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CRM is categorised on the basis of tactics, a firm is taking in implementing CRM strategy. The two types are:
Operational CRM
It is also known as front-office CRM as it involves areas where direct customer contact occurs. It enables and streamlines communications to and from customers. It is mainly focused on automation and improvement of business processes which are customer-facing or customer supporting. This operational part of CRM typically involves automation of three general areas of business:
Sales-force Automation, Customer service Automation, and Marketing automation.
Automation
Sales-force Automation is the use of software to automate the business tasks of sales, including order processing, contact management, information sharing, inventory monitoring and control, order tracking, customer management, sales forecast analysis and employee performance evaluation. It enables businesses to more effectively manage the entire sales cycle, from lead generation to post-sales service and support. It helps sales representative especially field sales force to manage their customer accounts, track opportunities, establish and monitor the sales pipeline , and organise their contact lists.
Operational CRM -
Marketing automation.
Marketing automation is the use of software to automate marketing processes such as customer segmentation, customer data integration, and campaign management. The use of marketing automation makes processes (that would otherwise have been performed manually) much more efficient, and makes some new processes possible.
Campaign management is the planning, executing, tracking and analysis of direct marketing campaigns. Marketing automation Software enables users to explore their customer data in order to develop targeted communications and offers. Segmentation, in some cases, is possible at the level of the individual customer. Unique offers may be made to a single customer at an appropriate point in time.
Operational CRM -
Analytical CRM
It is also known as Back-office CRM as it involves understanding the customer activities that occurred in the front-office. It involves analysing deeply the customer data and unwrap or disclose the essential information that can used strategically to take appropriate long- term decisions.