If youve decided to invest in CRM software to improve your customer relationship management youve made a wise business decision. The question is are you up for the CRM challenge?
Your growth strategy for the future is an integral part of choosing the right software. You will want to choose software from a vendor that will make any expansions in the future timely and for a reasonable price. You want a vendor thats going to be there and stand by their clients over time.
From the time you decide to implement a CRM solution to the time it is implemented is usually somewhere between three and six months. However there are some times when you can be up and running much quicker. A great deal depends on how prepared your company actually is to make the leap into the CRM world.
Some companies have already spent a great deal of time on customer service and customer records so this information can be transferred into the CRM system either manually or hopefully electronically. While other companies have no idea about customer relationship management and will have to build a strategy from scratch and bring their employees onboard. The size of the business will also play...