Please remember that choosing a hosted CRM system is a cultural decision.

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This industry will play a huge role in realizing the projection for hosted CRM systems to skyrocket by 2016, per the report from Gartner.

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Now you know which hosted CRM applications to look at and now you have a good idea which is best for your business too.

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But the greatest increases in productivity have come with internet technology, hosted CRM, social media, immediate response, local presence, and telephony tools integrated together.

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Because once a client signs up for a hosted CRM or accounting application and begins paying their monthly fees, I get a small piece of that long term revenue stream.

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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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Like a car, an in-house CRM application will get you to the same destination as a hosted application.

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The last two hosted applications are great for small workgroups (less than ten people) who want to get a simple but powerful CRM up and running quickly.

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