Selling requires more than just pitching to your potential customers about your products or services the whole day. Your sales team needs to level up its game as did your prospects.
Today’s prospects are more educated than ever before due to the vast information accessible on the internet. 60% of the buyer journey is completed before a prospect contact a salesperson.
That means your prospects spend most of their time researching your products and services from numerous sources before they contact you. Also according to IDC, almost 70% of the buyer journey is done digitally.
Which gives a great opportunity for your business to establish yourself as a subject matter expert if you are able to lead them through the buyer journey with the online information they need to make a decision.
Therefore make your salespeople more educated and prepared. With modern solutions such as Dynamics 365 Sales, you can know more about your prospects than ever before. Understand the steps they took before and why they are searching for your products and services.
You can customize your content even before your prospects contact you, and once they did, you can provide only relevant information to their business, which increases your conversion rate.
Do you want to level up your sales and bring more sales opportunities for your business? Request for a free demo or request for more information from Agile Dynamics Solutions the leader in Dynamics 365 ERP & CRM software in Malaysia.
Sales are complex process of getting to know your customers, understand their needs, and satisfy them. Today’s prospects are more educated than ever before and therefore you must be educated too.
Knowing all your prospect’s interactions with your brand whether it is on the website, chat, emails, etc. will give you insights to tailor and personalize your communication with your prospects.
Also with AI and predictive analytics will be and your team on top of your sales to see, which opportunities are most likely to be close, what contacts you should contact to keep the sales going, and more.
With powerful CRM Dynamics 365 Sales, you can expect to speed up your sales process and yet keep your customers and prospects happy. Create a seamless experience for your customers with your brand at any time.
With increasing pressure on Sales and Marketing teams to get aligned, we will discover how to overcome challenges using the latest technologies from Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing. This article answers some of the key challenges facing Sales and Marketing, how Dynamics 365 Marketing complements Dynamics 365 Sales, and how they can work together with the same set of data and connected processes, to accomplish important business outcomes.
For many years siloed processes and systems have fractured Sales and Marketing. People in these teams have struggled to optimize Sales and Marketing performance.
There are many barriers facing Sales and
Marketing:
Poor quality of leads and no visibility about sales conversion
Differing understanding and definitions (i.e. what is a qualified lead?)
Inconsistent views of leads and customer activity due to non-integrated technology
Degree of control over the brand (content customization)
These barriers often limit marketing effectiveness or disrupt sales. Overcoming these and other barriers requires a commitment to shared objectives for Sales and Marketing. This usually requires the commitment of Sales and Marketing leadership, mutual understanding of customer engagement objectives, common process definition, and integrated Sales and Marketing technology – technology that bridges sales and marketing to deliver a seamless experience for the customer.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing is a marketing automation solution designed
for companies that need more than basic email marketing at the front end of
their sales cycle to turn prospects into business relationships.
Dynamics 365 Marketing can help growing businesses nurture more sales-ready leads, align sales and marketing, make smarter decisions, and grow with an adaptable platform. By identifying web visitors by tracking activities such as email opens, marketing page form submissions, and event registrations, Dynamics 365 Marketing engages the digital customer increasing the likelihood of successful lead capture. Dynamics 365 Marketing offers a wealth of functionality to help marketing and sales alike target the right prospects, prioritize leads, automate hand-offs, and track progress through the buying journey with shared information and connected processes. Sales and Marketing alignment focus on communication, sharing resources, and connecting teams to close more deals. Utilizing Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Marketing applications built on the same platform can:
Help
securely manage and share a single (true) source of information about contacts,
leads, and customers to understand how every interaction impacts results
Use
Dynamics segmentation capability to target the right prospects
Set
up multiple lead scoring models to prioritize leads who are ready to buy across
different customer segments
Connect
and automate marketing and sales processes with journeys to nurture, hand-off,
and track the progress of every lead
Seamlessly
use Office 365 tools to collaborate with colleagues, leads, and customers
Further, Dynamics 365 Marketing enables important business moments such as a product launch or market expansion, the planning and execution of a major event or tradeshow, coordination of rich content-based campaigns, or customer outreach through surveys. Below are some examples.
For many companies, one of the most significant investments they will make is launching a new product or entering a new market. Nothing is more important, to a successful launch than effective planning and consistent follow-through. With Dynamics 365 Marketing, marketers maintain control over product launch campaign flow with Customer Journey, email, and landing page content to ensure they are consistent with product messaging. Tracking web activity, Dynamics 365 Marketing can trigger emails to web visitors who express interest in new products or services, or who respond from a new market. Responsive emails invite prospects to landing page forms to register for product information updates or launch related events. Dynamics 365 Marketing enables marketing and sales to set up multiple lead scoring models to automatically and timely identify qualified leads. Through the business process automation, those qualified leads are passed seamlessly to sales. The ability to quickly identify qualified buyers for a new product or within a new market is nirvana for the company seeking payback for their launch efforts.
Organize Events
Many companies rely on in-person or online events to drive new leads or close deals. Dynamics 365 Marketing enables marketers to manage events, such as tradeshows or sponsored events, from start to finish. With capabilities for event planning – sessions, speakers, budgets, invitation, registration, and attendee tracking, and a fully functional event portal, Dynamics 365 Marketing takes event management to a new level. With the significant investment for personnel, sponsorship, travel, and logistics, associated with events, having a single source of information for event coordination is a lifesaver and key to measuring event ROI. Unlike most marketing automation solutions, Dynamics 365 Marketing connects the operational aspects of events, with the data aspects of invitees, registrants, and attendees creating a turnkey solution for event management.
Similarly, Dynamics 365 Marketing natively integrates with webinar provider ON24. This unique capability ensures attendee information is available for immediate post-webinar nurturing.
Manage Content-based Campaigns
Content, content, content is the new mantra for marketers. Prospects and customers want timely, relevant, and informative content about the products and services they are interested in. With Dynamics 365 Marketing, access to content-based programs (e.g. eBooks, whitepapers, videos, etc.) can be easily incorporated into Customer Journey. Using subscription centers, prospects and customers may opt-in to the content they most desire. Customer Journey efficiently moves prospects through the campaign flow, capturing important prospect information, and navigating prospects automatically to the content they desire. Today, it is no longer cost-effective to send “one-off” emails to each prospect manually. Dynamics 365 Marketing allows each prospect to pursue the journey they desire and do so in an automated fashion.
Survey Your Customers
Customizable surveys allow marketers to easily gain insights from prospects and customers about products, services, and engagement activities. With Dynamics 365 Marketing, marketers can quickly create and run surveys to gain actionable insights to improve their customer experience or create compelling offers. Completely customizable, and with links directly into the Dynamics 365 database, surveys allow Sales and Marketing alike to enrich their understanding of survey participants. With enriched contact records, Marketing and Sales can better segment their contacts to drive more personalized communications.
The benefits of Marketing and Sales alignment are many and powerful. With solid coordination Marketing and Sales can target the right prospects, prioritize leads, automate lead hand off to sales and increase customer engagement.
Coordinated Customer Engagement
Nothing is more frustrating to a prospect or customer than to receive redundant or poorly timed communications from a company. Marketing and Sales must have a mutual understanding of buyer’s journey and how those journeys may differ for different segments and/or personas. With Customer Journey, Dynamics 365 Marketing allows marketers to build highly customized nurture programs that transcend web, email, social, events, and more in a fully automated framework. With out-of-the-box Customer Journey templates, it is a breeze to quickly execute a new campaign. For Sales significant benefits accrue through the real-time visibility to prospect activities. Knowing what emails were opened and when prospects visited key landing pages is foundational to timely and relevant customer engagement.
Better Targeting and Lead Prioritization
It is no longer acceptable to do “batch and
blast” marketing. Prospects and
customers alike tire from being pummeled with generic, unrequested emails. The penalty for this activity is often a
blanket unsubscribe and lost opportunity for the company. With new regulations afoot, companies can
suffer significant financial penalties for careless marketing.
With Dynamics 365, marketers now can derive
a detailed understanding of their contacts across many dimensions, both
demographic and behavioral. Its only by
having an integrated view of the prospect’s marketing activities (web, email,
social, ads) and sales activities (events, calls, meetings) that marketers can
deliver valuable insights to sales and use those insights to nurture prospects
and customers with tailored and dynamic content.
Dynamics 365 Marketing’s powerful segmentation capability allows marketers to filter and target contact based on any attribute or behavior associated with that contact. Coupled with dynamic content, marketers may target ever more focused segments with personalized content. And as different segments behave in different ways, Marketing and Sales can team up to apply multiple lead scoring models to prioritize leads who are ready to buy.
More Leads and Marketing Attributed Revenue
Now more than ever, expectations are high for Marketing to deliver more and better leads. And in turn, Sales is under the gun to convert those leads to revenue. Companies may vary in how they attribute revenue from different sources, but systems and data exist now to track a lead from an anonymous web visitor all the way through to sale or revenue conversion.
Dynamics 365 Marketing uses sophisticated web tracking to identify anonymous visitors and continue to track those visitors until they become known by way of a marketing page form submission. Once known, all the anonymous activity is attached to the contact record to present a complete picture of contact engagement history.
As the contact progresses through Customer Journey, all activities are tracked and made available to Marketing and Sales alike. As the prospect becomes a lead, and the lead becomes a customer, it is now easy to see all the steps taken that ultimately lead to revenue. For Sales, this new visibility identifies which activities are “moving the meter” and creating sales qualified leads.
Conclusion:
As companies increase their investments to further improve customer engagement, the time has come for Sales and Marketing to become fully aligned. Whether these investments are new product or market launches, content-driven campaigns, in-person events or webinars, or customer surveys, Sales and Marketing need a collaborative suite to manage the customer journey. With Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Marketing offers significant value to an organization increasing the ability to engage customers and optimize the buying process. Dynamics 365 Marketing enables marketers to nurture more sales-ready leads, align sales and marketing, make smarter decisions, and grow with an adaptable platform.
TRANSFORMING SALES MICROSOFT REMOVES OBSTACLES AND GIVES BACK TIME WITH DYNAMICS 365
Digital transformation has reached every facet of Microsoft, including our own sales experience. And it goes beyond technology—we’ve fundamentally upended our own sales culture
GIVE YOUR SALES TEAM THE WINNING EDGE: QUICK TIME TO VALUE WITH DYNAMICS 365 SALES PROFESSIONAL
Business competition is stiffer than ever, and today’s sales organizations must make every second with their customers count. This is especially true for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that have fewer resources and more limited brand awareness.
We may request cookies to be set on your device. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website.
Click on the different category headings to find out more. You can also change some of your preferences. Note that blocking some types of cookies may impact your experience on our websites and the services we are able to offer.
Essential Website Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features.
Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. You always can block or delete cookies by changing your browser settings and force blocking all cookies on this website. But this will always prompt you to accept/refuse cookies when revisiting our site.
We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. You are free to opt out any time or opt in for other cookies to get a better experience. If you refuse cookies we will remove all set cookies in our domain.
We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. You can check these in your browser security settings.
Other external services
We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. Changes will take effect once you reload the page.
Google Webfont Settings:
Google Map Settings:
Google reCaptcha Settings:
Vimeo and Youtube video embeds:
Privacy Policy
You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page.
![Map to your customers’ sales expectations [Infographic] 2](http://adynamics.com.my/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Map-to-your-customers’-sales-expectations-Infographic-400x1030.jpg "Map to your customers’ sales expectations [Infographic] 4")
