ToutApp + Highrise = Email Bliss

When people ask us for a simple CRM solution, we always recommend Highrise. Highrise is a simple CRM that helps you manage your contacts and helps you to remember the important things about the people you would normally forget. 

I wouldn't be where I am today without ToutApp, and the integration with Highrise. -- Matt Rae, Tripzaar Inc.

Before the days of Highrise, managing and tracking your customers was no fun. Lacking visibility into your sales team's activity, your customer data was all over the place on sticky notes and reporting and analysis was painful. Highrise changed the game with visibility and collaboartion across your sales team and the ability to have reporting around progression. Essentially, Highrise helps manage your contacts, keep track of who said what when, schedule follow-ups, set reminders and convert leads into done deals. 

Now before the days of ToutApp, your emails would fall into a black abyss. Lacking visibility into exactly what is happening to your emails after you hit send and lacking knowledge of whether your messaging resonated with your prospect or even was effective at all. ToutApp plugs right into your day to day workflow and helps streamline and crystalize your communications process with real time tracking, powerful templates and analytics around the emails you are sending. Lastly, ToutApp bridges the gap between your email and your CRM.

ToutApp has been a fantastic sales tool to monitor who has and hasn't opened my personal emails and clicked on the links, this helps me see who is more engaged with what I am saying and who to keep in contact with. It also saves me time copying my emails to Highrise, ToutApp does it for me. Very useful, highly recommended. -- Nick Storr, Sales Manager at Connected

ToutApp + Highrise

Now, combined the two and bam...something magical happens. Mergence of the two = pure email bliss. Giving you the ability to send trackable emails from within your Highrise and get reporting around those emails. Imagine the effectiveness and time saving capabilties here.

You want to know more you say?

ToutApp will automagically update every single email sent through ToutApp to Highrise and assign it to the proper contact. You honestly will never have to worry about copying your CRM's BCC address again, because Tout will always take care of that for you.

Beautiful, we know. Beyond copying all your emails, Tout will bring a whole new level of data to your CRM that will truly help you understand the interaction with your contact, and once again make Highrise a valuable source of information that shows the value of your relationships.

Everytime your contact is viewing, clicking or has replied Tout will send a notification of the activity to Highrise.

We know how tiresome it can be having to create a new contact in your email client and your Highrise each and every time you want to send an email. ToutApp takes that pain point away in a snap. Each time you shoot off a Tout email to a recipient who is not in your Highrise, ToutApp will create a contact for that person with their name and email, and copy all associated emails to that contact. 

All done seamlessly and automatically. Don't believe us? Check out what our happy  ToutApp and Highrise users are saying... 

ToutApp's integration with Highrise makes me life much easier! I can see when my contacts open and read an email and what better time to reach back out and engage with them than right after that! -- Callie Harris, Public Relations Manager at uKnow.com

ToutApp with Highrise is magically efficient! You haven't seen efficiency until you have used ToutApp with Highrise. -- Matt Rae, Tripzaar

If you want to scale the way you track your leads and customers to stay competitive and close more deals start Touting... in Highrise of course. Of course, for those of you who something even simplier than Highrise there's the ToutApp Lab Spreadsheet CRM.

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“ToutApp gives me complete visibility into every single email I send”

Our featured User of the Week entry comes from Max Altschuler, VP of Business Development at AttorneyFee. Every week or so, we'll profile a different user who uses our platform to improve their email productivity. If you would like to be featured in the future, you can apply here. 

I'm the VP of Business Development at AttorneyFee. We are a consumer legal startup aiming to help connect consumers with legal issues to credible attorneys in their area. On the Business Development side, we are constantly trying to find new partners that will drive consumers in need, to our platform. There are tons of potential partners in this space and is becoming very exciting.

Where does Tout fit?

I have been able to use Tout at two different business. At one, I was sending thousands of emails over the course of the week. At the other, I was sending twenty to fifty emails throughout the week, however a lot more personalized. Tout streamlined my process at both businesses and has made really easy for me to connect with more and more people. I can see what is working and what is not. ToutApp gives me complete visibility into every single email that I send off.

ToutApp has been a huge help to track and optimize our emails.

Why do you love ToutApp?

ToutApp allows me to stay organized and connect with partners in a timely manner. I can track everything that goes on between my outbox and someone else's inbox. This gives me the transparency I need to trigger follow up emails. It also acts as a very lightweight relationship management tool that I can use straight from Gmail. This is exactly what I need for a job that requires fewer overall connections but more depth to each one.

What is one unique trick you use with ToutApp?

ToutApp allows me to take the next step of action and hit call from the Live Feed. So, if I notice someone is viewing my email, I take that as an opportunity to call them straight from the Live Feed. It's a great little trick to get people on the phone. Especially, as they are looking over what you had sent them. 

I can attribute a lot of success to getting new customers and clients because of ToutApp.

For more tips and tricks for how to best use Tout, check out our Sales 101 page.

My Best Sales Hack

I recently was on a screen share and saw an inbox on the other end of the screen that was immaculately organized! I was actually suprised and a tad bit jealous to see such a clean looking inbox to be honest. If you're an avid emailer you probably understand my pain of owning a mess of an inbox. Working at ToutApp I've become completely email obsessed, so of course this discovery of a poster child for a perfect inbox got me pretty excited. 

Here is how I came to love Gmail's multiple inboxes. 

The Problem

I live and breathe email (and a lot of Salesforce) so Gmail for me is where I spend a lot of my time. The big problem was my Gmail inbox looked like a Rubix Cube before it was solved -- a complete jumble. 

The bigger problem was the important email responses from hot leads that were getting buried in my inbox. 

Writing sales emails and follow ups with the goal in mind to get a reply is always at the top on my mind. With ToutApp I've been able to hone my messaging to identify what email messaging and follow up typically generate replies.

Too many replies is a good problem to have, but a messy inbox makes it difficult to prioritize and manage following up efficiently. I needed to find a way to make it easy to identify the most important email replies in my inbox. 

The Solution 

Multiple inboxes. Beyond just the ability to organize your read, unread and starred emails, I discovered creating filters was the best way to keep important replies easy to identify in my inbox.

If you're not feeling my excitement just yet, here's how I've put this solution into play.

New ToutApp users are typically put on a 5X5 drip. This is made easy with templates and auto-follow up. One of my inboxes filters only replies from new ToutApp users on the drip.

My most important inbox filters what I deem to be important replies. I've named this inbox "big deals" Example: I send over an email to set up some time to chat with a decision maker connected to a "big deal" I've followed up a handful of times and receive a one-liner "10am Wednesday".

How to get started?

1. Head on over to Gmail Settings. Go to labs and enable multiple inboxes. 
2. You should now have a "multiple inboxes tab". Once you click on the tab you'll see the option to create different searches.
3. Create your search queries. This is the key to organizing your inbox. Example: subject:(re:type in your subject line)in:inbox
4. Rearrange. Choose the positioning of your new inboxes.
5. Lastly, enjoy your new organized inbox!

Take your game to the next level, learn more tips to streamline your email process with email tracking for Outlook and Gmail, analytics and templates. Check out ToutApp or sign up for a free trial.

Introducing: The Sales Communications Dashboard

First of all, Happy Friday.

For those of you that are already ToutApp users, I hope you had a fantastic week of sales communications with new and exciting leads. Thanks to Tout's Live Feed, you already know who your most engaged leads were, and have probably closed a few more deals than you normally would have since you focused your time on the right people.

For this Friday, as you reflect on how the week went and what you want to do differently next week, we want to give you something that helps synthesize how your sales communications went this week.

Today, we're introducing something brand new that is going to take your sales game to the next level. Today, we're announcing something takes all of that amazing analytics and tracking data around your sales emails and wraps it into one meaningful dashboard. Today, we're announcing our real-time sales communications dashboard.

Although its unorthodox to release stuff on a Friday, we thought it would be great because as you wind down on your long week, you can go ahead and log into ToutApp Dashboard, click on the "This Week" button, and see how your whole week looked in terms of your sales communications.

Tout's pulse dashboard will make meaning out of all those individual email views and clicks and tell you:

1. Which times of the weeks were busiest for you
2. Which times of the week your customers were most engaged
3. How many emails you dealt with this week
4. Which templates you used the most
5. What kind of email content drove the most engagement
6. Who your most engaged leads/prospects/customers are

And ofcourse, the dashboard was designed for Managers and Teams in mind first, so it'll also help you tap into the sales communications across your organization and see how everyones doing as a whole.

We've put in a significant amount of investment into the underlying data infrastrucutre for processing our email and engagement data. We think this dashboard is just the beginning. 

If you and your sales team aren't on ToutApp yet, what are you waiting for? Get Touting.

ToutApp for Outlook introduces Advanced Email and Presentation Tracking

Today, we're announcing Version 2.0 of ToutApp for Outlook. With it, you get a rock solid battled-tested plugin that adds Tout email tracking, templates and our newly introduced presentation tracking to Outlook versions spanning from 2007 to 2013.

Watch the Video Overview

How is it battle tested?

Since releasing our Outlook plugin last year, we've been hard at work working with customers across major enterprises spanning Outlook versions 2007 to 2013 and Windows versions XP, 7 and even Windows 8.

Tout already offers you the most advanced email and templating in the sales communications space, and today we're happy to announce support for presentation tracking right from inside of Outlook.

Why Tout for Outlook?

For those of you unfamiliar with Tout or email tracking in general, Tout's sales communications platform plugs into Outlook, Gmail, and your CRM to help solve these key problems in your day-to-day sales process:

1. Not knowing what happens to your important sales emails after hitting "Send."
2. Constantly jumping back and forth from your Outlook into your CRM having to manually upadate your sales communications. 
3. Having to constantly re-attach files, or re-write the same emails over, and over, and over. 

Key Features

1. Email and presentation tracking with real-time feed: You know when your email is opened, links are clicked, presentations are viewed down to the page and even when someone replies. See who is engaging with your emails as it happens right from Outlook so you can manage your time and follow up effectively. 
    
2. Customizable templates. Write emails faster with saved templates. You can also draft an email up on the fly and save it as a template. Bonus - add a trackable attachment just as you're about to send the email.
    
3. Auto-update your CRM. Forgot to update your CRM? No need to include a BCC or hop into your contact record. Tout auto updates your CRM once you send your email. 

To get started with ToutApp for Outlook, you can download the latest version here.

If you don't have a ToutApp account yet, start here.