Increasing Inside Sales Productivity with Salesforce

Salesforce Telephony Integration

An event management company recently presented us with a challenge they were facing within their sales team. In general, their inside sales representatives were investing too much time capturing daily client-related activities such as calls, emails and follow-ups.

Further, most representatives would wait until the end of the day to log their activities, while others would try to make updates right after the call. These type of situations were causing users to:

Capturing these activities are very important for the Sales Managers, as they provide metrics on what the sales users have been doing. Users generally have activity quotas to measure client engagement, such as number of calls made, emails sent, demos scheduled and follow ups created.

In this use case, it became apparent that automating the capturing of these activities would benefit the whole team. To address this concern, we provided a range of telephony solutions which could be integrated with our client’s Salesforce environment.

Implementing a Telephony Solution

After comparing the applications available to conduct a Salesforce telephony integration, we settled on one that met the client’s requirements. The solution we selected allowed us to:

In starting the implementation, we began with the sales representative to better understand how they had been previously performing activities, and the importance of their role in overall sales efforts.

We then had meetings with sales managers to understand what they wanted to know about the sales representative’s activities, and what makes it easier for them to train representatives on their call performance. Some beneficial things came out of these meetings to ensure project success:

Project Success

After completing the Salesforce telephony integration, our client was able to effectively increase time for sales representatives to focus on making deals, rather than troubleshooting problems. The sales team no longer had to manually log activities, and managers could now see all sales statistics through user-friendly activity dashboards. Most importantly after the integration, our client experienced a clear ROI to set them up for success in future sales initiatives.

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