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Discussion on: What tools we use as a modern startup in 2018

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Laszlo L Mari

First of all, thank you for taking the time to comment and recommend, I really appreciate it.
We tried Zoho CRM but it just lacks what we need. All of them do.
The optimal CRM solution would:

  • Automate Linkedin message sending and stats recording
  • Email sending and response rate recording
  • Automating other sales channel with exact stat recording for messages we write
  • Automatically pulling in website visitor data from Google Analytics and seeing where they came from + putting effort into marketing through that channel (like if most people clicked an email that highlighted "solidity tips and tricks" it would recommend us to write something similar, that's what pulls visitors in
  • We even use apps like Shapr etc. that could be automated

I started building something that slowly tackles these things starting with Linkedin. Let me know if you know a tool that does this. It can record things into Zoho CRM so we might use it in the end but not how it was designed by default.

For Basecamp: I used it to manage my life for 3 years and I was paying for it but seeing its flaws I think Notion gives way more freedom, looks better, has all features Basecamp has except the chat and it looks better + feels better cause it's way faster.

Re Zoho One: We looked into it, we don't really need most of their things so I'm pretty sure we won't end up subscribing to the whole solution

Again, thanks for all the responses and if you know a sales tool that does it all let me know, it would be a great help!