How to Increase Customer Connection and Productivity

11-01-2024

The future of sales depends on Artificial Intelligence
How to Increase Customer Connection and Productivity

Today, customer expectations are high and continue to grow. Consumer preferences for digital sales interactions and authentic, well-informed experiences are becoming increasingly important. 

The solution involves using tools with Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and hybrid collaboration functionalities that help companies to:

  • Understand and interact with customers; 
  • Accelerate sales by focusing on what matters most; 
  • Raise the level of their capabilities; 
  • Work as a team to deliver fantastic experiences.


Understanding and interacting with customers

When salespeople need to...
  • Increase emotional intelligence, interact deeply, and talk with empathy;
  • Promote the right differentiated features and benefits;
  • Ensure that customers feel heard and prioritized;
  • Give customers the answers they need at the moment.

AI can help you...
  • Detect customer sentiment in conversations;
  • Take note of mentions of competitors;
  • Measure how much salespeople talk versus listen;
  • Highlight all the questions asked in a conversation.  


Boosting sales

When salespeople need to... 
  • Focus on the activity with the highest priority and the best chance of closing; 
  • Make the most of their time; 
  • Analyze the most important conversations; 
  • Personalize communications without having to draft every response individually;
  • Maintain the workflow instead of switching between applications;
  • Always follow up with the right details. 

AI can help you... 
  • Optimize sales cycles by suggesting the best next steps; 
  • Minimize manual data entry with contextual and real-time suggestions for updating and creating records; 
  • Automatically categorize calls based on content and priority; 
  • Draft email responses to customers using state-of-the-art AI; 
  • Allow salespeople to create and edit customer CRM data in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook; 
  • Create an automatic email summary of a meeting in Teams, including CRM data.
 

Raising the level of your skills 

When managers need to... 
  • •    Design sales and training strategies with business insights on keywords, brands, monitored and trending competitors, among others; 
    •    Gain insights into best practices by learning more about the behaviors of top salespeople; 
    •    Coaching salespeople on what works with customers; 
    •    Setting sales quotas. 
 
AI helps them to... 
  • Instantly search and view conversations; 
  • Review, compare, and highlight what works for the highest-performing salespeople;
  • Analyze customer sentiment and salesperson conversation styles; 
  • Use insights into the state of the current sales period to set realistic goals.
 

Boosting teamwork

When employees need to... 
  • Perform fully integrated walkthroughs whenever necessary; 
  • Keep up-to-date records based on the latest information; 
  • Keep business moving wherever they are working. 

Collaboration tools help to... 
  • Share records in a chat or collaboration channel; 
  • Allow others to perform actions on CRM records in a conversation; 
  • Manage the sales process from mobile devices using intuitive applications.

Microsoft Sales Copilot frees up the sales team's time so that they can prioritize customer relations, drive business, and continuously improve their skills. Taking advantage of AI functionality means having a team working more optimally towards your goals.

Contact Hydra iT for more information! 

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