You might have heard about Customer Relation Management. It might looks like a piece of normal software that has forms for your customers to fill and many other things that are included. The truth is Customer Relation Management is more than just a software to manage your customers. If you truly understand the meaning, you will realize that it is a way of doing business in life.



As we all know customers are very important for any kind of business, no matter what you are selling or offering. With no customers, there is no way you can make money let alone in making big bucks. However, if you can target on your customers and make use of their data or details, you are on your way for winning in your business. However, you will need to spend time analyzing and devising a plan in order to get them stay loyal to you.

Do you know what information you should get from your customers in order to understand your customers better? First of all, you must ask them how they feel about the services or products they have purchased from your business. This is crucial because you will be able to break down the percentage of those who are satisfied and not satisfied with what you are offering. Then, you can work your way to improve on what they don't like. On the other hand, you must maintain on what they like about your business.

Secondly, you also need to find out how many times the manager of your business store has to go out and meet the customers regarding of their complains or problems. This is to get a general idea on how your business is dealing with customers affairs and the quality of customer service provided.

The third is to find out what they purchase and who they bring along when they shop at your store. Usually, you can observe them whenever they come to your store. However, the easiest and perhaps the cheapest way is by doing a survey. Pass them a survey form whenever they pay for their items at the counter or simply leave the survey forms at any location that is easy to spot and fill up instantly. Then they can either return it to the counter or just insert into the feedback mail box in your store.

Get some people to gather all the data in readable form such as in excel format so you can analyze everything easier. You might not see how powerful these data can be but when you see the result coming from the analysis and your business plan, you will be surprised.

A customer is a very important aspect to a business and it's important that you do everything you can to keep that person happy. Sometimes you amy find that there may be problems that do exist but make sure you do everything in your own power to keep him/her, even if you have to lose out on a sale. Remember that old say, the customer is always right, even when they seem wrong.