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CRM For Dummies Lars Helgeson

CRM For Dummies By Lars Helgeson

CRM For Dummies by Lars Helgeson


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Save time, save money, and grow your business with more effective CRM CRM For Dummies is the small business leader's guide to managing customer interactions. Customer relationship management is a critical part of any business, and it encompasses everything from business strategy and HR to sales, marketing, events, and more.

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CRM For Dummies Summary

CRM For Dummies by Lars Helgeson

Save time, save money, and grow your business with more effective CRM

CRM For Dummies is the small business leader's guide to managing customer interactions. Customer relationship management is a critical part of any business, and it encompasses everything from business strategy and HR to sales, marketing, events, and more. Solutions exist for businesses of any size, but how do you know which one is right for you? What features do you need? Do you have the people and processes in place to get the most out of whichever one you choose? This book is designed to help business leaders better understand effective CRM and identify the right solution for their businessbut it's about much more than software; effective CRM requires appropriate team structures, intradepartmental collaboration, and process efficiency. Packed with tactics and strategies that will save your company thousands of dollars and man-hours, these chapters answer the most pressing questions that will make the biggest impact on your sales.

Building relationships with current and future customers is the critical point of business. This book helps you bring sales, marketing, and operations together to work toward that common goal, and shows you the tools and techniques that make your efforts more effective.

  • Define your market segments, buyer personas, and voice
  • Build an effective internal structure, and choose the right CRM solution
  • Optimize leads and conduct effective email marketing
  • Streamline processes, automate where possible, and employ analytics

Your customers are the lifeblood of your company; you need to reach them, engage them, and retain themwithout wasting precious time or money. CRM For Dummies gets you up to speed on the latest, most effective CRM tools and techniques to help your business succeed.

About Lars Helgeson

Lars Helgeson is a pioneer in sales and marketing technology. His CRM platform for small to mid-size businesses, GreenRope, was built from scratch and has grown to include over 3,000 clients in more than 40 countries since its inception in 2011. He is a frequent speaker for small membership organizations and conferences.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Icons Used in This Book 2

Where to Go from Here 2

Part 1: Laying the CRM Foundation 5

Chapter 1: Embarking on Your Journey to Complete CRM 7

Bringing the R in CRM to the Forefront 7

Extending CRM to Your Entire Business 10

Knowing the Buzzwords 11

Using Strategies and Tactics 19

Finding Your Success with Complete CRM 21

Chapter 2: Gearing Up Internally for CRM 27

Overcoming Resistance to Change 28

Encouraging and Facilitating Innovation and Collaboration 33

Creating a Consistent and Effective Brand Communication Strategy 38

Working with the Gatekeepers in IT 40

Adopting a Data-Driven Mindset 43

Applying Your Culture to CRM 46

Chapter 3: Choosing the Best Software 49

Choosing between Software as a Service (SaaS) or On-Premise 50

Evaluating Software Vendors 52

Testing CRM Software 60

Making the Final Decision 63

Educating Users on Responsibility 64

Installing the Right Data Security Tools 64

Training Your Staff 65

Part 2: Setting Up Yourself for Success 69

Chapter 4: Organizing Your CRM through Segments and Personas 71

Segmenting Your Market 72

Identifying Buyer Personas 79

Developing Your Best Brand 81

Testing Your Brand 83

Delivering the Right Content 86

Avoiding Content Saturation 90

Chapter 5: Creating Story Arcs and Buyer Journeys with CRM 93

Building Brand Awareness 94

Improving Brand Perception 96

Making the Best Contact the First Time 99

Qualifying Leads 101

Getting Your Leads into Your Funnel 102

Using Workflows to Engage with Your Customers 105

Designing Workflows 109

Closing Leads with Effective Process 113

Using Opportunities versus Consumer Sales Funnels 116

Implementing Process Abandonment 120

Following Up after the Sale 123

Chapter 6: Defining Process and Your Data Model 125

Applying Management by Walking Around 126

Outlining Key Areas 127

Moving from Whiteboard to CRM 127

Defining Contact Data Fields 130

Scoring Your Leads and Clients 132

Part 3: Implementing Your CRM 135

Chapter 7: Setting Up Your CRM Elements 137

Contact versus Account-Based CRM 137

Defining Users and Their Roles 139

Using a Group-Centric Architecture 140

Setting Up Custom Data Fields 144

Storing Files 146

Signing Documents Automatically 148

Bridging Your Online Store and Your CRM 149

Integrating Billing, Quotes, and Invoices 151

Connecting Legacy and Related Software 153

Importing Leads by File 155

Chapter 8: Capturing Leads to Build Your CRM Database 157

Finding the Best Lead Capture Methods 158

Buying Leads from Third Parties 162

Bringing Leads in with Your Website 164

Tracking Sources with Campaign IDs 168

Deploying Signup Forms 170

Deploying Ticketing Forms 172

Appending Data 174

Building Automation into Forms 177

Chapter 9: Capturing Leads with Other Methods 181

Interacting with Chat 182

Interacting via SMS/MMS 184

Interacting over the Phone 186

Meeting over Web Conference 188

Interacting over Social Media 189

Meeting Leads in Real Life 190

Integrating Inbound Leads through Zapier 193

Chapter 10: Communicating Effectively with Email 195

Avoiding Spam 196

Adhering to Legal Requirements 199

Employing SPF and DKIM 200

Choosing the Right Email Service Provider 202

Managing Your Lists 205

Gathering New Leads 207

Designing Emails That Work 209

Tracking Email Marketing Campaigns 211

Personalizing Your Messages 217

Triggering Email from Actions 218

Chapter 11: Joining the Marketing Automation Revolution 219

Defining Automation 220

Designing Your Campaigns 222

Setting Up Triggers 226

Encouraging Leads to Activate Triggers 227

Automating Workflows around Lead Scoring 229

Designing Workflows 230

Chapter 12: Managing Your Knowledge Base in Your CRM 235

Knowing What to Put in Your Knowledge Base 236

Building Access Levels for Information 237

Structuring Knowledge for Internal Consumption 239

Sharing Knowledge with Leads and Clients 240

Chapter 13: Managing Projects with Your CRM 241

Setting Up a Project 242

Leading Your Project Team 245

Measuring Important Metrics for Your Team 247

Tracking resource utilization 247

Viewing overdue tasks 248

Budgeting projects and tasks 248

Chapter 14: Managing Events with Your CRM 249

Bringing People to Your Brand 250

Driving awareness with events 250

Educating leads and clients through conferences 251

Hosting Events 251

Establishing benefits of membership 252

Matching attendees by interests 253

Setting Up Registration Options 253

Determining what to ask for 254

Using logic to show only relevant options 255

Automating Responses and Follow-Ups 255

Connecting with Calendars 256

Part 4: Analytics and Improvement 257

Chapter 15: Measuring Business Performance with CRM 259

Constructing Funnels 260

Tracking sales progress with conversions 260

Defining the stages of a conversion 260

Measuring time and dropout rates for each stage 261

Activating workflows for stages 262

Analyzing Website Visitors 263

Measuring unique visitors and page views 263

Tracking referral sources 265

Measuring bounce rate 266

Keeping a tally on devices that visit your website 267

Watching where your visitors come from 267

Measuring time on site 268

Analyzing individual pages 268

Comparing your website properties 269

Comparing and contrasting campaign performance 271

A/B Webpage Testing 272

Setting up split percentages 272

Determining the best criteria for a split 273

Adjusting split percentages automatically 273

Managing Affiliates 273

Connecting campaigns to affiliate codes 274

Defining tiers for payment 274

Measuring Email Marketing 275

Watching read and click rates over time 275

Comparing performance to benchmarks 275

Measuring conversions from email campaigns 276

Tracking Social Media 277

Measuring impressions and actions 277

Calculating influence and lead qualification 279

Taking a Global View 279

Chapter 16: Gathering Feedback and Supporting Customers 281

Sending Surveys 282

Applying surveys to the right situations 282

Developing the questions people answer 283

Building logic into survey structure 283

Scoring survey responses 284

Triggering workflows from surveys 285

Connecting survey responses to your CRM 285

Supporting Clients with Ticketing Forms 286

Posting forms on your website for customer service 286

Automation with ticket forms 287

Setting standards and goals for your support team 288

Measuring important metrics 289

Chatting with Leads and Clients 290

Chapter 17: Using Analytics the Right Way 291

Defining Your Key Performance Indicators 292

Knowing what to measure and why 292

Setting reasonable standards 294

Reporting your KPIs 294

Developing policies for exceeding standards or failing to meet them 295

Sharing performance with investors and employees 295

Analyzing Your Website Traffic 295

Assessing SEO and PPC performance 296

Comparing campaigns and their impact 296

Scoring Your Leads and Clients 297

Predictive Analytics 297

Building a data model from behavior 298

Applying your predictive model to leads 300

Applying your predictive model to your business model 300

Sharpening your teams skills 301

Part 5: The Part of Tens 303

Chapter 18: Ten Top-Notch Software Review Websites 305

Expert Market 305

G2 Crowd 306

SaaSGenius 307

GetApp 308

Technology Advice 309

Software Advice 309

Capterra 310

Finances Online 311

TrustRadius 311

Marketing Automation Club 312

Chapter 19: Ten Common CRM Mistakes 313

Not Getting Buy In from Your Team 313

Believing CRM Is about Software 314

Not Doing Your Homework First 314

Not Listening to Expert Advice 314

Not Going through Vendor Software Training 314

Not Setting Up DKIM and SPF 315

Buying Lists 315

Relying Only on Cold Calling 315

Not Journey Mapping First 316

Focusing on One Requirement 316

Appendix A: CRM Decision Matrix 317

Appendix B: Self-Assessment 323

Index 325

Additional information

CIN1119368979VG
9781119368977
1119368979
CRM For Dummies by Lars Helgeson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
2017-08-11
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