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Get Started	Setting up for Your Business
This demonstration shows you how to work with Microsoft CRM accounts and contacts in Microsoft Office Outlook Microsoft CRM sales functionality can help you track sales. This overview demonstrates how to create a lead, convert the lead into an opportunity, and provide a quote Microsoft CRM offers many customer service tools. This video demonstrates how your customer service staff can create and track customer service requests and tasks This video demonstrates the service scheduling capabilities, including types of scheduling and defining services, in Microsoft CRM Learn to convert records from one record type to another as part of the sales life cycle Learn to create a personal view using Advanced Find Learn to share and assign records to other users	Microsoft CRM is a customisable solution for your business. This demonstration walks you through how to customise existing entities to fit your operations, and how to create your own entities Microsoft CRM has data duplication functionality to keep unnecessary and redundant information out of the system. This demonstration covers how to configure the data duplication settings for your business as well as how to run duplicate detection jobs This video walks you through the steps of creating and managing sales territories for your sales team This demonstration steps your through maintaining security roles in Microsoft CRM. Learn how to create and modify security roles and privileges for your organisation This video demonstrating how to create a simple follow up process that fires when you import trade show leads Using the sales process as an example, this video demonstrates how you can use Microsoft CRM workflow tools to generate the activities necessary to complete a process Take a complete tour of using Advanced Find to find information, exporting data to Microsoft Office Excel to analyse it, using default reports, and creating your own reports by using the Report Wizard

Sales	Marketing
2 ways to see combined account and order data Find Accounts with no Contacts Add Product Line Items for a Quote in Word Mail Merge Are you neglecting any Customers? Are your Customers buying? Combine Microsoft CRM data with PivotTables for effective sales forecasting Build price lists for multiple customer segments Print a customer-ready sales document Reschedule an appointment in 1 minute Reward your Customers with quantity discounts Do not lose Customers when a sales person leaves Establishing relationships between customer records that don't relate View and evaluate the quality of your sales territories Work while you wait - create a printable report of phone calls Winning stategies to beat your competition Hitting the road with the laptop client Help with an email quick campaign Follow a lead from creation through closure Manage your time and activities with reminders Get ready for your holidays Sales process improvements Simplify sharing of opportunities with direct e-mailing links Mobile Customer Relationship Management CRM Appointments - Who is the Organiser? Report on Opportunities Lost to Competitors	Create Mail Labels from a Marketing List Getting Around In Microsoft CRM Using Advanced Find Follow a campaign response through the marketing process 4 ways to put campaign responses to work for you Campaigns from start to finish Track marketing campaign responses Using Mail Merge Mailing Label Merger Marketing with Microsoft CRM Plan & tracking a winning marketing campaign Create a price list to use for a free sample Create a price list to use for a sales promotion Put strategy behind product pricing Save time with a library of campaign templates Sending Campaign email activities Setting up a simple price list Take advantage of e-mail communications methods in Microsoft CRM Set your email messages apart Fine tune your marketing lists with Advanced Find What's the difference between Campaigns and Quick Campaigns Leveraging marketing lists across your teams Qualifying a marketing lists Campaign Scenario Get in touch to find and keep your customers Bulk Email with an Attachments
Customer Services	Configuration
10 steps to get started with Customer Service Scheduling for a service business Scheduling service priorities in the Service Calendar Streamline opening and closing case Keep your knowledge base fresh with article reviews Notfiy sales person of an open case Simple steps to take toward accurate case resolution Keep your service calendar healthy when an employee isn’t Using Workflow to escalate ignored cases Fastest way around the services calendar Track returned products Capture and share your team's collective knowledge Case from capture to closure Escalate ignored support cases Keeping your Customers coming back Follow a Service activity from call to reservation Customer Service Satisfaction Optimsing Service Scheduling Performance & Scalability of Service Scheduling See us on You Tube:	Closing multiple activities Speeding up your Microsoft CRM system Optimising CRM Client Performance Troubleshooting Outlook Client Customising for High-Latency & Low Bandwidth 9 Steps to get started with Reporting Network Ports used by Microsoft CRM Performance Counters for Microsoft CRM To Archive or Not An introduction to v4 workflow Backing up your customisations Calculate total activity duration Improve your Search Take advantage of Tabbed Browsing Tips for Import Wizard Diagnosing Outlook Client Issues Default Values of Status & Status Reason Make CRM client-to-server network communications more secure Edit your site map Importing your source data Importing your outlook contacts Trouble shooting bulk import Use web list parts in Microsoft CRM Let your business take a day off How to switch your Reporting Services server Connect a new entity to an existing entity Create a Microsoft CRM Dashboard Display a Sharepoint document library 3 steps to control the form assistant 5 ways to import data Back up your Microsoft CRM application Fix bulk import jobs Speed data entry by setting default values Speed up Outlook data synchronisation Top 10 keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft CRM Getting the most out of Fax integration Help users find information faster Microsoft CRM v3 Logical Database Diagrams Organise your data using subject trees Prevent lead build up by bulk processing Prevent report bottlenecks Save clicks with a Personalised Workplace Save time when importing leads, accounts and contacts Sort records by multiple columns If Reporting Services is installed on different server Securing CRM data held on an Offline Client

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