Recently, Microsoft has introduced few more aspects in Office 365 Business as well as Office 365 Business premium that include Microsoft Invoicing, Microsoft Listings, and Microsoft Connections. These apps are firstly being launched for users in Canada, UK and US. Collaborating with Outlook customer manager, Microsoft Bookings and MileIQ, these apps introduce new ways for adequately managing customer relationships along with strongly making business. Along with these tools, Microsoft also introduces some intelligence features coming to MileIQ and these features will categorise drives as personal or business on its own.

So, here we are going to give you a thorough view of these apps and will focus on how they will help your small business to grow. These apps help businesses to get new customers and also nurture current ones along with simple invoicing, track mileage and schedule appointments from a single location.

Exploring Tools for Business Growth

Using Microsoft Connections, Outlook Customer Manager and Microsoft Listings, you can now nurture the relationships of your customers, discover new clients and make campaigns for email marketing more easily.

How to Microsoft Connections

By using Microsoft Connections, users can send fully professional emails that exhibit a business brand while driving sales. It helps engaging businesses to engage with their existing customers using newsletters and send announcements or updates related to their company that remind them for their visit. They can conveniently set-up various incentives to reward your current customers to provide references. Thus, you can get more business from them.

Microsoft Listings

Invite new customers through business listing on channels like Google, Yelp, Bing, and Facebook from a single place. Make sure all the information of your business, as well as brand, is accurate on these sites or channels. It helps users to easily check reviews, comments, replies or views of customers for your business in a single view.

Outlook Customer Manager

Nurture your customer relationships with smart yet simple customer manager solution available on Outlook. Fast access to each information related to a customer like meetings, notes, emails, deals, deadlines, calls, tasks and deals etc. All these updates appear next to the inbox. This way, you save your time on managing all data or navigating different screens. And this time, you can spend on making your customer relationship better.

Helpful Tools for Business Operations

There are new tools in MileIQ, Bookings and Microsoft Invoicing by which you can track mileage, properly handle customer appointments and send invoices. Here we will explore these tools and their usages in detail.

MileIQ

Check your miles in smarter and simpler way using automatic drive detection, thorough reporting and mileage logging. Categorise your trip as personal or business with single swap. Moreover, there are new smart features included which help saving time by classifying tours automatically as personal or business as per the working hours and also encourage frequent takes.

Microsoft Invoicing

Use Microsoft Invoicing to make invoices and estimates that will appear fully professional. By using online payments, make payment transactions faster. In addition, it allows you to track partial and pending payments, discover draft estimates, set discounts and sales, discover past payments, and transform your estimates in invoices quickly merely in few clicks.

Bookings

Comfortably manage the appointments for your customers and enable them to select a desired time via simple to set up booking page through inbuilt integration of Facebook. In addition, bookings include appointments automatically to the calendars of staff members and that get automatically updated on cancelling or rescheduling.

Using tools to tracking various business-related activities

Business Center acts the roll of main access point or dashboard for apps to bring all tools together that contribute to offer seamless service to the existing and potential customers and these tools include Microsoft Listings, Microsoft Connections, Microsoft Invoicing, Bookings etc. Using these tools, you can easily track down main metrics of your business such as outstanding and total invoices, online impressions, and email subscribers, total bookings to highlight the working or no working aspects; hence, you can easily find ample time to grow your business positively.

Getting Started on Office 365 New Tools to Grow Your Business

As these apps for business are aspects of MS Office 365, switching to them is as simple as to click on buttons over MS Outlook or discovering any tile from the home page of Office.com. It is absolutely free from managing different logins and transferring your data to various tools as the office 365 login allows you to access these apps. These apps utilise data which is already available in Office 365 like email data, calendar busy or free information, to present an integrated and simple experience. The best thing of these apps is that; they all come without any additional cost with Office 365 Business Premium and Microsoft 365 Business subscriptions.

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