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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Electronic Customer Relationship Management [E-CRM]


Electronic Customer Relationship Management [E-CRM]
 CRM is journey of
Strategic – Process – Organizational – Technical Change
 CRM comprises the acquisition & deployment of knowledge about
customers to enable a company to sell more of their product or
services more efficiently.
 CRM ensures that individual customer needs are profitable satisfied at
the right time in the right channel with the right offer.
 Two cornerstones of CRM.
The knowledge or customer information platform.
The customer interaction platform.
 CRM is the process of …
Acquiring, retaining & growing profitable customers.
 To be effective in managing the customer relationship, an organization
must….
Define its customer policy
Create a channel & product strategy
Understand the importance of a robust and integrated
infrastructu
 Strategies of Evolution of CRM
Mass Marketing
Target Marketing
Customer relationship Management
 Mass Marketing
Replaced intimacy of direct sales force
This has been occurred because of...
 Centralized large scale production
 Wide geographic distribution
 One way communication
This has been enabled through...
 TV, Radio, Printing Press
 Powerful means of communications
Main Measure of Success ---- Market Share
 Target Marketing
1980 -- Advancement in technology
Refinement in direct mail & telemarketing
Selection of specific (targeted) customers via mail or telephone
Direct response of a customer
Gauge of success -- Response rates
Primary measure -- Market Share
 Customer Relationship Management
Moves back towards developing an intimacy with today’s
customer
Two variables...
 First Variable -- Information & Analysis (Knowledge)
• Customer’s wants, Needs & Values
 Second Variable -- Need for interactivity & Personal
contact
Measure -- Share of customers
 Anatomy of the CRM Campaign
Database Can contain the existing customers
Find potential candidates for the campaign
Scoring / Scoring algorithm
Telemarketing Outbound Representative makes the calls
Inbound Representative accept the calls
 Types of CRM
1) Win back / Save
2) Prospecting
3) Loyalty
4) Cross selling / Up selling
 Win Back / Save
 Process of convenience a customer to stay with the organization
when the customer have / is going to left / discontinue.
 4 times more likely to succeed if contact is made within first
week than it is made in the forth week.
 Prospecting
 Effort to win new first time customer
 3 most critical elements
 Segmentation
• Need based Segmentation – What customer wants
• Profit based Segmentation – How valuable the
customer is
 Selectively
 Sources
 Loyalty
Most difficult to gain accurate measures
 Organization is trying to prevent customers from leaving & uses
3 essential elements
 Value based segmentation
• Willing to invest in retaining a customer loyalty
 Need based segmentation
• Offer a customized loyalty program
 Predictive churn models
• Depending on the future predictions
 Cross Sell / Up Sell
Selling in a way which gives usage to the targeted customers
The replacement of analog line with an ISDN line – Examplere strategy.

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