Customer Relationship Management: Building Stronger Customer Connections
Practical CRM strategies for organizing customer data, improving retention, and driving revenue growth
This course on Customer Relationship Management helps you build stronger customer connections with a clear, business-focused approach to managing sales, service, and marketing data. You’ll learn practical CRM strategies for organizing customer data, improving retention, and driving revenue growth so your Business can operate more efficiently and respond to customer needs with confidence.
Strengthen Business Relationships With Smart CRM Strategies
- Learn the foundations of Customer Relationship Management and why CRM matters across the customer lifecycle
- Build practical systems for organizing contact data, pipeline activity, and follow-up workflows
- Improve sales, service, and marketing alignment with CRM goals that support Business growth
- Use reporting, automation, and segmentation to create more targeted and effective customer communication
A practical course on Customer Relationship Management for improving customer data, retention, and team alignment
This course takes you through the full CRM process, starting with the basics of Customer Relationship Management and moving into customer journey mapping, data collection, and pipeline management. You’ll see how to define CRM goals that support sales, service, and marketing, while also learning how to build a clean, usable contact database that your team can actually rely on.
As you progress, you’ll explore customer segmentation, workflow design, support operations, and automation strategies that keep communication personal and effective. The course also covers dashboards, metrics, and retention planning so you can measure what matters and make smarter decisions for your Business. Along the way, you’ll learn common CRM mistakes, how to improve adoption across teams, and how to evaluate the right platform for your organization.
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to turn CRM from a simple system into a Business asset that supports stronger customer relationships, better team coordination, and more consistent growth.
Full lesson breakdown
Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.
CRM Foundations
1 lesson
Customer Journey Mapping
1 lesson
Business Alignment
1 lesson
Data Essentials
1 lesson
Data Organization
1 lesson
Sales Pipeline Management
1 lesson
Customer Segmentation
1 lesson
Workflow Design
1 lesson
Support Operations
1 lesson
Automation Strategy
1 lesson
Performance Measurement
1 lesson
Customer Retention
1 lesson
Change Management
1 lesson
Risk Reduction
1 lesson
Platform Selection
1 lesson
Implementation Planning
1 lesson
Professor Nathan Ward
Professor Nathan Ward guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.