28 June 2018

Are you headed for a head on CRM collision?

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Sally Shuttleworth - Founder
Written by Sally Shuttleworth - Founder

Sally’s career has spanned over 20 of years working both in marketing/advertising agencies as well as growing and running her own successful businesses. She has been involved in all elements of marketing and sales across a wide range of industries and business sizes. Sally’s passion has always been working with mid-size businesses on marketing and sales strategy. Sally started The Marketing Centre South Africa (Pty) Ltd in 2012, which now has a team of 30 Marketing Directors in three major cities.

All business leaders know that their customer's information is a really valuable asset, and customer relationship management is crucial.

It is imperative to implement systems to manage and standardise CRM, so why is it that we see numerous CRM projects failing, the systems aren't used at all, are under utilised or mis-managed?

CRM is widely known the marketing project that fails most often. Why are there so many CEO's who can't understand why they can't make it work? Why is it that CRM is the most likely project to end up in a car crash?

Our sister business in the UK, Freeman Clarke, put together a CEO's briefing that explains what a CRM system is, why companies use them and most importantly 10 golden rules to avoid a CRM car crash!

 

CEO

Freeman Clarke is the UK’s largest and most experienced team of part-time (we call it “fractional”) IT leaders. They work exclusively with ambitious organisations and frequently help their clients use IT to beat their competition. Visit their website: https://www.freemanclarke.co.uk for more information.

If you find this article relevant to you and your business, you might find our article What Does CRM Really Mean? of interest.

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