subject: Reduce Paperwork, Increase Profits Using Crm For Ipad [print this page] A typical CRM for iPad sales program is a strategy for managing company relationships with their customers, clients and prospective customers or clients. Because the iPad is user friendly it is easy to make notes in it. It is also easy to view so a sales representative can easily read presentations or documents while viewing the unit. So also can the prospective client because a presentation can be viewed in 3D. The sales rep can just hand over the iPad and let the client watch the product demonstration.
If the company representatives have been trained to use the CRM for iPad then the CRM for iPad can ideally be used to organize the sales process. It can be used to automate much of the sales process such as keep the inventory updated or can perform inventory checks to make sure what is being ordered is in stock or is somewhere in the pipeline and the sales rep can let the customer know exactly where that inventory is at an any one time. That way there are no surprises and no subsequent lost customers. After a call the sales rep then logs in the sales calls and can also log in service calls so that the customer service department of the company or the tech support department of the company can follow on that service call. The CRM for iPad can work as a kind of self service unit for the sales, marketing and service staff of a company. So in that way it can multi-task across company department lines.
Main con about the iPad is that there is no camera so there can be no video chat format and there is no flash support in safari so there is no support for multi-tasking using the iPad. A crm in a mobile device is excellent for the content user but an iPad does not excel at complex applications and is not meant to be used as such.
But the CRM be used to manage and track sales opportunities. It can produce specific sales forecasts which can be easily read on the 9.7 inch screen. It is easy to use the screen because it does not require a stylus but one can use just a finger on the finger print and scratch resistant screen. The iPad is perfect for browsing, searching and viewing activities. It is easy to create them, edit them or assign activities. It is also easy to delete them in a crm software program. It can give detailed sales reports or a detailed sales status. It can track prospective sales status up to the point of resolution as to whether the sales effort was successful or not. CRM is formatted for excellent business intelligence gathering. It makes it easy and effective for the sales staff to use it. As the sales staff gets very comfortable with the CRM software program they will not be able to leave home without it. Besides a CRM iPad presentation adds profits to the bottom line.
