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Customizing Hours and Shifts with Zoho Business Software

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Zoho business softwareDid you know that with Zoho business software, users have the option to customize their business hours for their company, including the option to specify different hours for each day? Users can also assign specific shift hours (in different time zones) to other users and team members.

Setting up custom hours

  • Click on “Setup,” then “General,” and  then “Company Details”
  • In the horizontal navigation menu near the top, select “Business Hours” to open the Business Hours Definition screen
  • Click on “Custom Hours” to set the hours you’d like
  • Click “Save”

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Zoho CRM Training: Many-to-Many Relationships

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Zoho CRM trainingWhen you sign up for Zoho CRM training with Marks Group Live, we’re not only excited to share information and tutorials on current Zoho features and products, but we also like to update our subscribers on new Zoho features. In today’s blog post, we want to discuss a fairly recent update regarding many-to-many relationships within Zoho and how it’s now easier than ever to create a custom one.

Previous method

Previously, before the new update, users wanting to create customized many-to-many relationships in Zoho had to add a custom module. This custom module would include look-up fields for each module that users wanted to connect to a contact. For instance, if you wanted to relate one contact with several others, you would have needed to create a custom module, “Connections,” and then add two contact lookup fields.  

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Easy Document Management with Zoho Sign

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Zoho Sign document managementBy adding Zoho Sign to your suite of Zoho apps, you can easily send out your CRM documents for signatures. With your current Zoho CRM subscription, it is available at no extra cost. You’ll have the option to install the Zoho Sign extension from the Zoho CRM marketplace once you create a Zoho Sign account. Once this is all set up, you’ll be able to send documents needed for signatures.

Creating your Zoho Sign account

  • Log in to your Zoho CRM account
  • Go to sign.zoho.com
  • Accept an invitation to your organization’s account, or if you’ll be creating one, enter an organization name. You’ll want to confirm first that someone else in your organization hasn’t already created an account.

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Zoho CRM Tutorial: Custom Module Tip

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Custom modules in Zoho CRMIf you’re looking for a good source for Zoho CRM tutorial videos, you’ve come to the right place! At Marks Group Live, we provide Zoho CRM tutorial videos to our subscribers, which offer training on a wide array of topics. We cover everything Zoho has to offer, including the basic fundamentals of all Zoho apps and products, as well as detailed tutorials on some of Zoho’s best features. We pride ourselves on not only making Zoho easy to understand, but helping out our clients by providing tips and tricks that can allow you to use Zoho more efficiently.

Custom Modules in Zoho

One tip we’d like to share on our blog today is related to custom modules. If you’ve created a custom module in Zoho CRM, then you already know of the standard custom module name field. By default, this is a required, single-line field that essentially names the record. Often, it becomes an extra step when it comes to the record creation process, and is not always needed.

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Zoho Integrations: Appointment Scheduling with Calendly

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Zoho Integrations: Appointment Scheduling with CalendlyThere are a lot of Zoho integrations that can allow you to customize Zoho how you see fit, and with the Calendly integration, you can embed a link on your website (or send it directly to someone), which can easily allow customers to see what days and times you’re available and then schedule an appointment with you.

Once someone does schedule an appointment with you, it’s added as an event record in Zoho CRM, which can also be added to Google Calendar or your Outlook calendar.

Here’s how you can set up a Calendly account and integrate it with Zoho:

Setting up a Calendly account

In order to take advantage of Calendly’s features and Zoho integrations, you’ll need to create a Calendly account. There are paid subscriptions available that offer free trials; there is also the option to sign up for a free version.
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Zoho Help: Creating Multiple Values With a Subform

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Zoho help and supportZoho CRM has a lot of interesting and helpful features, but with a little Zoho help, you may also discover some things that you didn’t even know Zoho was capable of. For instance, let’s say you have some information pertaining to a specific contact—or multiple contacts—and you want to track that information. Zoho offers two sets of address fields, including “Mailing” and “Other.” But what options do you have if there’s additional information you need to track?

What not to do

One thing you don’t want to do is create additional sets of address fields. The reason being is that it takes up extra room unnecessarily for contacts with fewer addresses, and when you have one contact that has more than you’ve allotted for, you’re adding more fields.

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Zoho CRM Help: Getting Your Team On Board

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Zoho CRM Help: Getting Your Team On BoardAt The Marks Group, we have implemented hundreds of CRM systems, such as Zoho CRM, for our clients throughout the years. One of the major challenges that our clients have encountered is getting their team members, particularly their sales team, to get on board with Zoho CRM. Help from an expert training program can be especially beneficial in these circumstances, because they provide tips, tricks, and other skills needed for those new to Zoho CRM. Help from the right training program can not only get a team on board, but by showing them all the great and useful features that Zoho CRM offers, it can get them excited to use the system.

Some other ways to get your team to use Zoho CRM include:

The Lead Trick

Leads are important for a sales team to succeed, and if information about promising leads are being put into Zoho CRM, it forces them to use Zoho in order to get that information. If this is the only way that your sales team can access information about leads, they will have no choice but to use your CRM system if they want to succeed in their roles as salespeople.

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Zoho Learning: 3 Mistakes to Avoid Making

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Zoho Learning: 3 Mistakes to Avoid MakingImplementing a CRM system, like Zoho, can do wonders for your business. At the same time, a few mistakes can actually mess up your next technology project completely, resulting in wasted money and time. When it comes to using Zoho, learning about certain mistakes you should avoid ahead of time can save you a lot of frustration.

Some of the mistakes you’ll want to avoid making as a new Zoho user include:

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Getting the Most Out Of Your CRM With a Zoho Consultant

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 Zoho Consultant: Maximize Your CRM SystemAre you thinking about investing in a CRM system and working with a Zoho consultant to get the most out of it, but still wondering if it’s worth it? Do you already have Zoho CRM, and you’re struggling with it?

The Sales Operations Optimization Study that CSO recently released examined many different companies to determine the effectiveness of their sales operations. The following was our takeaway:

You need a sales operation, not just a sales force

These days, your team needs to include administrative support and management. Your sales force can’t do it all alone. The best way to support your team is also to have an effective CRM system in place, such as Zoho. It also helps to work with a Zoho consultant to ensure everyone on your team has a thorough understanding of everything Zoho has to offer.

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Convincing Your Team to Use Zoho Products

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Zoho Products: Convincing Your TeamDid you just become a subscriber to various Zoho products? Are you having a hard time convincing your team to use them? It’s important to focus on these three things.

Divide

Many sales teams can be divided into three different groups. About 20 percent will be power users; these will be the people that understand Zoho products and love them. The second group, which may be about 60 percent of your team, will understand enough, but can still benefit from some Zoho training. The final 20 percent may not want any part of the CRM system and will need a great deal of convincing and training, which is the group you’re going to need to focus on the most.

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