Let me elaborate more on the core benefits of a good CRM, to see if CRM really matters.
Via utilizing CRM tools, companies seek to learn more about their customers’ needs and behaviors in order to develop stronger relationships with their customers. They can provide services and products that are exactly what customers want, offer better customer service and increase loyalty among customers. A good CRM application helps companies in two ways; first one is related to analyzing patterns, the second one is related to one-to-one relations.
Let us start with the first broad benefit. Pareto’s original 80/20 rule states that 80% of a nation’s wealth is enjoyed by the 20% of the society; where the remaining 20% of the wealth is enjoyed by 80% of the society. Pareto’s 80/20 rule can be applied to businesses, also. Most of the profits of businesses come from a couple of specific customer profiles. In order to align with Drucker’s ‘creating and keeping profitable customers’ idea, companies should seek to understand their customers, their behaviors and analyze patterns to increase the number of profitable customers they have. Good CRM implementations enable companies to do that.
Second broad benefit is dramatic effectiveness in one-to-one relationships with customers. Sales force gets the ability to close deals faster, and the ability to offer the best value proposition to a customer. Customer service increases and the individual customer feels he/she gets the treatment he/she deserves. Increased effectiveness in one-to-one relationships with customers directly raises loyalty, thereby helps companies keep profitable customers, and make each customer more profitable!
