January 2005                                                                                                 4

IN THIS ISSUE:

  Customer of the month - Blimpie International

  CRM Portals - Why do you need them?

  Gather customer insight from automated surveys

Soffront CRM Q&A

Customer of the month - Blimpie International

Blimpie International, Inc. (www.blimpie.com) a global restaurant franchiser, best known for its submarine sandwiches and salads has purchased and deployed Soffront CRM to improve sales force automation (SFA) and customer service.

Prior to selecting Soffront, Blimpie used spreadsheets to qualify and track prospective franchise candidates—a workload intensive process. Blimpie also did not have a central repository to track and handle all customer and employee issues. Since the company is experiencing tremendous growth, it needed a way to automate its current manual processes, which were time consuming and inefficient.

Blimpie chose Soffront CRM above other competitors because of Soffront’s out-of-the-box automation and flexibility,” explained Eli Yaron, Blimpie’s acting CTO, software consultant and implementation expert. “Soffront’s feature-rich functionality and ease of customization has allowed Blimpie to experience rapid deployment and rapid results.”

“Compared with other Windows-based solutions, Soffront offers a stronger product, with more process automation, better workflow processes, and a high degree of flexibility. It is extremely easy and fast to customize the Soffront software to match our workflow, compared with other solutions that require a support staff to spend days, weeks or months in custom programming,” Yaron continued. “Additionally, Soffront’s licensing scheme is a huge cost savings to us. Most software companies license their product per end user, compared with Soffront, who licenses their software per concurrent user.”


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Gather customer insight from automated surveys

Staying in tune with what the customer wants is crucial to retaining customers and acquiring new ones. Conducting surveys to assess customer satisfaction levels and understand customer needs is an effective way to do that.

Design a survey, send it automatically by email, measure the responses and take actions based on the analysis, with the Soffront Survey feature. Leverage it from Soffront Customer Helpdesk, Soffront Employee Helpdesk and Soffront Marketing.

Key Features:

  • Assess customer satisfaction level with every ticket.

  • Conduct Surveys to determine and optimize Marketing strategy.

  • Measure responses and run reports.

  • Take actions based on responses.

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CRM Portals - Why do you need them?

A CRM portal is a way to open up the CRM system to people and organizations the company works with, but who are not CRM system users. This allows these people the ability to work with and get information from the company in an efficient way, regardless of time of day.

A CRM portal usually has two basic functions. One is the ability to create and update records (which usually, but not necessarily, are records in the CRM system). The other function is to provide access points for a variety of information that is relevant to the person logging in. The idea is to provide a means for those constituencies outside the CRM system to interact with your company and to get the materials that they may need, without involving a customer support or sales team member.

The improvements made possible through the use of CRM portals increase the productivity and effectiveness of the company and its community of customers, partners, and employees.

Soffront’s CRM Portals - Soffront offers a Customer Portal, a Partner Portal, and an Employee Portal. These contain application gadgets that act as the doorway to Soffront CRM applications and other applications like Accounting, ERP etc. Providing access to such a wide array of applications through a single interface enhances the productivity of the user. The portals are integrated with the ‘internal facing’ CRM applications like Soffront Sales, Soffront Marketing and Soffront Customer Helpdesk.


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Soffront CRM Q&A 


Question: Does the current release of TRACKWeb supports Mozilla Firefox?

Answer:

No, TRACKWeb 8.0.0.2, our current release supports Netscape 7.1 and Internet Explorer 5.5 and higher. The support for Mozilla Firefox will be provided in our future release.


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Soffront CRM Q&A 


Question: I have received a new license from Soffront. How do I update my license?

Answer:

To update your license file,
1. Copy the new license.ini file to your TRACK Server folder (usually in \\Program Files\Soffront\Track32).
2. Start Soffront TRACK and login as admin.
3. On the Setup menu, click License.
4. Click OK.
5. The License is updated.

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