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CRM 101

CRM - My Definition

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a business strategy to optimize revenue and increase long-term value through the selection and management of both potential and current customers. It requires the business to become customer-centric and to build a philosophy and culture that supports effective and integrated marketing, sales, and service processes. CRM should not be dictated by technology. However, technology, along with the right leadership, business strategy, philosophy, processes, and culture, can help enable and support the organization's CRM effort. - Lamar Heller

CRM Primer

The CRM Primer was developed with the idea that you’re a reasonably intelligent person who has a compelling need to understand the basics of Customer Relationship Management or CRM:

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Four Elements of CRM

Customer Relationship Management is defined by four elements of a simple framework: Know, Target, Sell and Service.:

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ECRM: The new Ebuzz

At the core CRM is an enterprise-wide mindset mantra and a set of business process and policies that are designed to acquire, retain and service customers.

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What is CRM?

CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. It is a strategy used to learn more about customers' needs and behaviors in order to develop stronger relationships with them. The idea of CRM is that it helps businesses use technology and human resources to gain insight into the behavior of customers and the value of those customers.

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CRM Terms Defined

Customer-centric. Putting a customer at the center of an organization to drive market share and increase profits. This is the core idea behind CRM.

Touchpoints. Points of contact between a company and a customer or between two companies in a B2B context.

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Portal Websites
* SearchCRM
* DestinationCRM
* CRM Community

* CRM Daily

 
Vender Websites
* Seibel
* Clarify
* E.piphany
* Oracle
 
Informational Websites
* CRM-Forum.Com
* ZDNet's CRM Resouce Center
* CIO's CRM Research Center
* Internet Week Customer Service
 
White Papers
* CRM: Perspective
* Implementing CRM
* Successful CRM Implementation
* Enabling CRM: The Customer-Centric Information Architecture
 
Books
*The CRM Handbook: A Business Guide to Customer Relationship Management
*CRM at the Speed of Light: Capturing and Keeping Customers in Internet Real Time
*Integrating ERP, CRM, Supply Chain Management, and Smart Materials
*Accelerating Customer Relationships: Using CRM and Relationship Technologies
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Case Studies
 
Articles
* The CRM Backlash
* Banking Models for Customer Care
*Keep E-Biz Projects Short and Sweet

*The Truth about CRM

 

The Latest and Greatest in CRM

After the Fall: The Future of CRM

By Erika Morphy
CRMDaily.com
November 6, 2001

"Underlying technology must make customer information gathering a simple process, easily accessible by other vendors."

About six months ago, Denis Pombriant, research director of the Aberdeen Group, began pondering what would happen to CRM if the economy tanked.

At first glance, the answered appeared to be not all that earth-shattering. "The outside economy is one factor that would cause change in the CRM industry," Pombriant told CRMDaily.com. But only one. "After approximately ten years of success with this application, today's CRM industry is fostering change back onto itself. Companies' successes are leading them to go back to their vendors and ask, 'What else can you do for me?'"

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Data Warehousing: Supporting Business Intelligence

by Jonathan G. Geiger, Cutter Consortium

Description of the business value that BI capabilities provide, the architecture needed to support the environment, and a sound approach for building and managing it.

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Current Trends in the CRM Software Industry

by A Technology Digest, Adhanda Enterprises, LLC

The tight economy and incorporation of more analytic capabilities are heating up competition in the CRM software market.

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Wireless E-CRM

by David Butler

Promoters of wireless products and services have promised many advantages to companies adopting such technology for CRM. However, in today's economic climate, organizations need to focus on overall return on investment (ROI) to find benefits for wireless implementations. When organizations don't deploy wireless e-CRM technology, their field service costs can be greater than if they had implemented a wireless solution.

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