Sage CRM and Drip Marketing...

With Sage CRM e-marketing, you can create drip campaigns.

What’s a drip campaign?

It is basically a drip effect, which allows you to target specific messages to customers and prospects at specific times. This means you can drive your message home harder and more accurately.

By managing the content and timing of your messages in emails or direct mail, you can ensure your messages are dripped in a series that you define.

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Sage CRM and E-Marketing...

Be creative

With Sage CRM e-marketing, you can create professional looking email campaigns. You have 90 templates to play around with and customise to suit your own style and company branding.

Check Results

Using Sage e-Marketing, you can get proper analysis on your campaigns,  so you can see what works/doesn’t work. It means you can focus your time and effort into getting the best results.

You can easily track email opens, clicks and bounce rates from within Sage CRM. You can even see what links people are clicking on and then you can segments groups even further based on the opens and click of the previous email. So, you don’t need to leave the software to get the analysis you need.

Using Sage CRM e-marketing and drip marketing means you can execute targeted campaigns to the right target audience at the right time to give you maximum impact .

Always Integrate

Some companies use separate e-mail marketing tools that don’t link to their CRM system.

That’s all well and good, but what happens when customers or contacts come and go or e-mail addresses change?? The potential for customer lists going out of sync is huge. This can get messy and can lead to spending additional timemaking sure that they databases are synchronised before sending out a campaign.

With Sage CRM, you don’t have to worry about this because the e-marketing tool is fully integrated, so there is only one database that you need to keep updated.

Monitor Return on Investment

Gathering the analytics means you can calculate an accurate Return on Investment, so you know where best to focus your resources for future campaigns.

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Sage CRM and Twitter...

Jim and Bob catch up on Monday morning...

         This is Bob 
He is Customer Service Manager for a mid-sized business based in Cork - he uses Sage CRM and Twitter to do his job                                                         

               This is Jim

He is also Customer Service Manager in another company in Cork - he doesn't use Sage CRM or Twitter 

Jim – hey what you doing?

Bob – just working on some stuff…hang on, let me just send this tweet…

Jim – working? so what you doin’ Tweeting then?

Bob – that’s my job – Customer Relationship Management

Jim – Yeah I know, we have the same job, but that’s not really how we do things over here. I don’t think we even have a Twitter account and I doubt we use any other forms of Social Media.  Come to think of it, we don’t really use any proper systems - I am not saying we don't provide a great service, I think we do, but it is all a bit "traditional" if you know what I mean – but that's another story! So, anyway back to you, so you actually get paid to send Tweets all day? I like the sound of that!

Bob – ha, ha- no I don’t send Tweets all day. I interact with our customers and keep an eye on interesting conversations that are happening within our client accounts. A few months ago, we were still using pen and paper – it’s amazing the difference it makes. I am so into my job now – much better than before.

Jim – really, that sounds cool.

Bob – yeah it is cool, but the best part is that I use this software called Sage CRM. It holds all of my customer’s information. I can post or reply directly to a Tweet from within Sage CRM and view Twitter feeds for specific companies and then I can save the contents of these Tweets to Notes within Sage CRM - it's called Social CRM– it’s magic.

Jim – I think our company could do with something like that – tell me more about this Social CRM thing…?

Bob – okay let’s meet up for lunch and I will fill you in. It’s a piece of cake, but somehow it has changed my world – I love it! See you at 1….


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Sage 200 Mobile Sales Orders

Diary of a sales person.....

Day 1 - starting new sales job. Very excited. Looking forward to processing my first few sales orders today.

 Day 1 over - Good day at the office. Got a few sales in the morning. Headed back to the office in the afternoon - lots of paperwork :-(

 Week 2 over - Not feeling great. Administration is killing me. Very time consuming - complete waste of my time. Need to sell more to earn more. I am thinking that we should be using mobile devices for putting up sales orders - much handier.

Week 3 over - Okay that's it - had enough. This job is killing me. Really think we could be working much smarter. Changing = benefits for me and for the company. Must speak up - honestly, things have to change and soon.....

Week 4 over - Whoo hoo! boss agreed to buy Web SO for Sage 200. It works on my smart phone and on my tablet. No more mountains of paperwork, no more late trips back to the office to process orders. Already ahead of target for this week :-) :-)

Web SO integrates with Sage 200 software. It is SO easy to use, can be implemented quickly and it delivers a fast return on your investment.

If you attend the the webinar you will get a 10% discount off your purchase of Web SO software. So, book here for our April Webinar, which we promise will be very quick and to the point.

Date: 10th of April 2013 & 12th of April 2013

Time: 2pm to 2.30pm

For more information, Download our brochure here

Call us today on 01 8223200

Advent Easter 2013 Opening Hours

We would like to take this opportunity to inform you of our opening hours for Support services over the Easter period.

Closing: 5:00pm Thursday 28th March 2013

Re-opening: 9:00am Tuesday 2nd April 2013

Please see contact details below:

 

Tel: 01 8223200

support@advent.ie

@wwwadventie

From all at Advent, we would like to wish you a very
Happy Easter.

Let Sage CRM do the business

Join our Sage CRM Webinar for Sales Automation

 

On Tuesday 12th of March from 11am to 11.30am

 

Click here for more information and to register

Fixed Assets: Appreciate your time, don't Depreciate it...

Maintaining a Fixed Assets Register can be a tedious task especially if the register is held externally to the main accounts system. This typically involves the following: building lists of assets, ensuring the asset is depreciated over the correct number of periods and with the correct depreciation method, ensuring all new assets are included and all disposed-of assets are excluded, tracking serial numbers and warranties and finally, posting a manual journal every period for the depreciation value.

The main problem with keeping a manual register is that all information might not be included and therefore mis-calculations can happen. This becomes particularly relevant at year-end when pressure arises from the demands of month end. The last thing you need is to be trawling through a manual register when there are plenty of other tasks to be done at the year-end.

The solution for this is to have a Fixed Assets Register that is fully integrated with your Sage 200 software. The Fixed asset Register sits on your menu with the other Sage 200 standard modules. It is fully and seamlessly integrated with the nominal, sales and purchase ledger and is suitable for organisations with a large volume of low value assets or a small quantity of high valued items or a mixture of both.

The Fixed Assets module comes with the following features:

• Caters for the most recognised Depreciation Methods: straight line, reducing balance and sum of the digits.
• Expected life of the asset.
• The ability to categorise assets to enable effective reporting.
• Automatic posting of depreciation to the nominal ledger on a periodic basis.
• It holds the original cost value, accumulated depreciation, period depreciation and net book value.
• Forecast depreciation over the life of the asset.
• Integrated with purchase ledger when assets are purchased. It is possible to post the assets purchase invoice and create the asset record at the same time.
• It is also possible to dispose of an asset and enter the sales ledger transaction all in the one transaction.
• Easy asset tracking. Maintenance, warranty, insurance and serial number details can be maintained on the asset record.
• Attach all relevant documentation to the asset.
• Enquire on the history of transactions on the asset.
• Attach the location of the asset and the person responsible.
• Flexible and complete reporting on asset transactions and details.
• Revalue and re-life existing assets.
• Import asset details from a spreadsheet to build your asset register.

Nowadays, where time is very valuable and at a premium, the Fixed Asset register will give the Finance team back some of that valuable time. It will also increase efficiency and accuracy. So, my question is why keep manual spreadsheets when there is a much better way of doing things? We call it joined up thinking...........

Why not join one of our webinars to find out more......

16th of November @ 9.30am
23rd of November @ 9.30am
30th of November @ 9.30am
5th of December @ 9.30am

The webinar should not take more than half an hour. To confirm your place, please email sales@advent.ie and let us know which date suits you. We hope you can join us.....