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Thursday, 21 August 2014

How to calculate ROI for CRMs

8/21/2014 12:05:00 pm

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Although various businesses slowly understand the growing relevance CRM implementation, but they want the financial projections of the ROI to be made before any commitment is being made. Making this information available is a tough job but not impossible if the firm knows what exactly does it wants CRM to do and what are the KPIs are needed to be measured for reviewing the effectiveness.

- Deciding on the CRM goals 

There can be plenty of reasons for a company to have a CRM tool, but it has been often found that many at times, firms share similar sort of goals. Here are few of the common corporate objectives for CRM implementation.

• Lowering the lead processing time.
• Bringing improvement in the client service satisfaction levels.
• Raising the client information gathering and management.
• Reducing the delivery time to the clients.
• Implementing a detailed follow up system for the potential clients.

- What are the key KPIs? 

In the above mentioned goals, an enterprise can decide the success rate of these KPIs. Only with a CRM tool in place, these goals can be not just measured but also becomes achievable. For instance, the management should be in a position to recognize rise in efficiency levels in regard to lead tracking and also follow up. An efficient CRM permits for seamless integration with the usage of website import forms to populate the new potential records and scheduling of phone calls to any assigned sales personnel.

- Deciding the financial value of every KPI
This is one of the most difficult steps and often needs information gathering along with creative thinking. For instance, a firm is gathering and also sharing details on leads manually or via email in place of working with the CRM’s web import feature.

And also imagine, it takes around an hour for the company administrator to efficiently enter, assign and also scheduled a call for the new lead. If the administrator bags around 5 leads every day, then the overall time spent on lead processing reaches 25 hours per week. If the firm is paying about $50 per hour, then the overall cost reaches $1,250 per week and approximately around $5,000 every month.

If that time can be lowered by about 75%, then the overall savings per year reaches $15000. The streamlining of the lead process do not comprise of the lost opportunity of tapping a lead within a specific time frame before it reaches a competitor. Hence, it is essential to take a close look at the different aspects of the sales process when the ROI is being calculated before moving to an upgraded CRM tool.

It is believed that validating the usage of a CRM tool becomes easier with the help of objectified KPIs, but when a financial value is assigned it helps in deciding a ROI value for any CRM software. The key for any business is to have proper objectives and knowing them how to measure them.

The article is also available at http://goarticles.com/article/Calculate-How-to-Calculate-ROI-for-CRMs/9339525/


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