CRM has always been the domain of big business. Until now…
Managing customer relationships is key to current and future success. Unfortunately, as a business grows or as more salespeople are hired, customer relationships can suffer. After all, while you have more customers, you don’t have the detailed knowledge or understanding of each one like you did when you had fewer customers.
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Here are ten reasons why your small or medium business needs CRM, right now:
1. Generate More Leads: Pretty simple. You can turn information into leads by understanding conversations and uncovering needs that you can fulfill.
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3. Close More Deals: A key to growth – more deals more often! Because you actively manage the sales process and have unique insight into customer needs, your sales team will increase their success at closing more deals.
4. Higher Average Invoice/Deal Size: Getting more dollars every time you sell. Through customer and product/service insight your business will be in the unique position of being able to more effectively cross and up sell your products/services.
5. Margin Preservation: Virtually eliminate discounting or leaving dollars on the table. Each sales engagement and customer can be evaluated to discover nuances and need that allow you to solidly position and defend your value and price.
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7. Tighter Customer Loyalty: Through closer relationships, better customer service, and anticipating needs, your customers will choose to do more business with you, more often.
8. Business Customer Continuity: A historical customer relationship ‘memory’ is always retained in the business, should salespeople leave or be replaced within the company. And new salespeople get up to speed more quickly, minimizing customer relationship or service interruptions.
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10. Profitability: This is what really counts – more profit to your business. The business becomes more ‘intelligent’ when it comes to the most important and expensive drivers – sales, marketing, and customer management. Get in control of all three, driving new levels of profit to your business.
By NextCorp, Ltd.,
For more information on CRM for small and medium sized businesses, Intelestream has helpful whitepapers athttp://www.intelestream.net/whitepapers
This is definitely true of SMBs...because this is true for ALL businesses. CRM is no longer relegated to the enterprise big businesses with deep pockets. Web-based and open source tools make CRM available to any business, even individuals.