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

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

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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.

5 Tips to Improve Your Email Marketing

Despite what many bloggers may say, we can confirm here at Corrao Group that email marketing, in fact, is not dead- it’s actually growing. According to the The Radicati Group, worldwide will top 3 billion users by 2020. Not only is email marketing growing, but also it delivers the highest ROI over SEO, SEM, and content marketing (Econsultancy)

This just means it is going to get harder and harder to grab ahold of your audience’s attention. This means your email marketing strategy is going to become a critical key in how you run build your marketing campaigns. Let’s take a look at what email strategies you can start implementing today:

New ’17 Pardot Summer Releases: Engagement Studio

Pardot summer releases

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?

Pardot Webinar: How Corrao Group Boosted Sales by 40.3% for Avalon Shutters

Pardot Webinar | Avalon Shutters

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Corrao Group invites you to join us for our free Pardot webinar hosted by our CEO Jack Corrao on May 22nd 11am PST. For this webinar, we have put together an in-depth case study examining one of our manufacturing clients, Avalon Shutters, and the process behind how we helped them optimize Pardot to achieve the following results:

increased email CTR’s to 30.7%
aligned internal Sales, Marketing, and Operational teams
uncovered and implemented a new revenue source
set up email automation for long-term success

This 1 hour presentation will reveal how we generate success for our clients every day while maintaining the professionalism of being a Salesforce Silver Certified Partner. Enroll Today!

4 Reasons To Go Professional with Pardot

With paid technology such as Pardot comes the need for ROI in order to continue using the tool. Pardot has three different editions: Standard, Professional, and Ultimate. Whether you’ve already purchased Pardot Standard edition, or are looking for insight into which edition to purchase, look no further. Pardot Professional edition has 4 very convincing features that your team can use to optimize your ROI.

1. Pardot Advanced Dynamic Content

By capturing important data points inside of Pardot, you can personalize your content to your prospects. According to Aberdeen, personalized email messages improve click-through rates by an average of 14% and conversions by 10%. Using Pardot’s advanced dynamic content, you can put the right content in front of the right prospects based on what information you’ve already collected about them. You can also use dynamic content on your website to personalize your prospects entire web experience with custom landing pages and forms.

Benefits:

Personalized content sent based on your defined prospect segments
Reduces time spent and manual errors when drafting/creating emails

What Salesforce Workflows Can Do for Your Business

After learning how you can boost your ROI 1000%, you can now see how powerful optimizing your CRM is and how important it can be for your business processes. Whether you are a new, existing, or a power Salesforce user, there are always ways to expand and optimize your current system in order to get the most out of it. With a lot of different moving components in your business process, it is challenging to monitor everyone’s progress. One of the ways to stay on track is through utilizing automated Salesforce workflows.

So what is workflow automation exactly? Workflow automation is a simple way to manage and drive your daily business processes through setting up automated actions and events without spending the extra dollars on additional systems or manpower. It provides you and your team the freedom and the time to be more efficient and not bogged down with day-to-day tasks. Many people get discouraged when talking about workflows, but don’t worry, workflows do not require any technical coding to be built. Before we talk about how workflows rules can be put in place to optimize your Salesforce, lets breakdown the 3 components:

Boost ROI by 1,281% with a Business Process-Driven CRM

Yes, that number is actually 1,281%, and what’s even more shocking might be how this leading B2B telemarketing agency accomplished this ROI boost in just three months¹.

Studies predict that 70% of successful digital business models will be structured on unstable processes that should be shifting with the needs of their customers². The goal is to be in the 30% of businesses that are predicted to have stable processes and in order to do that, we must adapt to our customers’ needs.

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