This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of SharpSpring CRM for IZEA Worldwide. All opinions are 100% mine.
Solid customer relationship management (CRM) is critical for long-term sales growth.
According to industry reports, 74 percent of businesses using CRM software experience a boost in their customer relationships, along with a 40 percent reduction in associated labor costs.
Until recently, the only truly viable way to get the most out of CRM was to skip the free options and invest in a paid platform.
Fortunately, this has all changed with the innovative, free CRM for small businesses developed by SharpSpring.
SharpSpring Builds on Their Powerful Marketing Automation
If the name SharpSpring sounds familiar, you’re definitely not alone. To date, the company’s powerful, flagship marketing automation tools have attracted more than 7,000 business owners and 1,500 agencies.
Per Capterra, SharpSpring provides highly-rated, robust marketing automation that’s “one of the most flexible platforms on the market.”
With this level of success at the core of SharpSpring, it’s exciting that the same game-changing team has focused its efforts on improving your free CRM options.
CRM Features You’ve Been Dying For
The SharpSpring Free CRM blows every competing free product – and most paid ones – out of the water with a comprehensive list of free features.
Perhaps the most impressive thing about this easy to use tool is how many new options it adds to the world of CRM.
Of course, you’ll also get the basic items necessary for reliable functionality such as sales reports, a mobile app, and lead scoring.
Some of the other features you’ve been dying for include:
- Integration with hundreds of applications
- A social media dashboard
- Web visitor tracking
- Marketing features
- Truly unlimited contacts, opportunities, products, and accounts
- Custom fields
- One-to-one sales emails
- Two-way mail syncing
- Trackable emails
- Instant notifications
- A user forum
- Intuitive email designer
- Lead capture forms
All of this is provided via a customizable pipeline. SharpSpring CRM offers these features in 10 languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish, and Slavic.
Features You Can’t Get Elsewhere
A few of the features mentioned above are either not available from any other free CRM or are very hard to find.
For example, SharpSpring Free CRM’s social media dashboard is the only tool of its type available for free.
It’s another big game-changer, too; you can easily find and filter all social media-based conversations about your company, industry, or competitors by simply entering the desired keywords or hashtags. Even better, you can respond to posts from within the CRM platform.
Web tracking is another useful tool you can’t get from any other free CRM. This feature enables you to find out quickly and easily which of your leads are engaging with your website.
From there, you can follow-up with content that’s relevant for each lead’s interests.
Integrated Marketing Automation Suite
SharpSpring is known for providing affordable marketing automation. Tying this into the SharpSpring Free CRM is a no-brainer, and that’s exactly what the company has done.
You’ll be able to take advantage of several marketing relation functions, ranging from email templates to social media tools.
There is no other free CRM currently available that incorporates a marketing automation suite, which makes SharpSpring’s product an impressive option for any small company’s CRM and marketing needs.
SharpSpring Pledges to Make CRM Free Forever
We all know how these things usually work; you get hooked on a new, so-called free business tool, only to have the rug pulled out from under you a short time later.
The SharpSpring Free CRM is different, though, in that this isn’t merely a complimentary trial period or a beta testing phase.
Instead, this free sales CRM platform will remain free forever! SharpSpring’s proven longevity also makes it clear that this won’t be a flash in the pan product.
Platforms from competitors you’ve never heard of may end up leaving you struggling to rebuild their CRM database after they disappear unexpectedly, but you can rest-assured that SharpSpring has built a solid foundation that will keep their free CRM afloat.
Free Online Sign-Up
Sign up for your free account online. No credit card is required, so there’s absolutely no risk. Within minutes, you’ll be able to start customizing your pipeline and revolutionizing your CRM.
Gail Gardner
Looks pretty powerful. But how can it be free? Everybody needs to eat.Tectuner
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Hi Amir,
Most SaaS platforms use a limited free version to get visibility and encourage people to learn how to use it. Then they pay for it through encouraging users to upgrade for more powerful features.
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Hey Great Read. I agree to it that CRM software is a must for every business these days.
Thanks for sharing knowledge.
Great post, i am truly motivated by your amazing post. now i am telling about CRM in my company and my senior too.
nice article it helps me growing up my business thanks a lot
wow! It is very useful tools for promoting online business. Thank you for sharing the tools.
One heck of tool to use for generating long -lasting customers
We all know the importance of CRM to promote business online. It is one of the crucial things that we should know to get the benefits from it. I am appreciating you to share this amazing post. Good luck!
I am allways on the way to use crm, but will it really help to get more income when i spend time in front of computer instead in front of customer?
Hi Thomas,
It will help you keep track of who to follow up with in a timely manner. But you still have to spend just as much time with customers closing deals. Many companies spend money to generate leads, but then don’t effectively follow up with them. That is the main benefit of using a CRM correctly.
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Every technology has its own vision. You can wipe it out with words but technically you can’t.
So anyone who is interested to learn CRM this blog is gold for them.
Thank you very much for sharing.
I heard CRM is a old school these days. Now cellular companies are providing CRM.
correct me if I am wrong!
I think every free thing, is more harmful. cause they got our information.
so I think when it comes to CRM data, we should be more possessive and check the authenticity and trustworthiness.
and for this CRM, if you find people gives it a positive review and just go with it.
Hi,
This is nice post for sharping free crm and having right articles to see you here and thanks a lot for sharing with us.
CRM is there for the company, but it does not help to increase sales. As if we wish happy birthday to our customer, our customer will feel good, but if he presently does not require work he will not give work or say buy product from the company. It is just based on requirement and not any other thing.
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Many people think all they need is online inbound marketing and that will close sales. But for most businesses, you get sales by interacting live with people. Inbound marketing is used to capture leads which are tracked in a CRM – but you have to actually have a sales person reach out and see what someone needs.
You are correct that if they don’t need something right now, they won’t buy. That is why knowing how to generate a volume of leads is important.
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I read your blog. It really helped and I got new pieces of knowledge for growing. Thanks for this post.
This CRM is looking great and features are also good. I’m going to show this tool to my Sales executive.
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Thanks, i think this can help me alot with my system
Thank s
We all know how these things usually work; you get hooked on a new, so-called free business tool, only to have the rug pulled out from under you a short time later.
The SharpSpring Free CRM is different, though, in that this isn’t merely a complimentary trial period or a beta testing phase.
Because using a good CRM is so valuable for businesses to grow, being able to get all those features for free is amazing. I also like the free forever vs free trial because often the free trial doesn’t even allow the user to see the full capability of the product. Thanks for sharing this product.
Hi Julie,
I totally agree with you. Free trials aren’t worth it to me because I don’t want to invest all that time learning and adding data to a tool and then end up not being able to use it.
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Looks pretty powerful. But how can it be free? Everybody needs to eat.
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Hi David,
The usual way B2B solutions are free is that basic use is free, but more advanced capabilities require upgrading.
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Really very helpful post you published. Very important CRM. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for commenting, Lori. CRMs are getting more and more important as more people need to follow up on leads generated online.
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Amazing that this is free?! Customer Relationship management is such a key to creating a great business. Really helpful info. Thank you.
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Hi Jo,
Yes, and it is free forever – not just during a trial period. If you’re going to take the time to learn a new solution, you don’t want it expiring and losing everything you’ve done!
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Great! If the integration part is easy, then it’s worth trying it today! There are only few CRM out there with easy to integrate technology. SharpSpring seems to be promising. Thanks to let us know about this. 🙂
Hi Saad,
Are you wanting to integrate it with Salesforce or some other B2B solution? I’d love to hear how that goes for you.
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Hey Gail Gardner,
I read your blog and liked it. it really helps in changing the behavior of your business.
Thanks,
Hi Mahipal,
Where many small businesses fall down is in adequately following up on leads. Having a CRM is the best way to stay on top of them and increase conversions.
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Amazing that this is free Gail. Astounding really. Bonding with customers is the #1 aspect of building a thriving business. Any CRM that smooths out this process is fine by me. Excellent review.
Hi Ryan,
Yes, offering a free CRM is a good way to get people started using marketing automation.
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