If yours is a professional services firm, it’s understood that a profitable bottom line is one of your chief business goals. But before you get to that point, an immediate goal is finding and maintaining clients. Your sales team must constantly give attention to your sales pipeline and to completing projects efficiently, professionally, and on […]
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Achieve CRM Implementation Success with the Right Solution and the Right Partner
Growing businesses today realize how important it is to have the right CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system to help them automate processes and leverage insights. This is true for member-based associations, nonprofits, and other organizations who want to form stronger connections with their clients. Selecting and implementing a new CRM solution requires big decisions and […]
continue reading...4 Ways Relationship Assistant in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Can Make Your Life Easier
Don’t we all wish we had a personal assistant to help keep us organized? If you have ever missed an important deadline, let a sales opportunity slip through your fingers or inadvertently ignored a critical email you know an assistant could have helped. Few of us can afford a personal assistant, but all Microsoft Dynamics […]
continue reading...How to Be Sure You’re Getting the Most Out of Your CRM Solution
If your CRM system is not doing all you hoped it would, there are two common reasons. Either the system was not set up properly with your processes in mind, or perhaps your sales team is not using it properly, or at all. To the untrained, CRM systems can seem difficult to learn and there […]
continue reading...CRM Software Success: 3 Frequently Overlooked Red Flags
Are you considering a new CRM software system? CRM software (customer relationship management software) is designed to help organizations reach business goals like: Converting more prospects into sales Creating a collaborative sales process Improving inbound marketing and lead generation Getting a 360-degree view of customers Cutting service request costs and sales process costs. The […]
continue reading...Create a Data Strategy to Get the Most from Your Data
You have likely heard many data related terms being thrown around— data packs, data lakes, data warehouses— but what do they mean? And are they important to your business? If someone is telling you that your business needs one, or even all of these, then where do you begin? For starters, let’s define the terminology. […]
continue reading...7 Characteristics of a Successful Ongoing CRM Implementation Mindset – Part 2
In our previous blog, we outlined the many changes that have affected the CRM industry, including ever changing customer and user expectations. We stressed the importance for organizations to adopt a new mindset of continuous improvement and new approaches to managing their CRM technology and processes investments over time. But how can that actually be […]
continue reading...Why CRM Must be an Ongoing Program, Not a Technology Implementation – Part 1
Define, Build, Test, Deploy, Support….Upgrade. Do it all again in a few years. Historically companies have allocated time and money to a CRM effort as a “one-time, big event.” Once live, the resources and dollars allocated were reduced to the bare minimum to simply maintain and support the CRM system until the next major upgrade. […]
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Microsoft Dynamics 365: How to Write Dynamics 365 CRM Plug-ins Using Azure Functions While a lot has changed over the years with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales (formerly Dynamics 365 CRM), there’s one thing that’s been a consistent feature of the software. We’re talking, of course, about plug-ins. What is a plug-in? Simply put, […]
continue reading...Microsoft Power BI Reports and Your Company’s Data Culture
How to Use Microsoft Power BI Reports to Create a Company Data Culture There’s no doubt about it: our world is data-driven. Virtually every choice we make is informed by data, whether it’s an everyday purchase, an important trip, or a big life decision. But despite this fact, businesses large and small are still failing […]
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