September 27, 2021
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a technology tool that allows you to manage your organizations interactions and relationships with customers and potential prospects. Using the right CRM for your organization allows you to make better decisions, drive more sales & will allow you to reduce the cost of making each sale – this is where Zendesk Sell comes in.
Zendesk Sell is an amazing CRM product. It is a robust addition to Zendesk Suite that allows you to manage your sales processes and keep track of the relationships you want to monitor within your customer and or prospect base. Sell allows you to track your sales pipeline from start to finish. You can easily keep an eye on leads, organize sales practices and follow up with your customers and potential customers. Sell lets you gather your sales data so you can drive improved business outcomes.
Zendesk Sell was formerly Base CRM. Zendesk acquired Base CRM back in 2018, they renamed it Sell CRM, and worked to integrate it into Zendesk’s core customer service offerings. This gives new and existing Zendesk customers additional capabilities, including more integrations and a unified user experience across multiple services and subscriptions.
As part of Zendesk’s arsenal, Sell offers a fast and easy-to-learn CRM solution. By adding new subscription capabilities on an already unified interface Sell can quickly expand into a full customer experience suite.
Sell improves on Base CRM’s simplicity and is still small to midsize business (SMB)-friendly. The bigger benefit of Zendesk’s acquisition is integration with its current and popular suite of self-service support, analytics, chat, and messaging solutions. This can make Zendesk an end-to-end customer experience platform for many SMBs.
Sell looks a little different that the sales CRMs you may be used to dealing with, Zendesk did that by design. Zendesk Sell is laser focused on the conversation you are having with customers rather than simply being a database filled with information.
The conversation focused design that Zendesk uses for Sell has helped them generate a solid base of customers giving you untapped opportunities.
Legacy sales management tools are clunky and often challenging to use. Zendesk Sell is simple and designed to keep representatives selling. Sell gets rid of the friction from deal updates so management & representatives can analyze, access, and work together on the important sales data.
Sell lets representatives access integrated tools that provide the entire context of a customer account, keeping them in the loop – it allows reps to take advantage of opportunities.
For example, if a support ticket turns into questions about a product, that sales lead can be handed off directly to sales. Keeping track of that information is easy because data capture is automated. This way sales representatives and support agents can stay on the same page. This allows your company to swing into action. You’ll always have eyes into what’s going with your sales pipeline.
Sell makes it simple to keep your teams focused on high value deals and leads without having to be concerned about dealing with daunting administrative tasks. Sell allows you to build and manage a sales pipeline that aligns with your business so the sales representatives can prioritize prospects and existing customers allowing them to swing into action. Send emails, schedule meetings, make calls & even view deal history all in one place without having to log everything by hand.
With Zendesk Sell, you get Smart Lists to help you filter and segment sales leads and deals in real-time so you can stay coordinated and see opportunities as they arise. When it’s time to close a deal, you can do it from anywhere because Sell gives you the power of a desktop sales tool in your hands, even when using a mobile device or not online.
Zendesk Sell allows you to drive the action with data. It gives you powerful analytics that allows you to focus on your sales pipeline and increase sales performance. You can turn your data into insights about your products and customers – letting you forecast your business. Sell gives you the option to delve deeper into your sales data. There are pre-built dashboards, or you can create and customize your own reports easily with a point-and-click interface.
Zendesk Sell is a solid CRM conduit to the Zendesk arsenal. It doesn’t quite offer all the feature capabilities of a product like Salesforce Sales Cloud Lightning Professional, but it is a very robust platform and well worth thinking about for organizations that need to enhance productivity and its sales pipeline.
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