What goes wrong when we move from one CRM to another?
The data usually moves. The meaning does not. Custom fields collide, stage names do not line up, notes lose their author and timestamp, and attachments qu…
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Customer records, lifecycle, follow-up and reactivation.
How do we actually measure whether our CRM data is any good?
Score the fields your decisions depend on, not every field. For each one, measure fill rate, validity, consistency with the same fact in another system, a…
How do we get our team to actually use the CRM?
Reduce what they have to type and make the system give something back. Adoption collapses when data entry is unpaid work that benefits someone else’s repo…
What is the difference between a contact and an opportunity in a CRM?
A contact is a person or household. It is created once and should persist for the life of the relationship. An opportunity is a single instance of demand …
How do I choose a CRM for a service business?
Start by deciding what the system must be the source of truth for. If the answer is jobs, dispatch and invoices, you need field service software, not a CR…
How do you measure churn when customers never formally cancel?
You define it with an explicit window and admit it is a modeling choice. Two definitions are workable and they should be reported separately. Contract chu…
How many times should we try to reach a new lead before giving up?
More than once, and across more than one channel. A single unanswered call is not a dead lead; it is an unanswered call. A workable default is several att…
Our CRM and field service system keep overwriting each other. Why?
You have a two-way sync with no conflict rule. System A writes to B, B treats the update as a genuine change and syncs it back to A, and each side sees th…
Our calls, texts and emails are all in different places. Does that really matter?
It matters most at the moment of contact. When a customer calls, whoever answers should see the estimate texted last week and the voicemail from yesterday…
Why do the same customers keep getting created twice at the same address?
Almost always address formatting. "1420 N Main St Apt 3", "1420 North Main Street #3" and "1420 Main St 3" are one place written three ways, and a matcher…
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