CRM and E-Crm: Abhinav Sharma
CRM and E-Crm: Abhinav Sharma
CRM and E-Crm: Abhinav Sharma
ABHINAV SHARMA
CRM ..
Any application or initiative designed to help an organization optimize interactions with customers, suppliers, or prospects via one or more touch points for the purpose of acquiring, retaining customers.
Introduction of e-CRM
Personalization/customization of customers experiences and interactions with the e-business Relationship between merchant and customers is distant Less expensive to keep customers than to acquire new ones Repeat customers have higher lifetime value than onetime buyers
Recall:
Uses algorithms and statistical tools to find patterns in data gathered from customer visits Costly and time consuming to go through large amounts of data manually Use data-mining to analyze trends within their companies or in the marketplace Uncovered patterns can improve CRM and marketing campaigns Discover a need for new or improved services or products by studying the patterns of customers purchases
Requiring visitors to fill out a form with personal information that is then used to create a profile Only works when it will provide a benefit to the customer When customers log on using usernames and passwords, their actions can be tracked and stored in a database Require only minimum information Need to give customers an incentive to register
E-Marketing Management E-mail Marketing: Alerts, E-Newsletter Management E-Surveying: Progressive Profiling Management Viral Marketing: Tell-a-Friend Management Web Design: Registration, Subscription, VIP Management Online Community / E-Suggestion Box / Blog Management E-Commerce: Memberships, Event Registration Management Affiliate Management: Sponsorship Management (Boston Symphony) Reporting / Analysis: Profiles, Behaviors
TRADITIONAL The existing CRM solution are not capable FORM retaining customers enough to satisfy andOF CRM and
also there is no integrated tool which connect the Central sales management, regional sales office, customers care, sales, sales distribution, regional sales team in effective manner. A 360 view requires the automation to bring together all the data concerning a customer. This implies that organizations have to change the form :
EMERGING SOLUTION
Product focus
Customer focus
1way communication
Response time
In a fast changing internet world there are very clear trends that are emerging : Speed: people expect service at fast speed Increase of global market place: more more people , communities across the globe are able to build relationships. Around the clock availability expansion of partners : internet offers the ability for the organizations and people alike to partner with suppliers and customers alike across the globe.
In global market place the channels of marketing are already causing an impact on the buying behavior of individuals as well as organizations alike. Some of the trends are :
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BUY SITE AND SELL SITE: where consumers and organization are alike can buy or sell online through online shopping mart concept. HORIZONTAL MARKET PLACE: service that run across the different vertical e-market places or business to customers (B2C) buy and sell sites. Such sites should be delivery sites , insurance etc. Use of internet to optimize supply chain management(SCM) : earlier organizations use to use EDI rather than the expensive preposition for limited numbers of partners but now organizations are implementing new ERP systems to optimize its SCM.
e-CRM
With the abundance of product and services offerings, consumer`s loyalty can only be commanded by providing better portfolio of services. speed of response and understanding each individual one of the major key issues CRM has become the central focus area around which the entire gamut of organizational activity has to revolve round.
In simplest terms e-crm provides company to conduct interactive, personalized and relevant communications across the globe with their customers by utilizing the traditional and electronic channels both. It adheres to permission based practices, respecting individual's preferences regarding how and whether they wish to communicate with you and it focuses on the understanding how the economics of the customers relationships affects the business.
What is e-CRM ?
What is e-CRM ?
e- CRM is the electronic based version of CRM. The user of the a e- CRM solution uses the sources of the internet to increase the relationship with the customer. web based CRM can easily handle the relationships between Central sales management, regional sales office, customers care, sales, sales distribution, regional sales team.
e-CRM ?
To optimize the value of the interactive relationships Enable the business to extends its personalized reach in the hand of customers Co-ordinating marketing initiatives across the all customers channels Leverage the customer`s information for more effective e-marketing and e-business Focus the business on improving the customers relationship and earning a greater share of each customer`s business through consistent measurement, assessment and actionable customer strategy.
e not only stands for electronic but also perceived to have many other connotations. Through the core of CRM remains to be cross channel integration and optimization. The six E of e-CRM are briefly explained in the next slides.
E- electronic channels
E- enterprise
E- empowerment
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Electronic channels: new electronic channels such as web and personalized e- messaging have become a medium for fast and interactive , economic communication , challenging company to keep pace with the increased velocity. E crm thrives on these electronic channels. Enterprise : through e- CRM the company gains the mean to touch and shape a customers experience through sales, services.
In nutshell a company evolving to e-CRM should be: Define its business objective. This would be specific and different for different businesses Assess its current position with respect to the environment and determine its current level of sophistication along the e-CRM continuum ( e-CRM assessment) Define new business processes and align its existing business strategy and existing processes in line with the new realities (eCRM Strategy alignment) Define a technical architecture and the criteria`s associated with this architecture and the important criteria associated with this architecture. (e-CRM)
EVOLVING TO e-CRM