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Wunderman – Moving Closer to True and Actionable Consumer Value

In addition to the traditional monetary (products, spend, portfolio) based mechanism of measuring customer value , Wunderman is suggesting a more complete valuation of the customer to include influence and engagement.

The 4 Cs of Intelligence-Powered CRM

At this weeks Forrester Consumer Forum I attended the Customer Intelligence Leadership board and had an opportunity to hear Joe Stanhope & Suresh Vittal present a case for “Intelligence-Powered CRM.”   The central thesis is that applying Customer Intelligence (CI) to Customer Relations Management (CRM) increases the likelihood of successful implementation. Forrester defines CRM as a …

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Klout requires manual update

This is a quick update to my recent klout post.  klout requires users to manually update their klout score.  As you can see here, you need to click to refresh.  I don’t feel klout goes out of its way to make that clear.  If I had to guess, I’d bet they are working to make …

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Foursquare Ping needs context

I’ve been evaluating Foursquare’s Ping feature that I recently uncovered in the Android release.  In this post I’ll describe Foursquare’s Ping, what I like and what I would change. Foursquare’s Ping The problem with most LBS apps is that checking in is a solo event.  Yes, you can notify friends of your location via the in app …

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