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Ideas, guides and news on client management and running a service business.
Conversion Rate by Stage: How to Find Where You Lose Customers
Conversion rate by stage shows how many customers advance from one funnel phase to the next. See how to calculate it, what a good rate is, how to find the bottleneck, and what to do to convert more.
Sales Pipeline: How to Configure Stages That Actually Convert
The sales pipeline organizes your open deals by stage. See how many stages to have, how to define advance criteria, which fields to use, and how to avoid a bloated pipeline no one updates.
What Is a Sales Funnel and How to Build Yours (With Examples)
A sales funnel is the representation of the stages a customer goes through from discovery to purchase. See what it is, the stages, how it differs from a pipeline, and how to build yours, with examples by business type.
The Customer Lifecycle: The 5 Stages Every Company Must Map
The customer lifecycle is the journey every person takes with your company, from attraction to referral. See the 5 stages, how to map yours, and what to measure at each phase.
How to Organize Your Customer Database: Fields, Segmentation, and History
Organizing your customer database means structuring fields, segmentation, and history in a standardized way. See which fields every base needs, how to segment, how to keep the history, and how to avoid duplicate and stale data.
CRM vs Spreadsheet: When to Stop Managing Customers in Excel
You can manage customers in Excel — up to a point. See when the spreadsheet becomes a bottleneck, what a CRM solves that it can't, what the "free spreadsheet" really costs, and how to migrate without losing data.
Understand the concept, how it differs from a CRM, and how to structure customer management to grow predictably.
Customer management is the set of processes, data, and relationship practices a company uses to attract, serve, retain, and expand its customer base. See the 4 pillars, how it differs from a CRM, and a step-by-step to build yours from scratch.