Product
CRM Overview
Communication
Automation
Integrations
Sales AI
See Close in action.
Watch our 10-minute, on-demand demo.
See how Close's sales automation tools help thousands of reps double their revenue.
Launch demo
Pricing
Blog
Resources
Free Resources
Free Sales Tools
Sales Guides
Webinars
Close Help Docs
Office Hours
Elevate your game
with Close's free sales tools
Explore our AI tools to craft winning sales emails, nail subject lines, and smash your goals.
Try them out
About
Product
CRM Overview
Communication
Automation
Integrations
Call Assistant
Full access with free support.
No credit card required.
Start 14-day free trial
On-demand demo
Product
CRM Overview
Communication
Automation
Integrations
Call Assistant
Full access with free support.
No credit card required.
Start 14-day free trial
On-demand demo
Pricing
Blog
Resources
Free Resource
Free Sales Tools
Sales Guides
Webinars
Close Help Docs
Office Hours
Full access with free support.
No credit card required.
Start 14-day free trial
On-demand demo
Resources
Free Resource
Free Sales Tools
Sales Guides
Webinars
Close Help Docs
Office Hours
Full access with free support.
No credit card required.
Start 14-day free trial
On-demand demo
About
Log in
Try for free
Log in
The Close
Blog
Learn more, sell more. Stay on top of the latest sales trends and advice for startups and SMBs, written by the experts at Close.
Thank you! Please check your inbox.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Ditch Your Business Phone—How to Set Up a Small Business Phone System Within Your CRM
Modern small businesses are tired of third-party phone systems, their costs, and complexities. You need an all-in-one, user-friendly solution—like Close.
Anna Hunyadi
September 30, 2024
Steli Campaign
My Seven Attempts to Get Into Y Combinator
Steli Efti
Steli Campaign
More Money, More Problems: The Case for Bootstrapping Your Startup
Steli Efti
Sales Operations
Inbound Sales: Top Strategies, Technology, and Tips to Boost Your Sales Process
Elise Dopson
Sales Operations
The Founder’s Dilemma: Scaling Operations Beyond Solopreneurship
Steli Efti
Filter by category
All categories
Steli Campaign
Enterprise Sales
Startup and Small Business Sales
SaaS Sales
Sales Operations
Prospecting & Lead Generation
Sales Tools
Sales Outreach
Close Features and News
Sales Skills
Sales Management
Sales Tools
How Modern Sales Teams Can Use IVR to Maximize Deal Flows
Discover a new way to turn inbound leads into won deals using an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system to strike opportunities while they're hot!
September 6, 2024
Nick Persico
Startup and Small Business Sales
Feeling Generic? Here's How 10+ Coaching Businesses Set Themselves Apart (And How You Can, Too)
Learn to create core differentiators and build a personal brand that resonates with your target audience.
September 3, 2024
Amy Copadis
Prospecting & Lead Generation
Mastering Call Routing: How to Streamline Inbound Sales Calls and Boost Customer Satisfaction
Call routing is a lifesaver for time-strapped sales teams with lots of inbound calls. Learn about intelligent call routing, and how to make it work for you.
August 30, 2024
Anna Hunyadi
Sales Operations
The Ideal Client Profile: How Coaching Businesses Attract Their Most Successful Clients + How You Can Too
An ideal client profile helps coaching businesses to identify key qualities in their most successful clients—and target messaging to attract more of them.
August 27, 2024
Anna Hunyadi
Meet the CRM built for how sales teams
actually
sell
Selling is hard. Your CRM shouldn’t be. Close is the easy-to-use CRM built with everything sales teams need to start closing deals today.
Start your free trial
Startup and Small Business Sales
Why this $15M revenue startup trains all their Account Managers with Close’s Product Demo book
Smartly.io is a fast-growing Facebook ad optimization solution for agencies and performance marketers. I joined them as employee #32 in the summer of 2015. A few months later, our team had grown to double that size. Now, we’re almost 120 people, and we’re looking to hire 80 more.
March 29, 2017
Claudio Santori
Sales Skills
5 Lessons Inside Sales Reps Need to Learn from Field Salespeople
You’ve heard me say it before and you’ll hear me say it again: Sales is changing, fast, and nowhere is this more evident than in the decline of field sales.
March 27, 2017
Steli Efti
Sales Tools
My Best Sales Tools Ever: The (Free) Startup Sales Resource Bundle
You’re on the hunt for the best sales tools and advice. But it’s hard to know where to look, what information to consider valuable, and which tools to use.
March 21, 2017
Steli Efti
Sales Skills
4 Simple Words That Unlock Difficult Sales Conversations
Unlock difficult sales conversations with these 4 simple words: "Help me out here." Discover how this phrase can break through deadlocks and build trust.
March 20, 2017
Steli Efti
Previous
Load more
Product
CRM Overview
Communication
Automation
Integrations
Sales AI
See Close in action.
Watch our 10-minute, on-demand demo.
See how Close's sales automation tools help thousands of reps double their revenue.
Launch demo
Pricing
Blog
Resources
Free Resources
Free Sales Tools
Sales Guides
Webinars
Close Help Docs
Office Hours
Elevate your game
with Close's free sales tools
Explore our AI tools to craft winning sales emails, nail subject lines, and smash your goals.
Try them out
About
Product
CRM Overview
Communication
Automation
Integrations
Call Assistant
Full access with free support.
No credit card required.
Start 14-day free trial
On-demand demo
Product
CRM Overview
Communication
Automation
Integrations
Call Assistant
Full access with free support.
No credit card required.
Start 14-day free trial
On-demand demo
Pricing
Blog
Resources
Free Resource
Free Sales Tools
Sales Guides
Webinars
Close Help Docs
Office Hours
Full access with free support.
No credit card required.
Start 14-day free trial
On-demand demo
Resources
Free Resource
Free Sales Tools
Sales Guides
Webinars
Close Help Docs
Office Hours
Full access with free support.
No credit card required.
Start 14-day free trial
On-demand demo
About
Log in
Try for free
Log in