Some things get better with age. Some great examples of this are wine, cheese, and a well made violin. Other things don’t age so gracefully, like a salmon sitting on your kitchen counter…for a month. Over time, without proper maintenance, your Accounts and Contacts within Salesforce are going to stink, much like that fish.
People move from one company to another constantly. Their title may be Director of IT today and tomorrow it’s VP of IT. These changes are challenging to keep up with. Who do you go to for this information? Many of the lists you purchase for prospecting are already getting stale but to even find out how good the data is, you have to do all the work.
What if Account and Contact updates were fed to you? What if a simple dot of red or green next to each Account and Contact told you how up to date your data is? What if changes to YOUR Accounts and Contacts were proactively pushed into your Chatter feed? That’s what you get with the new Jigsaw for Salesforce CRM.
You may know Jigsaw as the website where you can go to get the contact information of 22 million people at more than 4 million companies. Now you can get everything in Jigsaw natively within Salesforce.
Every time you look at an Account; every time you look at a Contact, you know if the data you’re looking at is current. Red tells you there’s an update available. Green tells you you’re in sync with Jigsaw.
Now updates to your Accounts and Contacts just roll into Chatter in realtime. You know when updated data is available. You can quickly click right on in, compare what’s in Salesforce and what’s in Jigsaw, accept any changes and save the record.
How clean is your data today? I’m not talking just the rudimentary, “Does it have a phone number or does it have an email address?” kind of questions. Is your data current? Jigsaw for Salesforce CRM comes with built-in analytics to evaluate what you have today and recommend changes. On top of that, could you possibly see a shorter sales cycle and a higher win rate if you had current data? Jigsaw helps you evaluate that with analytics.
Good data in Salesforce means each phone call or email happens right away because your sales team doesn’t have to go out and research such basic information. And how much more effective will they be when they proactively approach their prospect and ask them about that recent promotion? That personal touch makes them look “in the know” about who they work with.
Pricing for Jigsaw for Salesforce CRM starts at $29 per month per user and is available today. Check out the images below. You can learn more at http://enterprise.jigsaw.com and be sure to follow @Jigsaw on Twitter.
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