Reading, England, 21 June 2013
DFK International, an international association of independent accounting firms and business advisers, has selected Workbooks CRM to transform its membership management and improve member communication.
DFK International is a top 10 international association of independent accounting firms and business advisers whose members have been meeting the needs of clients with interests in more than one country for 50 years. The Workbooks CRM tools will enable DFK International to increase its efficiency and responsiveness to members, whilst the Workbooks web-portal will facilitate better member interaction by providing DFK’s members with an online ‘self-service’ portal through which they can update their own records.
Martin Sharp, Executive Director at DFK International, commented, “Our spreadsheet-based membership management system was resulting in duplication of effort, internal confusion, a less than satisfactory service to our members, and was severely limiting our ability to deliver improved services, so we had to either address the issue or start employing more head-office staff. After reviewing suitable membership management and CRM systems, we shortlisted NetSuite and Workbooks, and selected Workbooks as we felt it was important to deal directly with the vendor to ensure a stress-free and successful implementation.”
Ian Moyse, Sales Director at Workbooks commented, “In our experience, trade associations don’t have the resources to manage in-house membership systems, whether they are conventional, single-purpose server-based membership databases or the tangle of spreadsheets that typically evolve over time. Workbooks is leading the new generation of cloud-based CRM and Membership systems with integrated features such as email marketing, renewal management and web-portal functionality for member self-service, and improved efficiency and reduced operating costs allow the Executive team to focus on improving member services and growing the organisation.”
Zoe Daniel, Membership Executive at DFK went on to say, “We need a system that will be easy to use and flexible. Once Workbooks has been implemented, we look forward to being able to add custom fields, change views, filter records and create reports ourselves. This flexibility means that we won’t need to call consultants to make minor changes for us, resulting in significantly lower cost of ownership. Also, integration with Outlook, MailChimp, Sage Line 50 and our website means that Workbooks will provide the core for all of our business systems.”
DFK International is a top 10 international association of independent accounting firms and business advisers. The association has been meeting the needs of clients with interests in more than one country for nearly 50 years. The partners in its member firms share:
Each DFK member is an independent legal entity in its own country. DFK International is a non-profit making consortium of independent firms and does not itself practice in the field of accountancy and does not provide business advisory service. Such services are provided by the independent member and correspondent firms of DFK International.
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