CRM Switch Data Migration and Consulting http://www.crmswitch.com CRM data migration services. GoldMine to Salesforce, ACT! to Salesforce and SalesLogix to Salesforce Wed, 02 May 2012 00:05:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 38.019022-122.545891crm-data-migration-serviceshttp://feedburner.google.com 8 Reasons to Not Develop a CRM RFP http://www.crmswitch.com/buying-crm/8-reasons-not-develop-crm-rfp/ http://www.crmswitch.com/buying-crm/8-reasons-not-develop-crm-rfp/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 13:20:16 +0000 Steve Chipman http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=3854 Despite the perceived benefits to the RFP process, there are a number of reasons to not go to all the effort of creating an ...]]> http://www.crmswitch.com/buying-crm/8-reasons-not-develop-crm-rfp/feed/ 0 Should You Upgrade or Re-Implement Your CRM? http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-upgrade/upgrading-vs-re-implementing-crm/ http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-upgrade/upgrading-vs-re-implementing-crm/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:33:57 +0000 Steve Chipman http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=3831 Why are these companies stuck?  First, the effort to upgrade from a time and logistical perspective would be very costly and would overwhelm internal resources that are already stretched thin. Second, with multiple departments and with ...]]> http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-upgrade/upgrading-vs-re-implementing-crm/feed/ 0 5 Reasons to Define Your CRM Requirements First http://www.crmswitch.com/buying-crm/5-reasons-define-detailed-crm-requirements-before-buying/ http://www.crmswitch.com/buying-crm/5-reasons-define-detailed-crm-requirements-before-buying/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:23:34 +0000 Steve Chipman http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=3797 However, if there are definitive plans in place to move off an old ...]]> http://www.crmswitch.com/buying-crm/5-reasons-define-detailed-crm-requirements-before-buying/feed/ 0 iPad Apps For Popular CRM Solutions http://www.crmswitch.com/buying-crm/crm-vendor-ipad-apps/ http://www.crmswitch.com/buying-crm/crm-vendor-ipad-apps/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:41:30 +0000 Steve Chipman http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=3481 The consumerization of IT isn’t something that’s coming — it’s here. IT managers have little choice but to support the demands of mobile users in the multi-touch device era, which was kicked off by Steve Jobs when he famously rejected the idea of a stylus in his design concept for the next generation smart ...]]> http://www.crmswitch.com/buying-crm/crm-vendor-ipad-apps/feed/ 1 8 Ways Your Old CRM System Frustrates Your Marketing Users to No End http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-features/ways-old-crm-system-frustrates-marketing-users/ http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-features/ways-old-crm-system-frustrates-marketing-users/#comments Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:54:14 +0000 Steve Chipman http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=3394 Within the context of CRM, marketing and sales efforts have been rapidly gaining a singleness of purpose along with the new ways of marketing. While sales and marketing departments once had limited interactivity, these two worlds have become much more technologically unified and synergistic.
Yet, despite these ...]]> http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-features/ways-old-crm-system-frustrates-marketing-users/feed/ 0 What Does CRM to ERP Integration Really Mean? http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-integration/crm-erp-integration-meaning/ http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-integration/crm-erp-integration-meaning/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:53:04 +0000 Steve Chipman http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=3323 “ERP integration” can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Since this is a such a broad characterization of the interoperability of disparate systems, it is helpful to break ...]]> http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-integration/crm-erp-integration-meaning/feed/ 0 Developing B2B Landing Pages That Integrate With CRM http://www.crmswitch.com/marketing-automation/b2b-landing-pages-crm/ http://www.crmswitch.com/marketing-automation/b2b-landing-pages-crm/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 03:08:15 +0000 Steve Chipman http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=3263 Deploying Basic CRM Web Form Code
Before online CRM systems were as prevalent as they are today, Web Leads were mainly distributed by email. However, most of today’s cloud-based CRM systems allow marketers to easily generate Web ...]]> http://www.crmswitch.com/marketing-automation/b2b-landing-pages-crm/feed/ 0 How Much Attention Do CRM Vendors Give to CRM? http://www.crmswitch.com/crm/crm-vendor-revenue/ http://www.crmswitch.com/crm/crm-vendor-revenue/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:34:27 +0000 Denise Kitt http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=3012 SugarCRM – SugarCRM currently boasts over one million end users between its free open source and its commercial open source offerings. The company only offers CRM ...]]> http://www.crmswitch.com/crm/crm-vendor-revenue/feed/ 0 Should Your Company Renew Its CRM Contract? http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-providers/crm-contract-renewal/ http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-providers/crm-contract-renewal/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:44:20 +0000 Steve Chipman http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=2977 Should you switch CRM providers?

The answer as to whether or not to switch depends upon ...]]> http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-providers/crm-contract-renewal/feed/ 0 Should You Use CRM Leads? http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-features/should-your-company-use-crm-leads/ http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-features/should-your-company-use-crm-leads/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:00:59 +0000 Steve Chipman http://www.crmswitch.com/?p=2951 After all, if you’re switching from a contact manager to a CRM system, your users already have to adapt to the idea of separate Account and ...]]> http://www.crmswitch.com/crm-features/should-your-company-use-crm-leads/feed/ 0