Customer Relationship Management
Introduction

Customer Relationship Management, or CRM, is a business strategy designed to improve profitability, revenue, and customer satisfaction. It consists of software, services, and a new way of thinking to improve profitability, revenue, and customer satisfaction
It is a process or methodology used to learn more about customers' needs and behaviors in order to develop stronger relationships with them. It includes the methodologies, strategies, software, and web-based capabilities that help an enterprise organize and manage customer relationships. It is the collection and distribution of all data to all areas of the business.

Objectives

The main objective is to enable organizations to better manage their customers through the introduction of reliable systems, processes and procedures for interacting with those customers. The goal of CRM is to help a company maintain current customers, as well as gain new customers.

Advantages

  • Allows organizations to build more profitable customer relationships
  • Decrease operating costs
  • Shorten the sales cycle
  • Having all relevant customer information at their fingertips
  • Provide better customer service
  • Increase customer revenues
  • Discover new customers
  • Cross sell/Up Sell products more effectively
  • Help sales staff close deals faster
  • Make call centers more efficient
  • Simplifying marketing and sales processes