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Stepping Up CRM for Your Financial Services Company

January 21, 2017 By Aakash Patel 1 Comment

With the diversification of financial services, customers have multiple options from which to choose. Switching between companies is now almost effortless.

Stepping Up CRM for Your Financial Services Company

This ability has made exemplary customer relationship management (CRM) absolutely imperative. The need for a fail-proof CRM is now all the more urgent.

Most financial services organizations have some sort of customer relationship management practice in place. However, there is always scope for improvement. Here are a few ways to step up your CRM initiatives at work.

Table of Contents

  • Strategy before technology
  • Commit to it
  • Liaise with trusted IT partners
  • Be data driven
  • Prioritise user experience
  • Organizational buy-in
  • Acknowledge successes
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Strategy before technology

Most organizations kick off their customer relationship management efforts by purchasing software. This approach, unfortunately, rarely brings the results one expects. The best way to start is to formulate a strategy for CRM.

A strategy ensures that efforts begin with a clear sense of direction, as well as a means of measuring initiatives in order to note their efficiency or the lack of it. Strategies also prescribe the steps you’ll need to  take and minimize ambiguity.

Commit to it

A successful CRM practice requires adequate commitment. Day-to-day operations at financial services organizations can get overwhelming.

In such situations, managers mistakenly believe that merely deploying CRM software should take care of things. Committing to the process requires assigning employees who are dedicated to ensuring that operations stay customer-centric.

Liaise with trusted IT partners

CRM can be as insightful as you require with the help of customized software. There are multiple vendors you can choose from, depending on your CRM goals, the size of your organization and budget, and so on. Salesforce, Zoho, Insightly, and OroCRM are a few vendors you can consider when evaluating the right software.

Some factors to consider during the research stage include specialty in financial services, ability to customize, security, and cloud-based applications. You should also assess whether or not the software is device-agnostic and capable of integrating with third-party apps.

Be data driven

Empower your CRM efforts with relevant data. Having data specialists as part of the team can be especially helpful.

Data can pinpoint opportunities in customer service and sales that people could have missed previously. When setting up strategy, it is necessary to decide what initiatives you need to measure and what metrics you need to monitor.

Prioritise user experience

When designing CRM initiatives, it is critical that you view it from a user experience lens. Review every transaction, operation, or instance of communication from the perspective of a user. Doing so ensures that you will program all touch-points for maximum customer satisfaction.

With financial services, there is an increased need to convey credibility and maximize ease of use. Facilitating the same will improve CRM efforts by leaps and bounds.

Organizational buy-in

CRM is seldom effective when only a few employees believe in it. It works optimally when you achieve organizational buy-in regarding your CRM philosophy and when striving for customer satisfaction becomes a part of the company culture.

Acknowledge successes

Endlessly working to make customers happy can get tiring for anyone. Acknowledging small successes and celebrating milestones can go a long way toward keeping teams motivated to exceed customer expectations. Given that money can have personal significance attached to it, business greatly improves when employees are able to provide customized service to patrons.

Periodically reviewing CRM strategies to optimize effective initiatives, as well as plug any leaks that might exist, is a good practice. Doing so keeps patrons happy, grows sales, and contributes to the overall health of your organization and your brand.

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Aakash Patel is a marketing consultant and blogger on inbound marketing. He is a veteran and is among the first inbound marketing consultants in Asia.

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  1. Junaid Shahid says

    January 23, 2017 at 12:59 pm

    Hey Aakash,

    I’m strongly agreed with your thoughts, celebrating the milestones make them loyal that they are doing their best for the organization because company is appreciate them by celebrating milestones.

    Thanks, Glad to know these all.
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