Difference between revisions of "Relationship Management"
From Eugene Eric Kim
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Revision as of 23:24, 27 May 2013
Requirements
- Always updated contact management intelligently synced with all of my apps and devices. In particular, it should work well with Google Apps, my different social networking apps, and mailing list software (currently MailChimp).
- Track interactions. Ideally would be able to integrate all interactions (e.g. mailing list interactions, social networking interactions, task-oriented emails, phone calls / meetings, business transactions, etc.) in a centralized database.
- Segment relationships in useful, flexible ways.
- Analyze contacts in useful ways. This encompasses good reporting tools, but also things like automatically suggesting people you should contact. I'd love to be able to do a competitive analysis from within my CRM, although I would settle for doing this from a separate tool with good integration.
Use Cases
Market Research / Competitive Analysis
I have a product offering. I want to be able to capture data about all of my potential coopetition and slice and dice this data in interesting ways. For example, fees for coopetition, pricing for competitive workshops, etc.
Tools
In the past, I've used some combination of homegrown tools, CiviCRM, Salesforce, and Batchbook. I'm revisiting Salesforce, but I'm looking most closely at Capsule and Pipedrive.
Salesforce | Capsule | Pipedrive | |
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UI | Ugh. Zero improvement over the years. |
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Default screen is pipeline (befitting the name), which is visual, simple, and smart. |
Ccing emails | Does not automatically create contact if not in CRM. Process for doing so is convoluted. Automatically creates task for confirming association. | Works as expected. Automatically creates task for confirming association. | |
Google Apps | One-way sync only with Google Contacts. I originally thought this was a problem, but maybe this is a feature?! Less bugs, more predictability. It would offer a way to keep my eekim.com contacts segmented between personal and professional. I'd have to change my workflow to update contact information in CRM first, with expectation that it would sync with Google Contacts. | Two-way sync with Google Contacts. It was really nice to configure this, and to see all of my contacts updated live! | |
Custom fields | Uses Batchbook's notion of associating custom fields with tags. More cleanly implemented than Batchbook. | Yes. | |
Tracking relationships |
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Segmenting contacts | No tags! Would have to create a custom field to organize my contacts. This is likely a dealbreaker. | ||
Pipeline | Straightforward, decent reporting capabilities, very customizable. Not quite as nice as the default visual pipeline of Pipedrive, but still very good. | The focus of this tool is the pipeline, which serves as the primary dashboard, and which has a clean, visual UI. Very customizable. | |
Social network integration | Suggests social network linkages and integrates photos. | None. | |
Form integration | |||
Importing data | |||
Price | $25/month. 14-day free trial (does not require credit card). | $12/month. 30-day free trial (requires credit card). | $14/month. 30-day free trial (does not require credit card). |
Other | Support help desk functionality (dubbed "Cases") | UI / features are very configurable. Not necessarily an advantage (I'd prefer good defaults), but potentially useful. |