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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Sales in an AI world: How human is your sales process?
If you’ve ever had a call or a meeting with me, then you scheduled it through my awesome assistant, Mary. She keeps my calendar running smoothly and follows up with folks right on time. She’s so organized and professional that some people don’t even think she’s human.
May 16, 2016
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Why “The Economy” isn’t an Excuse to Fail
Discover how to turn economic downturns into opportunities for growth. Learn strategies to thrive even when the economy is tough and make your startup resilient.
May 13, 2016
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Product feature: Manage expectations by adding a confidence level to your lead
In Close, the Opportunities feature helps you identify and keep track of deals that are on the verge of closing. Any opportunity that is added to a lead becomes visible on the Opportunities screen to give your team a high-level view of your entire pipeline.
May 12, 2016
Jo Johansson
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How to close a deal: Ask early, ask often and embrace the no
Most salespeople ask for the close way too late. They’re all waiting for the perfect moment. That moment when they have a guaranteed “yes.” We do this because we want to avoid rejection.
May 9, 2016
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