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What is the best Pipedrive alternative OR Sales management tool?

Would like to hear advice from IH folks :)

Googled and Quora-ed a bit but couldn't find a nice tool to manage sales pipeline. Any recommendation?

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Growth
on February 4, 2020
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    Wondering the same Felix. I tried using Pipedrive today and ran into basic issues around making contacts into leads. Support was too busy to respond via chat. Confusing UX and busy support. Coincidence? 🤔 Nah lol

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      Exactly the same, what is your solution now? @dru_riley

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        I just left my buddy's house, who uses Pipedrive. He said to leave them as contacts and email them. Only move contacts to leads if they respond.

        But new problem: We found that emails sent from Pipedrive go to spam. Emails sent from the same origin account (within gmail) are fine. It's a business domain btw. (Gsuite)

        So if you use Pipedrive, just email friends first to make sure you're not ending up in spam.

        Solution? I'll probably send one-by-one until I find another CRM. Lemme know if you have a better idea.

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          I can feel you @dru_riley

          Seems like HubSpot does a better job regarding email communication

          Someone recommended https://capsulecrm.com/ below - would give a try

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            Update: Patched something together with snov.io and gmail templates.

            Tried Hubspot and Capsule yesterday but no luck. What features are you looking for @felix12777?

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    Hey Felix,
    You are moreover looking for a tool to manage your current leads or manage your outbound pipeline?

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      Hey @rahulrajvanshi - what about both :) Any suggestions?

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        For outbound pipeline - Outplayhq.com or Reply.io (I am launching my beta in 90 days will love to have you onboard if your sales team is 8+)
        For managing leads - Hubspot CRM free version does the work.

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    On the non-paid bootstrapping plans I love AgileCRM. For more complicated sales pipelines at scale HubSpot has great integrations but depends on the business. If you are cold calling a lot => close.io is probably best.

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      Hey @kirso - Close is a good one. Their newsletter and blog are awesome too!

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    Hey Felix. Try Anteater Pipelines - for Gmail & Outlook. https://tryanteater.com/ - & PM me if you want to join our Early Access Program to try out some new features we're planning around pipelines before their official release.

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      Hey thanks @anteater - is there any public link or landing page?

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          Thanks for sharing ;)

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    Really basic options

    • Google Sheets + Zapier
    • Any task tracking system with a column / board view - e.g. Trello (until you need to collect - stats eg pipeline value at each stage)

    Basic / just a tool in your GMail

    • Streak

    Lightweight CRM for small biz

    • HubSpot
    • CapsuleCRM
    • Salesforce Essentials
    • Zoho
    • Close

    $$$ Enterprise stuff $$$

    • MS Dynamics
    • "Proper" Salesforce
    • Siebel
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    try streak chrome extension

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      How's your experience with Streak so far?

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