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Outlook 2007 / CRM Training. Table of Contents. SECTION 1 The Four Pillars of RITALKA – Slide 3 (:37) Background of Outlook – Slide 4 (1:16) Functions of Outlook – Slide 5 (1:46) How to Get to Outlook – Slide 6 (2:30) Email – Slide 7 (3:18) Folders – Slide 9 (8:40)
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Table of Contents SECTION 1 • The Four Pillars of RITALKA – Slide 3 (:37) • Background of Outlook – Slide 4 (1:16) • Functions of Outlook – Slide 5 (1:46) • How to Get to Outlook – Slide 6 (2:30) • Email – Slide 7 (3:18) • Folders – Slide 9 (8:40) • Public Folders – Slide 11 (13:48) • Calendar – Slide 12 (14:29) SECTION 2 • Fields & Forms – Slide 16 (:01) • Gold Sheet – Slide 18 (:27) SECTION 3 • Contacts – Slide 26 (:01) • References – Slide 36 (18:29) • Index – Slide 37
Background of Outlook • Currently Ritalka as a whole is using Outlook 2007 • Outlook has been there all along but we have fallen away from using it to its fullest • We use outlook as our CRM for managing our clients 1. Technology Side – what it can and can’t do 2. Diligence Side - importance of keeping the data current
Functions of Outlook • Email – Internal and External • Tasks • Folders – Employee Folder, Public Folders, Personal Folders, & PST • Calendars – Company calendar & Personal calendar • Notes • Contacts – Internal, vendors, customers, & personal • Gold Sheet – RVI, SpecSys
How To Get To Outlook • From the Office • From VPN • From A Tablet • Public Folder App • From Web Via Web Access • Need to Use Windows Explorer to get full functionality
Use good etiquette for e-mails • To: • CC: • Subject: Always have a subject and keep it to the point! • Subject lines are important for search and easy reference at quick glance • Turn on your spell checker • Catch your grammatical errors • Take the time to re-read your e-mails going out to our customers • Use your Out Of Office when you are truly out • Tell them who to contact and how while you are out • Duration of time you will be out • E-Mail Signature • Company Tracking
Creating Folders, Structuring Folders & Creating Rules • PST File • Back up and archive for e-mails allows you to free up your mailbox capacity • IT only backs up what is on the network and they do not back up personal folders that are on your local computer • Important to make it a routine to move your items from your folders to PST files on a routine basis • Remember to delete your deleted items, RSS Feeds, Sync Issues, and your junk folder to free up mail box space.
Public Folders • RITALKA • RIT-Calendar • RIT-Contacts • RIT-Employee Contacts • RIT-Tasks • TD-Contacts (Travel Direct Aviation Contacts) • SpecSys • Spec-Calendar • Spec-Contacts • Spec-Tasks • Spec-Gold Sheeting (Sales dedicated CONTACTS for client tracking) • Spec-Project Tracking (Email storage for projects) • Spec-Company Tracking (Email storage for non-projects) • RVI • RVI-Calendar • RVI-Contacts • RVI-Tasks • RVI-Gold Sheeting (Sales dedicated CONTACTS for client tracking) • RVI-Company Tracking (Email storage)
Fields of information that are all related together. This is a different form of database just in calendar view • Creating a meeting notice • Reserving meeting rooms, company cars, & GoToMeeting spots • Recurring • Categorizing each calendar entry • Colors are assigned to categories for quick visual reference • Red = Hot/High, Blue = Cold/Low
Calendars (Required Fields) • Fill out in Public Folder First, and then “Copy To My Calendar” • Calendars (Categories To Be Used) Code Description Definition: MAT – Materials Management: Purchasing, Receiving, Shipping, Inventory & Logistics FAC – Facilities Management Tech – Technology & IT D – Department F – Facility
Calendar, Client & Contact Rating • The document “How to Install CodeTwo Category Manager.docx” in the following location will provide you step-by-step install instructions. In order to install this Outlook add-in, Outlook will need to be closed before running the install file. \\rit-05\IT_Public\Master_Categories_List Code Description Definition: CR – Client Rating CR – Contact Rating CR – Calendar Rating
Field – Database information that you can categorize • (contact tab) • Form • What is used to put information on Gold Sheets and Contacts • Can be customized
Gold Sheeting replaces the late Companies & Regions • Gold Sheet (Required Fields) • Gold Sheet is for company information and note management • Gold Sheet location is based on where majority of economic buyers are located (Corporate Headquarters) • The different locations are accounted for via Individual Contacts, with same Company Name • Fill in as much information as possible at the time of entry. • Don’t be afraid to ask for missing information
Company Name • Must be identical across individual CONTACTS and Gold Sheet CONTACTS • Person assigned to COMPANY in Gold Sheet is responsible for individuals of the same Company. • When COMPANY has several locations, only put in Primary (one listing) in Gold Sheet • Example: COMPANY: IBM STATE: NY (New York) COUNTRY/REGION: NE (North East USA) DEPARTMENT: NET (Networking & Computers) COMPANY: Halliburton STATE: OK (Oklahoma) COUNTRY/REGION: MS (Mid South USA) DEPARTMENT: OIL (Oil, Gas & Energy) • The different locations are accounted for via Individual Contacts, with same Company Name • Gold Sheet location is based on where majority of economic buyers are located
COUNTRY/REGION: • Logical geographical grouping for travel planning • North East USA: NE (North of D.C., Includes PA NY) • South East USA: SE (VA, WV, TN, KY, GA, AL, FL, NC, SC) • Great Lakes USA: GL (WI, IL, IN, OH, MI) • Midwest USA: MW (SD, ND, MN, IA, KS, NE) • Mid-South USA: MS (TX, OK, LA, AR, MS, MO) • North West USA: NW (MT, ID, WY, OR, WA) • South West USA: SW (CA, NV, AZ, NM, UT, CO) • Northern California: SW1 (RVI Only) • Southern California: SW2 (RVI Only) • International: Need to use specific country – China, Korea, France, Germany, Canada, etc. per contact for international as this is needed on mailing label for foreign mailers (DO NOT JUST USE INT) • Primary purpose of county/region is for travel planning • Regions are not used for Ritalka
DEPARTMENT: (ON DETAILS TAB) • Industry classification (See VP for Latest Classifications) • SpecSys: • AG: Agriculture CON: Construction • MIN: Mining OIL: Oil, Gas, Energy • RR: Rail Road AER: Aerospace and Aviation • MAT: Material Handling UT: Utilities • IND: Industrial & Automation GOV: Governmental & Defense • RVI: • NET: Networking/Computers CES: Consumer Electronics • TEL: Telecom MED: Medical • CON: Contract Mfg IND: Industrial/Automation/ATE • GOV: Governmental & Defense
OFFICE (ON DETAILS TAB): • Clients: Spec-CRVI-CRIT-C Idx-C • Vendors/Supplier: Spec-V RVI-V RIT-V • Employee: RIT-E • CMW & Wald Holding info will be filed under CMW-C, CMW-V • MANAGER (ON DETAILS TAB): • RVI Account Executives and SpecSys Account Managers utilize three letter initials (First, Middle, Last) • Verify with VP so no duplicates between employees • If not in Sales: Use Department - three letter initials (Example: MAT-XXX, ENG-XXX or MFG-XXX) to identify yourself • Verify with VP so no duplicates between employees • ANNIVERSARY (ON DETAILS TAB): • Anniversary date is not needed in Gold Sheet just in contacts
Categories: • Client Ratings • Used to determine customer rating • CR-A – Current Clients doing over $20-$25K in business and we are contacting them weekly • CR-B – Clients we have done business with in the past or the potential is great enough and we are contacting them monthly • CR-C – Clients that have potential but we are contacting them more on a quarterly basis • CR-D – Potential clients that are very cold. We contact them annually and visit while attending trade shows • Used to determine where this client is in the sales process • All categories show up on all areas of Outlook • By standardizing category codes, all employees communicate same info • Used for sorting purposes within any company • One client can have more than one category Code Description Definition: CR = Client Rating SM+ = Positive Stretch Mode SM- = Negative Stretch Mode FUN = Funnel
Notes • All notes should be kept under Gold Sheet and not contacts • Keep notes in Gold Sheet brief and to the point • Additional notes can be saved on the sales drive if needed
Contacts (Required Fields) • Fill in as much information as possible at the time of entry. • Don’t be afraid to ask for missing information • Person assigned to COMPANY in Gold Sheet is responsible for individuals of the same Company. • Make it a process to put business cards in right away • The different locations are accounted for via Individual Contacts, with same Company Name versus the company information and main location is accounted for via Gold Sheets
OFFICE (ON DETAILS TAB): • Clients: Spec-CRVI-CRIT-C Idx-C • Vendors/Supplier: Spec-V RVI-V RIT-V • Employee: RIT-E • CMW & Wald Holding Info will be filed under CMW-C, CMW-V • MANAGER (ON DETAILS TAB): • RVI Account Executives and SpecSys Account Managers utilize three letter initials (First, Middle, Last) • Verify with VP so no duplicates between employees • If not in Sales: Use Department - three letter initials (Example: MAT-XXX, ENG-XXX or MFG-XXX) to identify yourself • Verify with VP so no duplicates between employees • ANNIVERSARY (ON DETAILS TAB): • Used to verify that we have a good contact in our CRM system • Utilized for company card mailings and postcard mailed (6 times annually) • Date CONTACT was last verified to be correct by MANAGER • If unknown now: 1/1/2000 • (Will show up in Sort at end of list, flagging you to get this resolved) • Sort list on a quarterly basis to always keep up to date. Change anniversary date when you make contact with this person. • System will ask you if you want to put on calendar - NO
COUNTRY/REGION: • Logical geographical grouping for travel planning • North East USA: NE (North of D.C., Includes PA NY) • South East USA: SE (VA, WV, TN, KY, GA, AL, FL, NC, SC) • Great Lakes USA: GL (WI, IL, IN, OH, MI) • Midwest USA: MW (SD, ND, MN, IA, KS, NE) • Mid-South USA: MS (TX, OK, La, AR, MS, MO) • North West USA: NW (MT, ID, WY, OR, WA) • South West USA: SW (CA, NV, AZ, NM, UT, CO) • Northern California: SW1 (RVI Only) • Southern California: SW2 (RVI Only) • International: Need to use specific country – China, Korea, France, Germany, Canada, etc per contact for international as this is needed on mailing label for foreign mailers (DO NOT JUST USE INT) • Primary purpose of county/region is for travel planning • Regions are not used for Ritalka
Categories: • Contact Ratings • Used to determine contact rating • Contact rating should coincide with client rating • Example: If you have a “B Client” you can not have anything higher can a “B Contact;” however, you can have a “C contact” or a “D contact.” • One contact can have more than one category
RITALKA Contacts Only • OFFICE Location (ON DETAILS TAB): • CMW-C CMW Client (Formerly RIT-C, now CMW-C) • FAC Facility Contact (Contractors, Suppliers) • FIN Finance and Accounting Contact • GOV Governmental, Education, EDA, City, County, etc. Contact • INS Insurance Contact • IS Information System Contact • LAW Legal and Lawyer Contact • OFF Office Supplies, Office Equipment Contact • PRESS Press, Magazines & Newspaper Contact • QUAL Quality Contact • RIT-V RITALKA Vendor Contact • RIT-E RITALKA Employee Contact • MANAGER (ON DETAILS TAB) • Ok to use your initials if you are personally managing the contact • OR, use two letter department code to identify department in charge of contact: HR, QA, IS, SA, AC, MYB • ANNIVERSARY Date (ON DETAILS TAB) • For ease, input 1/1/14 for dates so can be cleaned up each new year. • Do not put a date unless you are certain of “Good Contact” • System will ask you if you want to put on calendar - NO
RITALKA Employee Contacts Only • EMPLOYEES (Required Fields)
Categories – Phone List view • Easiest view to work with • Sorting • Depends on your need for information at that time • Group By • Allows you to see exactly what you want • Helpful to do periodically to make sure your Gold Sheets and Contacts are clean • Searching • With large amounts of information this can be used to find information quickly • Any changes that are made while grouping, sorting or categorizing are only set up on your computer and are NOT a system wide change.
CRM Tips • Organization, being proactive and paying attention to detail make Gold Sheets and Contacts a great tool • Success comes from sorting A, B, & C accounts quarterly to keep you on track with your sales efforts.
Questions & Resources • Questions • Don’t hesitate to ask • Available for one on one training • References • Books and reading material • Available in Human Resources • Internet Searches **This is an overview of Outlook and what it can do, not a step by step process.**