CRM and ERP Systems: Enhancing Business and Customer Relations

What is CRM?

CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. It is a business strategy designed to enhance the relationship between a company and its customers by understanding, anticipating, and managing customer needs. CRM integrates marketing, sales, customer service, and supply chain functions to provide a seamless experience to customers.

Key Features of CRM:

  • It acts as a system for managing all interactions with current and potential customers, including calls, emails, sales tracking, and customer
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Branding and Marketing Strategies for Business Success

Branding

Branding is the process of developing a firm’s identity and strengthening its image and loyalty.

Brand Recognition

Brand recognition is the extent to which a consumer can correctly identify a particular product or service just by viewing the product or service’s logo, tagline, packaging, or advertising campaign. Brand recognition can also be triggered via an audio cue, such as a jingle or theme song associated with a brand.

Techniques Used

  • Social media advertising
  • Producing a short and memorable
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Consumer Privacy and Digital Marketing: Web 2.0 and 3.0

The World Has Changed

Digital Advertising and Consumer Privacy

Facts:

  • Companies are competing for ownership of consumer data.
  • Consumers want their personal data and privacy protected.
  • The EU and FCC have created privacy rules (still in development and must mature).

US-FCC Trends:

  • Increased FTC monitoring and intervention.
  • Improved Internet content monitoring.
  • Determining ISP and website accountability for digital consumer privacy.

EU-GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation):

  • European privacy law restricts
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Digital Marketing and the Collaborative Economy

Collaborative Economy and Digital Marketing

Collaborative Economy

The collaborative economy involves interactions between two or more individuals, through digital media or otherwise, that satisfies a need (not necessarily real) for one or more people.

Digital Marketing

Digital marketing is the adaptation of traditional marketing to the internet, using resources and tools to achieve some type of conversion.

Characteristics of Online Marketing

  • Measurable: We can track visualizations, interactions, users
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Web Design Fundamentals: From UX to UI and Beyond

Web Design Fundamentals

Design: Aims to convey the appearance, function, and production of an object with a specific function.

Stages:

  • Observation and analysis
  • Planning and projection
  • Construction and execution

Web design: The activity that consists of planning, design, implementation, and maintenance of websites.

History and Evolution of Web Design

First Web Generation (1990-1994)

Webpages used HTML. Mosaic was the first free web browser program. In 1994, the W3C was created to prevent large companies from

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Global Marketing: Product Attributes, Branding, and Innovation

Global Marketing: Key Concepts and Considerations

Product Attributes

31) Generally speaking, which of the following are true product attributes? C) Both tangible and intangible

32) Many American car buyers perceived Korean cars as: B) Cheap.

33) An express warranty is a written guarantee that assures the buyer: C) That he or she is getting what they paid for.

Packaging and Labeling

34) Packaging is an important consideration for products that are shipped to markets worldwide. Which of the following statements

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