CRM enrichment refers to the process of appending additional data to customer records in a company’s customer relationship management (CRM) system to make the records more complete, accurate and useful. The goal of enrichment is to enhance the quality of customer data so sales, marketing and service teams have a more comprehensive understanding of each customer. This enables them to personalize and optimize interactions for improved customer satisfaction and business results.
There are several ways companies can enrich their CRM data:
- Append data from third-party sources – Companies can purchase demographic, firmographic, contact, and other data attributes from data providers and append columns of data to customer profiles in the CRM. This could include appending data on a customer’s industry, revenues, number of employees, technologies used, and more.
- Conduct surveys and assessments – Companies can survey customers directly or have them complete assessments to collect first-party data on interests, challenges, product/service usage, satisfaction, and other areas. This data can be linked to the customer record.
- Incorporate behavioral data – Customer interaction data like email opens/clicks, site visits and engagement metrics, event participation, and sales activity can be integrated into CRM profiles to show behavioral trends.
- Add social media insights – Social media data scrapers can extract insights on customers from platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and others to uncover demographics, interests, opinions, and affiliations.
- Append firmographic data – Companies can leverage third-party business directory and database sources to identify additional firmographic details on customers, including corporate family structure, locations, financials, news, leadership changes, and more.
- Integrate purchase data – Customer transaction history, purchase frequency, order value, products/services purchased, and channel usage data can be appended to CRM records to better understand buying behaviors.
- Incorporate marketing campaign data – Data on customer responses and engagement across email, mobile, social, web, and other campaigns can be linked to CRM profiles to measure effectiveness and optimize future campaigns.
- Add support case data – Details on customers’ support cases, product issues, complaints, resolutions, satisfaction with support, and other service metrics can enrich understanding of customer experiences.
- Append relationship data – Information on key contacts, influencers, decision makers, project stakeholders, and details on relationships with sales reps, account managers, and CS can augment profiles.
CRM enrichment creates 360-degree customer views that provide holistic insights companies can leverage to hyper-personalize engagement across sales, marketing, services, product, and other groups. This typically improves conversion at key touchpoints, drives growth through accurate targeting and segmentation, increases retention and share of wallet, and enhances customer lifetime value. Maintaining comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date CRM data is an important success factor for modern customer-centric businesses.