When something doesn’t work, it is easy to blame the software. We see it all the time. Salesforce.com is a system which is highly customizable and can power an entire business, with limitations of course. However, it depends on talented people that can navigate the system, execute process and think. To elaborate: Navigate the system. IfContinue reading “Why Salesforce Is Not For Dummies”
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Salesforce Doesn’t Have To Start Perfect
Salesforce.com is capable of a great many things to automate and drive your business processes. The misconception is that you have to have your business in order and visualized completely before starting. Such thinking may have been true of custom built software that was expensive to change. However, the case is often true that yourContinue reading “Salesforce Doesn’t Have To Start Perfect”
3 Important Ingredients For Salesforce Adoption
My Salesforce.com consulting work with teams continually reveals more challenge in the adoption of a well-designed system than in the actual customization of the system. Aligning people who have become accustomed to their way of doing things with disparate tools or ad hoc methods requires a focus on the art of change management. Here areContinue reading “3 Important Ingredients For Salesforce Adoption”
How We Integrate Google Apps With Salesforce
Google Apps and Salesforce.com are two of the leading cloud computing software vendors in the world. We have partnered with both and customize these systems around the processes of specific businesses based on their requirements. As we advise our clients on technology, process and systems, we always want to keep in mind the questions aboutContinue reading “How We Integrate Google Apps With Salesforce”
Salesforce Contact Roles Orient Your Team
The Salesforce.com Opportunity record keeps the details of a deal together. This should be customized to capture all the details for closing a sale. This can include: Information about the deal Files supporting the sale Pipeline and probability information Activities with people One of the important parts to keep your team coordinated is understanding whoContinue reading “Salesforce Contact Roles Orient Your Team”
Salesforce Lead Segmentation For Marketing Campaigns
Salesforce.com helps you to manage the sales funnel. As a buyer engages your sales process, they are captured as a Lead. this information could come from web forms or from your sales team. Most of your Leads will not be ready to convert to an Opportunity. This is to be expected and a strategy shouldContinue reading “Salesforce Lead Segmentation For Marketing Campaigns”
Salesforce Mass Email Leads Strategy
Mass email of Salesforce.com Leads can be effective for a salesperson or marketing team to connect with Leads in your pipeline. Depending on how your marketing funnel works and lead generation, there are strategic opportunities to take advantage of the Salesforce.com mass email leads function. More details of how to use the mass email leadsContinue reading “Salesforce Mass Email Leads Strategy”
4 Salesforce Lead Rating Process Tips
Managing inbound leads in Salesforce.com requires a system and process for qualifying prospects. If you are engaged in team selling, then coordinating data within the Lead record will become a priority. The goal of a Lead is to be converted into an Opportunity which is tracked as a viable part of the sales pipeline andContinue reading “4 Salesforce Lead Rating Process Tips”
4 Salesforce.com Email Template Strategies
Salesforce.com email templates are an important tool to integrate in your sales and service processes. Your team will connect with prospects and customers with their phones or on email, both inbound and outbound. For phone conversations, these are logged as calls and appear in the Lead or Contact’s Activity History. In the case of sendingContinue reading “4 Salesforce.com Email Template Strategies”
Salesforce Opportunity Contact Roles
Salesforce.com Opportunity records constitute the building blocks of your sales pipeline and forecasting. Each deal past, present and future should contain all the relevant information for a first sales opportunity or an upsell opportunity. Accounts can and should have multiple opportunities associated with it based on each and every deal your team is able toContinue reading “Salesforce Opportunity Contact Roles”
