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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. What is a custom CRM?

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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 Is a Custom CRM? 6 Drawbacks of Building Your Own CRM Custom vs Off-the-Shelf: Which CRM is Better?

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6 Best Practices to Drive CRM Adoption

SugarCRM

If you’re struggling to increase your CRM adoption rates, you should know you’re not alone. According to one of our most recent reports , 34% of the respondents claim that technology adoption is one of the most prominent CRM challenges across their organization. Sometimes, they may decide they prefer other tools than your CRM.

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CRM Selection: Service and Cost

Pipeliner

In choosing a CRM, how important is service, and how does service tie into cost? CRM Support. When deciding on a CRM application—or actually for just about any software application—many companies consider “service” to be synonymous with “support.” Support is, however, very important. Why reinvent the wheel? The Service Culture.

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Creating a Custom CRM Solution: The 6 Key Steps to Account for

Hubspot Sales

Almost any business — no matter its scale or industry — stands to gain a lot from leveraging a CRM , but there's no universal, ready-made system that perfectly suits every company. And some organizations are so unique that they might not find a single CRM that covers their needs on the market. Why You Might Want a Custom CRM.

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How to Train Your Team in Social Selling

Hubspot Sales

We wrote this article to help you gain a better understanding of why training your reps in social selling is so important and how to go about doing so. Social Media Training for Sales Reps. Why is it so important to train your sales reps in social selling? And what benefits will you get out of training reps in social selling?

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26 CRM Techniques and Strategies for Customer Retention

Cience

The CRM: A Key Customer Retention Tool. There are so many ways to drive and improve customer retention, and a lot of them revolve around a robust customer relationship management system , more commonly known as CRM. Your CRM stores all data about your customers. Knowledge Base. Deliver Value ASAP.