Here are several reasons why Customer Relationship Management matters more during a recession:

1. It can help you get more out of your established customers by identifying upselling opportunities based on your recorded customer data.
2. It can help you identify and focus on your best customers.
3. It can allow you to streamline and add efficiency to your customer development efforts. By working smarter and not harder, you can optimize your customer service and maximize your revenue and profit capabilities.
4. It can help you keep your existing customers loyal to you and your product and services.

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With the economy worsening, now is the time to seriously consider Open Source when looking for technical solutions to improve your business. When the economy tightens businesses need to be even more efficient in how they do business. Costly proprietary solutions may execeed the budget tightening decisions that usually go with a tightening economy, so evaluting Open Source solutions start to make more sense.

More specifically, what you do not know about your existing and potential future customers is costing you business. A vast majority of organizations are unaware of their customer's purchasing habits, opinions, and preferences. If an organization is just armed with this information, then they have a much greater chance at:

• increasing sales based on timing their offering to a customer's purchasing habits
• cross selling based on knowledge of a customers previous purchases or previously identified opinions on preferences
• identifying needs more effectively to target market your services
• acquiring new customers based on your knowledge of your existing customers.

This all falls under Customer Relationship Management. An organization improves its opportunity to be successful the more it knows about its customers. A CRM (Customer Relations Management) system is a technical solution that aims to help organizations capture this information.

Do you think that a CRM system would be useful for you and your organization, or do you think it would be a waste of effort? Respond and let us know.