What is a CRM?

Adriana Stein
7 min readMay 25, 2020

What is a CRM? Why are so many businesses using them? Numerous businesses are faced with the same issues when they want to go online. They are unsure where to focus their resources, lack the structure within the company, stack their customer data without order, or don’t collect it at all. This leads to the failure to adapt to current market changes. In other words, they struggle to digitalize and scale outdated marketing and sales processes.

Modern marketing tools aren’t of much help if you don’t know how to use them, or you may be using tons of different tools that don’t integrate. There’s a system that can solve most of these issues: a CRM. A CRM is a system that integrates your marketing and sales tools, optimizes those processes, and scales your business sustainably.

If you’re a company owner, who hasn’t implemented such a tool and are struggling to reach customers, this article is for you. In this guide, we’ll go into detail about how a CRM works, explain what you can use it for, and demonstrate why your business needs it.

What is a CRM?

A CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is a tool that helps you build and maintain relationships with your customers, increase sales, and create a better multi-channel customer experience. With it, you can integrate your marketing and sales tools to speed up and optimize the processes within…

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Adriana Stein

I am the founder of https://idiconsultancy.com/ a content agency in Hamburg. Originally from the US, I specialize in SEO & marketing automation.