“What’s get scheduled, gets done” – Michael Hyatt
Approximately 21% time of every sale representative’s time is lost in scheduling meetings with their prospective clients and writing email reminders for upcoming meetings. This burdens the sales reps and when the time comes to show off their sales skill in public, they are too tired to shine. The constant coordination and emailing eats up a lot of time and that’s is why today’s forward thinking sales leaders invest in the right sales automation and automatic scheduling tools to shed off administrative burden from the sales reps.
Investing in an appointment scheduling app is essential because these tools help organizations speed up the sales process by booking the meetings automatically. These tools eliminate the need of unnecessary back and forth emails saving the time of the sales reps. What more, many of the scheduling apps can be easily integrated with their work calendar or other sales apps to helpcreate a streamlined sales experience for both the sales person and the prospective client.
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We have come across the following top scheduling tools that organizations should look out for in 2021:
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HubSpot Meeting Tool
The HubSpot Meeting Tool is free to use and offers a suite of incredible facilities. Sales reps can easily integrate this meeting tool with the Google Calendar they use, set the availability and preferences that help them in prioritizing their meetings. The meeting page can also be integrated with their email or the embedded website.
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SimplyBook
If you are service based company, SimplyBook is the meeting software for you. SimplyBook offers easy integration with current website or the meeting tools offers a great way to create custom booking pages within the platform. The tool is capable of integrating itself with the social media profiles and accepts bookings directly from them.
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Square Appointments
While Square Appointments is free for individuals, they charge for their basic and advanced versions. Square Appointments is a flexible meeting and payment platform to streamline the work of sales reps. It allows features such as setting up free customer booking website features, activated automated text, email, reminders and so on.
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Doodle
Doodle is available for free, but the advanced version of course has better capabilities. It is an excellent meeting scheduling app, which prompts the sales reps on available meeting times. Once the time is finalized, a calendar event is added to the host. It comes with an in-built dashboard where all upcoming sales meetings can be organized.
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Meetingbird
Meetingbird is another free meeting tool for clean and intuitive meetings – the tool is customizable according to the unique needs of a team or business with group scheduling, time zone detection, and synced calendars. The best part is, it easily integrates with Zoom, Gmail and so on.
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Rally
The collaborative scheduling is done just right with the help of Rally. One unique feature of Rally is that it offers classic polling functionality where the members can suggest the best time for the meeting and the decision can be taken based on the majority of the votes. With an interactive interface, the meeting members can discuss anything within the interface.
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Woven
Woven offers its tool in the form of a Calendar where a sales rep can add his free and available timings for the next set of appointments. The prominent features of the meeting tool are automatic scheduling link, poller and availability sharing. With the help of Woven, the user can organize multiple calendars at one place so that he or she doesn’t lose track when there are many sales meetings for the day.
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Calendly
The best advantage of using Calendly is that it heavily relies on Google for everything. This app will automatically sync with the Google calendar making it easier for the user to track the meetings and appointments.
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Setmore
The companies, which want their employees to have their own personalised scheduling page, should look up Setmore. Setmore not only helps in booking the appointments online but the customers can also view the cost associated with the appointment, request reminders on their smart devices and set recurring visits.
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Meetings and appointments are important for managing and growing a business. The scheduling tools mentioned above not only helps in streamlining the entire sales meeting process, but it helps in maximizing the time they spend with the prospective clients.