Why Customer Relationship Management? What Makes CRM Viable?

      
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		            		Ankit Kedia
Australia
			            
Why Customer Relationship Management? What Makes CRM Viable?

	          		What makes CRM a viable option is the cost dynamics

- The cost of getting a new customer is 4 times the cost of retaining an existing customer.

- 80% of a firm's business comes from 20% of the customers.

Hence the firm should channelise its efforts in retaining this 20% section of customers through its CRM activities.
				      
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						            	Emiel Veenstra
Business Consultant, Netherlands
												
				                What Makes Customer Relationship Management Viable

													Ankit, I completely agree. Although one important factor should not be forgotten: to check whether the customer, even if he is one of the 20%, is profitable.

So, I think this is an element you should add to CRM: Only keep the customers that are profitable.

Therefor the company must have the possibility to calculate the real costs and thus profits per customer.
				                
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						            	Stefania Escobar
Student (University), Colombia
												
				                Viability of Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

													I agree too! And one way of estimating customer profitability is the CLV (Customer Lifetime Value) Concept, a good approach to know what will be the expected purchase behavior.
Customer Loyalty Programs look to improve customer retention rate, customer profitability and reduce marketing costs.
				                
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						            	Tracking Works
Manager, United States
												
				                Customer Relationship Management is not Just Signing New Customers

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