Customer relationship management by definition is about managing the entire relationship between the customer and your company, not just knowing where they are located and what people work there. The contacts are important, but they are not enough! In addition to servicing customers, your users must want to use your CRM system, so it must have value to them, especially to salespeople, who often have a choice about how much they contribute to the information collected about a customer.
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