Customer Success
Customer success is the business methodology of
ensuring customers achieve their desired outcomes while using your
product or service.
Customer Success is relationship-focused client management, that
aligns client and vendor goals for mutually beneficial outcomes.
CRM
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a model for managing a
company's interactions with current and future customers.
It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize
sales, marketing, customer service, and technical support
Approach of CRM
• Customer relationship management (CRM) is an approach to managing a
company's interaction with current and potential customers.
• It uses data analysis about customers' history with a company to improve
business relationships with customers, specifically focusing on customer
retention and ultimately driving sales growth.
• One important aspect of the CRM approach is the systems of CRM that
compile dsata from a range of different communication channels, including a
company's website, telephone, email, live chat, marketing materials and more
recently, social media.
• Through the CRM approach and the systems used to facilitate it, businesses learn
more about their target audiences and how to best cater to their needs.
Components of CRM
CRM
• Proactive customer business development
• Building partnering relationship with most important customers
• Mutual value creation
• Customer retention strategy
Objectives of CRM
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Linkage between CRM and SCM
• Business Intelligence
• Enablement Tools and Services
• Web and IT Integration
Change in Approach
Conventional Approach to CRM Integration with Web-enabled & Integration Approach
Technology
• Customer Contact by telephone/ • Customer database
mail/ in-person • Customer information system
• Personal selling • Electronic point of sale (EPOS)
Web & Internet
• After sales service • Sales force automation
• Complaint handling • Call centres
• Account management • System integration
• Customer care • Lifetime value of a customer
• Customer satisfaction
Phases of CRM Business Cycle