| CRM in Consumer Durables -
June 17th, 2008
The ideas behind customer relationship management are not new. Today it’s widely acknowledged that how you treat your customers goes a long way to determining your future profitability, and companies are making bigger and bigger investments to do just that. Customers are savvier about the service they should be getting and are voting with their wallets based on the experience they receive.
The concepts of customer relationship management have been in the air ever since one caveman had a choice of buying an arrowhead from either Og or Thag, but CRM as a term gained currency in the mid-1990s. Market analysts squabble over the exact figure, but all agree that in the next few years companies will pour billions of dollars into CRM solutions—software and services designed to help businesses more effectively manage customer relationships through any direct or indirect channel a customer opts to use.
So why, with the market for CRM technology exploding, “What is CRM?” Probably because if you ask three CRM experts, you’ll get five different answers. | 
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