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

"Whenever you go through a crisis, leadership has to come to the top. How do we emerge stronger as a business? Can we change the way we work? Can we make quicker decisions?" - Arvind Krishna

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

"...I can easily see previous interactions with the customer, and tie in critical information through integrations with our internal CRM and also with platforms like Salesforce...." Peer review by Ben MacAskill
"...satisfactory help from the salesforce help desk at dreamforce today...." Peer review by Rushitaa Gupta
"...This was the quote I liked the best, which was shared by the Salesforce SMB team on Twitter...." Dreamforce 2018 talking about small business

Salesforce Essentials, Less Annoying CRM, Teamgate CRM, Pipeliner CRM, Freshsales, 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

How can Salesforce Essentials enhance your Engagement Management process?

How efficiently Does Salesforce Essentials manage your Helpdesk Management?

What Are the key features of Salesforce Essentials for Sales Document Management?

Why is Salesforce Essentials the best choice for Knowledge Management?

How does Salesforce Essentials facilitate 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

Arvind Krishna

Chairman & CEO

IBM

Whenever you go through a crisis, leadership has to come to the top. How do we emerge stronger as a business? Can we change the way we work? Can we make quicker decisions? Testimonial By Arvind Krishna
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

Adam Lavezzo

VP, Revenue Strategy & Operations

BetterUp

Salesforce allows us to deliver personalization and transformation at scale in ways that we otherwise wouldn’t be able to. Testimonial By Adam Lavezzo
CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Salesforce Essentials testimonial

Arvind Krishna

Chairman & CEO

IBM

Whenever you go through a crisis, leadership has to come to the top. How do we emerge stronger as a business? Can we change the way we work? Can we make quicker decisions? Testimonial By Arvind Krishna
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

Adam Lavezzo

VP, Revenue Strategy & Operations

BetterUp

Salesforce allows us to deliver personalization and transformation at scale in ways that we otherwise wouldn’t be able to. Testimonial By Adam Lavezzo
 

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Salesforce in focus as Air Force picks tech giant to modernize vehicle ...

Washington D.C., USA

Salesforce has been selected by the Air Force to modernize its vehicle fleet, highlighting the tech giant's role in defense technology and fleet management. This partnership underscores Salesforce's ...capability to provide advanced solutions for large-scale government projects.

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Salesforce Deepens Commitment to Switzerland with $1 Billion Investment ...

Salesforce announced a $1 billion investment in Switzerland to boost AI transformation. Oviva, a European virtual care provider, uses Salesforce's Agentforce to handle 300,000 monthly customer messag...es autonomously, achieving high efficiency in operational support queries. Salesforce's commitment includes partnerships with Swiss organizations and support for local workforce development.

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Williams-Sonoma, Inc. - Retail - Large

San Francisco, USA

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. used Salesforce Data Cloud, AI, and Marketing Cloud to personalize engagement for millions of customers across nine brands. The company implemented Salesforce in just 7.5 months..., much faster than the typical 12–18 months. This led to 21 million new email subscribers and thousands of employee hours saved each year. Teams now automate workflows, centralize data, and deliver targeted messages using AI and CRM tools. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. also improved B2B sales and customer support with integrated Salesforce solutions.

Rise Alliance - Financial Services - Small

USA

Salesforce helped Rise Alliance double its customer base without adding staff. The company cut report compilation time by 97%, from one hour to two minutes. Automated reminders and a custom client po...rtal ended manual paperwork and saved at least an hour daily. Reliable uptime saved seven hours per week. Rise Alliance now uses data to spot client issues early and focus on strategy, not admin work.

Perk - Information Technology And Services - Medium

Boston, USA

Perk used Prospecting Agent from Agentforce Sales to automate manual prospecting. The sales team saw a 3x increase in call volume and built 60% of their North American pipeline with the tool. Email r...eply rates doubled, and meetings were booked within one week of setup. Reps shifted from research tasks to focusing on building relationships and closing deals. The solution let Perk's team spend more time on high-value sales activities.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What buyers ask before choosing 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?

Less Annoying CRM, Teamgate CRM, Pipeliner CRM and Freshsales 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

Read Reviews (16)
Custom Reports

3.96/5

Read Reviews (276)
Analytics

3.90/5

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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