Three SugarCRM Tools to Boost Reach, Customer Satisfaction and Revenue in 2015
Last week, we highlighted three fast, simple integrations that can turn your sales team into a deal- closing powerhouse. Today, let’s focus on marketing and customer support and discuss how they, too, can amp up performance in the New Year. Here are three more tools designed to help your marketing teams improve customer support and increase both the volume and quality of leads.
Act-On: Boost Your Marketing
It’s no secret that salespeople crave more –more leads and more insight into the leads they already have. Fortunately, Act-On marketing automation software can help on both fronts. Act-On can make it easier for your marketing team to generate quality leads, and it seamlessly embeds into the Sugar UX, providing better visibility into lead history, behavior, etc. This integration with SugarCRM can be a huge advantage when your sales reps first reach out to qualified leads.
Callinize: Streamline Support (and Sales) Communications
A CRM system makes customer support professionals more effective. When issues arise, it provides a support agent with the customer’s basic information, purchase history, etc. However, if your CRM and phone system aren’t integrated, your support rep may have to wade through step after step to ID the caller, establish a follow-up plan, etc.
Callinize solves this problem by making it super simple to connect your inbound and outbound calls right into Sugar. With Callinize, your agents will know who is calling, so they can immediately jump to the most relevant records. What’s more, Callinize helps agents populate follow-on tasks –a feature that’s useful to your sales reps, too, because they can use it to create follow-up reminders and tasks after any call.
Get Satisfaction: Turn Your Customers into a Community
Companies are always looking for ways to cut the cost of customer support. One way you can do this is to promote a culture of self-service using “customer communities” focused on your products or services.
A customer community is made up of customers (and some employees) who know your products well and can help others by creating content and/or communicating on your behalf to those who have problems. Your customer community can help customers solve basic or common problems, without the need for a costly call to your support center. In addition, your customer community can be used to generate new product ideas or features.
Get Satisfaction is a customer community platform that blends right into Sugar. So, while your customer community grows, the solutions and ideas that are generated within can be quickly turned into knowledge articles in Sugar. They can provide solution suggestions for the customer support teams using the Sugar support modules, as well as populate self-service portal articles.
These are just a few ways to leverage the power of the Sugar ecosystem to improve your marketing performance and boost customer satisfaction. For hundreds (literally!) of more ways to drive value from your Sugar deployment, check out Sugar Exchange.
And remember, it’s never too early (or late) to turbo boost your CRM and make 2015 the best year yet for your business.