| Description |
1 online resource (192 pages) |
| Contents |
AcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorCHAPTER 1: Understanding the CRMCHAPTER 2: The value for the organisationCHAPTER 3: Sales Process managementCHAPTER 4: Leads GenerationCHAPTER 5: Helping people (Customer Service)CHAPTER 6: Data ArchitectureCHAPTER 7: Reporting and forecastingCHAPTER 8: Implementing a CRMCHAPTER 9: How to select a CRM platform |
| Summary |
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are a growing topic among small and medium-sized enterprises, entrepreneurs, and solopreneurs, and it is completely clear that CRM is a tool that businesses should have in place to manage sales processes. Teams of salespeople must have a system to run their daily activities, and small businesses and solopreneurs must track their marketing effort, a functioning structure for maintaining their contacts with prospects and clients to improve the effectiveness of their sales effort. CRM tools, once only available to large corporations, is now powerful technology for small and medium businesses. Small and medium business are now able to implement CRM solutions under a more cost/effective balance as an alternative to traditional tools like Salesforce, Dynamics or Oracle. The reason for success is mainly the simplicity of the new tools and solutions have been developed for the management of sales processes. This book discusses how implement a CRM from the perspective of the businessperson -- not the IT consultant or the technical staff. It benefits business development, sales management, and sales process control. Small business owners must understand why and how implementing a CRM will create value for the business -- how it will focus on business development, sales management, and how sales leads develop into happy customers. Small business owners must first understand what a CRM systems is, how it works, what are its main functions, and how it serves to manage workflows in the company⁰́₉s sales department. Generally, entrepreneurs struggle to find the time to read and study complex and fully comprehensive books -- This book provides direct operational guidelines to those who need easy-to-read information about how to use CRM effectively. Business professionals must be able to set it up the CRM systems and avoid mistakes and wasting time. This book provides an overview of what can be done with CRM and how it happens to empower business people to find new customers and win their business. This book discusses the logic of the CRM in sales, giving tips and explanations on why and what happens when implemented in a specific way. Essentially, it will give the entrepreneur the know-how behind CRM in sales in general terms, supporting enhanced customer relationships. |
| Biography |
Antonio Specchia is a CRM architect with a background in marketing and economics. He shapes data architecture to boost the best outcomes, designing complex workflow configurations to enhance control over the sales process as well as advising companies about agile methodologies. Antonio has a long experience in management. He is now a seasoned entrepreneur. Antonio is currently a CRM architect at easyCRM. easyCRM helps organization with designing, implementing, and enhancing CRMs. They develop great sales process management by implementing a CRM that works and focuses on what matters is the logic and the strategy behind the CRM. easyCRM possesses strong marketing know-how that enable organizations to highlight their sales process logic and develop an effective CRM architecture. Their mission is to help organizations enhance their CRM and develop effective impact on the bottom line. Previous to his role at easyCRM, Antonio was a Agile Marketing Strategist at Strategic Links in London where explored the benefits of Agile when applied to marketing. |
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Relationship marketing.
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Customer relations -- Management.
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Marketing relationnel. |
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Customer relations -- Management |
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Relationship marketing |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780367708894 |
| ISBN |
9781003148388 (electronic bk.) |
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1003148387 (electronic bk.) |
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9781000532692 (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
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1000532690 (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
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9781000532746 (electronic bk. ; EPUB) |
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1000532747 (electronic bk. ; EPUB) |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9781003148388 doi |
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