Part of Salesforce Service Cloud, Field Service Lightning (FSL) is designed to improve the first-visit resolution and onsite job management using a mobile solution with access to job schedules, van inventory, and more – with or without the internet. Additional features of FSL include the ability to quickly create work orders from any case, intelligently assign and manage jobs, increase first-time fix rate and stop problems before they happen.
Category: Updates
Corrao Group Partners With Data Management Leader
We’re excited to announce our Platinum partnership with RingLead, the leader in data management, with over 300 million protected records worldwide. RingLead is dedicated to creating the most productive, feature-rich, easy to use platform to consistently improve lead quality, allowing sales and marketing teams to operate more effectively. RingLead provides tools to help prospect new leads, standardize contact records, cleanse your database and more.
Know Thy Customer: Buyer Personas
Only .75% of B2B leads generated become revenue through a traditional marketing strategy (Forrester). Why? One of the many possible explanations is due to a batch and blast email campaign approach where marketers don’t take the time to identify who their audience really is, leading to a quick unsubscribe. Your clients expect personalized marketing these days, and if you don’t know who your customers really are, you won’t be able to personalize the content to what they’re actually interested in, and keep them engaged in nurture programs. While you may still be sending generalized content, your competitors are doing their research and using personalized content. That personalized content is seeing 6x higher of a transaction rate than content that is not personalized to the prospect (Marketing Land).
Salesforce Campaigns versus Pardot Campaigns: Which one to use?
If you’ve used Salesforce’s Sales Cloud prior to using Pardot, you’re most likely familiar with how Salesforce campaigns function. They are objects used to manage and track outbound marketing campaigns, ranging from a simple email campaign to large, in-person conventions. Contacts and leads can be associated with multiple Salesforce campaigns as part of a multi-touch outreach. Pardot campaigns are similar but think of them more as the first outbound marketing campaign that the prospect (contacts and leads are called prospects in Pardot) interacted with from your company. Prospects can only be associated with one Pardot campaign; acting in more of a ‘source’ field type of way here.
Overnight ROI and Sales Alignment with SalesHood
Imagine an environment where sales managers don’t have insight into how each individual on their sales team makes the company pitch. Managers don’t have the time to attend every sales call, leaving them to only hope that the company’s onboarding program paid off. This causes problems such as disconnected sales, overall company value not being communicated effectively, and many others.
Enter SalesHood, a sales enablement tool that reinforces your sales team’s knowledge by allowing them to share and collaborate on content, including their sales pitches. SalesHood allows you to train, test, and certify your team to ensure everyone is on the same page. It even has a large library of videos to view ranging from Sales 101 to advanced selling techniques. In addition to the video library, SalesHood allows your team to create their own videos to enable feedback from your entire team.
Take a look below to see what our team has to say about SalesHood!
Dashboards that Boost ROI: 6 Examples and Characteristics
The Benefit of Salesforce Dashboards
Salesforce dashboards are a data visualization tool that displays real-time metrics and executive KPIs for a company. They’re implemented company-wide, displaying data from your Sales Cycle, Marketing Campaigns, CSAT scores, and much more. Dashboards are crucial for a company to grow and succeed as they give real-time insight into how your departments are performing, aligning some departments along the way (e.g. Sales and Marketing).
Great dashboards take time and patience to perfect as they require collaboration within your company. At the end of the day, you’ll want your entire company to love these dashboards so much that they keep them open all the time. This post contains dashboard characteristics that will guide you towards doing just that.
New Feature: Salesforce Engage Team Reports
Salesforce Engage allows users to be first, be relevant, and be productive with their clients. Why is it important to be first? “50% of Sales go to the Rep that responds first”- InsideSales.com. With Engage, your Sales team knows the moment their prospects interact with their emails. Be relevant with personalized, Marketing approved templates to send to prospects as “78% of B2B buyers expect Sales Reps to send personalized interactions based on information from their online activities” – IDC, 2015. Gone are the days of purchasing lists and expecting an ROI from it.
Stay Ahead in Account Based Marketing with Einstein Analytics
84% of Marketers are seeing higher ROI with Account Based Marketing (ABM) than other Marketing programs. Source: ITSMA
What is Account Based Marketing (ABM)?
Account Based Marketing applies time-tested B2B Sales and Marketing principles to the selling cycle by going after company accounts, or decision-makers instead of individual sales leads. This results in spending your time with more qualified prospects. If you would like to learn more about what ABM is, or how to take it a step further, view our past blog post – Go Beyond ABM with Account Based Management.
New ’17 Pardot Summer Releases: Engagement Studio
Summer is here! That means Pardot recently announced their new ‘17 summer updates. Just in case you missed it, they are making improvements to Engagement Studio.
For you long time users who may be familiar with Drip Programs, Engagement Studios are a new way to nurture prospects, customers, employees and more. Pardot is continuing to add new-and-improved functionality to Engagement Studio to improve how you can nurture and market to your audience.
Let’s take a look how these new 2017 Pardot summer releases can help effectively manage your nurturing programs:
Go Beyond ABM with Account Based Management
Over the last couple years at Corrao Group, we’ve been hearing the term ABM (Account Based Marketing) resurfacing from the 80’s as the Marketing world’s latest discovery of ROI results associated with aligned Sales and Marketing business marketing tactics.
This trend raises a number questions for us such as:
Why are companies just now embracing this concept?
How could a successful company afford to ignore each of their client’s unique and individual needs?
