crm software for sales

Optimize and Measure your Lead Source

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Can you quantify how many leads your business receives from each marketing channel? More importantly, do you know which channels bring your most qualified prospects? As a business owner, it is vital that you are able to measure your lead source time to time to make strategic decisions and make profitable business.

Lead source is a critical piece of data you need in order to assess the value of your marketing campaigns and to take it forward with you lead management.

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If you are using any Marketing or Sales tool to manage your lead process, you would have noticed the lead source or account source as one of the field to capture. By putting in place the best practices, you will be sure you can measure the value of your sales process efforts.

Define lead sources

Tracking lead sources can get confusing when leads encounter multiple touch points at a later stage. Ensure to have the lead sources defined which can be allocated whenever a new lead flows in. Most common applicable sources could be social media, advertisements, website, phone call, etc which can be followed with multiple others sources applicable to your business.

Avoid cluttering of lead source

During the initial stages you might have identified a set of lead sources and over a period of time that may keep growing. However, try to keep the number of lead sources to a minimum when customizing. Many tools provide charts and graphs based on sources which can be very informative with a good set of valuable sources.

Keep the lead source constant

Lead source should never change. The lead source is to identify where the lead is oginating from and that must not be changed once captured.

Analyze lead source

The value of a lead from each source varies from company to company. As important is the defining of your lead sources is, accurately tracking them is just as vital. If you are using Sales Management software or any Marketing Automation tool, you will be able to keep a good tracking process in place with different levels of metrics. Many tools offer various types of charts and reporting to have an indepth annalysis on the lead sourcing which you can make use of.

Accurately tracking lead sources is certainly a major value proposition for most of the businesses. Doing this step correctly is crucial to maximize your sales profits.

 

4 Powerful ways to manage your Tasks

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Enquiries to follow up, need to keep track of what is happening with each leads, have to prepare and send reports, need to keep up the productivity, newsletters to be sent to hot prospects and finally reach the targets. So much to do and less time in hand?

Well, it indeed seems to be so difficult when you start making the list of to-dos. To all the Maple CRM users, here are few effective ways that you can make use of.

Keep up with the Follow ups

Your customer enquiry supports reminder option. Add a follow up for each enquiry on a specific date and time. The system will remind you the day’s tasks on the Dashboard. It shall also notify through email about today’s activities and the pending ones. So you will never be able to miss any task.

Make sure you close each of the task once the activity is completed. If not, it will fall under the Pending tasks and you definitely do not want your manager to see that, Right?

Flexible Views

Configure your View Settings as per the way how you would like to see. Make different views for Hot or Cold cases. That way it will be easy for you to directly jump into those set of enquiries and work on them. Also, configure your enquiries view as per the stages you have accomplished. Keep an easy tab on where each of your enquiries stand today.

Send instant Emails

Draft your newsletter template and save it for multiple usage. Choose the type of segment to whom you want to target your emails, select the template and shoot the email. You can easily keep a note on which all enquiries the emails have been sent.

Status Reports in seconds

Well, in seconds? You got it right. Do not waste time in downloading customized reports for last updated customer enquiries. We have your daily and weekly status report ready for you. Go to Report Templates and choose Account Updates Report. Download your report by selecting the date range and there it is.

Additionally, you also have an option to share the report to your manager directly from the Report Templates. Now sending the report is also easy.

Want to explore more options with Maple CRM? Write an email to support@maplecrm.com and our team shall guide you through it.

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Effective Sales Management and Sales Follow-up

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Sales Management is one of the most important process of business functions. Businesses always try to keep themselves on top of the sales leads. There is always a huge investment of time and money generating leads and following up with it.

But are you able to keep a track of your sales leads and the follow ups? How many times have you lost a sale because you forgot to make a follow-up call in a timely manner?

Maple CRM here enables you to effectively manage all your sales leads at one place. It also helps to keeping tracking of all your follow-ups of the day. This will give you a greater control over the sales process and ensure that all leads get the attention as needed. This way you will never miss out any lead.

Here is snapshot of the Maple dashboard that displays all the follow-ups of the day.

Sales Management and Follow up

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If you would like to find out more information on how Maple can help your business in Sales Management, then contact us.

Maple CRM is a simple and powerful CRM tool that enables you to effectively manage your sales and customer enquiries. The solution provides features which can automate your sales process and manage your marketing process. It empowers organizations to manage the entire customer relationship cycle – from lead, opportunity to client.

Sales and Lead Management with CRM Software Solution

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Its very clear that many companies use technology to manage and nurture their sales leads. Salesforce.com, Zoho, InfusionSoft and services like such are in the business market to help you to manage your leads. However, it is also true that most of the companies still use pencil, paper and excel sheets to do this. Definitely these companies are not being productive as they can be and more likely may be loosing potential customers. I would to title it as a big mistake as none of these methods work well for better sales management.

An automated system can qualify and create the leads and further the sales system for tracking and processing will help tremendously. Sales Management Software ensures that your sales leads are followed up, pipelines are being managed and goals are being met. Regardless of the size of your sales team, a good CRM tool will pay of the results in profits.

Firstly, it is a wise idea to understand that CRM is an important tool for the business and not just an application that should be used by your executives when they find time. It must become a part of the day to day business process. CRM software should be used as a mandatory process as it offers flexibility and is very informative and resourceful.

With Maple CRM, we continuosly look ways to provide an efficient tool that eases the work process. In fact, we do a lot of customization based on the real time analysis of our customer requirements. Effective functional features would defintely increase the usage benefits.

Your sales people should be provided with the right tools for their operations. Email marketing, to-do lists, contacts manager etc. are all the tools that sales team find very useful. This way, by giving more useful tools they are likely to use the CRM tool on a necessity basis thus enabling them let CRM be the part of their business life.

Make a note that speed is one of the important strategy when dealing with sales leads. Research shows that calling new leads in less than one minute can increase conversion rates.

If all the business functions and activities are recorded, assigned and managed at one place then your CRM Software will be a valuable resource. You will also have to make sure everything comes in and goes out through the CRM system only. The better you plan and execute the CRM process flow, the greater your chance of success.

 

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Generate sales quotations in less than 5 minutes!

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Quotation Management in Maple CRM software is a comprehensive system that helps in generating quotations for your prospective leads and keeping in track of the quotes for further use. Maple’s quotation feature acts as an essential tool for any business who would need to issue sales quotations.

Its flexible and customizable feature helps to increase sales productivity, reduce costly errors, enhance customer service and improve sales effectiveness. This feature definitely makes the quotation preparation task very easy for you.

Key features:

– Unlimited quotation generation
– Quote profile
– Define your own default quotation profile settings
– Adjustable tax and discount rates
– Easy creation and conversion to pdf format
– Quotation brading with your company logo
– Track and Store Quotations
– Maintenance of products or service items in catalogue with its unit price
– Quoting items from the Product or Service Catalogue list
– Accessible from anywhere

Contact us if you wish to have a look at this feature. We can arrange for a demonstration at your convenient time.

Further highlights:

– Simple to use
– Generate as many quotations for each customer as needed
– ‘Print ready’ quotations

Visit our website Maple CRM for more details.