So, your businesses finally made it past the initial start up phase, and you’ve achieved the status of small business. Don’t let that small part get you down, and also don’t let it fall you into thinking that you don’t have a lot of responsibility and of you immediately.

It’s time to take your tool chains for a larger volume of business and administration, including CRM software. Now, you have some serious questions to ask yourself when it comes to this, chief among them being whether or not you want to choose dedicated solutions for things like sales CRM software, as well as your distribution method.

Future proofing with software as a service?

Okay, first of all, let’s address the latter issue. You want to account for the fact that your company is going to grow, and your equipment is going to change and/or increase in capability as this happens. If you buy licenses to locally-in ... Read more »

As a small business, picking out your toolchain’s once you’ve gotten past startup phase, you are confronted with a bit of dilemma when it comes to sales CRM as well as the prospect of dedicated sales CRM software. In fact, the CRM solution in general is a bit of a quandary, because unlike the old days, there are billions of choices when it comes to the sort of thing.

Where once there were only a handful of solutions, now, every other day, some new CRM software solution comes along. You have basically two different choices you need to make, with two basic answers to each. This makes for roughly 8 different combinations your solution.

Do you want dedicated sales CRM software, or do you want generalized CRM that can handle all the aspects the same time? Do you want software as a service, or local installations?

For the latter, software as a service is almost always going to be the choice m ... Read more »