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Mike Boysen

Mike Boysen, founder of Effective CRM, is a strategic consultant in the CRM arena. He brings practical insight to businesses to help them understand customer-centered business strategy: outside-in process design, frameworks for understanding customer needs, understanding the jobs of your customers, market growth through innovation, behavior driven relationship marketing programs and designing systems to support these initiatives. The technology part is simple, so why are you spending so much money on that? Can't answer that? This is not the CRM your friends have been talking about...

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Products Come and Go – Customers Will Always Have Needs

On January 31, 2012 By Mike Boysen
Finding Customer Needs

One of the most important things I’ve learned in my CRM career is that innovation is the biggest driver of long term success for any business. By long term, I mean well beyond the lifetime of a product or service. I’ve worked with many companies that have owners that seem to be [...]

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Trends in the CRM Software Market 2012

On January 10, 2012 By Mike Boysen
Salesforce.com

I don’t make it my job tracking trends in the CRM software market, Paul Greenberg already does this here http://www.zdnet.com/blog/crm/crm-watchlist-2012-the-winners-list/3966. After reading his post today, though, I decided to circle back to a quick and dirty analysis I did the other week after hearing that Google Insights actually had a strong correlation [...]

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6 CRM Steps to Great SEx

On December 1, 2011 By Mike Boysen
Stairway-To-Success

I’ve had this one up on my board for months!

Over in the Accidental Community we discuss CRM, Social CRM, Enterprise 2.0 and everything that ties them together…sometimes. In this case we were, and I thought it was worth sharing a very important contribution to the discussion. The topic was Social Experience Design [...]

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Why CRM Fails–And How To Fix It

On September 4, 2011 By Mike Boysen

I had the good fortune to read a great article on MITSloan Management Review this summer called Why CRM Fails – and How to Fix It.  It’ll be an eye-opener, and maybe a threat, for those of you who are caught up in the day to day business of selling CRM software. The reason [...]

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CRM Disruption You Can Count On

On August 12, 2011 By Mike Boysen

How much of your CRM application are you actually hiring? Yes, I understand you are paying for all of it. The question is whether you are leveraging all of it? CRM is not the same for each type of business, or even for different businesses of the same type. They each have different roles to [...]

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The Heretic Manifesto

On July 7, 2011 By Mike Boysen

It’s difficult these days not to notice the dire financial situation(s) so many people, and governments, have gotten themselves into (yes, themselves) around the world. These are certainly not the outcomes we have each, and collectively, sought; at least not on the surface. Today, I’d like to dig down a little bit deeper than that [...]

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The Fallacy of Attribute Based Customer Segmentation

On May 9, 2011 By Mike Boysen

I operate in and around the constant drone of attribute based customer segmentation. There is a prevailing thought that organizing your product or service design, as well as  marketing, around demographics or behaviors is the best way to develop and maintain highly loyal and valuable customers. [...]

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Unmet Needs, Networks, Signals, Reputation….#CRM

On April 21, 2011 By Mike Boysen

I was reading a great post by my friend, and colleague, Brian Vellmure this morning (Network, Signals Reputation and Delight) and felt like adding to the discussion.  Initially, I began to write a comment, but once it turned into a blog I reconsidered and posted it here.

Building a network and reputation is [...]

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You’re Hiring Me To Help You Do a Job Better, Right?

On April 7, 2011 By Mike Boysen

I’m in a unique position as a CRM consultant because I have customers who have needs, and it’s my job to understand them, prioritize them, and target my efforts at creating solutions for the most valuable outcomes. But, my focus can’t stop there, because as a consultant in the CRM space, I need to impart [...]

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The Ground -Up Product Penetration & Disruption Model

On March 21, 2011 By Mike Boysen

Do you work in an Enterprise that organizes itself though a command & control hierarchy, makes decisions behind closed doors, and basically prevents you from collaborating with your team – and worse, your customers? If this sounds like you, there is hope that one day your Enterprise will find itself with a Universe of pre-connected [...]

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