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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Conga Composer

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AConga Composer is a document generation and automation tool designed to simplify and streamline the process of creating and distributing customized documents, presentations, and reports.

    $30

    per month per user

    Agentforce Sales

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce' Agentforce Sales (formerly Salesforce Sales Cloud) is the company's flagship CRM platform. The AI CRM for Sales features data built right in.

    $25

    per month

    Pricing
    Conga ComposerAgentforce Sales
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $25.00
    per month per user
    Professional
    $80.00
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $165.00
    per month per user
    Unlimited
    $330.00
    per month per user
    Agentforce 1 Sales
    $550
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Conga ComposerAgentforce Sales
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Conga ComposerAgentforce Sales
    Considered Both Products
    Conga
    Chose Conga Composer
    Conga Composer helps us in document generation part and once the document has been generated from Conga Composer it can be sent out to the customers. Here we can also use Conga Email Template to send out the message and the attachments. DocuSign here works so well and we can …
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    S-Docs is also great with Salesforce; however, it offers broader integration, scalable automation, and a deeper support ecosystem. Conga Composer delivers more powerful and flexible document generation.
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    Easily the best In the market. Still needs massive improvements in my opinion. Alot of use cases look legacy today!
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    IDK - I really don't have a comparison to give
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    So much more customizable and more broadly applicable
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    We used the out of the box Salesforce functionality but realized when our order forms used multiple currencies and had some customization we realized we needed a tool like Conga Composer
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    Benchmarking is upcoming. Conga Composer was already implemented when I joined the company
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    Conga is better than the rest.
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    S-Docs allows for much more dynamic flexibility. Additionally, S-Docs template maintenance is substantially easier than Conga Composer. Conga requires about 6 steps to make an update to your template. S-Docs has a simple template builder that makes the process substantially …
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    CPQ is more customizable and native to Salesforce, but it's extremely difficult to set up and maintain. The Conga Composer configuration is much simpler and quicker to implement.
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    I just wish that DocuSign and Conga Document Generation could work together after the quote is generated to send out for signature.
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    Conga Composer is highly versatile as this can be easily integrated with Salesforce and other Conga products. Other products either lack integration or lack user experience but Conga Composer has provided both along with great integration which reduces manual tasks which was …
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    I haven't used or evaluated other products before.
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    I think Nintex is the primary competitor for Conga Composer, but I have not personally used it. I was not present for the decision to purchase Conga but I would recommend it in future document automation vendor selection processes because I have seen how well it works! We are …
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    It seems like a good product
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    Conga was always the standard when first evaluating, it has the track record over others and was most used and felt it would handle our needs.
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    Adobe Sign is good for document creation, but is obviously far more limited in terms of what it can pull in terms of formatting and data. It is particularly janky when using Word documents and needs to use PDFs to get the maximum out of it.

    Steelbrick is good for quotations as …
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    I did not evaluate any other software that competes with Conga Composer. This solution was brought to my attention by our Salesforce implementation consultant as an excellent program to accomplish multiple goals across our organization.
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    We used Microsoft Word- their mail merge option. We'd use reports to export the data we collected, created a Word template and did a mail merge from there. All that being said, yes this option is free, but the amount of time it takes was absolutely ridiculous over time. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    The products are fairly similar. Conga is used more and is a market leader in the segment due to its ease of use and comprehensive feature set.
    Drawloop has good Arabic support, some of our customers has requested this. Drawloop is slightly cheaper as well.
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    Drawloop has very similar functionality, but Conga's support team and extensive documentation were a big draw for us. Their AppExchange reviews are all positive, and there are hundreds of them.
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    We chose Conga due to the price point (cost for licenses). It was among the more affordable options but we did not have to sacrifice quality. In addition, the integration with Salesforce is key for us. We are able to connect student interactions and actions with our mailings. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Conga Composer
    In my mind, Conga blows away all the competition. The templates are extremely versatile and don't require any additional software (other than MS Office) in order to design. The support that Conga provides is world class and I never had a negative experience with them; all cases …
    Incentivized
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    128 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    209 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    112 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    179 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    127 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    216 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80 Answers
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    143 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    95 Answers
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    125 Answers
    Features
    Conga ComposerAgentforce Sales
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Conga Composer and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Conga Composer
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.2
    268 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings8.6268 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings8.6258 Ratings
    Territory management00 Ratings7.5211 Ratings
    Opportunity management00 Ratings9.0258 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings7.7243 Ratings
    Contract management00 Ratings8.0214 Ratings
    Quote & order management00 Ratings7.6197 Ratings
    Interaction tracking00 Ratings8.9228 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings8.0190 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Conga Composer and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Conga Composer
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.7
    104 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Case management00 Ratings8.3102 Ratings
    Call center management00 Ratings7.782 Ratings
    Help desk management00 Ratings7.286 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Conga Composer and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Conga Composer
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.8
    243 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Lead management00 Ratings7.8238 Ratings
    Email marketing00 Ratings7.9205 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Conga Composer and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Conga Composer
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.0
    247 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Task management00 Ratings8.3235 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings7.078 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings8.7200 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Conga Composer and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Conga Composer
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.3
    260 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Forecasting00 Ratings7.8228 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.5247 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings8.7257 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Conga Composer and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Conga Composer
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.4
    251 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Custom fields00 Ratings9.0248 Ratings
    Custom objects00 Ratings8.7238 Ratings
    Scripting environment00 Ratings7.7175 Ratings
    API for custom integration00 Ratings8.5209 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Conga Composer and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Conga Composer
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    9.0
    282 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.0220 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.0254 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Conga Composer and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Conga Composer
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.7
    160 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Social data00 Ratings8.0158 Ratings
    Social engagement00 Ratings7.4156 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Conga Composer and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Conga Composer
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.9
    216 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Marketing automation00 Ratings7.9212 Ratings
    Compensation management00 Ratings7.9146 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Conga Composer and Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    Feature
    Conga Composer
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.3
    231 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Mobile access00 Ratings8.3231 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Conga ComposerAgentforce Sales
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (160 ratings)
    8.9
    (470 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    9.1
    (61 ratings)
    Usability
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    8.4
    (166 ratings)
    Availability
    3.6
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (29 ratings)
    Performance
    3.6
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (98 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (15 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    3.7
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (19 ratings)
    Configurability
    1.8
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    2.7
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    3.6
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (85 ratings)
    Professional Services
    2.7
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.8
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    3.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Conga ComposerAgentforce Sales
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Conga
    From my experience, Conga Composer is particularly well-suited for generating documents, such as quotes and contracts, directly from Salesforce. It saves us a great deal of time, which is remarkably beneficial for companies with sales teams. Not suitable for companies lacking significant Salesforce expertise or administrative support.
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    Salesforce
    Obviously, for any business, there are two main areas to focus on — the sales path and the service path. Sales Cloud wouldn’t be suited for a company that’s primarily into support services. For those kinds of companies, Salesforce has a different product — Service Cloud. So, for anyone in the support or service space, Sales Cloud isn’t the right fit.
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    Pros
    Conga
    • One great feature of Conga Composer is the ability to create various document types, including Word files, PDFs, and even PowerPoint presentations.
    • The ability to encrypt and share data is quite impressive with Conga Composer.
    • The integration, especially with different email providers, is quite good with Conga Composer.
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    Salesforce
    • The customizations - We have an organization that operates differently from most companies, so we’ve had to implement quite a few customizations — and Salesforce allows us to do that quite quickly. Most of the time, delays come from dependencies on other internal parties rather than the system itself.
    • From my perspective as a consultant, one of the biggest advantages is that everything is in Salesforce — all the details, all in one place. The ability to customize it easily is a big plus; there’s really a lot you can do with it.
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    Cons
    Conga
    • Not very intuitive. Once you know the system it's fine but there is a learning curve
    • I would like to see training opportunities on features that I am not using or aware of
    • I am sure I am only using about 3% of it's full potential
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    Salesforce
    • We still need to include the production part. We started using Salesforce to sell the seeds — our inventory is in SAP — and from there we handle sales and track the process of planting, harvesting, selling, and then collecting payments. But we don’t yet manage the earlier production processes, like production planning. We handle allocation, but not full production planning, and that’s an area where we still have room for improvement.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Conga
    Though I love how easily Conga Composer ties into Salesforce and its given analytics, it takes a lot of data entry to get up and running. I don't love that sometimes queries can take a long time to pull. I like keeping our marketing templates consistent via templates in the system. Pulling multiple objects into one report is fantastic too.
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    Salesforce
    There are days when I wish we hadn't switched, but I know that if we put in the time, we will get to where we want to be with the software and that it has many more capabilities than anything else we looked at. However, the amount of time and onboarding we need to do is also far greater than we realized/were told when we originally bought the product. They told us we should hire onboarding support, but at the end, after we had already reached our budget maximum for this, so it's been slower than we had hoped.
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    Usability
    Conga
    It's a fairly simple tool to integrate into your current business structure. When we've had issues, we were able to resolve them extremely quickly. The users click a button and it can bring in all the quote lines, and our credit application seamlessly into our tool. I'd definitely recommend it to other colleagues
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    Salesforce
    Because I think it could be easier. We have different standards today since we’re used to interacting with consumer apps like Starbucks, where all you do is scan your card. Then, when you use Sales Cloud, there are still a lot of manual inputs. So my mission with AI is really about figuring out how to make that easier.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Conga
    It was available, it just didn't always work depending on what glitches were happening within our app
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce is always available securely from any internet-capable device anywhere in the world, UNLESS you choose to set security measures so that ONLY trusted IP ranges may access the system at certain times of the day. It's all about choice and flexibility with Salesforce products.
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    Performance
    Conga
    This product appears to work well. It was not a fit for us this time, but we would consider in future
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce performance in general is excellent. "The cloud infrastructure beneath Force.com has been fine-tuned over the past 10 years. It powers nearly 100,000+ businesses running more than 185,000 applications that 3 million users count on every day."
    Points per Salesforce -
    1) Multitenant kernel - With a multitenant platform, each business that uses the app doesn’t have its own copy. Instead, all businesses share a single copy and then customize it for their specific needs.
    2) ISO 27001 certified security - You can’t compromise when it comes to enterprise-level security. Force.com is road-tested and trusted by nearly 100,000+ companies, including many of the world’s most security-conscious organizations, such as banks and health care providers.
    3) Proven reliability - All Force.com apps run on world-class data centers with backup, failover, and disaster-recovery facilities. Force.com has had a proven 99.9 percent uptime record for years.
    4) Proven, real-time scalability - Force.com is used by many of the world's largest enterprises, including Cisco, Japan Post Network, and Symantec. Applications can automatically scale from a few users to millions of page views, as needed.
    5) Real-time query optimizer - You need fast access to your data. The Force.com query optimizer delivers under 300ms response time, at a massive scale.
    6) Real-time transparent system status - You can always see real-time system performance, availability, and security information at trust.salesforce.com.
    7) Real-time upgrades - Unlike traditional software platforms, our upgrades never break your customizations, code, or integrations. We upgrade the platform for you 3 to 4 times each year. As a result, you’re always on the latest version, with access to the latest features, performance, and security enhancements.
    8) Real-time sandbox environments - With a single click, you can create copies of your applications, configuration, and data in separate environments for development, testing, and training.
    9) Three global production data centers and disaster recovery - Force.com runs on three geographically dispersed, mirrored data centers with built-in replication, disaster recovery, a redundant network backbone, and no single points of failure
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    Support Rating
    Conga
    It's been hit and miss depending on the issue. We use javascript to generate the urls which has confused many techs even though it generates a clean url - they are overwhelmed by the concept of code and can't understand that the url is all that matters.
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    Salesforce
    The overall support has been good. More and more features are being released quite frequently. Very small features are also making big difference in how the tool can be adapted and used better. If there is anything we need or are stuck, the support team sets up a call and helps in resolving the issue/provides workarounds.
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    In-Person Training
    Conga
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    I attended two training sessions. I would rate them a 4 as an advanced user. It was very basic – great for someone new – would give 8+ for new person.

    I had 3 years of experience at the time. I skipped basic and went onto advanced and still not helpful. A lot of it was best practices that didn’t feel relevant for our business
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    Online Training
    Conga
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    I have gone through multiple. The content that’s delivered is quite basic – I wish they had more advanced training.

    We are grandfathered into premium support plus training. We get unlimited access to instructor led and online training for free. We have taken advantage of this
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    Implementation Rating
    Conga
    It was painful internally to build out all of the templates, but the actual implementation of the product was okay.
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    Salesforce
    Just from an organizational standpoint - we standardized our data prior to moving to Salesforce. But we essentially standardized it wrong. That's created a big disgusting mess for us know that I'll have to deal with as the Admin. Be sure you think through use cases prior to doing something like that - seek outside opinions on how the data will work best, especially depending on what else you're going to integrate with Salesforce.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Conga
    I think Nintex is the primary competitor for Conga Composer, but I have not personally used it. I was not present for the decision to purchase Conga but I would recommend it in future document automation vendor selection processes because I have seen how well it works! We are especially fond of complementary features in Conga Composer, including Conga Email Templates and Conga Global Merge.
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    Salesforce
    So I've evaluated, implemented Microsoft Dynamics in the past. I've used Oracle CRM solutions. I've used Daylight, which is a very niche CRM system the last couple of years. And I've evaluated a variety from Legacy Microsoft Ones to Zoho and Sugar when making implementation decisions at other companies. But usually I've gone with Salesforce. I'd say it's better than most. The only one that I generally prefer, and last time I chose an implementation from scratch, I did Microsoft Dynamics. And the reason is for small mid-size organization, Microsoft Dynamics, if you already have Microsoft Office products, it's much better integrated to all of the Excel, Word, OneNote, Outlook email than what you get from Salesforce. And so that's the only one that if someone's a Microsoft organization and small sized company, it'll save a lot of integration things, a lot of security, a lot of login and access and IT management by just sticking within the Microsoft ecosystem. But outside of that, if you don't use Microsoft or if you're a large organization or have other needs that you want, Salesforce I'd say is better than all of the other CRM offerings out there. It's the easiest to use and the most robust and the most vendors and products for the ecosystem.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Conga
    Not fair. Its an upfront cost and then pay per use
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce is the most widely used CRM system. Professionalism tends to increase when things go wrong for market leaders. Salesforce considers us as users because they own the market. Having all of our data in one place and all of our teams working within Salesforce. Anyone who uses Salesforce is impacted by it, even if they don't.
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    Scalability
    Conga
    We used it for something simple and it was still a pain to use
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    Salesforce
    It's very scalable as it has a ton of features (but you do need an admin who understands how to leverage these features). Because of the various features, we've also needed to host onboarding sessions with our users so that they can familiarize themselves with the platform, which isn't always super user-friendly or intuitive.
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    Professional Services
    Conga
    Needs additional training on what they are selling, how to install and use to explain to customers
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    Salesforce
    Using Salesforce.com has made my daily routines more efficient and simplified the manual tasks I had to perform independently. I can now access data from any device, online or offline, and provide better guidance to my team about the forecasts provided by the built-in artificial intelligence (AI). A chat with a Salesforce support specialist would be great. The knowledge base has a community forum where Salesforce users can ask questions and learn more about the product.
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    Return on Investment
    Conga
    • Could really use better error handling on the product when the document doesn't generate. Zero notifications are provided right now and have no idea where in a 20 page template the error is. Need to keep cutting the template into pieces to find the error.
    • The report generates 90% of the time so far.
    • Getting easier to generate templates when knowing how the JSON will be structured to add to merged fields.
    • Use Work Plan Template Entries and Work Steps to dynamically generate many deliverables.
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    Salesforce
    • It allows me to keep a close eye on all of my performance metrics through the Dashboard Reporting, ie what my sales pipeline looks like, how much it's changed in the last 60 days, new opportunities created in the last 7 days, # of emails sent for the week, etc. The ease of the design and output make it really easy to check my progress throughout the day to find where I have holes and am falling short on my personal and work goals. It's resulted in greater transparency with my Mgmt Team and shorter 1-on-1 mtgs with my boss as he can see exactly where I am at all times (to be fair, I'm a senior sales rep, so he pretty much lets me do my job completely unfettered), but it does prove that I am continually producing which recently resulted in a raise I didn't even ask for.
    • The SF repository is so detailed that I don't have to spend tons of time finding frequently used websites attached to a client or see what all interactions with the company look like. Even though I don't use SF for my bulk emails and email sequences, SF provides me with an email to use in the bcc of these emails which links everything back to SF. I find that extremely helpful. This really impacts my efficiency and I can honestly say that once I started using all the functionality of data management, it saved me about 20% of my time/week that I could then allocate towards other revenue-generating tasks like prospecting and account management. The more time I have for those, the better. My year-over-year on accounts 1 year and older just grew by 17% this last year.
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