Likelihood to Recommend If you are in any type of sales, and meeting with people, it is a must. If you already know you contact well, it doesn't have as much value for that particular meeting. Also I wish there was a way to not sync internal meetings, as it just provides clutter, and I don't need info on those people.
Read full review More Appropriate Scenarios: 1. It helps in visualizing opportunities with our customers that help us strategize and execute good sales activities to drive our business. 2. It helps in improving the flow of communication between the different departments. 3. It is extremely easy to log call notes and schedule future calls so we never miss an opportunity to reach out to our customers and get the sale. 4. We can create reports that show where my sales are up, and down. It allows me to focus on customers that are down in specific categories and pinpoints the exact products. Less Appropriate Scenarios: 1. The pipeline is very basic which is a bit of a let-down as this is a function we require so have to use a stand-alone product for this. 2. Difficult to pull specific information about a group of customers.
Read full review Pros They easily connect with my Outlook to sync my upcoming meetings. It provides me with the social profiles of people I am meeting with. It gives me the ability to have all my info about my contact in one place to easily review. Read full review It helps me to sell more and makes me more organized to prepare myself for sales calls It helps to manage each lead in a proper manner and create a proper funnel of lead from suspects to get mature It helps our sales team to create campaigns Read full review Cons At times it doesn't pull a social profile for the contact correctly, or at all, when I know the person has a profile. The interface is a little clunky, and the font is too large. It could be a lot smaller and still effective. It takes a lot of time to sync at points, which is frustrating. Read full review There is no free trial for this product even though it's a CRM The pricing is very high compared to its competition. The pipeline is very basic which is a bit of a let-down as this is a function we require so have to use a stand-alone product for this. Read full review Alternatives Considered The thing that Charlie does best is it aggregates everything in one place. It allows me to have a one-stop shop, that I can quickly review prior to heading into a meeting. People are usually amazed with the amount of info that Charlie can give you, and it almost always works its way into my sales call.
Read full review Advantages: 1. We can create reports that show where my sales are up, and down. It allows me to focus on customers that are down in specific categories and pinpoints the exact products. 2. It is extremely easy to log call notes and schedule future calls so we never miss an opportunity to reach out to our customers and get the sale. Disadvantages: 1. There is no Free trial for this product. 2. The product cost is very high compared to the competition.3. Integrations & Plugins is not match to it's competitors
Read full review Return on Investment The info I pull from Charlie prior to the meeting is almost always brought up as a conversation starter. Charlie helps my relationships go deeper than just surface level info. The ability to go deeper in my relationships while using Charlie has absolutely closed me business. Read full review As I user I can't say if it has a positive impact or a negative impact Read full review ScreenShots