Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Effective Communication as the CRM strategy

Businesses spend hugely on acquiring new customers. They invest more to market their product and services so that customers can know their presence and contact them. But strangely, when it comes to managing relationships with these customers there remains no strong process to follow.
Given the fact that businesses can spend a lot to obtain a customer, then is it not worth spending little to retain the existing ones?
The success of any business is connected with the customers and the basis of it is the communication. Businesses can enable better communication with the customers to improve the success level of the business.
Enabling successful communication using a CRM solution can boost not only customer service management but also the business sales.
CRM for effective communication

SMS solution using CRM

SMS is the easiest and most convenient way to reach to customers. Many CRM solutions provide the SMS solution that can act as a two way processing. Manual or automatic SMS can be sent to customer intimating them about the payment renewal, or stock availability, etc. Customers can also simply send SMS to show interest in any particular product or request for status enquiry.

Emailing through CRM

CRM solution provides much more capabilities than just a simple mailing system. Businesses can make use of Email Templates which is a huge time saver plus it can also support macros to make your emails look professional without spending much of your time. Automatic Emailers can be configured thus letting your CRMdo most of your work.
There are many more such CRM advanced tools that can ease your customer communication process.
Such additional tools in CRM can maximize the effectiveness of customer interactions and improve your business life cycle. CRM is not just about managing customers but it is also about bringing value to the business.