{"id":50671,"date":"2021-09-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=50671"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T20:39:57","slug":"sales-cloud-gm-how-slack-first-sales-gives-back-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/sales-cloud-gm-how-slack-first-sales-gives-back-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How Using Slack as Your Digital HQ for Sales Gives Back What Everyone Needs: Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When it comes to how Slack can benefit sales teams, <a href=\"https:\/\/info.slackhq.com\/Total-Economic-Impact-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the numbers don\u2019t lie<\/a>: 296% return on investment; nearly 15% increase in closed deals; 13% faster onboarding; $2.6-million increased revenue due to improved sales velocity. But those numbers could just be scratching the surface of business possibilities when it comes to bringing together Slack and Sales Cloud, according to Bill Patterson, Salesforce\u2019s General Manager of Sales Cloud.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We spoke with Patterson on digital deal rooms, simplification over complication, and where Slack within Salesforce can equip teams for the future of sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-q-what-went-through-your-mind-when-you-first-heard-about-the-salesforce-slack-acquisition\"><strong>Q. What went through your mind when you first heard about the Salesforce-Slack acquisition?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>When you think about the world&#8217;s leading engagement platform in Slack, combining forces with the world&#8217;s leading CRM platform, as an innovator that gets your mind going about living up to our company\u2019s promise of helping businesses get closer to their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q. How will integrating Slack into the existing Sales Cloud to create the Digital HQ for Sales be meaningfully different and better for our customers?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s so many great use cases for Slack throughout the sales process, starting with using channels. Sales is a team sport, so think of channels as a way to bring together all the different team members who collaborate around a customer or deal. You can use different channels for your accounts, deals, and opportunities in the works.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"wp-block-image__modal-toggle\" aria-expanded=\"false\" data-modal-id=\"49895-modal\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open Image Modal<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"448\" height=\"872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Sales-Team-Channel.gif?w=448\" alt=\"Slack-First Sales - Sales Team Channel\" class=\"wp-image-49895\"\/><\/a><figcaption><em>When Slack is your Digital HQ for Sales, digital deal rooms allow sales teams to securely collaborate around a customer or deal cycle in Slack.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div id=\"49895-modal\" class=\"image-modal\" aria-hidden=\"true\" aria-labelledby=\"image-dialog-title\"><div class=\"image-modal__overlay\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-a11y-dialog-hide><\/div><div class=\"image-modal__content\" role=\"dialog\"><button class=\"image-modal__close-button\" type=\"button\" data-a11y-dialog-hide aria-label=\"Close this image dialog window\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 26 25\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" fill=\"currentColor\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><rect x=\".626\" y=\"22.753\" width=\"32\" height=\"3\" rx=\"1.5\" transform=\"rotate(-45 .626 22.753)\"\/><rect x=\"2.747\" y=\".125\" width=\"32\" height=\"3\" rx=\"1.5\" transform=\"rotate(45 2.747 .125)\"\/><\/svg><\/button><h1 id=\"image-dialog-title\" class=\"screen-reader-text\">Image Modal<\/h1>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"448\" height=\"872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Sales-Team-Channel.gif?w=448\" alt=\"Slack-First Sales - Sales Team Channel\" class=\"wp-image-49895\"\/><figcaption><em>When Slack is your Digital HQ for Sales, digital deal rooms allow sales teams to securely collaborate around a customer or deal cycle in Slack.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Slack also breaks down the formality of communication and speeds up business workflow. Instead of writing a long-form email to approve this deal or discount, you can react with a quick thumbs-up or thumbs-down emoji. You don&#8217;t have to stop what you&#8217;re doing to switch to a different context. It speeds up the transaction in a natural, graphical, and whimsical way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re going to deeply embed Slack within the sales cycle\u00a0from onboarding and training salespeople; to finding experts across the enterprise; to using Slack Connect to engage customers, partners, suppliers, and vendors. Here at Salesforce, we\u2019ve already begun to transform our sales process by becoming Slack-first. We\u2019re already seeing a heightened level of engagement at Salesforce and I\u2019m excited to see other customers experience that too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span class=\"js-twitter-inline\">Here at Salesforce, we\u2019ve already begun to transform our sales process by becoming Slack-first.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><cite>bill patterson, gm, sales cloud<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q. In the \u201c<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/66-salesforce-gm-bill-patterson-the-next-chapter-of\/id1500813170?i=1000532388211\"><strong>Built by <\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/66-salesforce-gm-bill-patterson-the-next-chapter-of\/id1500813170?i=1000532388211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Humans<\/a>\u201d podcast, you mentioned how calls-per-hour is an outdated metric and we should focus more on the quality of the relationships between salespeople and their clients. How can Slack help facilitate that?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Slack Connect is a place where a company can securely connect outside of the walls of its organization with their customers. Developing proposals, sales pitches, negotiations &#8212; all of that is an intimate process with your customers. It\u2019s not just sending or forwarding an email to say you&#8217;re connected. With Slack, you have all the back and forth context, and can invite other people into that dialogue while getting real time answers. Some work moves to the background and that frees up time to develop more meaningful relationships with customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q. You mentioned a challenging part of sales is catching up on an existing account and learning what&#8217;s happened in the past. How does bringing together Slack and Sales Cloud allow that process to become faster and more efficient?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a very common scenario to have account managers or sales representatives taking on new accounts. Maybe someone moved on from the business and now you&#8217;ve been assigned to maintain and grow a relationship. The drill of catching up on accounts takes a lot of manual effort \u2014 phone calls, etc. That changes with Slack. Slack has all the relationship and conversation history searchable and streamlined in one place, helping a salesperson get up to speed very quickly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span class=\"js-twitter-inline\">This is really going to be a godsend for a lot of our sellers who are picking up new accounts for the first time, or are transferring or selling to new areas.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><cite>bill patterson, gm, sales cloud<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is really going to be a godsend for a lot of our sellers who are picking up new accounts for the first time, or are transferring or selling to new areas. If someone\u2019s relocated during the pandemic, this could be a really phenomenal tool for those scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q. <a href=\"https:\/\/info.slackhq.com\/Total-Economic-Impact-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Statistics<\/a> have shown Slack\u2019s digital Deal Rooms can improve the speed of sales cycles. What are Deal Rooms?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A digital deal room is a specific channel we create on Slack that has all the necessary people invited, all of the pertinent deal information stored. It also has all the inherent workflow and automation experiences to prompt and nudge people if certain actions to advance a deal are not actually being followed through. As the deal progresses through the sales cycle, teams can update Salesforce data right from Slack, changing the deal size or a close date as conversations move forward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span class=\"js-twitter-inline\">Our customers are seeing up to <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/blog\/productivity\/forrester-study-total-economic-impact-of-slack-sales-teams\">15% <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/blog\/productivity\/forrester-study-total-economic-impact-of-slack-sales-teams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increased<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/blog\/productivity\/forrester-study-total-economic-impact-of-slack-sales-teams\"> productivity<\/a> by just closing deals on Slack.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><cite>bill patterson, gm, sales cloud<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Those things come together in the digital deal room and speeds up the process of closing deals. Our customers are seeing up to <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/blog\/productivity\/forrester-study-total-economic-impact-of-slack-sales-teams\">15% <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/blog\/productivity\/forrester-study-total-economic-impact-of-slack-sales-teams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increased<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/blog\/productivity\/forrester-study-total-economic-impact-of-slack-sales-teams\"> productivity<\/a> by just closing deals on Slack. It&#8217;s because everyone now is orchestrated around the workflow required to get the job done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Q. Field sales representatives can have their own set of challenges. How can the Digital HQ for Sales help address potential feelings of isolation?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been fascinated by the level of engagement you find with your peers that are all distributed around the world when using Slack. 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What\u2019s coming down the pipe regarding Sales Cloud and Slack that you\u2019re most excited about?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>When Slack joined Salesforce we became a new company altogether. We can rethink how businesses communicate. Maybe in the future instead of calling an 800 number for a service center, you&#8217;re opening Slack and getting right to the trusted agent you&#8217;ve previously had great success with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><span class=\"js-twitter-inline\">Maybe in the future instead of calling an 800 number for a service center, you&#8217;re opening Slack and getting right to the trusted agent you&#8217;ve previously had great success with.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><cite>bill patterson, gm, sales cloud<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe in the future, you can reorder your products with a slash command inside of your Slack experience. You no longer have to review product catalogs, you can just say \u2018give me the latest\u2019 or \u2018repeat my purchase from before.\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This opportunity to speed up business and break down barriers of engagement is what a Slack-first future will mean for our customers. 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