CRM STRUCTURES
ELEMENTS OF CRM:
When your company communicates with your customers the process can involve many different people within both organizations using a variety of different methods. The main tool that is used is an order that is communicated by your customer to your sales department. However this is only one of many communications that should be managed. To ensure that your company can provide the best customer service experience possible the use of customer relationship management (CRM) software should be considered.
• CUSTOMER KNOWLEDGE
The customer service function in your company represents the front office functions that interact with your customers. These are the business processes that allow your company to sell products and services to your customers, communicate with your customers with regards marketing and dealing with the after sales service requirements of your customers. Each interaction with the customer is recorded and stored within the CRM software where it can be retrieved by other employees if needed.
• RELATIONSHIP STRATEGY
• COMMUNICATION
• INDIVIDUAL VALUE PROPOSITION
• SALES FORCE AUTOMATION
• The company‘s sales department is consta existing and new customers. The sales force automation functionality of CRM software
allows the sales teams to record each contact with customers, the details of the contact and if follow up is required. This can provide a sales force with greater efficiencies as there is little chance for duplication of effort. The ability for employees outside of the sales team to have access to this data ensures that they have the most recent contact information with customers. This is important when customers contact employees outside
of the sales team so that customers are given the best level of customer service.
• CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT
• The sales team approach prospective customers in the hope of winning new business. The approach taken by the sales team is often focused in a campaign, where a group of specific customers are targeted based on a set of criteria. These customers will receive targeted marketing materials and often special pricing or terms are offered as an inducement. CRM software is used to record the campaign details, customer responses and analysis performed as part of the campaign.
CRM PROCESS
• The formation process of CRM refers to the decisions regarding initiation of relational activities for a firm with respect to a specific group of customers or to an individual customer with whom the company wishes to engage in a cooperative or collaborative relationship.
• It is important that a company be able to identify and differentiate individual customers. In the formation process, there are three important decision areas: defining the purpose(or objectives) of engaging in CRM; selecting parties (or customer partners) for appropriate CRM programs; and developing programs (or relational activity schemes) for relationship engagement with the customer.
CRM PROCESS
• THREE STEPS OF CRM PROCESS 1.Acquisition :
It comprises enquiry, interaction, exchange, co-ordination and adaptation. 2.Customer Interaction Management
3.Customer Retention
• Customer Acquisition
• Customer acquisition is a broad term that is used to identify the process and procedures used to locate, qualify, and ultimately secure the business of new customers.
• Customer retention effort is to identify and quality potential customers.
• Inputs for Acquisition
• The purpose of customer acquisition an organization is likely to focus its attention on the following
1. The suspects
2. The enquiries
3. The lapsed customers
4. The former customers
5. The competitors customers
6. The competitors lapsed customer‘s
7. The competitor‘senquiries
8. The competitors former customers
9. The referrals
10. The existing customers
STRATEGIES FOR CUSTOMER ACQUISITION
1. FOCUSED APPROACH:
a) Knower
b) Preferer
c) Indifferent
d) Rejecters
2. PROVIDING A WIN-WIN PLATFORM
3. INTITATE FORUM FOR COMMUNICATION
4. ATTEMPT TO MINIMIZE ―FUD‖ (Fear,Uncertainity,Dou
5. PROJECTION OF BENEFITS AND NOT PRODUCTS
6. CONTEXTUAL APPLICATION
7. FOCUS ON DECISION PROCESS
CUSTOMER RETENTION
Customer retention is the activity that a selling organization undertakes in order to reduce customer defections.
Successful customer retention starts with the first contact an organization has with a customer and continues throughout the entire lifetime of a relationship.
A company‘s ability to attract andproductretainor ne services, but strongly related to the way it services its existing customers and the reputation it creates within and across the marketplace.
Customer Retention Programs : Figure: 3.2
STRATEGIES FOR CUSTOMER RETENTIONS
1. PEOPLE
2. PRODUCT
3. PROCESS
4. ORGANISATION
5. SETTING SATISFACTORY SERVICE STANDARDS
6. CONCENTRATION ON COMPETITORS
7. CUSTOMER ANALYSIS
8. COST ANALYSIS
9. CONCENTRATION ON THE PAYING ABILITY OF CUSTOMERS
10. KNOWLEDGE ON PURCHASE BEHAVIOUR PATTERN
11. DIFFERENCIATION IN PRICES AND QUALITY STANDARDS
12. FOCUS ON REDUCING DISSATISFACTION
13. ATTENTION ON CHANGING REQUIREMENT OF CUSTOMERS
14. CONCENTRATION ON PERFORMANCE
15. TRAINING TO SUPPLY CHAIN EMPLOYEES
16. EMPOWERMENT TO SERVICE PROVIDERS
17. INCENTIVIZING SERVICE PROVIDERS
18. AUGMENTING INTANGIBLE BENEFITS
19. VISIT TO THE POINT OF USAGE OF THE PRODUCT
20. DEVELOP PARTNERSHIP WITH CUSTOMERS
21. ORGANIZING CUSTOMER CLUBS
22. RELATIONSHIP BASED PRICING SCHEMES
23. EFFECTIVE CUSTOMER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
24. CUSTOMER COMPLIANT MONITORING CELL
25. DEVELOPING CUSTOMER SATISFACTION INDEX
26. FOCUS ON PREVENTIVE ACTIONS
27. CONCENTRATION ON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION RESEARCH
28. FOCUS ON FOCUS GROUP
29. BUILDING SWITCHING BARRIERS
CUSTOMER DEFECTION
Customer defection is the rate at which customers defect or stop the usage of products of a company. business with high defection rate, would be losing their existing customers.
In order to overcome this they use another term of customer retention, in simple words its to retain or prevent the existing customers to defect the product.
1 TYPES OF DEFECTION
· PRICE DEFECTORS
· PRODUCT DEFECTORS
· SERVICE DEFECTORS
· MARKET DEFECTORS
· TECHNOLOGICAL DEFECTORS
· ORGANISATIONAL DEFECTORS
2 STRATEGIES FOR PREVENTION OF DEFECTION
Every customer that you keep represents at least three that you don’t have to attract. Numerous research studies indicate that the cost of acquiring a new customer usually runs from two to four times the annual cost of keeping an existing customer. Obviously, an effective customer retention strategy translates into profits.
It has been estimated that most companies spend about 98 percent of their time reacting to problems and less than 2 percent preventing them. The first, most important, way to prevent customer defections is to identify and define each problem from the customer‘s vantage point. This blog suggests several ways to retain customers once you understand the problems and their ramifications.
Superior service and database management provide your best defense against customer
defections. Service provides the opportunity to solve customer problems and build partnerships; the database serves as a vehicle to personalize customer communication and enhance your relationships. The Key Points Are
4 ANALYZE CUSTOMER DEFECTIONS AND MONITOR DECLINING ACCOUNTS
5 ADDRESS KEY CHURN DRIVERS
6 IMPLEMENT EFFECTIVE COMPLAINT-HANDLING AND SERVICE RECOVERY PROCEDURES
7 INCREASE SWITCHING COSTS.
MODELS OF CRM
• IDIC MODEL: I- IDENTIFY
D –DIFFENCIATE I –INTERACT
C - CUSTOMIZE
• Qci MODEL : Figure:3.3
• CRM Value chain Figure:3.4
• Payne‘s-processFivemodel: Figure:3.5
• Gartner Competency model : Figure:3.6
CRM IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP
A CRM Roadmap is a strategic plan that identifies how a company can meet and exceed its customers‘ needs. This includes, but is not limited to, assessing how the sales, marketing,
and service entities work together to:
1) Gain insight from their customers
2) Produce valuable offerings/products (for example, personalized product); and
3) Provide the ultimate customer experience.
Developing a CRM Roadmap involves aligning an organization‘s business strategy with its prioritized CRM capabilities. For example, if a company‘s business strategy is to develop products faster to gain unique market positioning, the capabilities that the company needs to master should be aligned with that strategy, and might include:
• Leveraging customer information from the service process (for example, integrating customer feedback during service calls with the marketing department).
• Effectively managing product mix (measure success by campaign).
• Effectively managing sales channel strategy (eliminate conflict between distribution channels).
So how do companies know which CRM capabilities they have, and which they‘ll need to realize their strategic goal? Below are the eight primary steps (which have been used across industries, including financial services, electronics and high-tech, consumer products, manufacturing, etc.)
• SCENARIO ANALYSIS
• PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
• BUSINESS PLANNING
• PROCESS DESIGN a.Technology and vendor selection B.Solution development C.Implementation
D. Measurement
to follow when developing a CRM Roadmap.
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