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Why building a custom CRM is almost always a bad idea

Nutshell

If your company has a unique sales process or sells a variety of products and services, it can be tempting to build a CRM from scratch. In this article, we’ll dig into the nitty-gritty surrounding homegrown CRMs, including what a custom CRM is and the potential benefits and drawbacks of building your own.

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The Benefit Of Tracking White Space In Your CRM

ProlifIQ

Upsell & Cross-Sell From Your CRM Implementing effective cross-selling and upselling strategies can provide tremendous benefits for growing your business revenue and building customer loyalty. Products Purchased: Your CRM system should indicate which specific products, SKUs, or service lines were purchased in the deal.

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Five Key Strategies of High-Performing Sales Organizations

Revenue Storm

Sales organizations in the high-tech arena have been hit with several redefining trends over the last several years – the shift to virtual relationships, the drive to commoditization by the buyer, the unbelievable acceleration of digital technology, and the redefining of market boundaries. This is no longer the case!

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Creating a CRM Implementation Plan

Nutshell

Using a customer relationship management (CRM) platform can bring your business major value and a wealth of benefits, from streamlining and automating parts of your sales process to helping you craft marketing campaigns tailored to the right audience. Table of Contents What is a CRM implementation plan?

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Q2–2022: Product updates to Insightly AppConnect, Service, Marketing, and CRM

Insightly

During the last few months, the Insightly team has worked diligently to bring a full suite of feature updates to all four Insightly products: CRM, Marketing, Service, and AppConnect. Updates to the Service Knowledge Base within Insightly Service: Reorganize articles in bulk. New Insightly API endpoints for knowledge article management.

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Navigating Account-Based Selling: CRM, AI and Customer Understanding

Arpedio

Navigating Account-Based Selling: CRM, AI and Customer Understanding Explore the ARPEDIO platform ← Back to blog When it comes to B2B sales, companies often find themselves wrestling with a myriad of challenges, from a lack of prospecting skills to navigating lengthy sales cycles. AI is about trust. And about augmenting the human being.

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How Relationship Maps Put the “R” Back Into CRM

Revegy

How Does CRM Tackle the Relationship and What’s Missing? CRM has been around for 30 years – it started as a combination of 3 different types of technology – marketing automation, sales force automation, and customer support. However, CRM is not tackling the relationship piece as it should.

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