Salesforce Essentials Overview

Salesforce-essentials offers a powerful CRM solution for small businesses to enhance sales processes and stay competitive. Control of sales processes and business success is facilitated.

Use Cases

Customers recommend Engagement Management, Helpdesk Management, Sales Document Management, as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied with while using Salesforce Essentials.

Other use cases:

  • Knowledge Management
  • Contact List Management
  • Communication Management
  • Lead Tracking
  • Collaboration
  • Workflow Management
  • Customer Case Management
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Business Priorities

Enhance Customer Relationships and Acquire Customers are the most popular business priorities that customers and associates have achieved using Salesforce Essentials.

Other priorities:

  • Increase Sales & Revenue
  • Improve Stakeholder Relations
  • Improve ROI
  • Increase Customer Life Time Value
  • Improve Efficiency
  • Improve Brand Engagement
  • Build Brand Awareness
  • Grow Market Share
  • Increase Average Basket Value
  • Improve Digital And Social Presence
  • Improve Internal Communications
  • Scale Best Practices
  • Launch New Products
  • Establish Thought Leadership
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Salesforce Essentials Use-Cases and Business Priorities: Customer Satisfaction Data

Salesforce Essentials works with different mediums / channels such as Social Media. Twitter. and Facebook.

Salesforce Essentials's features include Personalization, Ticketing, Recording, etc. and Salesforce Essentials support capabilities include Email Support, 24/7 Support, Phone Support, etc. also Salesforce Essentials analytics capabilities include Custom Reports, and Analytics.

Reviews

"There's a time in a customer's journey where they might run into an issue or a problem, and that is a defining moment where you can either rise to the occasion and help them or not. If you can address it, you raise the value in the mind of the custo...mer." - Patrick Spence

Peer review evidence (same sources as the product rating summary)

"...From all types of customer interactions (email, calls, meetings) to task lists, opportunities, and current status...." Peer review by User
"...Few features stand out - like the advance search option, mass actions, easy export, their helpful & courteous support team, lesser pricing than Zendesk, doesn't have bloat like zendesk. ...." Peer review by George V., Support Manager, Entertainment
"...For example, DocuSign has removed friction in the agreement process to accelerate speed to contract signing, ZenDesk has created a simple customer support platform, and Salesforce has recently releases Salesforce Essentials, a customer relationship management(CRM)..." Advances in business technology put SMBs ahead of the pack (VB Live)

Salesforce Essentials, ConvergeHub, Close CRM, LeadSquared Mobile CRM, Apptivo, etc., all belong to a category of solutions that help CRM. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

Popular Business Setting

for Salesforce Essentials

Top Industries

  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology and Services
  • Consumer Electronics

Popular in

  • Small Business
  • Enterprise
  • Mid Market

Salesforce Essentials is popular in Manufacturing, Information Technology And Services, and Consumer Electronics and is widely used by Small Business, Enterprise, and Mid Market.

Salesforce Essentials Customer wins, Customer success stories, Case studies

What makes Salesforce Essentials ideal for Engagement Management?

How can Salesforce Essentials optimize your Helpdesk Management Workflow?

What makes Salesforce Essentials ideal for Sales Document Management?

How can Salesforce Essentials optimize your Knowledge Management Workflow?

What Are the key features of Salesforce Essentials for Contact List Management?

17 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well Salesforce Essentials solved their CRM needs. Cuspera uses 2588 insights from these buyers along with peer reviews, customer case studies, testimonials, expert blogs and vendor provided installation data to help you assess the fit for your specific CRM needs.

CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Salesforce Essentials testimonial

Patrick Spence

CEO

Sonos

There's a time in a customer's journey where they might run into an issue or a problem, and that is a defining moment where you can either rise to the occasion and help them or not. If you can address it, you raise the value in the mind of the customer. Testimonial By Patrick Spence
Salesforce Essentials testimonial

Jane Moran

CIO

Unilever

I want to democratize the development of technology. With the Salesforce platform, we can give the power away to our business community. Testimonial By Jane Moran
Salesforce Essentials testimonial

Mk Getler

Chief Marketing Officer

Loop & Tie

Our relationships with small vendors make loop & tie the platform it is; we pride ourselves on being part of a healthy and stable economy. With salesforce, we have a better understanding of our own opportunities to support growing businesses. Testimonial By Mk Getler
CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Salesforce Essentials testimonial

Patrick Spence

CEO

Sonos

There's a time in a customer's journey where they might run into an issue or a problem, and that is a defining moment where you can either rise to the occasion and help them or not. If you can address it, you raise the value in the mind of the customer. Testimonial By Patrick Spence
Salesforce Essentials testimonial

Jane Moran

CIO

Unilever

I want to democratize the development of technology. With the Salesforce platform, we can give the power away to our business community. Testimonial By Jane Moran
Salesforce Essentials testimonial

Mk Getler

Chief Marketing Officer

Loop & Tie

Our relationships with small vendors make loop & tie the platform it is; we pride ourselves on being part of a healthy and stable economy. With salesforce, we have a better understanding of our own opportunities to support growing businesses. Testimonial By Mk Getler
 

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Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

for Salesforce Essentials

What is Salesforce Essentials?

Salesforce Essentials is the vendor's small business plan for its CRM (Sales Cloud) and customer support (Service Cloud) solutions. It is designed for a small sales team to sell smarter and faster with the help of the app's built-in intelligence. It helps to acquire customers and enhance customer relationships.

Salesforce Essentials help to obtain data from email, calendar, spreadsheets, phone, chat, social channels, and more to get a view of every customer and the business. It connects with customers for a personalized customer experience and sells faster and smarter with built-in intelligence.

Some of its features include a 360-degree customer view, in-app tutorials, and guided setup, easy customizable view of all sales details, automatically connect multiple support channels, automate repetitive tasks, and many more.

What is Salesforce Essentials used for?

Salesforce Essentials is a CRM Software mainly used by its customers to Enhance Customer Relationships and Acquire Customers by Engagement Management, Helpdesk Management and Sales Document Management .

What are the top features of Salesforce Essentials?

Personalization, Ticketing and Recording are some of the top features of Salesforce Essentials.

Who uses Salesforce Essentials?

Salesforce Essentials is used by Manufacturing, Information Technology And Services and Consumer Electronics among other industries.

What are Salesforce Essentials alternatives?

ConvergeHub, Close CRM, LeadSquared Mobile CRM and Apptivo are popular alternatives for Salesforce Essentials.

Where is Salesforce Essentials located?

Salesforce Essentials is headquartered at 415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States.
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Peers used Salesforce Essentials for engagement management and helpdesk management

Salesforce Essentials Features

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FEATURE RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

3.92/5

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Custom Reports

3.96/5

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Analytics

3.90/5

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CAPABILITIES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

3.92/5

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Custom Reports

3.96/5

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Analytics

3.90/5

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Salesforce, Inc. News

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Financial

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Financial

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Salesforce, Inc. Profile

Company Name

Salesforce, Inc.

Year Founded

1999

HQ Location

415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States

Employees

10001+

Social

Financials

IPO