Salesforce Einstein

In today’s competitive business era, data is the pivot on which the business world balances. With the human race generating humongous data of around 2.5 exabytes every day, forward-looking businesses are investing in processing, cleaning, and analyzing these vast stores of data to draw meaningful insights, which they can leverage to make informed decisions and better understand their customers. In fact, companies that adopt data-driven strategies enjoy higher productivity and profits than their counterparts. According to a report shared by IDC, revenue generated from big data and business analytics is expected to increase from $130.1 billion in 2016 to $203 billion through 2020. Since, sales continue to be one of the most important functions of any business entity, sales reps should be empowered to connect with their customers in a better way. Salesforce Einstein Analytics – an AI-powered tool can be leveraged by organizations to automate their time-consuming admin activities to make time for other important activities. With AI-informed insights and automation, the Sales team can streamline every aspect of their sales cycle. Here’s how Salesforce Einstein can be leveraged by organizations to improve sales performance: Prioritize Leads: By introducing AI-powered Einstein analytics to your sales team, organizations can empower their sales team to sort and prioritize incoming leads. The AI-powered sales tool helps in analyzing historical data to disclose the best kind of leads for their business, which further helps sales reps to focus on leads that are most likely to convert. The patterns identified by this sophisticated tool are more focused than the traditional criteria that are based on intuition. Consequently, sales productivity increases as more leads are converted in less time. Recognize Opportunity Health: Sales reps are bogged down with the pressure to handle multiple opportunities concurrently. With a robust AI-powered tool i.e Salesforce Einstein in place, sales reps can distinguish between opportunities that require attention and those that are doing well and moving towards a successful conclusion. This leads to high sales productivity within a short time frame. Search for Strategic Contacts: Sales reps understand the significance of a sincere and heartfelt introduction to key contacts and its significance in building a rewarding and long-term relationship. The robust Einstein tool can help find contacts that have a prior relationship with key contacts and provides sales reps the benefit of knowing the contact before the formal introduction is made.   Accurate Forecasting: The forecasting ability of this AI-powered data analysis tool help decodes the trends existing in the sales cycle right down to every sales rep. The predictive capabilities of the tool help organizations to plan accordingly for the approaching sales quarter and prioritize sales deals to maximize winning chances.  In a Nutshell: These are some of the many ways how Salesforce Einstein analytics can help organizations build a high-performing sales team and empowering sales reps to excel at their work. Adopting Salesforce Einstein analytics can help organizations to boost customer loyalty while building a long-term relationship with them. Organizations should consider partnering with one of the most reputed Salesforce consultants to avail outstanding consultation and implementation services.   

For almost 2 decades Salesforce users were using pre-built reports and dashboards to have a quick look at their data. But with time, data has increased exponentially and it has become quite difficult to manually look for the required data. Due to this very reason, Salesforce has launched Einstein Analytics, a platform that solves the challenge of gathering the required data at one place to answer key queries related to organization sales. What is Salesforce Einstein? Salesforce Einstein is Artificial Intelligence integrated into the Salesforce Platform which allows organizations to automate the reports, identify the needs within the workflows, and even the effectiveness of each sales team within the organization. It has transformed the way organizations used to analyze their data. Organizations can now track their KPI’s, annual reports, sales pipeline, etc. seamlessly by eliminating the dependence on mathematical models and algorithms. Salesforce Einstein’s artificial intelligence stage takes sales/revenue forecasting to the next level by providing new useful real-time insights depending on the real-time data coming in the system. It progressively adjusts itself to modifications and new information. It assures if there is any unexpected change in the market then it can rapidly change its forecast and predict according to the new requirements. Salesforce Einstein AI Impact on Business Sales Salesforce Einstein offers various features to provide a better insight into the sales. It has features like Activity Capture which automatically captures the data from various sources like emails, call logs and, salesforce chats and saves sales reps time from manual data entry. It even recommends good quality leads and opportunities to sales reps who can nurture them. Marketing For the marketing folks. it is a clear winner as it helps them with forecasting customer engagement, tracking social media engagement, launching email campaigns, etc. It even helps in transforming the organization image by suggesting suitable content. Customer Experience Salesforce Einstein has capabilities of enhancing customer experience by automatically extracting customer’s information and providing real-time insights about the customer like their pain points, requirements, etc. By having all the necessary information sales reps can nurture customers in the right direction. Commerce AI powered Salesforce Einstein guides organizations to sell the right products, provide special offers to customers at the right price and at the right time. This even helps organizations in selling and upselling services and products to the customers by tracking their previous purchase history. Key Features of Salesforce Einstein Voice Commands This feature enables you to perform various functions with a voice command. It does not just listen it even answers back in the same way. You can set-up meetings, get news updates of prospects, view dashboards, etc. by using the voice commands. Natural Language Processing (NLP) This feature enables Salesforce to understand what the users are trying to say in their emails and messages. It spots the keywords present in customer’s/prospects messages and suggests response accordingly. This reduces the time of reply, and customers/prospects will be addressed quickly. Action Oriented It automatically takes actions on things that sales reps might not have asked for like scheduling a follow-up call or a follow-up meeting with the customers. It self-analyses the meeting notes and takes appropriate actions that save a lot of sales reps time. Scoring With Einstein Lead and Opportunity scoring, it looks into the insights of leads and opportunity, and based on the available information it scores the leads and opportunities. By looking at the score, sales reps can pick up those leads with a higher score to nurture first. Salesforce Einstein AI Benefits for Organizations Sales Pipeline Management One of the most important and useful advantages of Salesforce Einstein AI is its ability to keep on modifying/updating the pipeline on a real-time basis. It helps in evaluating trends in opportunities and provides a list of opportunities that can be closed with ease and those which require attention. By using it, organizations can focus on the right opportunities. Account Insights With Einstein Account tool, organizations can get the latest news related to financial results, mergers, and acquisitions, etc. for their prospects and customers. These insights can be leveraged by the sales teams and marketing teams to run personalized marketing messages and special offers for every prospect. This tool even captures information like the impact of the marketing campaign, clicks that come through campaigns, etc. The effectiveness of the campaign can be visualized on a dashboard where the organization sees the success rate of marketing and sales generated through it. Performance Analysis Organizations can use Salesforce Einstein to monitor the opportunities in the sales pipeline and the sales teams monitoring them. They can further compare the performance of every individual present in the sales teams over different parameters. Leader View Dashboard presents a top-notch view of sales rep performance over time. After analyzing the performance of every individual at various parameters organization and reward their top performers. Whitespace Analysis Whitespace analysis is the process of uncovering new opportunities. With the assistance of Salesforce Einstein, organizations can execute whitespace analysis and look out for new opportunities. Salesforce Einstein has the potential to recognize which product or service has been sold to which accounts and it further creates feasible opportunities depending on the account’s previous/current requirements. Conclusion Artificial Intelligence has an undeniable influence on all walks of life. In today’s world, an AI based platform, such as Salesforce Einstein, provides the best scenarios and retrospective to make the experience of selling process human-like which helps an organization in increasing sales and automate the process and prepare for the future market needs. About Girikon Girikon has become a reputed name in the IT services, as well as consulting space. Being one of the reputed providers of SaaS technologies like Salesforce, the company offers high-end Salesforce consulting and Salesforce implementation services.

For a business to sustain in this competitive landscape, the sales and marketing teams must align with each other for ensuring better organizational growth in terms of efficiency, productivity and revenue. However, this is difficult said than done as the goals of sales and marketing teams are misaligned, which encourages them to prioritize their own goals over organizational profits. So, how to deal with this situation? The key lies in having a steady flow of qualified leads that the Sales team can close readily, and this can be made possible by having in place a robust lead scoring system for prioritization of leads. What is the Need for Lead Scoring?  Though, the main priority for marketers is to generate constant flow of sales-ready leads, only a small percentage of the leads generated by the marketing team are considered closable. According to statistics gathered from recent industry research, around 40%-50% of all inbound sales leads aren’t followed up by the salespeople. And even if they do so, a lot of time had already passed by for leads to be converted to customers.  Lead scoring, which is a key aspect of lead management helps marketers make the most of all the leads generated. By providing an objective way of sorting through all visitor interactions and ranking them basis their likelihood to buy the company’s products, lead scoring divulges details about the most sales-ready leads besides providing insight about how and which leads should be nurtured. By helping organizations rank their leads basis several behavioral and demographic factors, marketers can determine and focus on the most potential leads.   Evolution of Lead Scoring Tools and Capabilities:  Having information about which leads to follow up and which to ignore can be more of a speculation than science. Lead scoring provides sales and marketing experts a head start on the lead qualification process, which otherwise is time-consuming. Before the recent developments in technology, lead scoring was conducted manually and included making a detailed research on potential customers, recording their details on a database, and finally scoring them.   Today, Marketers have access to tools and capabilities that can help them rank, manage and nurture leads, so that more leads carry a higher probability for positive sales results. Automated capabilities and processes provide powerful ways to handle lead scoring and nurturing to help get the most from every visit to the website.   CRM assisted Lead Scoring:  Since, the task of manual lead scoring was strenuous and time-consuming, CRM (customer relationship management) systems emerged as the savior by automating and simplifying processes. With a robust CRM in place, businesses were able to gather data regarding every single lead and scoring them basis the selected criteria. While integrating a robust CRM system like Salesforce improved the manual way of scoring leads, it still lacked the efficiency required to quickly score leads basis their quality with sales and marketing teams still spending a lot of time gathering details about leads.   This paved way for another innovation i.e. marketing automation. While marketing automation is doing its bit by analyzing and processing a wide variety of data in an automated way, it doesn’t provide the efficacy to differentiate between visitors who are actually interested in making a purchase and those who are simply visiting the site without any intention of making a purchase. This has left space for a new player that offers a solution to all the lead scoring woes i.e. predictive lead scoring using artificial intelligence.   Predictive Lead Scoring:  A Game Changer  Powered by Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence, predictive lead scoring allows businesses to determine the criteria for defining a strong lead, creating models for lead scoring based on the specific needs of your company while adapting themselves in a changing market. The Einstein AI capability of Salesforce provides lead scoring an altogether new approach by streamlining a variety of tasks associated with it. Right from automatically collecting and analyzing CRM data for determining strong leads, creating finely tuned lead scoring models to gathering account insights, using Salesforce Einstein AI for lead scoring will augment the efficiency of sales and marketing teams by saving their time significantly. However, you must get in touch with a reliable Salesforce consulting company for any assistance regarding lead scoring including the creation of appropriate lead scoring formulae.   The Bottom line:  The value of figuring out sales-ready leads is inestimable. However, it isn’t easy to manually analyze humongous data to determine closable leads. A robust lead scoring system will help organizations to align their marketing and sales team while ensure better utilization of resources, improve rate of conversion, and condense sales cycle, which will ultimately translates to increased revenue. This will allow sales and marketing teams to close deals quickly while forge a strong relationship with their customers. As a cloud-powered CRM, Salesforce has become preferred choice of businesses due to the wide array of features, functionalities and components offered by the platform. To make the most of this platform, it’s important to partner with a reliable and experienced Salesforce implementation partner.

Imagine your organization can communicate in real time with your website users? Salesforce live agent is a tool provides this level of interaction in real-time and ability to chat online between an organization and its customers. The Live Agent in Salesforce tool offers the ability to personalise the customer experience based on how prospects engage with your website. There are additional advantages that users often overlook including multilingual capabilities, ability to connect subject matter expert efficiently and retrospectively reviewing live chat when building your smart team. Girikon’s Salesforce Consultants are suitably qualified to set up and configure Salesforce Live Agent for your company. The advantages of being a Salesforce Consulting Partner, Girikon has access to industry knowledge and the Salesforce Community to draw from to make the set up successful and highly efficient for your business. In the real life scenario below our Salesforce Consultants demonstrate live agent setup for multiple sites without a chat icon meaning that this setup is complex. The following setup also uses new available features which further assist you to setup a Salesforce live agent. Following the steps to setup salesforce live agent and remember that our certified Salesforce Consultant are a phone call or email away if you get stuck. Salesforce live agent is a tool which enables real-time, online chat between an organization and its customers. In real life scenario you can see there are multiple sites which does have chat icon from where you can directly get support from support team, that is now possible by Salesforce live agent too. You can easily step salesforce live agent by following steps Step 1: Enable live agent checkbox Setup→Customize→Live Agent→Live Agent Setting Click on enable live agent and hit “Save” button. After saving it you can see multiple objects have been created automatically into you org. For example, “Live Chat Transcript” which holds history of chatting. Step 2: Enable live agent user Setup→Users→Select User Edit user which you want to use as a “live agent user” and click on live agent user then hit “Save” button. Step 3: Live Agent Configurations Setup→Customize→Live Agent→Live Agent Configuration You need to configure live agent in which you can assign live agent user, profiles and provide supervisor setting and chat transfer settings Step4: Create New Skill Setup→Customize→Live Agent→Live Agent Setting Create skill for live agent user and save. Step 5: Setup Chat Button Setup→Customize→Live Agent→Chat Button & Invitation You need to create a “Chat” button where you need to enter Basic information, Routing information and chat button customization. For chat button customization you need to upload online and offline button image which will show on your public website. After saving chat button you will get chat button code you just need to copy that and paste into your website html Step 6: Live agent deployment Setup→Customize→Live Agent→Deployments Create new deployment and save it. After that you will get deployment code, you need to copy this code and paste it below the chat button code in your website html page Step 7: Setup live agent console app Setup–> Create –> App Create new console app and while creating this app please include live agent in this app and choose records or page to open subtabs of each chat session For testing purpose, open your website html where you have pasted chat button code and deployment code you can see either online or offline image which is based upon the agent’s status (online/offline). When agent is online click on online than request will send to agent user Agent user needs to go to console app which you have created and can accept the request than customer will be able to chat directly with agent Please share your feedback for this article, in case you need Salesforce Consultant, Salesforce Implementation Partner or Salesforce Development Services then please feel free to reach out to us at sales@girikon.com

What is Einstein Chat Bots? Have you had a conversation with Siri, Alexa or Cortana lately? These sophisticated applications have access to a readily available information to answer nearly every question, search for readily available videos or music and action any demand by the user. Now picture this type of applications in action for your organization. Imagine your customers, contacts etc. having this level of information about your company, your offerings, ability to ask for specific actions effectively servicing more of the intended audience at a fraction of the cost of older and outdated models. Salesforce’s Einstein Chat Bot is an automated program accessed in the cloud that once set up can provide a sophisticated level on interaction with other companies, customers, contacts etc. Salesforce Artificial Intelligence (AI) have introduced Salesforce Einstein Chat Bot as part of growing demand for efficiencies in an effective sales and service operations and marketing campaigns. The chat bot is an application which provides the communication path from your CRM, other information required about your company and can be configured to both oral and text conversations. The Einstein application is highly sophisticated, and, in some cases, customers can’t distinguish if the bot is a computer or human being. Einstein Chat bot is highly efficient it replies without wasting of your time and provides easy solutions to customers. Girikon’s Salesforce Consultants are suitably qualified to set up and configure Einstein Chat Bot for your company. The advantages of being a Salesforce Consulting Partner, Girikon has access to industry knowledge and the Salesforce Community to draw from to make the set up successful and highly efficient for your business. Below Girikon Certified Salesforce Consultants provide a step by step guide to setting up Einstein Chat bots and you too will be able to build your own automated Bot called whatever reflects your business! Step1: Enable Einstein Bots Setup→Feature Setting→Service →Service Cloud Einstein→Einstein Bots First of all, you will need to enable Einstein bots and accept all terms and conditions Step2: Enable Einstein Bot Option Menu Edit Einstein Bot Option menu and check Einstein Bot Option menu than click “Save” button. Step3: Create new Bot Click on “New” button and create new bot by following these steps Click on “New” button and create new bot by following these steps Add Einstein Bot Greeting Message Add the three common issues or questions from your customers Create an Einstein Bot when ready After clicking on “Finish” button, you will redirect to Einstein Bot Builder from where you can create different type of questions and messages according to your business requirement. Step 4: : Further configuration can be made using the Einstein Bot Builder Edit View Step 5: Setup Snap-ins Setup→Feature Setting→Service→Snap-ins Go to snap-ins and click on “New Deployment” Setup the New Snap in deployment Step 6: Snap-in Deployment Settings In deployment setting you will need to setup live agent setting where you must select live agent deployments and live agent button Edit Live Agents settings Step 7: Add channel Go to the Einstein Bot builder and click on “Overview” on left side window than create new channel Activate the chat bot where you can select snap-in and after clicking on “Submit” button you will be able to see “Chat with Expert” button. If required Click on “Chat with Expert” button Click on “Chat with Expert” button if you want to investigate chat window on Admin Site. Step 8: Test with live agent Click to see how to create live agent. You will get snap in code snippets from snap-in deployment settings You just need to copy and paste the highlighted code in the above picture into html page (before ) where you have added live agent. You can also use it in your public community too or any other site where your business demands. On customer end, it will look something like below image: Please share your feedback for this article, in the case you require a Salesforce Consultant, Salesforce Implementation Partner or Salesforce Development Service provider then please feel free to reach out to us at sales@girikon.com

The true potential of image recognition has been utilised by Salesforce Einstein. Isn’t exceptional if we have something that categorises customer into similar groups by filtering keywords in customer reviews and other media to group related cases and assign them to the accountable customer service executive. It will enhance customers service process leaving high customer satisfaction rate. With the adoption of image recognition, the business can better understand customer preferences and lifestyle through their social media images and their other actions. This is achievable with Salesforce Einstein Vision and its ability to recognise the image. Now, the user can leverage pre-trained classifiers such as food, picture, general or multi-label images in any app with just a few clicks. Einstein vision makes it possible by creating API learning models for every possible use case that include visual search, brand detection, and object identification. It also works on signature prediction, Salesforce Einstein Vision API helps to upload signature image data sets in the Einstein Platform Service Account, train datasets and classify a signature image to get the Einstein prediction result. A Salesforce Consultants are doing best to map the business need with Salesforce Einstein peculiarities. Salesforce has also introducing Einstein Vision for Social Studio, delivering AI-powered image recognition directly within Marketing Cloud’s social media marketing solution. Now, marketers can automate the discovery and identification of images, and respond appropriately. By understanding the photos that consumers post, marketers are empowered to reach consumers even when they have not specifically mentioned a brand, product or service by name. Einstein Vision is designed using Salesforce Research’s computer vision discoveries and has created a simplified solution for all the complexities of AI for customers. This advances image recognition are making help towards success in a new era by enabling companies to discover insights about customers and predict consequences that lead to intelligent arrangements. The power of AI will be implemented in the Salesforce Community and we all are excited to see the power of AI in CRM. Girikon as a Salesforce Consulting Partner has implemented Salesforce Einstein Vision making businesses develop and achieve a tremendous level of customer satisfaction.