Membrains Sales Inbox and Sales Calendar could be considered the two unsung heroes of Membrain. They bring focus to important emails and help you manage your meetings like a true professional.  

Learn all about the powerful features Membrains Sales Inbox and Sales Calendar

But there's always room for improvement, right? So we've been busy working on the things we know will bring even more productivity to your day. Take a look at these 8 improvements we've made recently, in order of pure awesomeness.

1. Want to keep appointments from your 'other' synced calendar private? No problem! Turn on this feature and appointments which are synced over to your Membrain Calendar will still show, but the details will not be visible.

2. Are you an order geek?  Select the Sent Folder where you would like to store the emails you send via Membrain. This is a handy tip for those who use a localized language version of outlook or gmail. 

3. Need to add images to your emails as quick as a flash? Now you can with improved image functionality for both the individual email composer and email template creator. 

4. Like to let your colleagues know your availability? Use the Free/Busy feature when adding appointments to your calendar and keep your day planned out to perfection.

5. Enjoy enhancing your emails with some fancy HTML code?  Previously only available for Email Templates, you can now toggle between HTML and WYSIWYG mode when creating individual emails from the email editor.

6. Need to know when to update your email sync and calendar sync passwords? We got you covered.  Once Membrain spots that the sync has stopped working (usually because you've changed your email or calendar passwords) you will receive a Membrain Guide notification and an email, both guiding you to where you need to go to get back on track.

7. Can't wait to get started with Email and Calendar sync? Excellent! We've made setting up the sync super simple. For Office 365 and Gmail, all you need is your email address and password to get going. 

8. And coming soon! - Snippet and Template usage tracking for Admins of Membrain. Learn who's using which snippets and templates and make the most of this feature for the team.

We hope you like these new improvements, and are excited to give them a try! 

And if you're not already using these features of Membrain learn how to get up and running in no time with these short articles Email Sync Setup and Calendar Sync Setup

This one is for all you Dashboard fans out there. We've just introduced a powerful new option to Graphs allowing you to see your business critical  data, now with Accumulated Totals. 

As a sales leader, its important to keep track of specific results on a week-to-week or month-to-month basis. And its not unusual to have certain periods which are typically much higher (or lower) in sales revenue than others, so planning on those trends can help to avoid surprises in the pipeline later down the line.

But what about the bigger picture? How does it all add up over time?

Accumulated Totals is a new option available when creating Graphs in The Dashboard, and can be used for all date-driven graphs. With this feature comes the ability to create meaningful graphs which illustrate crucial aspects of your sales department over time, with Accumulated Values that makes your Dashboard worth its weight in gold.

This graph shows the break down of data, showing Total Revenue per month.

The same graph, and the same data but using the new Accumulated Totals option highlighting trends over time.

Any time you want to see how things add up over time, the accumulated graphs are there to help. Want to see how much total revenue you're winning versus losing over time? Want to track total revenue by industry? Want to track how many prospects came from different events in total over time? The accumulated graphs got you covered. We hope you like them.

So go check out The Dashboard and see how you can change up the perspective between normal and accumulated graphs now!

Membrain Guide has become an integral part of how we work, offering timely reminders, guidance and focus to our day.  

Its that little reminder whispered in your ear, ensuring you don't miss the start of your next appointment. Or that subtle tap on your shoulder when a yellow flag appears on one of your Sales Projects, keeping you on top of whats important.

Adding to this functionality, we've included a new feature we call Push to Guide. This allows you to send messages about events in your Sales Projects or Prospects, and have them appear in Membrain Guide - right as they happen so you don't miss a beat.

And whats more, you can tailor these messages and send them to specific people so only the most important things get through, reducing noise and increasing your productivity.

Some examples of how you can use Push to Guide today:

• A new Sales Project has been created? Send a message to the Sales Manager via Guide
  
  
• An important Step has been completed in the Sales Project? Send a message the Sales Team Leader, or an individual via Guide
  
  
• A Prospect has been disqualified? Send a message to the
  Company Account Manager via Guide.

We hope you like this new feature. Why not take a few minutes to read up on the all the other capabilities Membrain Guide has to offer, or learn how to set up Automated Events in your Sales Processes or Prospecting Campaigns.

Lists. We love their insight, their clarity, their simplicity. And now there's another reason to love Lists as we've added a powerful new feature which gives you more analytical information for all your numerical data. 

• Group the Sales Project List by Closing Date to see the Sum of Sales Project Values expected to close per month. 

• Group the Company List by Industry and see Min and Max Number of Widgets sold in each industry.
• Or how about creating a Scorecard to calculate your Customer Fit Score and Grouping by Country to see where your best customers are located.

In a world of web based software, securing confidential information and ensuring data integrity is of utmost importance. 

This is why we have added Two-Factor Authentication to the options available in keeping your Membrain account, and the data stored within it, safe and secure.

Over recent years Two-Factor Authentication has evolved as the single most effective way to protect businesses against remote attacks and can prevent most unauthorised access into your organisation, even if login credentials become compromised.

With Google Authenticator, you can add a second layer of security - along with your secure username and password - when logging in to your Membrain account. So you can rest assured that your information is always safeguarded.

Learn more about how Google Authenticator works with Membrain, along with a simple 2 minute guide on how to make your Membrain Account more secure.

Its a small one... but its a biggie. And its a new feature that we believe will make planning your day so much more flexible.

Free/Busy time in Membrains Sales Calendar allows you to add those appointments which previously may have only cluttered your calendar and marked you as unavailable. Now you can add those smaller, perhaps more abstract time blocks to your calendar, but still show yourself as free and available.

A couple of examples:

• Working from home? Mark out your whole day with an appointment, but mark it as Free, so you're still available for potential client meetings coming in via Membrain Meet
• Blocking off some time for research? Pop an appointment in the calendar, but mark it as free so your colleagues see you're still reachable.

And of course, if you're syncing to your Outlook 365/Exchange or Google Calendar, these Free/Busy settings will be reflected there too.

We hope you enjoy this new addition! Learn more about this and the other useful features available to you in Membrains Sales Calendar.

Data is at the heart of any business solution, and in this regard Membrain is no different. But adding real intelligence to how this information is interconnected makes a world of difference.

Relationship fields give an additional layer of flexibility to your data and make it work harder for you. They are a very simple but powerful way to take filtered, cross-sections of information from virtually anywhere in Membrain, and show the results in a new, dynamic list.

The result is a database that not only stores your valuable information, but allows you to create intelligent connections between fields, making account and opportunity management even more insightful.

Some examples of where Relationship fields can be very powerful:

• On the Company page, select a Supplier from a single-select list which is filtered to only show Suppliers from a certain industry
• On a Prospect, highlight relevant Competitors from a multi-select list of Companies that have the Competitor Label applied.
• In the Active Pipeline, link a Sub-Project to a larger Sales Project in a different Sales Process.

• Show related information in a Sales Project or Prospect, and jump to it via the relationship link.
• Add a Relationship Field as a column in any List or View, and then Group By or Sort By this relationship
• Use Relationships in graphs on your Dashboard, and even Show By and Segment By in these graphs

We hope you like this awesome new feature and are excited to learn more about setting up Relationship Fields in Membrain. Have you got an idea where this could work for you? Get started and try one out today!

If you've been using Snippets then you'll already know how super useful they are when composing emails.

In fact, Snippets have been doing so well at helping us become more productive in our communication, that we've decided to give them a promotion! You can now use these much loved Snippets not just when composing emails, but also when creating appointments.

Haven't tried out Snippets yet?  Let me explain... Snippets can be described as little nuggets of text that you tend to use over and over again when communicating with customers, like an introduction or a standard meeting agenda. You can save these perfectly formed one-liners or short paragraphs as Snippets and then insert them into emails or meeting invites when needed. So, they're almost like a template, but shorter, more flexible and incredibly useful.

Not only do Snippets save you time writing, but they also help you keep your communication style consistent, which is always a good thing. Plus, you can share your Snippets with your colleagues so everyone can benefit from a well written email or structured meeting invite.  

Start working smarter and create some Snippets today. You can find Snippets both in the desktop version of Membrain and in our mobile app Membrain Go wherever you see theSnippet icon. 

PieSyncs mission is to synchronize the internet - piece by piece.You can now integrate Membrain with dozens and dozens cloud apps using our PieSync integration. It provides 70+ different integrations, with new apps being added by PieSync every week. Integrations include services like Email Marketing & Automation apps, Customer Support, Accounting, eCommerce and much more. 

The Membrain and PieSync integration offers a two-way sync between Membrain and apps like MailChimp, ActiveCampaign, Google Contacts, and many more. No more need to import and export contacts to and from Membrain. You can keep contacts synced in real time to always have up-to-date customer information all through your tech stack.

What does it connect to?

A lot. Really. A lot. See below for just some of the tools it connects to!

Excited to get started?

We totally understand. We're excited too! Click here to learn how to get your first sync set up.