Posts Tagged ‘websites’

Tracking your customers efficiently through CRM software

Friday, October 17th, 2008

You’ve launched your website, leads are contacting you through your online registration form successfully, but you can’t efficiently see how well your leads have sale closings.  What should you do?  Track them with CRM software. What is CRM software?

CRM is ‘Customer Relationship Management’ software that enables you to track customers thoroughly and see the cycle of prospect to lead to sale closings efficiently between your marketing and sales teams.  Many entrepreneurs and small companies believe that since they are small, that they are efficient in communicating between their departments, but they are wrong.  Small companies, sometime are worse that larger organizations in communicating, it’s just not as noticeable, until they start tracking for ROI growth and reviewing what direct marketing programs are working for lead generation programs.

To review clear sales user paths and improve customer satisfaction, check out a few CRM products.

Salesforce.com is one of the top CRM products on the market.  Salesforce.com has a 30-day free trial and has a pricing plan for any size company. If you are interested in having the CRM work with your current Outlook contacts, check out Prophet 5.0 (www.Avidian.com) , which has a 30 day money back guarantee and can be up and running in only a few minutes. Another good option is Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM 4.0, which you can register for free to try the product.

Grade your website for performance

Monday, May 12th, 2008

No site should be a link island.  It’s important to know how well your website performs in relation to your online competitors.  Websitegrader.com is a great free tool that helps you see how well your site stacks up in keywords, blogs, and tags.