CRM pricing

Cheap CRM – When Will the Foolishness Stop?

By CommenceCRM / May 2, 2014

The CRM software sector has gone wild with vendors, obviously struggling to sign up new customers, pulling out all the stops. It started with cookie-cutter emails saying “See us in the 2014 CRM review!” which everyone knows you have to pay to be in, but at least it was professional. What has happened recently is not. Clearly the companies creating…

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Are You Price Sensitive or Value Sensitive?

By CommenceCRM / March 22, 2013

While the economy limps along the computer software industry is doing fairly well perhaps due to the continued growth of software as a service.  Software as a service (SaaS) allows businesses to begin utilizing a variety of software applications quickly and efficiently.  With software as a service there is no hardware to purchase or software to implement.  Both hardware and…

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CRM Competitors Invade Salesforce.com Territory

By CommenceCRM / March 18, 2013

Now that the enterprise CRM market has become saturated, CRM solution provider Salesforce.com has set their sights on the small to mid-size market. But they are running into some stiff competition in this sector. Salesforce.com has done an excellent job at building their brand and creating name recognition.  How have they done this?  With a lot of money and some…

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Foolish Thinking Causes the Failure of CRM Software

By CommenceCRM / January 14, 2013

Small businesses often struggle with how they manage and execute their marketing message, lead generation programs and sales opportunity management. This is because they typically do not have the expertise on board to implement or automate the internal business processes that drive these requirements.  What’s worse is that many believe that the mere purchase of a good CRM software program…

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Has the Shine Come Off the Salesforce.com Apple?

By CommenceCRM / August 9, 2012

Commoditization now Helping Competitors Let’s give credit where credit is due.  Salesforce.com paved the way into the cloud based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software sector with a unique offering that made good sense for customers who were tired of spending months of time and thousands of dollars struggling to implement desktop software applications.  Being the first company in the SaaS,…

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Two Common Mistakes SMEs Can Avoid When Selecting CRM Software

By CommenceCRM / August 17, 2011

I think we can all agree that most company executives are not professional software evaluators and as such often overlook some of the key decision criteria that are critical to making the right or the wrong decision.  Selecting the right CRM software requires you to first identify what business challenges you are trying to address and what resources you are…

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Commence CRM Announces "March Madness" Promotions

By CommenceCRM / March 1, 2011

Photo owned by bigcityal (cc) Customers Offered Big Discounts on Top Rated CRM Software TINTON FALLS, N.J. (March 01, 2011) – Commence Corporation, a leading provider of Customer Relationship Management software (CRM), is offering new customers big discounts on their world class online CRM software during the month of March.  “March is the company’s fiscal year end and we are looking…

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