Since the company was founded in 1999, Salesforce has become one of the world’s biggest B2B companies. Boasting a roster of high-profile clients like BestBuy and Adidas, it’s clear that any business can benefit from using the tool.

Salesforce is a powerful CRM tool that can be highly beneficial for financial service companies. However, to get the most out of Salesforce, it’s crucial to partner with a Salesforce consultant who understands your company’s unique needs and can help you maximize the tool’s potential. Here are five reasons why financial service companies need Salesforce consulting: 

1) Customize Salesforce to Match Your Specific Needs 

Salesforce is an excellent tool for improving your customer relationships and ensuring that your sales process runs smoothly. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean you can just start using Salesforce without any direction or customization and expect the tool to do wonders for your brand.

Tailoring Salesforce to your company lets you create things like custom templates, specialized processes, and personalized applications that are tailored for the needs of both customers and employees.

For example, suppose a financial service provider wants their clients’ data organized in different ways than it currently is. They can customize certain features within Salesforce based on what makes sense according to how complex or simple each client situation might be – ensuring better customer experience while also streamlining internal workflows! Working with a consultant helps you get the direction and guidance you need to use Salesforce effectively for your business.

2) Ensure Data Accuracy and Completeness 

Some of Salesforce’s most helpful features are its analysis and data insights capabilities. The platform lets you track and monitor many significant CRM metrics that give you a better understanding of your customers and your business. 

Salesforce is an incredibly powerful CRM tool. But that also means using it can get complicated at times. Data entry is no exception. Unless you are a seasoned data analyst, it is easy to make an error when entering information. If your data is inaccurate or improperly placed, Salesforce won’t be able to process your statistics correctly and give you precise reports when you need them.

The data you enter into Salesforce is crucial for accurate reporting. Working with a professional consultant will ensure that all of the information in your company’s records can be properly processed by the tool’s algorithm, which means better metrics and less time wasted on meaningless tasks like paperwork compliance or struggling through old reports yourself!

3) Develop Efficient Workflows and Processes 

Another one of Salesforce’s highly convenient features is the tool’s ability to manage and automate your business’ CRM processes. It lets you set parameters and criteria to execute remarkably precise automated workflows exactly when you need them without any manual input or maintenance. Over time, implementing the correct processes will save you significant time and money, not to mention freeing you from having to do all those tedious tasks yourself!

As with most of Salesforce’s tools, the complexity and customization potential of workflows can leave many business owners lost and confused. This often leads to automated processes failing, not working as they were designed to, and even automating the wrong workflows at the wrong time. All of these can have a severely negative impact on your business and cause you to spend hours trying to fix and maintain your automated processes.

Working with a Salesforce consultant will ensure that the workflows you create on the platform are accurate and function as intended. With properly designed and programmed processes, you can save hundreds of hours of work while still having peace of mind knowing that your workflows are running properly. 

4) Gain Insights Into Customer Behavior 

Every business owner wishes that they could read their customers’ minds. While there aren’t any tools on the market that can give you psychic abilities, Salesforce’s customer analytics software comes pretty close! 

The tool’s industry-leading software lets you get exceptional sales and marketing analytics without the need for assistance from the IT department. From tracking where your leads are coming from to monitoring which ads are having the most success, Salesforce lets you track all of that.

A recent study by Harvard Business School professor, Michael Luca, found that companies who used Salesforce to track customer behavior saw a 5-10% increase in sales. The study also found that those companies who used Salesforce to track customer interactions were more likely to retain customers and receive word-of-mouth referrals. Using Salesforce is a valuable way to gain insights into customer behavior – provided you’ve set the tool up correctly.

Having an experienced Salesforce consultant on your team to walk you through the platform setup is invaluable. Not only will they help you guarantee that you’re tracking the correct customer analytics, but they might also open your eyes to additional opportunities on the platform that you might have overlooked otherwise!

5) Optimize Platform Performance and Productivity

The last (but certainly not least) reason to work with a Salesforce consultant is the opportunities you’ll have to optimize your platform. The Salesforce platform has over 1.5 million users. With so many businesses using the platform, optimizing Salesforce for your business is crucial to differentiate yourself from competitors. 

While it’s possible to use Salesforce without optimizing it for your business, the result will likely be slow and inefficient. Supercharging your business performance with Salesforce requires making the platform your own. This is where a Salesforce consultant comes in. From making your workflows faster to eliminating unnecessary features, a Salesforce consultant will help you engineer the platform to be your ideal CRM tool!

If you’re a financial services company looking for ways to improve your sales process and increase productivity, Salesforce consulting is the answer. Our team of experts will work with you to customize Salesforce to match your specific needs, ensure data accuracy and completeness, develop efficient workflows and processes, gain insights into customer behavior, and optimize platform performance and productivity – all with the goal of helping you boost your bottom line.

Get in touch with us today to learn more about how we can help you take your business to the next level!

What is Salesforce On-Demand?
If you need access to Salesforce administration and support services on a partial or full-time basis, Navirum On-Demand could be for you. Hiring a qualified Salesforce Administrator on a full-time basis is expensive. With Navirum On-Demand you get all of the benefits of a Salesforce Admin on a budget that works for you

What Does The Service Include?

• Salesforce administration services: Our team of Salesforce consultants is available to customize your Salesforce org, from creating new fields and objects to adding new users, our team of experts is here to help.
• Salesforce training: We offer a range of Salesforce training across multiple clouds and are available to deliver custom training to our Clients
• Technical support: If you having technical issues with Salesforce, one of our Salesforce engineers will diagnose the problem and recommend a solution
• Financial services expertise: The support needs of financial services clients are different from other industries. At Navirum we deliver support services through the lens of banking regulations and privacy constraints, while at the same time advising and guiding clients with support solutions that are in line with peers in their industry.

What Are Benefits?

• Flexible rates: Starting at two hours per month, Clients can access Navirum On-Demand on a rolling basis with no minimum contract length.
• Access to a certified Salesforce expert: All of our support staff are fully Salesforce certified and continue to upgrade their skills as part of their personal development
• Focus on the customer and their unique needs: Our goal at Navirum is to get to know each business and its unique needs and provide support services that are specific to that company
• Access to your own Navirum portal:  We give each of our customers access to their own support portal to raise and manage tickets
• Multiple contact channels: As well as access to your own portal, clients can raise tickets via phone, email, and SMS.
• For more details, please contact us

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What is a Salesforce Health Check?

The Navirum Salesforce Health Check is designed to help you get the most out of your Salesforce investment and ensure you are using the system most effectively. The only constant in business is change, and ensuring your Salesforce org is keeping up with that change is not easy. Our Health Check is designed to help you understand where your Salesforce instance is versus Salesforce implementation best practice and limits, industry standards, and whether or not the system is inhibiting or enabling you to reach your goals. Our Health Check is designed to help you spot the opportunities for improvement so you can take your Salesforce implementation to the next level. We can Health Check a range of Salesforce products, including:

• Sales Cloud
• Service Cloud
• Financial Services Cloud
• Community Cloud
• Revenue
• Marketing Cloud
• Pardot

Our focus on Financial Services gives us a unique perspective on how to leverage the Salesforce platform to be as efficient and productive as possible using the world’s leading CRM. Navirum offers a unique Salesforce Health Check which is tailored to Financial Services clients including an analysis of the following: 

• Security and access: Ensuring access is only limited to verified users is paramount in today’s world with so many staff working remotely. We can advise on how to firm up your security policy and implement basic techniques like two-factor authentication to limit access
• Data privacy and regulations: If you are concerned about Salesforce and data privacy standards like PCI, HIPAA, and GDPR, we can guide you on how to align your Salesforce instance with these unique regulations.
• Internal data sharing: Worried about internal data sharing? We can advise on ‘who sees what’ and make recommendations to implementation structures like Chinese Walls using Salesforce
• Alignment with financial services best practice: Are you using Salesforce in alignment with other Financial Services firms? Our Health Check process allows us to benchmark your Salesforce implementation with a variety of sub-verticals e.g. Wealth Management, Insurance, Banking, Fintech, Lending, Private Equity, and many more.
• Review Salesforce configurations, customizations, and code: We will take an in-depth look at your customizations and, if needed, will make recommendations for improvement and optimization.
• Current usage versus allowable Salesforce limits: We will benchmark your current usage e.g. data storage, the number of custom objects versus limits, etc. This will allow us to answer many common questions. Are we maximizing our investment in Salesforce? Are we at risk of being hit with extra charges from Salesforce? When will it be time for us to upgrade? 

Health Check Deliverables

As part of our Salesforce Health Check we deliver the following valuable assets, which can be used to guide the direction of your Salesforce journey:

• Summary of areas to optimize and improve
• Key risks and how to mitigate them
• High-level Salesforce roadmap

Get in touch with us today to learn more about how we can help you take your business to the next level!