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by a searcher from London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London
in Paris, France

6yrs ago

CRM recommendation

Hi everyone,

We’re hesitating between Pipedrive and Hubspot. In your experience, which one is best, and is there another one you would recommend?

Thank you.

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reply by a searcher 1yr ago
from California State University, Northridge in Austin, TX, USA

Start simple and critically evaluate your needs. For example, if all you need is to keep track of companies you are reaching out to and email/phone outreach, then you might be just fine with Apollo.io, which is cheap. They have been improving their platform lately and have added a lot of features.

reply by a searcher 7mos ago
from TELECOM School of Management in France

As Boris said. Evaluate your needs first. A crm loaded with features you don't need can be more confusing & generating distractions than bringing value. Went with Salesforce, but started with... GSheet ! , and identified what were my pain point/issues that I needed to assess when picking a CRM. Much simpler than going with a given CRM that "forcefeed" you in its own model.