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An Overview of Customer Relationship Management

Author: Sanjay Podder Author Ranking Blue | Posted: 13-06-2008 | Comments: 0 | Views: 7 | Rating:  (139) Article Popularity - Blue (?) Got a Question? Ask.
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Steve Jobs, chairman and co-founder of Apple Inc. once said “A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and may be that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.” In fact, customers hold the pillar of a business and regard as the most valuable resource in the market. In today’s highly competitive business world, the biggest challenge faced by the management is to create and maintain relationships with customers. It is a customer-centric business environment and lack of right attitude showed by management may adversely affect the business. To maintain healthy relationships with customers in order to maximize profit, the management has decided to adopt Customer Relationship Management, a business strategy to create a beneficial environment among customers.


 


The principle of modern business is something more than producing a product, pricing it, advertising it and making it accessible to target customers. Now businesses aim at building trust and developing long term relationship with customers, since they are becoming demanding, dominant and selective. As a manager, your role is to create relationship with customers so that your firm may aware of their needs, wants, and buying patterns. In this way, Customer Relationship Management helps companies understand, as well as anticipate the needs of current and potential customers.


 


It is pertinent to note that a manager does not cooperate with customers alone. There are different players, coordinating the manager in creating an overall valuable series of experiences, products and services for customers. While recruiting employees to give customer service, there is tendency to emphasize more on functional expertise, technical proficiency and knowledge rather than interpersonal or communication skills. The basic approach of Customer Relationship Management is to maximize the relation of an organization with all types of customers. Understanding the customers better allows you to provide customized products and services to the customers in order to gain their loyalty and satisfaction.

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