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Move Faster, Sell Smarter: Q1 Product Updates You’ll Actually Use

Explore Close's Q1 2025 product updates: faster workflows, smarter views, better reporting, and new tools to supercharge your sales process.

Christine Sotelo

Prospecting & Lead Generation

How to Avoid Your Phone Number Being Marked as Spam on Sales Calls

How to Stop Getting Ghosted by Prospects

Business Advice

598% More Calls, 32% More Deals—Turns Out Sales Calls Aren't Dead

Get Over Being Afraid to Talk On the Phone

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Does the 1-2-3 Email Hack Still Work 8 Years Later?

Does the 1-2-3 Email Hack still work in 2025? Steli Efti revisits his viral sales tip—learn how this simple approach cuts through email noise and boosts replies.

February 25, 2025

Prospecting & Lead Generation

Call First, Close First: How to Call Inbound Leads Faster

Speed to call can be the key difference in capturing prospective customers when they’re interested. Here’s how to skip the fluff and start talking to them.

February 10, 2025

Close Features and News

Close Inbound Leads Faster with Workflows That Actually Work

Workflows automate key outreach steps so that leads 1) don’t fall through the cracks and 2) are engaged quickly. Build this workflow for new inbound leads.

February 4, 2025

Business Advice

The Rise of the Small, Scaling Business

Small, scaling businesses (SSBs) are the future of entrepreneurship. Learn how lean teams are throwing out the old playbook to achieve massive gains.

February 3, 2025

Desiree Echevarria

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.

Opérations de vente

B2B Sales Examples: Insights and Strategies that Work in 2025

B2B sales includes a wide range of industries and companies. Learn what today's top B2B sales examples can teach you and your company.

December 13, 2023

Outils de vente

10 Best Real Estate CRMs (for All Real Estate Agents) in 2025

As a real estate agent, staying organized is the key to success. Enter: our guide to the best real estate CRMs on the market today.

December 13, 2023

Cold Call Conversion Rates: Funnel Metrics & Benchmarks

The average cold call conversion rate is 2%, which sucks. But it's not the whole story. Learn how to improve cold call success rates by looking at the whole funnel.

December 12, 2023

Outils de vente

10 Customer Success Tools to Close More Deals in 2025

Goodbye missed deals, hello happy customers. These customer success tools will cut churn and supercharge your customer outreach—and boost sales, too.

December 11, 2023

Kimberlee Meier