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Business Contact Manager

Business Contact Manager
Every business has customers and suppliers and having a functional and effective business contact manager allows for all contacts and accounts to be stored in a central place so phone calls, meetings, contact details and to-do's are shared effectively across the company.  Contact management is important to get right when your business relies on managing contacts and customers as sales, marketing and support require an effective system to help each of their departments.

Business contact managers have been used in offices and businesses for the last 10-15 years and they have developed into advanced systems that do more than organise business contacts.  One of the most popular systems that people use for a business contact manager is Microsoft CRM, which can be installed on your server or it also comes in a hosted version so your business can be up and running quickly with a cost effective system for managing contacts and accounts.

See how Contact Management is managed in Microsoft CRM

 

 

In order to run a successful business or organisation many managers look for a business contact manager that will not only help them manage and store contacts centrally but also enhance and improve their productive rates.  When you use Microsoft CRM as your business contact manager it helps individuals and teams in a business to manage all aspects of sales, marketing and customer service.  To see a demo call us on 0845 850 0500 or email us at info@pythagoras.co.uk for a demo.

How Can Business Contact Managers help your business.The main function of a business contact manager is to store business contacts for individuals in the business, the majority of the business contacts stored will be customers, prospects, suppliers, suspect and general company information.  The range of fields available to store information on business contacts in Microsoft CRM is vast, fields such as email, phone, address details are just a few of the many hundreds of fields available.  Once this data is stored centrally in the business contact manager it can be shared across the whole business so all activities, events, to-do's and emails from different employees build up a complete business relationship history so everyone knows what has been going in at that contact.  With its tight integration with Microsoft Outlook all emails are also stored against each business contact.

Business Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook.
There is several contact managers on the market place that integrate with your Email system but perhaps one of the most popular features with Microsoft CRM when used as a business contact manager is that is integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Outlook.  This seamless integration means that all your business contacts are stored in a central place that is accessed easily from Outlook.  With this high level of integration means that emails can be automatically logged from outlook in Microsoft CRM. When using Microsoft CRM as an effective business contact manager is also integrates and synchronises office calendars so all appointments, to-do's etc. are logged in the business contact manager, and because the contact management features available in Microsoft crm are shown in Outlook this makes for easy use for people already familiar with Outlook.

Business Contact Management goes Mobile.
As businesses have adopted smart phones, iPhones and tablet computers people now do a lot of their day to day job via the interface of their phone whilst mobile.  One of the major benefits with using Microsoft CRM as a business contact manager is that it can be installed on your mobile device which syncrhonises all business contacts and calendar events, which once connected back to the main business database updates all activities.

A Business contact manager that automates sales, marketing and support
When you use Microsoft crm as your business contact manager it not only acts a central database for all your contacts and customers but it also empowers your organisations and goes one step further by automating sales, marketing and customer support. The business contact manager has all the features to optimize your sales efforts with the familiar and intelligent features of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Allowing you to take advantage of a highly intuitive interface and embedded Microsoft Office capabilities to increase time with customers, shorten sales cycles, increase close rates, and achieve real-time insight.