Why Do We Care About Customer Information?

The main goal of keeping updated customer- Age group
information is to provide customers with a- Nationality
delightful ownership experience and to build up a- Project or service
solid base for the company's customer oriented- Region
projects such as:In brief, the customer is contacted by the CRM
- Customer retention programsteam staff to get and update the required
- Customer acquisition programsinformation (Name, contact number...etc.) Once all
- Customer loyalty programsthe information is updated in the CRM, our record
- Other marketing events.is updated to show that this customer data has
Despite the importance of customer informationbeen cleansed.
to any organization, There is no clear planCustomers who are unreachable the first time are
implemented within most of the organizations tocontacted again later on the same day. If they
capture, maintain, update and properly utilize ourare still unreachable they will again be contacted
customers information. This project will help themfor two consecutive days before they are
in setting a clear plan that would enable them tomarked as unreachable in our record.
provide first class customer service that will offerAt the end of the month a compiled list is
their customers due recognition and reward themgenerated for all the customers who were
for their loyalty.unreachable, those customers are once again
There are two very important outputs that arecontacted to get their information.
generated within this practice:The customers' records of those who are still
1- Customer status: This show us if the customerunreachable will be updated later on through the
still uses our product or service he got from us orCRM team interactions with the customers during
not, this information is used for retention activitiesthe full operation of the Unit.
and marketing activities to reactivate defectedThe significance and value that the data cleansing
customers.project will add to the organization depend greatly
2- Record status: This show us importanton the practice of data housekeeping. Unless a
information on duplicate records, wrong customercertain methodology and a clear plan is designed
information, unreachable customersand most importantly- populated among all
The whole project progress is then measuredcustomer interacting touch points, the data
through a detailed MIS report developed by thecleansing will be a never ending project.
customer information quality analyst. The reportTherefore, all departments should be informed
gives statistical information about the customer'sand trained on the unified approach to creating
data quality and the segmentation of ournew customer records and updating existing
customers in terms of several criteria such as:record (as a supportive form of data cleansing to
- Active vs. inactive customersbe carried out by sales and after sales teams).