Close CRM vs. Olono

Excellent software to increase sales and follow up with existing and new customers. Email and SMS handling are really easy for the sales team, managing leads is really great, and Close merges duplicate leads to help our Data Leads avoid repetitive and unnecessary calls. As mentioned in some comments before, must improve in reports, Close is not appropriate to handle or track agents' hours making it necessary to implement additional software to cover this area.

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Olono is definitely well suited to help implement and keep tabs on a framework like BANT or MEDIC and collect relevant insights and events that happen over the course of an opportunity. It makes it WAY easier to do these sorts of administrative actions outside of Salesforce and have it sync there. It's less appropriate to use for prospecting or any other activities prior to creating an opportunity.

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• Email sequences. Create and send a sequence of emails until the sequence finishes or the contact replies to your email. You can also pause the sequence manually.
• Email sync. Syncs in real time with your email account, which is huge.
• Zapier integration. We've automated a lot of our pipeline management through the Zapier integration. This saves us soooo much time.

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• Alerts on missing items from opportunities.
• Clearly labeled items that help raise awareness of pipeline

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• Make it so one can set the time at which the emails go out.
• Make it easier to set up my workflow.

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• I'd love to see a feature that allows us to call out to the customer directly from Olono so that I never have to go back into our CRM again!

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It's my favorite CRM to recommend to sales organizations. Robust Telephony options including a Power Dialer, SMS, and Voice Drop, are completely integrated into the CRM. The kicker is you can have "Unlimited" contacts where many platforms charge based on the number of users. This can make a huge difference in monthly billing.

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I haven't really had the need to use their support, but the only time I had an issue with the platform, the Close team was very attentive and responded in a short span of time. Also they take minimal time to solve issues. The only con here is there is no way to reach out to them apart from email.

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Pipedrive was great for us for a long time. We used it for over 4 years. Our product and process was simple. When things got more complex, we needed something that could handle our growing needs and Pipedrive kept falling short. We built our own custom solution in Airtable and though it worked, we spend a lot of time managing it. Close was able to solve all our issues and save us hours per week in admin work.

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I haven't used a product like Olono in the past.

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• Positive - It's much easier now with Close.io to make sure that no deal falls through the cracks. Therefore helping us recover lost revenue.

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• Team time management
• Accuracy for reporting

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