How will a Web Portal help my Business?

You might be asking yourself, will investing in a web portal actually help my business?

Here are some features to better explain how a Web Portal can help:

1. Decrease Expenses

A web portal can decreased expenses, or re-allocation of valuable internal resources. Employees that currently execute CRM data entry tasks from customers, such as account changes, profile updates, and quote requests can now focus on other important tasks at hand.

Managing your portal with The Portal Connector for Dynamics CRM and Dynamics 365 will also save you money! But that's another topic...

2. Value to Your Website

You'll definitely see an increase in traffic to your website once your customers are using the web portal instead of the phone to access products, services and information.

More traffic to your website provides numerous benefits to your marketing department. For example:

Increased cross promotional opportunities to existing customers
Higher search rankings and SEO results
More quality visits means greater reputation for the website

3. Stand Out from Your Competition

With a customer friendly web portal, you will stand out from your competitors that lack a portal. Gain a competitive advantage, and provide your customers with an experience they will appreciate you for.

4. Customer Retention

In todays competitive market, customer retention is very important, as I am sure you are aware how much it costs to gain a new customer, versus keeping an existing customer. A web portal will provide your customers with an experience that keeps them coming back.

Imagine your customer being able to use their smart phone, easily login to your web portal and submit a support ticket, while in line at the coffee shop. You have given your customer flexibility and choice, and they will continue to choose to do business with you.

5. Efficiency

There are endless possibilities to increase efficiencies at every level of your business!

Allow your service department to prioritize and allocate online requests to the right people at the right time.
Allowing customers to monitor their requests online, with LIVE status updates, also means they wont be calling to find out what's happening.
Product returns and RMA's can be handled by customers entirely online, including the download of shipping labels.
Event registration, membership renewals, and similar transactions with customers are easily handled with a web portal and the automation capabilities of CRM allows the process to be seamless for both you and your customers.

There are so many ways that a web portal can help your business. Once you get started, you will find new opportunities where a web portal will improve or enhance your business processes and ultimately provide an exceptional experience for your customers.

Book a free demo to see what a portal can do for you!