Direct Marketing, Cell Phone Number Is The New Email Address
Posted by Mike in Thursday, May 28th 2009 under: Marketing, Messaging, Mobile Tags: Direct Marketing, Email Marketing, Mobile Communications, SMS, Text Messaging, Twitter
The 21st Century Callcenter and Customer Communications
Posted by Mike in Friday, May 15th 2009 under: Customer Experience, Customer Service, Messaging, Mobile, Social Networking, Technology, Web 2.0 Tags: Blogs, Call Center, Customer Communications, Facebook, SMS, Text Messaging, Twitter
The modern call center has evolved from a simple answer-and-respond environment to a complex, multi-channel environment for servicing customers. This revolution started with the advent of CRM and the Internet a decade ago, with the introduction of email and web portals. Customer support has gone digital to the point that many “call centers” have gone [...]

