Sales guide
April is a sales representative at Contoso Foods responsible for growing the Midwest district’s customer base and closing deals to grow revenue and retaining highly satisfied customers in the Midwest district.
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7:45 am
April starts her day planning her sales strategy on ways to exceed her quota for the quarter. She reviews Teams and notices a feed from the Dynamics CRM connector about a Fabrikam lead.
8:30 am
She starts researching Fabrikam using the Power BI dashboard tab. She uses WhoBot to find Derek, an expert on Fabrikam.
9:30 am
April reaches out to Derick via private chat on Teams and asks for his help with an introduction. Derick agrees and includes her in a Teams meeting with the director at Fabrikam.
11:30 am
April and Derick join their meeting on Teams. With the director’s permission, they record the meeting and documents his vision in the notes section of the meeting.
2:00 pm
April is excited about this opportunity to grow sales in the Midwest district with Fabrikam. She creates a new team in Teams and includes Derick, along with other SMEs to help put together their proposal.
3:30 pm
April has a meeting with her team and posts a link to the meeting recording and her notes. She then creates a new OneNote tab in their channel.
4:30 pm
April also creates a new Planner tab and assigns several tasks with owners and due dates. She @mentions her team asking them to review the tasks and share their feedback
5:00 pm
Excited with prospect of new opportunity to close a deal, she navigates to the Dynamics tab and updates her lead to opportunity stage.
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