Ask HN: During startup phase, what lead managment software you use?

3 points by shail 13y ago ↗ HN

During startup phase, how do you manage all your contacts?

During initial phase when as a founder you are doing everything including sales as well, what tool is best for managing all your leads.

There are many sales lead management softwares but I am not sure whether they are a good fit for an entrepreneur (who is primarily not a sales person). HINT: They might be too complicated. Another HINT: I have never used them so I might be wrong.

Do you use any tool which is an obvious choice currently?

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diziet 13y ago ↗

I'd recommend using Pipedrive https://www.pipedrive.com/en/features

It is straightforward to use and lets you separate different flows and stages.

colemorrison 13y ago ↗

Whoa, very cool. I've never seen this before and its value prop is very apparent.

orangethirty 13y ago ↗

I use a trello board with the following cards:

New is for new prospects

no close follow-up is for people who I have not closed.

follow up is for people I have closed, but waiting to be moved further along the sales ladder

dormant/recycle is for people who never respond but I still keep trying to close.

Note that I don't waste any leads.

ryanlchan 13y ago ↗

The project I'm working on (http://www.musubimail.com) was originally meant to help keep in touch with professional contacts, but I've been using it for beta-user follow ups to some good success.

I made groups based on how soon I need to follow up (this week, next quarter, etc) and have them track certain labels in my Gmail inbox. If someone needs to move groups, I just flag their email with the right label and wait for the reminders.

Let me know if this is something that interests you!

chrisrickard 13y ago ↗

I dig Nutshell, it's configurable enough to not just be for classic sales I just removed all the defaults and started from scratch).