Tagove offers tools for video, voice, and text chat along with related features such as screen sharing and co-browsing. It has just added an integrated CRM to store conversation results and do other CRMish things like lead management, task creation, and outbound emails. It seems like buying a car from your windshield wiper manufacturer. Is CRM really that much of a commodity?
Pretty much every presentation on marketing technology now starts with rising customer expectations for personalization. Fair enough, but what else is on their minds? Maru/Matchbox, whose business is customer marketing insights, finds that trust is eroding in pretty much everything (yeah, we knew that) and one result is stalled growth in the sharing economy (that one is news to me). Back in unsurprising territory: Millennials participate much more in the sharing economy than their elders.
Campaign management is worthless without good customer data, right? A Customer Data Platform is generally the best approach, but if all you want is a simple deduplication tool, you’ll be happy to know that Melissa has made its venerable MatchUp matching system available as a cloud service. Melissa announced a more comprehensive offering last month, incorporating Pentaho data integration tools. But it’s still pretty much a do-it-yourself project.
Just over half of consumers (54%) like to receive personalized messages because they show the consumers are known to the brand, plus they can be time savers. The rest (46%) find it at best unimportant, at worst creepy. Relevance far outstrips personalization when it comes to driving email opens (54% vs. 19%). Takeaway: treat each customer the way they prefer.