{"id":2838,"date":"2015-11-12T06:06:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T06:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devbloglavaprotocols.nityo.in\/salesforce-lightning-features-will-help-you-sell-smarter-and-faster\/"},"modified":"2015-11-12T06:06:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T06:06:02","slug":"salesforce-lightning-features-will-help-you-sell-smarter-and-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavaprotocols.com\/the-cloud-blog\/salesforce-lightning-features-will-help-you-sell-smarter-and-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce Lightning Features Will Help You Sell Smarter and Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><em><strong>By Laura Fagan, Director, Product Marketing (Sales Cloud), Salesforce\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salesforce Lightning Experience is an <a href=\"https:\/\/lavaprotocols.com\/salesforce-crm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intelligent CRM application<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0with a point of view (POV) and not just a database full of customers and info on prospects. It\u2019s this POV that is particularly beneficial to salespeople. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, there isn\u2019t enough time in a day, and there\u2019s that added pressure to <a href=\"https:\/\/lavaprotocols.com\/2018\/08\/06\/how-successful-salespeople-stay-productive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maximize productivity<\/a> with what little time you have. But the Salesforce Lightning features\u00a0\u2014 including the four highlighted below\u00a0\u2014 were designed specifically to enable you to sell smarter and faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>1. Assistant<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the greatest benefits of cloud software is that it continues to provide people further down in the organisation with better productivity tools<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Now almost anybody can have the equivalent of an executive assistant and not just the C-level exclusively. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lightning\u2019s all-new Assistant feature is a perfect example of this. It keeps sales reps up-to-date on the hottest leads and opportunities with proactive alerts that notify users of what needs to be worked on next. Use Assistant to laser focus in on the tasks that will move deals forward, so you can close them faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>2. Pipeline Board<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lightning\u2019s Pipeline Board gives you a single view of all of your opportunities, no matter which stage they\u2019re at. Each opportunity can be moved back and forth across the page to any stage like a digital sticky note, giving you instant insight into how each change impacts your sales forecast. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If any tasks are overdue, or an opportunity needs some extra love, or it\u2019s just been some time since you last checked in, the Pipeline Board will give you a heads-up, thanks to its intelligent alerts.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>3. Account Insights<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Want to know what your top customers are up to? The Account Insights gives you just that with instant access to relevant info about them. It\u2019s a play-by-play algorithm designed to push important happenings to you on the Lightning Home screen and within individual account records. This includes relevant news in a customer\u2019s industry and space. With Account Insights, you\u2019ll never show up to another meeting without the big picture.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>4. Sales Path<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the many hats sales managers wear is the responsibility to guide their team throughout the sales process. With Sales Path, managers can build-in repeatable, best practices of sorts, from qualification to closing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Examples include how many days a sales rep should spend in each stage, plus tips on what to do while there. Not only does this save the manager\u2019s time, it gives team members a peace of mind because they\u2019re aware that they\u2019re making the best decisions to stay on track and hit their goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/crm-features-for-small-businesses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article<\/a> first appeared on the Salesforce Blog.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lava is an<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/lavaprotocols.com\/salesforce-crm\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">authorised Salesforce Partner<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Malaysia and has more than a decade of experience in cloud solutions which includes marketing automation, CRM implementation, change management, and consultation. We pride ourselves in not just being a CRM partner but in also understanding the needs of our customers and taking their business to the next level.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There isn&#8217;t enough time in a day and there\u2019s the added pressure to maximize productivity. 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