Use Outlook for Sales Management

By: Jose Vanegas
Submitted: 2007-10-25 19:36:27
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Sales Management inside Outlook

Prophet adds complete sales management to your existing Outlook. With Prophet you can manage each lead, prospect and sale through each step of your sales process and do it from within Outlook. Prophet adds powerful features that allow you to track each prospect, customer and account and track all communications and activities with them. With Prophet’s sales management you can easily report on your sales pipeline and develop sales projections. The Prophet Server Editions allow you to create a team environment for sharing and organizing sales data to fit your business. Prophet provides a complete sales management solution for your company.

Sales Management by Opportunity

Prophet adds an Opportunity window to your Outlook, allowing you to track each sales opportunity from start to finish. You can customize the Opportunity window to follow the steps in your Sales Process and collect any information that is vital to your sales management system. The Opportunity window gives you the power to track any email, appointment, task, document, or note related to each sale for any customer. With a single click you can create an email addressed to a specific customer and linked directly to their record. Prophet tracks all the activity for your leads and sales, making sales management more effortless.

Easy Sales Management Reporting

Reporting on your sales activities has never been easier, and can be done right from within Outlook. Prophet tracks all your vital sales data such as sales stage, client type, closing date, sales revenue, and more for each opportunity and provides easy reporting on all of it. Creating sales projections is as easy as running a Sales Pipeline report in Prophet. You can review total sales revenue for a specific period by looking at Prophet’s Account Sales report. Review any of Prophet’s 30+ reports for any period you specify.

Prophet helps you improve the efficiency of your sales management by providing the ability to create custom reports specific to your business. Whether you are managing two people or two hundred, you can create the reports you need to actively and accurately review and monitor how your team is doing.

Simple Sharing of Sales Management

The Prophet Server Editions provide the ability for you to share sales data and sales management duties across your team of sales professionals. Assign specific customers, accounts and opportunities to each of your salespeople and monitor their specific progress and results. Share responsibility for important deals by having multiple salespeople work on those opportunities and share their information real-time.

Your Prophet Server Edition gives active sales management over remote salespeople by allowing them to work off-line in their Prophet and synching automatically from any location through a remote connection. All your sales data is stored centrally on your Prophet Server Edition permitting simple sales management and review for your entire team from one centralized location.

The Prophet Sales Management Solution

Prophet provides simple and easy sales management for teams of any size, right inside Outlook. Tracking of each lead, prospect and sale is accomplished through the Prophet Opportunity Window, giving you immediate access to all activities and communications related to each and every one. With Prophet Reports your sales management team can easily review all aspects of your sales process, making review and evaluation of your sales efforts more effective.

Sharing your sales data throughout your team has never been easier with the Prophet Server Edition. If your company currently uses Outlook for customer information and communication and you are looking for an effective way to manage your sales, consider Prophet. Continue to use Outlook as you always have, and gain the power of Prophet’s best-of-breed sales management features. Prophet is sales management INSIDE Outlook.

About Avidian Technologies:
Avidian Technologies is a software company specializing in creating software solutions for users of Outlook and Exchange. Prophet, developed by Avidian Technologies on the .NET platform, is the leading contact management and sales CRM software built in Outlook. The company is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. For more information, please visit http://www.avidian.com or call 1-800-860-5534. Many of today's most successful large and small businesses have chosen Avidian's CRM Software as their sales management and contact management software.

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