Close CRM vs. Piper the AI SDR by Qualified

Excellent software to increase sales and follow up with existing and new customers. Email and SMS handling are really easy for the sales team, managing leads is really great, and Close merges duplicate leads to help our Data Leads avoid repetitive and unnecessary calls. As mentioned in some comments before, must improve in reports, Close is not appropriate to handle or track agents' hours making it necessary to implement additional software to cover this area.

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Our organization chose Qualified over other companies because of how well it helps us connect with prospective customers. It is user-friendly and really helps you not miss out on opportunities with target accounts. Qualified makes it feel like you're working as a team to create opportunities with target accounts. Qualified also provides great customer service. Their team does whatever is needed to make sure we get the assistance we need

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• Email sequences. Create and send a sequence of emails until the sequence finishes or the contact replies to your email. You can also pause the sequence manually.
• Email sync. Syncs in real time with your email account, which is huge.
• Zapier integration. We've automated a lot of our pipeline management through the Zapier integration. This saves us soooo much time.

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• Good insight into what product the prospect is interested in
• Engage the prospect when they are at the researching phase and form a human connection
• Know when prospects that you are actively targeting are on the website and use that in messaging

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• Make it so one can set the time at which the emails go out.
• Make it easier to set up my workflow.

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• The UI can be improved with new features.
• Proper document should be provided and support services.
• Pricing must be moderate, it's way too high for small scale business.

It's my favorite CRM to recommend to sales organizations. Robust Telephony options including a Power Dialer, SMS, and Voice Drop, are completely integrated into the CRM. The kicker is you can have "Unlimited" contacts where many platforms charge based on the number of users. This can make a huge difference in monthly billing.

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I haven't really had the need to use their support, but the only time I had an issue with the platform, the Close team was very attentive and responded in a short span of time. Also they take minimal time to solve issues. The only con here is there is no way to reach out to them apart from email.

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Pipedrive was great for us for a long time. We used it for over 4 years. Our product and process was simple. When things got more complex, we needed something that could handle our growing needs and Pipedrive kept falling short. We built our own custom solution in Airtable and though it worked, we spend a lot of time managing it. Close was able to solve all our issues and save us hours per week in admin work.

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Qualified provides exceptional customer service. He is constantly eager and able to answer all the issues raised, he also offers excellent subscription prices, he is useful for organizing meetings in the sales area, discussions with VIP clients directly from our website.

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• Positive - It's much easier now with Close.io to make sure that no deal falls through the cracks. Therefore helping us recover lost revenue.

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• Qualified to increase our sales volumes.
• Qualified really increases the turnaround time for opportunities on our platform.
• Qualified helps to prioritize, categorize and communicate with our potential customers at various stages of the buying process.
• With Qualified our sales team can see who is visiting our website, accessing certain pages and most importantly, connecting with them in vital moments thanks to the tool's conversational sales and marketing platform.
• We can track your interests, lead you to the right person, set up meetings, and move further up the sales cycle using this channel.
• Leads are now automatically integrated into our CRM, eliminating administrative effort and bringing our sales teams closer to our customers than ever before.

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