What should you consider for your CRM system?
There are a number of features that various CRM systems can offer, here are some for consideration:
Document management – intelligent CRMs are capable of generating and maintaining your documents.
Effective Lead management – software helps capture lead details from multiple channels and ensures that you don’t lose any leads. You can also score and qualify leads correctly for your sales funnel.
Contact management – this involves recording customers’ details, as well as tracking and saving customer interactions.
Email – arguably the most used medium for B2B communication. Email management offers the ability to send mass emails, track conversations, and send automated emails to clients.
Marketing – CRM systems should be able to help you automate aspects of your marketing, helping reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Pipeline management – sales pipelines help visualise the sales cycle and identify where in the funnel a particular deal is, helping you manage potential deals from initial enquiry to close.
Workflow automation – every company is unique and has their own workflow and a CRM system should help automate these processes thus improving productivity and efficiency.
Forecasting – this helps estimate your future sales based on present and past data trends. It also assists in preparing data-driven hiring strategies, deciding on optimal inventory levels, and investing in new marketing channels.
Reporting and analytics – if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Having a CRM system report across all pillars of your business is essential to help you make informed choices about the direction of your business.
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