HubSpot is a widely used CRM platform, popular with growing businesses for its free and lower cost tiers covering leads, pipeline tracking and marketing activity. It's a solid starting point for a lot of businesses. If you're looking for a system built specifically around your business rather than a tiered, general purpose platform, here's what a custom CRM from Studio44 offers instead.
Rather than unlocking functionality by moving up through pricing tiers, we build a system that includes exactly what your business needs from the start, and add to it as your requirements change. There's no ceiling to work around and no paying for a whole tier to access one feature.
Many of the businesses we work with need their system to support processes well beyond a pipeline. As an example, one of our professional service clients benefits from a bespoke system that holds all customer data, schedules work, generates PDF letter templates and records every call, all from within one platform. If your business needs document generation, scheduling, or detailed operational records alongside customer relationship management, we build that in as standard rather than as an add on.
Once built, there is no ongoing dependency on a subscription tier or a third party platform for access to your own customer data and workflows. This gives a tremendous about of flexibility both in terms of being able to develop and evolve the platform as needed but also means an update completely unrelated to how you use the system will not change your workflows or impact how you operate which is often a complaint we hear from those using an off the shelf platform.
If you'd like to talk through what a system built specifically around your business could look like, we are always very happy to have that conversation. We will take time to understand what you actually need it to do before suggesting anything.
Studio44 have been developing bespoke CRM systems and web applications for many years and have worked on many successful projects in that time. If you'd like to explore a custom system for your business, get in touch, we'd love to talk through options with you and see if we can help.
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We speak to a lot of trade and construction businesses looking into job management software, and one of the most useful conversations we can have early on is about which features actually matter for their business, rather than assuming more functionality automatically means a better system. Here is what we would prioritise.
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