Why CRM Matters
The success and growth of your business will depend upon repeat customers and reputation. It makes sense to offer your current and new customers what they need as they need it, rather than hope that they will come to you.
Sole traders and other small businesses gain the majority of their work from word of mouth recommendations.
Making sure you understand what your customers need and providing that service when they need it is the basis of a sustainable and healthy business
Why not do it all yourself?
If you have expert accountancy skills it may be worth doing your own books and saving the costs of a professional accountant, however, most businesses do best when focusing their efforts on what gives them a competitive advantage and bring in outside expertise, such as accountants, web designers and solicitors, when needed. If you have the time and experience to keep track of all your customer management, including tracking new leads, then outside CRM help might not be needed. However, if your CRM system is a little black book with lots of amendments and computers are not your thing, then Swan Management can help.
Cobble
Our unique CRM system ‘Cobble’ can be tailored to meet a wide variety of business needs. As examples current users include:
- Soft Play Area businesses, where the system manages membership details, cash receipts for entries, party booking, marketing emails and staff hours worked.
- Rowing clubs, where the system manages training records, training session planning, team management and performance ladders.
Cobble is a simple text based language allowing business management and customer relationship systems to be designed for small and medium sized businesses. Examples in use today vary from soft play company management to IT company invoicing and error tracking. As long as it involves some data and a wish to manipulate and display it – Cobble can do it.
Options for interacting with customers are varied. You can send manual or automatic emails and SMS text messages, or even have some jobs that customers can log in to do themselves, such as requesing a reservation or modifying their own contact details.
The system is hosted in the cloud, so all you need to use it is a web brower such as Google Chrome, and a connection to the internet, and that’s all your customers need as well.
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