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Wednesday, 29 October 2014

Expected CRM trends in 2015

10/29/2014 02:55:00 pm

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It is popularly believed that social and mobile CRM will be the top trends that will continue to bag momentum in 2015.

Mobile CRM, which has been one of the main momentum gainer for quite a few years, will become more sought after next year as well. Analysts are of the opinion that few of the trends that will gain a lot of attention will be social CRM; focus on integration and smarter CRM.

- Mobile CRM 
The industry insiders feel that the mobile adoption will play a key role in 2015 as most companies are eager to extend their CRM capabilities to help employees in reaching out to the sales content and also permitting them to review the client requirements and also ink partnership with the sales team.
It is believed that CRM capabilities will be integrated with the primary motive to enhance the lead generation process and also the opportunities. Most of firms using CRM are interested in investing in out of the box solutions via extension into the mobile channels and also the customization with the aim to review, manage and boost leads, conversion ratio, lowering of sales cycle and improving the client support.

- Social CRM
In the next few years, it is believed that social CRM will be enjoying the growing presence in CRM apps world. With the aim to further bring improvement in the user experience levels, companies will be interested to integrate more details to enhance the functioning of the CRM tool. For instance, it is possible that social network content such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, blogs and product reviews will be vigorously used for updating client profiles so that services and promotions are more contextual and targeted in their approach.

As more data sources are increasingly becoming available and firms are able to understand the potential of merging the data from varied sources, CRM will move beyond any companies’ own details that are present behind the firewalls of databases and also other internal sources. The actual value will come to the forefront in regard to the blending of blending social, public, competitive and other external data for attaining meaningful insight.

- Social marketing 
Social CRM is witnessing adoption by the firms in a similar fashion the way social media was accepted by the audiences. There are few chosen companies that understand the relevance of interacting with the clients on the social channels. As more companies are coming to the forefront to engage with the audiences, social marketing is also getting evolved on a larger scale.

- CRM to become smarter 
It is believed that the overflow of data from the social systems and also the mobile apps would overwhelm the current CRM tools. Hence, 2015 will witness the trend of smarter CRM tools. And to attain this target, they should be able to store more data and also analyze it efficiently since the new age client engages with the brand/company on varied channels that it will become essential for businesses to maintain a close track of all engagement and data swiftly.

It is believed that 2015 will witness CRM systems become smarter in their approach towards the analysis of data so that the marketing professional will be able to put forth more efficient marketing initiatives.

- Integration of CRM 
The CRM tools have witnessed independent evolvement from other relevant systems. But as more data is needed for client analysis, it is not possible to stand alone. Since the CRM market is continuing to mature with every passing day, hence bagging lucrative ROI is difficult from a CRM alone.

- More collaboration between contact center 
It is believed that disconnect between contact management systems by call centers and CRM tools for sales and marketing is leading to the creation of lot of trouble. The bigger integration picture needs the close tie up.

In 2015, there will be better ways for optimization and also tighter integration of CRM to the contact center. The clients have been demanding more personalized and quick service in regard to channels. One of the possible ways of attaining it is by making use of the intelligent workflows that will be linking the CRM details to the agents.

In the past, inbound client service and sales teams are approaching towards outbound service that is not just customized but also savvy at the same time.

- Either use it or get rid of it  
Easy to use software will be the final trend for next year. If your team does not feel comfortable in using the offered software, then it has no use.

It is always a better idea to invest in such software that helps in making the process easier for the sales team.

Only such a CRM needs to be chosen that allows the reps to manage their clients, accounts and opportunities in a central location while aiming to ensure robust ROI.

The article is also available at http://www.basearticles.com/Article/27117/Expected-CRM-trends-in-2015.html

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