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Customer Management

What is Customer Management? Definition and meaning

Customer management is a business instrument. It serves to nurture, improve and strengthen customer relationships. In doing so, customer management is an important part of the sales and support areas of a company, but also of marketing.

Tasks of customer management

Customer management can be defined quite simply through the four Cs:

  • strong customer orientation => leads to higher customer satisfaction
  • high customer satisfaction => leads to longer customer loyalty
  • strong customer loyalty => raises customer value
  • high customer value => increases revenue per customer

Efficient customer management

With the help of a CRM system, all of these requirements can be met, which would otherwise be impossible to achieve. Alongside general address and contact data, the right CRM software also automatically documents all interactions with the customer. Appointments, tickets, emails and notes are thus directly accessible. This means your customer enquiries can be dealt with quickly.

In addition to classic CRM software, with a comprehensive business software such as projectfacts, where all modules are linked together, you can also call up quotes, invoices, customer projects and much more directly at the customer level. Discover all features of projectfacts.

Frequently asked questions

What is customer management?
Customer management is a business instrument that serves to nurture, improve and strengthen customer relationships. It is an important part of the sales and support areas of a company, but also of marketing.
What are the four Cs of customer management?
The four Cs describe a chain: strong customer orientation leads to higher customer satisfaction, which leads to longer customer loyalty, strong customer loyalty raises customer value, and high customer value increases revenue per customer.
Which software supports customer management?
A CRM system maps the requirements of customer management and automatically documents every interaction with the customer. With customer management from projectfacts, you can call up address and contact data, appointments, tickets, emails and notes directly at the customer level.