How Salesforce CRM can improve your Sales?

In order to thrive as a best-in-class sales-driven business, organizations need to develop skills and leverage cutting-edge automation tools. In today’s business world, there is no room for mediocrity. It is very essential to perform to remain competitive. Sales expertise along with refining customer relationships and processes drive higher sales. However, with the growing business, it becomes tough to personalize every customer interaction. This is where the role of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system comes in to help sales reps to enhance the effectiveness of their customer interaction and retention along with new lead creation. 

Salesforce is the world’s #1 CRM provider that offers business of every size a platform to manage their customers and their journey. The platform extends a variety of products and services to discover customer insights, understand needs, and solve complex business problems. The extensive range of Salesforce products works together to improve sales pipeline and drive exceptional customer experiences. Some of the leading products include;

• Sales Cloud: Automate sales process, find leads, close deals faster, grow accounts, and accelerate productivity.
• Service Cloud: Close cases faster, manage field service, personalize customer support and predict needs for superior customer experience.
• Marketing Cloud: A unified marketing platform to know consumers, engage them and personalize their experience across every touchpoint.
• Community Cloud: Engage with your partners, customers, vendors, and employees in a whole new way to boost engagement. 
• Salesforce Platform: Build an amazing experience around customers with intuitive business apps developed on the Salesforce Platform.
• Salesforce Analytics: Discover data-driven insights, predict outcomes, find recommendations, and act smartly with Einstein Analytics.

How to leverage Salesforce to boost your Sales?

After going through all these above Salesforce offered solutions, you must be thinking how your business can use these and how you can get the best out of your Salesforce implementation? We will give you the top five ways Salesforce can help you maximize your Sales pipeline in this era of digital transformation. 

Sales Process 

Sales Cloud which is the #1 sales automation tool is designed to automate the sales process and includes a wide array of features. Sales Cloud helps sales reps work smarter by automating various sales processes, increasing efficiency, accelerating sales productivity, creating a pipeline of leads, closing deals faster, and making insightful decisions with data – from anywhere using any device. Popular Sales Cloud features like Contact & Opportunity Management, Account & Lead Management, Workflow & Approvals, Sales Collaboration, Reports & Dashboards, Sales Forecasting, etc. helps sales reps to achieve their goals. 

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Marketing Campaigns 

Marketing Cloud helps marketers to drive relevant and highly personalized customer journeys including exceptional customer experiences across multiple touch points such as email, mobile, social, web, etc. from a unified platform. Some of the leading features include Journey Builder, Email Studio, Salesforce DMP, Salesforce Data Studio, Social Studio, Advertising Studio, Mobile Studio, etc. Marketing Cloud runs customized campaigns which generate quality leads. 

Customer Service

In today’s business world, if you don’t offer best-in-class customer service, your customers will switch to a rival brand. In order to maximize revenue, you need to retain most of your existing customers. Salesforce Service Cloud helps organizations make their customer service efficient by enhancing service quality and driving high-class user-experience. Customer service agents can leverage Service Cloud to close cases faster, manage Field Service, offer intelligent self-service, personalize customer care, predict future needs to keep the conversation flowing. 

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Collaboration

Salesforce Community Cloud offers an opportunity to connect & collaborate with customers, partners, vendors, and employees to establish interactions. With out-of-the-box templates, and themes you can engage the audience and streamline the communication. With a connected reseller, distributor, partner ecosystem, your sales can be increased by offering seamless access to all the information. Partners can register new leads, update records, manage funds which enable them to close deals faster. 

Next-gen Analytics

With Salesforce analytics, sales reps can uncover actionable insights to accelerate sales based on real data. Einstein Analytics which is the only business analytics solution native to Salesforce, leverage AI in order to discover business insights, predict results, drive efficiency, accelerate sales, enhance customer service, optimize business processes and maximize ROI from their marketing campaigns. 

Wrapping up

Salesforce has now further extended its global CRM market share & stretched to 19.5% which is 2X of its nearest rival. The ease of use, rich functionalities, scalability, analytics, and customizability makes the CRM giant everyone’s first choice sales automation and enhancement tool. As a Salesforce Silver Consulting Partner, CEPTES helps organizations implement Salesforce and get the most out of their investment. Get in touch today to start your Salesforce CRM journey.

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