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CDC Pivotal CRM at careerbuilder.com Growing the Business 10x. Started on Pivotal R99 with around 150 users Several major migrations through all platforms Currently ~1300 Pivotal users, about 70% Sales Reps / 30% Customer Service
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CDC Pivotal CRM at careerbuilder.com Growing the Business 10x
Started on Pivotal R99 with around 150 users • Several major migrations through all platforms • Currently ~1300 Pivotal users, about 70% Sales Reps / 30% Customer Service • HQ & Sales Center in Chicago; Customer Service & Tech Center in Atlanta; ~25 Remote Sales Offices
Making the Most of CRM • Find islands of support and grow them • Customer Support to Sales Force Automation • Integrate Front/Back Office & Data Vendors • SSIS Connector, Web Services, Web Tabs & Links • Drive Usage Through Key Notifications • Renewal Opportunities, Low Product Usage • Tempt Sales Management • ‘With Great Reporting Comes Great Responsibility’ • Little UI Enhancements are a Big Deal
Find and Grow Islands • Find internal Leaders & Teams that embrace CRM • Observe their best practices & pain points • Learn what works & what else they need • Pay attention to the little things • Share ideas, promote wins & improvements • Connect the dots between departments & teams
Integrate Front & Back Office • Pivotal SSIS Adapter allows simple data flows • Prospect Data Sourced/Verified thru D&B • Marketing Lists Pushed to ExactTarget • eCommerce / Shopping Cart Info = Hot Leads • Opportunities Become Site Orders via W.S. • Site Usage Stats Delivered to CRM Nightly • Competitor Info from WantedTech • Ongoing Data Cleansing & Improving
Drive Usage Through Key Notifications • Notify Customer Support via Activities • When new customers need training • When products need setup/fulfilled • When Customers are not logging in frequently • Notify Sales Reps via Activities & Emails • When products are expiring • When shopping carts drop off • Notify Collections via Activities • When invoices start to age
Tempt Sales Management • Sales Managers Crave Reporting • Opportunity Pipelines, Activity Stats, Dialing Data • Working closely with BI Team for Reporting • Make sure CRM Data is Reportable • Correlations Become Obvious • Quality data entered into CRM results in quality reports • Insufficient CRM usage quickly become clear
Key UI Enhancements • Edit Records In Grid • Activity Preview • Click-To-Dial (Button and Right-Click) • Contact Importer • Company Profile • iPhone/Android Access
Click-To-Dial Phone Integration • Inside Sales Reps required to make 125 dials per day • Saving a few seconds per dial is a big deal in any call center environment • Simple WebService integration with Avaya
Contact Importer • Allow Sales Reps to format an Excel file of Contacts and upload them to a Pivotal Company
Company Profile • Tight integration using Web Tabs to display external ASPX UI within Pivotal • Data on Corporate Hierarchies provided through Dunn & Bradstreet integration
iPhone / Android Pivotal Access • Need to support iPhone & Android; still have some BlackBerry & Windows Mobile users • Worked closely with CDC Partner of the Year 2011 CRMCulture to implement thin mobile web client application which works well on all four major mobile platforms • Simple mobile web browser platform offers key functionality
iPhone / Android Pivotal Access • Uses Pivotal/Active Directory Login • Expose any table via simple Pivotal security
iPhone / Android Pivotal Access • Companies Nearby • Uses iPhone Location Services • Pivotal query by Lat/Long • Great for Sales Reps on the road
iPhone / Android Pivotal Access iPhone Demo available at: http://www.crmculture.com/iPhone steve.roch@crmculture.com
The Bottom Line • Investments in data vendors & back office systems really pay off when the data is easily accessible to sales • Data Maintenance is an ongoing, never-ending process • Provide compelling content/features to entice sales management. • Listening to Sales Reps in the field is crucial to finding their pain points • Sometimes the little things in the UI make all the difference for a sales rep = better usage.
Questions? Mark Williams mark.williams@careerbuilder.com