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Tour of Salesforce (Part 5 of 5)

Goal: Optimize The Sales Cycle

Constantly improve the sales process with data-driven decisions and add your insights into Salesforce to customize your sales cycle and boost your sales team’s productivity every step of the way.

Salesforce Reports
Scrutinize every step of your seales process, so you can act on insights.

Salesforce Maps Territory Planning
Quickly adjust territories to optimize them for your business.

Sales Cadences
Recycle lessons learned back into Salesforce and propel your sales team forward.

Always improve! Salesforce puts the power of data into your hands, from the detail in each step to the big picture of how teams and departments work together. You can take that data to customize and automate every process, boost productivity, and boost sales.

CRM Sales Cycle

Often sales operations need to analyze every step of every deal to make sure business is running smoothly. Salesforce Reports lets you scrutinize each field and every movement.

Automate Sales Reports

Let’s click the “Chart Icon” to visualize this report.

Now you can see your year-over-year growth in an easy-to-read chart.

Salesforce Sales Charts

With Salesforce Maps Territory Planning, you can visualize your data in an easy-to-understand format and quickly adjust territories as circumstances change. Take a look at the Accounts and Revenue columns in this dashboard. You’ll notice your territories are not balanced.

Salesforce Territory Maps

Click “Optimize” to toggle different mapping scenarios.

Go beyond geography and create new territory scenarios based on inputs that are meaningful to your business, like industry and customer type. You can also experiment with adjusting one attribute, like # of Territories, to find the scenario that achieves your revenue targets.

Sales Territory Plan

Click “Select” to see your new territory plan.

Create efficient, balanced territories to boost revenues, reduces costs, and makes for happier customers and employees.

Sales Territory Map

To go live, click “Publish.”

The territories are assigned, instantly. Your team gets their territories on day 1, and they are selling on day 2. What used to take weeks now takes days. Now you have time to prepare your teams to sell.

Salesforce Maps

Now that your teams know which accounts to go after, you can set them up for the best outreach. Sales Cadences lets you build best practices into Salesforce: when to email, when to call, and when to wait.

Salesforce CRM Customization

Click “Action” to add an action to your Sales Cadence.

Guide your salespeople to the best outreach. Here you’re adding a Custom Step for your sales team to complete.

Salesforce CRM Customization

Click “Save” to add this task to the Sales Cadence.

The data is constantly coming in. With a click, your best practices are ready for everyone to use. Try, test, learn, and repeat your way to better outcomes. Salesforce Sales Cloud is your machine to get it done.

Salesforce Sales Cloud

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