discuss Outbound sales organisation ?

[NYJimbo]

I recently started doing more outbound selling and have found it to be very disorganized and difficult to keep track of domains, methods of contact, responses, follow ups, etc.

Is there a program or other resource to keep track of all the outbound you do and then use that to lookup/search on various keys or variables ?

Sure, you can just put it in a spread sheet, but something more like a database where you put in a domain, put in who you contacted, what method, what response, open/closed deals, etc seems like something we really need.

Anybody have any info, ideas, comments or anything ?

Thanks !

 

[Kate]

Probably you are looking for a CRM. There must be a lot of options, including free & open source.

 

[frank-germany]

pipedrive

 

[D Haynes]

HubSpot is a CRM option.

 

[Domains - Wanted]

Probably you are looking for a CRM.

^^^ This! (minus the "probably")

For reasons outside the scope of this thread or even domaining, I decided to build a prioprietary version, tailor made for outbound marketing of (mostly) geo domains. No sense reinventing the wheel from scratch, though. I'm using the open source CiviCRM under Drupal as my starting point or Alpha (testing, modeling) version

However, too much fat, overhead, for my taste there. Probably true of other CRM's, too. So will probably redesign the production version using CakePHP. Here's why: it's 90% database app, is all. So, once tested and tried and the database structure is decided on, CakePHP can bake most of it automagically

Forget about spreadsheets! What's needed is SQL (relational database) and conditional statements. That's assuming you are looking for any automation of the process.

 

[Anna_M]

So which CRM did you decide to use? Merci!

 

[Avijit Roy]

Is there a free version(so, i can check what i want)?