A moratorium on CEO interviews, iOS 14 & location tracking, an “off the grid” mobile option, marketers’ digital transformation, new Google My Business features, gathering requirements & conducting online workshops.
093 Meteorologist Backdroppings
Musings about online meeting technologies and how they’re being used. How CRM vendors are helping out with discounts and free components.
092 Adaptation
Sam & Steve talk about ways to adapt your sales and marketing to our current reality.
091 Work Distancing
CRM & marketing automation news and information for March 2020
090 Craig Charlton, CEO – SugarCRM
Sam interviews Craig Charlton, Chief Executive Officer at SugarCRM.
088 Power Shutoffs & Parasites
Reasons for our absence—long vacations, Public Service Power Shutoffs and parasites. bpm’online becomes Creatio. More Salesforce acquisition rumors. Dreamforce ’19 report. Video outreach. Observations on Gartner Magic Quadrants. CRM industry maturity and commoditization. Accelerated release cycles by CRM vendors. Vendors increasingly aligning their offerings around analysts’ “three pillar” expectations.
087 Beta Blues
Sam’s iOS 13 beta testing blues, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation, a variety of HubSpot to CRM integrations, declining website visitor conversion rates.
086 Rich Green of SugarCRM
Rich Green is Chief Product Officer and CTO at SugarCRM. Rich leads SugarCRM’s engineering and product management teams and is responsible for the product vision and global strategy of the award-winning Sugar platform.
In this episode, Sam and Steve ask Rich for his perspectives on CRM and his vision for CRM.
085 Widespread CRM Panic
Massive Salesforce outage, multi-tenant vs. single tenant hosted CRM databases, SugarCRM acquires Collabspot and Salesfusion, Sugar’s new quoting module, Sage sunsets SageCRM Online, bpm’online’s low code no code, citizen developers.
084 Max Altschuler of Outreach
Sam & Steve talk to Max Altschuler, Vice President of Marketing at Outreach, about sales engagement and how Outreach facilitates multi-channel sales communication with prospects.
Max is co-author of Sales Engagement: How The World’s Fastest Growing Companies are Modernizing Sales Through Humanization at Scale.
083 Seedy CRM
A discussion with Greg Martinelli about CRM in the agricultural business. Greg is an ag sales trainer, coach and speaker.
Visit Greg’s website.
082 Polar CRM
The deep freeze hits Chicago just in time for the bpm’online conference. Sam previews his talk at the conference.
081 Winery CX
Sam’s latest wine club, when & why Infor CRM wins, a look back at 2018 acquisitions, ContactOut Chrome extension, Wix gets into CRM, “CX” in 2019, CRM in email client sidebars, CRM AI in 2019, 5 CRM trends for 2019, bot backlash.
080 UX Darkness
Instead of show notes for this episode, we’d like to use this real estate to provide information about options for making a donation to victims of the Camp Fire.
The Red Cross and AT&T
Text CAWILDFIRES to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
NorCal United Way
Go to the donation page and select Camp Fire Relief in the “What would you like your donation to support?” field. You’ll have to scroll up in the drop down list, as the list is overcrowded with options.
079 Bionic CRM
Dreamforce 2018, Inform, CRM AI offerings, SugarCRM’s input on why they win deals.
078 CRM Destinations
A bad technology day, how we can collectively put an end to call center cold calls, a review of CRM Magazine’s 2018 CRM Market Awards winners, The ascents of Microsoft & Zoho, how long it really takes to become a CRM leader, how little separation there is among the top ranked vendors in point scores.
077 How Suite It Is (For SugarCRM)
Accel KKR makes a 9 figure investment in SugarCRM. Some of the other potential compatible AKKR companies. Sugar’s redesign and re-architecture. Sugar’s one-clickedness. Mitch Lieberman‘s take on the investment and his advice, including going all in on the cloud. How the sales team needs to be more consultative and real. The idea of conversational engagement. The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation and some of the positional changes since last year. A close pack in the Leader quadrant. bpm’online is alone in the Challenger’s quadrant. ProsperWorks rebrands to Copper. Copper’s win percentage vs Salesforce. Salesforce and Google are cozying up. Will Google acquire a CRM vendor? Google’s Hangouts Meet as a viable online meeting app.
076 ERP Implementability
Sam and Steve talk with Joel Schneider, president of Liberty Technology Advisors, about what should be behind proper ERP selection and implementation processes.