Before Yesware, sales people would get hectored by their bosses to type into the corporate Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system the status of their sales calls.

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This experience taught me what it feels like when a small business owner is looking for the right hosted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for his business.

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We also used a Portal Accelerator Microsoft has made publically available that allowed us to use CRM as our content management system for our fashion show web site.

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Think about your customer relationship management system (CRM) and what it measures.

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This is a company whose management has embraced their CRM system.

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And the management of Lexia Learning understands that making an investment in a great CRM system now will enable the company to be that much quicker and better in the years to come.

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Asana is used for a wide variety of applications, such as project management, software bug tracking, human resources application tracking or a light-weight CRM system.

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