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Why does your business need a CRM?

Why does your business need a CRM?

TLDR
  • Companies that use a CRM in a comprehensive way can increase sales by 29%, according to the data cited in the article.
  • According to the CRM Observatory, the Italian companies that used a CRM in 2020 were 68% of the total, compared to 58% in 2015.
  • Without CRM, you lack contact history, control over the sales process, personalization, communication between teams, and monitoring of business and marketing actions.
  • The CRM helps the sales manager identify bottlenecks that affect territory coverage, customer calling, and lead conversion.
  • CRM acquires leads from websites, emails, social media, events and trade shows, passes them on to sales representatives and replaces manual tasks with automated workflows.
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Interest is high because companies that comprehensively use a CRM can Increase sales of the 29%. In addition, according to a study by Osservatorio CRM, Italian companies that used it in 2020 were 68% of the total, compared with 58% in 2015.

This is because CRM allows you to improve the dialogue with your company's customers. In fact, without the use of a CRM platform, it is very difficult if not truly impossible to focus on multiple clients in a truly effective way.

For what reasons? Here are the five most important ones:

- Lack of information, of the data history and behaviors on each contact;

- Lack of check Of the sales process;

- Lack of customization Of communications with customers;

- Lack of communication immediate between and within teams, resulting in the risk of making mistakes and wasting time on suboptimal clients;

- Lack of monitoring On the progress of current sales and marketing actions.

Making up for these shortcomings, the CRM allows you to by create the competitive advantage necessary to capture the interest of increasingly sophisticated and digitally oriented customers, removing those old methods that no longer perform as well as in the past.

The activity that is performed on a CRM can dunqu we can consider it as a future vision for workflow and then income, as opposed to a more traditional and outdated view tied to immediate revenues.

Daily activities on CRM are always to be considered as a vision for what concerns the interactions (with one's contacts) and all those key elements (typical and different for each company) that can be considered as indicators to increase turnover and related profit. These internal dynamics are about generating leads, creating and managing new opportunities and adding value to the sales flow, through also identifying other indicators to prevent future problems with respect to the main line. All this, enables a proactive approach to business management that would otherwise be nonexistent.

It is typical then for a sales manager to have a fragmented view compared to an entire team. For this reason CRM helps you detect bottlenecks or issues by tracking them (after properly defining and implementing a flow) to prevent them from affecting certain aspects such as: territory coverage, customer calling or lead conversation.

Are you still wondering why you should use a CRM? 

CRM grows your business

You can use CRM to acquire and manage leads directly from your site, email campaigns, social networks, events or trade shows and pass these contacts directly to your salespeople, without middlemen or other time wasters. 

Replicate the best activities

Your company is bound to have processes that make it stand out from the competition. CRMs can be used precisely to automate your best processes sales or marketing in interactions with any customer. 

Doing more in less time

Removing excessive and not always necessary effort is the best aspect of an effective CRM: it replaces manual tasks with automated workflows, giving you the opportunity to improve on what you were already doing.

Creates intimacy with the client

Personalizing communication, creating customer intimacy, is an effective way to stand out in an increasingly crowded and digital competitive landscape. Through CRM, you can use and manage the most useful information about your customers to apply a marketing tailored to the customer's needs, developing better products and sales activities.

Want to find out what else a CRM can do for your business? Then click on the button further down and contact us.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why should a SME adopt a CRM to manage sales and marketing?

A CRM allows you to manage the activities of the sales and marketing department automatically and efficiently and to improve the dialogue with customers. Companies that use it fully can increase sales by 29%. Without a CRM platform, it is very difficult to effectively follow up on multiple customers at the same time.

How many Italian companies use a CRM and how has its use changed over the years?

According to a study by the CRM Observatory, in 2020 the number of Italian companies using a CRM was 68% of the total, compared to 58% in 2015. This figure shows a growing spread of these platforms, fueled by the interest of entrepreneurs, managers, and marketing directors in customer relationship management tools.

What business problems arise in a company that works without a CRM?

Without CRM, businesses encounter five main limitations: they lack information and historical data on the behavior of each contact, they lack control over the sales process and personalization of communications, they lack immediate communication between teams, with the risk of errors and time wasted on non-optimal customers, and they lack monitoring of sales and marketing actions.

How does a CRM help the sales manager to control the sales team?

A CRM helps the sales manager, who often has a fragmented view of the team, to identify bottlenecks and problems by tracking them along a defined and implemented workflow. This prevents them from impacting territory coverage, customer calling, and lead conversion, with a more proactive approach to business management.

How can leads be acquired and managed with a CRM?

With a CRM, leads can be acquired and managed from websites, email campaigns, social networks, events and trade shows. Contacts are passed directly to sales representatives without intermediaries or time wastage. The CRM also supports the creation and management of new opportunities and adds value to the sales flow.

How does a CRM make processes more efficient and customize communication with the customer?

CRM replaces manual activities with automated workflows and can replicate the company’s best sales and marketing processes in every interaction. Furthermore, it manages useful customer information, enabling tailored marketing, personalized communications, and the development of better products and sales activities.

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