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How many phone calls does it take to connect with a customer?

Discover a more effective way to manage client relationships

Are you focusing too much energy on winning new business? Does it cost five times as much to win a new customer than retain an existing one? And how effectively are you able to track the progress of a deal?

Here are just some of the ways in which Microsoft can help you to manage your customer relationships better and help to generate revenue:

  • Improve customer service — quickly log, analyse and resolve customer service issues, making customers satisfied and likely to do business with you again.
  • Alternative revenue stream — easily create, manage and track low-cost lead generation campaigns.
  • Increase agility and focus your business — see in real time which customers, services and products create the most revenue, helping you to capitalise more quickly on new opportunities.
  • Shorten your sales cycle — automate lead routing, sales process management and competitor tracking for more effective lead and opportunity management.
  • Efficient sales models — give you a centralised view of customer preferences and activity so that you can create the most efficient sales model to answer their needs.
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What do you need?

The solution:

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a relationship management solution for small, medium and large businesses. It provides a complete suite of powerful marketing, sales and service capabilities, all with a familiar and consistent user experience that is based on Microsoft Office 2010.

Benefits:

  • Familiar Microsoft software — capture and review your CRM information using Microsoft Outlook.
  • Rich integration — between Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook.
  • Powerful Web management technology — strengthen reporting capabilities, operate efficient document management and foster teamwork and collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint Server.
  • A solution that grows with your business — high speed server-side performance lets you scale your IT infrastructure as your needs change.

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