Sales Force Automation

Get the Most Out of Your Call Center with CRM Software

Monday, November 1, 2010 by Sidney Angelos

Customer Service

Do you think of your call center as a business necessity? Or do you consider it a competitive weapon. Companies who view their call center operations as only a necessary part of conducting business are missing one of the best and least expensive ways to improve not just the bottom line but the top line also. Call centers are a wealth of information and are rife with opportunities for improving customer relationships, enhancing customer satisfaction—and increasing customer sales.

Traditional call centers were created to handle the increase in customers that technology helped to enable. As businesses grew and technology allowed them to reach beyond their immediate localities, companies added more and more customers, which, in turn, created the need to respond to their questions and issues. Initially, call centers were small and simple, consisting of agents, phones and terminals connected to rudimentary databases.
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How To Reduce Costs while Satisfying Your Customers with Sales Force Automation

Friday, October 29, 2010 by Sidney Angelos

Sales Pipeline

It’s no secret that tough economic times put The Fear into even the most forward-thinking entrepreneurs. Faced with plummeting revenues, they look for ways to slash their operational costs, delaying or eliminating altogether the implementation of new technologies that ironically are the very thing they need to push their companies back up on the profit fast track.

During industry downswings, strategic business management and planning is more critical than ever.
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Boost Your Sales Team with Sales Management Software

Thursday, October 28, 2010 by Jace Modavi

Customer Relationship Management Applications

Your sales team is often your first point of contact with a potential customer. They’re the foot your company puts forward first; why not make sure that they’re the best?
The most effective way to support your sales team across all channels is to implement a sales management, or sales force automation, system. SFA provides your sales team with the foundation they need to approach customers with confidence and seal the deal.

More and more often these days, SFA is run over the Internet, or in the cloud. This enables sales reps out in the field, managers back at the office, and customer service agents working remotely to view and edit the same customer profiles and information. This means that everyone is kept in the loop, communications flow more smoothly, and productivity can soar.
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Sales Tracking Software – Maximize Leads and Close More Opportunities

Thursday, October 21, 2010 by Jace Modavi

Blackberrys

Be vewy, vewy quiet—I’m hunting wabbits.

Actually, I’m not; but I do want to talk today about a certain form of tracking: sales tracking.

Sales tracking is a lot like wabbit hunting, because in both cases the pursuer is using their talents and experience to capture something elusive. And although Elmer Fudd had to use his (dubious) wits, a sales rep today can use sales tracking software to chase down leads and close more opportunities.
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Create Opportunities and Generate More Leads with Sales Tracking Software

Thursday, October 7, 2010 by Jace Modavi

Lead Generation

Being a salesperson is not easy—I did it for a summer in college, and let me tell you I’ve never worked harder. My hat’s off to sales rock stars, and even those who try their best but aren’t quite closing the deals. In this economy? Forget about it. These days, sales representatives sometimes have to chase almost 20 leads in order to make just one sale.
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Enable Your Sales Team to Close Deals With Mobile CRM

Monday, October 4, 2010 by Sidney Angelos

Mobile CRM

People from my generation might remember the expression about the early bird getting the worm. Used to be that salespeople literally got up early, hit the road and started visiting clients. These days, things have changed. So how do you become an early bird in the computer era? One way is to adopt trending technologies, like cloud computing, that will enable your sales team to close deals with mobile CRM software.
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The Next Generation of Online Collaboration

Monday, September 6, 2010 by Sidney Angelos

Online Collaboration

The Internet has spoiled us rotten. It used to be that we had to physically travel, wait days for a letter to arrive, or hold lengthy phone conversations to be able to collaborate with colleagues who were located in a different city. Now we can chat online in real time, send documents via email, and even share videos and PowerPoint presentations. We can video conference. The next step?
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An Easier Way to Manage Your Sales Pipeline

Monday, August 30, 2010 by Jace Modavi

Sales Lead Generation

I have a joke for you.

Q: How many salespeople does it take to manage a sales pipeline?
A: Only one, if you have a cloud-based customer relationship management system.

OK, OK, it was a pretty lousy joke. But you must admit that the “punchline,” if you can even call it that, is nevertheless impressive.
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Sales Aren’t Up in the Air With Cloud Computing

Monday, August 23, 2010 by Sidney Angelos

Business Infrastructure

You may have heard the term “cloud computing,” and thought that it was some sophisticated technology that only IT professionals could understand. While there are certainly very complicated aspects to cloud computing, at its heart is a simple concept—running applications on the Internet, instead of using on-premises software. You probably already use the cloud much more than you realize—free email providers, social networking Web sites and other popular interactive sites are almost all run in the cloud.
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How to Determine Your Customers Behavior and Increase Sales with Twitter

Monday, August 16, 2010 by Sidney Angelos

Microblogging

Unless you’ve been in a coma for the past three years or so, you’ve no doubt heard about Twitter, the social networking platform that allows users to “microblog” what they’re doing, listening to, reading and eating in 140 characters or less. You might even use it personally. But this is more than a silly tool for socializing; it’s a business game-changer. If you’re not leveraging Twitter for marketing and customer relationship management purposes, you need to start.
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