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We read 1,763 public posts this week. 43 showed buying intent. 10 people were ripe.

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Comparing options

r/WhichCRM ·

90ripe

Why this one

Small team outgrowing spreadsheets is comparing HubSpot Smart CRM against alternatives for contacts, pipeline, activity history and reminders.

Team of 1-10Mentions HubSpot
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The week, day by day

Each pale fruit is 2 posts that showed buying intent. The orange ones are ripe. Tap one.

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3 posts

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14 posts

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Everyone who was ripe.

Our own summary of each post, never the post itself and never who wrote it. The link opens the original, where it was written.

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Comparing options

r/WhichCRM ·

90ripe

Small team outgrowing spreadsheets is comparing HubSpot Smart CRM against alternatives for contacts, pipeline, activity history and reminders.

  • Team of 1-10
  • Mentions HubSpot

Open the thread

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r/SalesOperations ·

90ripe

Sales ops at an 8-AE team with poor CRM hygiene is deciding between HubSpot and Zoho CRM before Q3 to improve rep adoption and forecast accuracy.

  • Team of 11-50
  • sales ops
  • Mentions HubSpot

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Asking for a recommendation

r/CRM ·

88ripe

Family business handling ~20 leads/day on Excel is actively shopping for a CRM with pipeline stages, loss tracking and automation, currently weighing Kommo.

  • Team of 1-10

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r/microsaas ·

86ripe

Bootstrapped 3-person micro SaaS founder dropping follow-ups and renewals is weighing HubSpot's cost against staying on Notion/Stripe.

  • Team of 1-10
  • founder
  • Mentions HubSpot

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r/startup_de ·

85ripe

Seed-funded startup founder running sales on Notion, Google Sheets and Postmark is evaluating whether to move onto HubSpot for Startups and worries it will be too much overhead for a small team.

  • Team of 1-10
  • founder
  • Mentions HubSpot

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r/microsaas ·

84ripe

Sales leader with a 5-person team on Pipedrive for 8 months is hitting reporting, automation and API limits and weighing a migration to HubSpot or Salesforce before doubling headcount in Q2.

  • Team of 11-50
  • head of sales / founder
  • Mentions Pipedrive

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r/SaaSSales ·

84ripe

Startup losing track of prospects in spreadsheets is considering HubSpot for Startups and asking whether it is time to adopt a real CRM.

  • Team of 1-10
  • founder
  • Mentions HubSpot

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Asking for a recommendation

r/CRMSoftware ·

80ripe

Buyer actively looking for a lead-management CRM, burned by past tools where automations broke and the team reverted to spreadsheets.

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Asking for a recommendation

r/CRMSoftware ·

72ripe

Two-person med spa running Meta ads into a spreadsheet wants a CRM with instant lead capture and automated follow-up at $40-60/month.

  • Team of 1-10
  • owner

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Asking for a recommendation

r/CRMSoftware ·

62ripe

New business owner wants a one-time-licence or open-source CRM for contacts, simple pipeline, notes and reminders, explicitly resisting subscriptions.

  • Team of 1-10
  • founder

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What the week looked like.

What they were doing

  • Other20
  • Comparing options10
  • Asking for a recommendation7
  • Describing the problem6

Where they asked

  • r/CRM6
  • r/CRMSoftware4
  • r/smallbusiness4
  • r/hubspot2
  • r/microsaas2
  • r/gtmengineering2
  • r/PipedriveConsultant2
  • Other21

Who they mentioned

  • HubSpot13
  • Pipedrive4
  • Salesforce2
  • Zoho CRM2

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