{"id":6616,"date":"2020-11-04T11:45:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T11:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cofficient.co.uk\/?p=6616"},"modified":"2020-11-04T11:45:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T11:45:36","slug":"3-components-crm-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cofficient.co.uk\/3-components-crm-software\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3 Components of CRM Software"},"content":{"rendered":"
Customer relationship management (CRM) software is the gateway from your customers into the business.\u00a0 It\u2019s the component part of your business software suite which manages interactions with potential customers through your sales pipeline.\u00a0 From lead to prospect, a prospect to opportunity and from an opportunity to close.<\/strong><\/p>\n This process (typically referred to as sales force automation) is controlled by the salespeople in your organisation and should be the main tool of their trade.<\/p>\n However, a really great customer relationship management (CRM) software doesn\u2019t just stop at sales force automation.<\/p>\n In this blog, we have outlined the 3 main components of successful CRM software, from marketing automation to customer service solutions.<\/p>\n If you are in the market for a new CRM software and would like to find out more or where to begin, then why not sign up for our free CRM Webinar.\u00a0 Hosted by experts in the field, ready to provide your business with all the CRM answers you could need, from the best CRM software.<\/p>\n Before your salespeople even get their hands on a prospect, it is likely that your marketing team are working hard to identify the best leads and warm them up for the sales force.<\/p>\n However, many marketing responsibilities are boring and repetitive.\u00a0 Tasks such as customer segmentation and profiling, email marketing and data cleansing can be laborious and tedious.\u00a0 Marketing automation exists to help systemise many of these tasks and to enable the marketing agents to invest their time in more meaningful work \u2013 like creating collateral or organising events.<\/p>\n A good marketing software will have these key features:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Neither marketing nor sales operate in isolation, so why should your software?\u00a0 If marketing automation and sales force automation are completed in the same system then the marketing team can push successfully warmed up leads straight through to the sales team.\u00a0 Sales teams can analyse campaign outcomes and crucially access campaigns directly from the customer record so they know what information the customer has been served.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Of course, your relationship with the customer doesn\u2019t end after you have closed the deal.\u00a0 There will be order fulfilment, customers services to be completed and often, issues to resolve.<\/p>\n In order to get the full 360-degree picture of your customer journey from marketing and sales to experience right through to after-sales care, you really need your CRM software to handle case management and customer service solutions as well.<\/p>\n A great case management solution will allow your customers to:<\/p>\n Great case management software will allow you to:<\/p>\n Imagine the power behind running all three components from a single unified system.\u00a0 You would instantly increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs by allowing customers to self-serve where possible. \u00a0Increase staff engagement and collaboration, increase efficiency and productivity, increase profitability through quicker sales close and better upsell management.<\/p>\n What\u2019s not to like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
Component #1 – Marketing Automation<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Component #2 –\u00a0 Sales Force Automation<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Component #3 –\u00a0 Customer Service Solutions \/ Case Management<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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