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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Freshchat

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AA solution to engage customers with smarter conversations on any channel, designed so support, marketing, sales, and even bots to have conversations at scale with customers.

    $0

    per month free for up to 10 agents

    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

    sinclo

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    Pricing
    FreshchatAgentforce Salessinclo
    Editions & Modules
    Growth
    $19
    per month (billed annually) per agent
    Pro
    $49
    per month (billed annually) per agent
    Enterprise
    $79
    per month (billed annually) per agent
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FreshchatAgentforce Salessinclo
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    FreshchatAgentforce Salessinclo
    Considered Multiple Products
    Freshworks Inc
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    Salesforce
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    MediaLink
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    36 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    209 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    33 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    179 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    216 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    143 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    125 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    FreshchatAgentforce Salessinclo
    Chat Analytics and Reports
    Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Freshchat and Salesforce Agentforce Sales and sinclo
    Feature
    Freshchat
    7.4
    18 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
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    sinclo
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    Chat history and transcripts7.918 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat reporting7.218 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat and web analytics7.215 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Freshchat and Salesforce Agentforce Sales and sinclo
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.2
    268 Ratings
    5% above category average
    sinclo
    -
    Ratings
    Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings8.6268 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings8.6258 Ratings00 Ratings
    Territory management00 Ratings7.5211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Opportunity management00 Ratings9.0258 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings7.7243 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract management00 Ratings8.0214 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quote & order management00 Ratings7.6197 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interaction tracking00 Ratings8.9228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings8.0190 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Freshchat and Salesforce Agentforce Sales and sinclo
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.7
    104 Ratings
    0% above category average
    sinclo
    -
    Ratings
    Case management00 Ratings8.3102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call center management00 Ratings7.782 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help desk management00 Ratings7.286 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Freshchat and Salesforce Agentforce Sales and sinclo
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.8
    243 Ratings
    1% above category average
    sinclo
    -
    Ratings
    Lead management00 Ratings7.8238 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email marketing00 Ratings7.9205 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Freshchat and Salesforce Agentforce Sales and sinclo
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.0
    247 Ratings
    4% above category average
    sinclo
    -
    Ratings
    Task management00 Ratings8.3235 Ratings00 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings7.078 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings8.7200 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Freshchat and Salesforce Agentforce Sales and sinclo
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.3
    260 Ratings
    8% above category average
    sinclo
    -
    Ratings
    Forecasting00 Ratings7.8228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.5247 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings8.7257 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Freshchat and Salesforce Agentforce Sales and sinclo
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.5
    251 Ratings
    11% above category average
    sinclo
    -
    Ratings
    Custom fields00 Ratings9.0248 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom objects00 Ratings8.7238 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scripting environment00 Ratings7.7175 Ratings00 Ratings
    API for custom integration00 Ratings8.5209 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Freshchat and Salesforce Agentforce Sales and sinclo
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    9.0
    282 Ratings
    7% above category average
    sinclo
    -
    Ratings
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.0220 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.0254 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Freshchat and Salesforce Agentforce Sales and sinclo
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.7
    160 Ratings
    2% above category average
    sinclo
    -
    Ratings
    Social data00 Ratings8.0158 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social engagement00 Ratings7.4156 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Freshchat and Salesforce Agentforce Sales and sinclo
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    7.9
    216 Ratings
    5% above category average
    sinclo
    -
    Ratings
    Marketing automation00 Ratings7.9212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compensation management00 Ratings7.9146 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Freshchat and Salesforce Agentforce Sales and sinclo
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Sales
    8.3
    231 Ratings
    8% above category average
    sinclo
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings8.3231 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
    Oracle Sales
    Score8.9 out of 10
    AWS Chatbot
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    User Ratings
    FreshchatAgentforce Salessinclo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (42 ratings)
    8.9
    (470 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (61 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (18 ratings)
    8.4
    (166 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (29 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (20 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.3
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (98 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (19 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (85 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FreshchatAgentforce Salessinclo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Freshworks Inc
    It is best suited for having 24-hour support, where customers can interact easily, even using their phones, to raise concerns or inquire about information. This makes it easier than going through the documents portal as a source of knowledge or sending emails for worries. However, it can be less appropriate for scenarios when you need more formal communication, like emails, and when proper documentation is necessary.
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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
    Freshworks Inc
    • Real time customer support. During busy times all our available agents can jump on and handle large volume of customer interactions.
    • Automations and canned response features. With automation we can greet our customers the moment a chat gets assigned to an agent letting customers know they are being attended to similarly canned response helps us use templates for generic and commonly asked questions.
    • Dashboards and analytics. Freshchat's ability to build customized dashboards and analyze performance in a granular level helps us monitor workload and manage performance effectively.
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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
    Freshworks Inc
    • Freshchat is one of the best platforms, but still there are certain areas that require further improvement in order for the platform to become flawless.
    • I feel that the automated system in Freshchat is comparatively slow and due to this, it does not respond well according to all the requirements.
    • There are certain features in Freshchat which are not available for everyone and they can only be accessed by those who are paying the highest pricing tier.
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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
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshchat has met all our expectations and more. It has allowed our team to be more efficient with their time, field questions quickly, and escalate issues up the chain. We highly recommend freshchat as the perfect addition to anyone already using freshdesk or simply looking for a good solution for in app messaging.
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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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    MediaLink
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    Usability
    Freshworks Inc
    I give it an 8 due to its usability. Yes, I had a few issues to begin with and needed some assistance from Freshchat agents, but considering this is something that is completely new to me, to set up what feels like a professional chat handling system complete with autobot within a day is really saying something I feel.
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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
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshchat has always been available when I needed to use it.
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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
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshchat always loads quickly and communication is quickly sent and received.
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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
    Freshworks Inc
    The experience we had in past for lets say 4-5 months with the support team and our TAM was really helpful. The changes in the bot flow has helped our bot to ensure we connect with customer easily.
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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
    Freshworks Inc
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    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
    Freshworks Inc
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    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
    Freshworks Inc
    I hope to show new users data because this can save a lot of time
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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
    Freshworks Inc
    Messaging across mediums - Freshchat integrates with majority of mainstream instant messaging apps. Like Facebook messenger, Telegram and WhatsApp . This makes it convenient for us to have a presence on the above-mentioned platforms and respond to messages from these platforms from a single Freshchat dashboard.its good app Freshdesk Messaging help me to contact the customer and contact the customer to inform my problem to solve it and is a good app and help full app and its easy to use uncomplicated and Freshdesk Helps me provide good quality to the customer and make customer feedback good for a company
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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
    Freshworks Inc
    Did not help with the purchase
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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
    Freshworks Inc
    We only implemented the product in 1 way so I cant speak to this.
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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
    Freshworks Inc
    Did not use
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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
    Freshworks Inc
    • From the positive effect of working on it, it helps employees to speed up their thinking and writing.
    • One of the positive effects of our clients is that their problems are solved easily and quickly.
    • Each employee knows how many of his chats have been resolved.
    • There is no negative effect in general.
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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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