Corporate development requires having technology and processes in place to help your business nurture relationships, optimize customer interactions, seize opportunities, and manage marketing initiatives. And that’s what an all-in-one CRM can help your team achieve.
Choosing the right CRM for business development is critical for successfully managing new relationships, collaborating with your team, putting time-consuming tasks on autopilot, and getting the data-driven insights you need to flourish.
If business development is a crucial part of your company’s growth strategy, you need effective tools for streamlining your processes. The right CRM is an integral solution for engaging with stakeholders, building client relationships, tracking sales data, and even managing marketing campaigns.
Among other things, a good CRM system offers features that can help your team spark, strengthen, and sustain relationships with partners and customers—a critical component of business development.
Here are a few of the benefits of using a business development CRM:
When it comes to growing your organization through making new sales, entering new markets, or increasing your market share, using the best business development tools for your team’s needs is crucial. If you want to build sustained business growth, you need a CRM that can help your team track relationships and interactions as well as sales.
You’ll also need a platform that can scale up with your business, providing advanced features like AI, lead generation, prospecting, sales SMS, and others. Your business development software should meet your current needs while offering room to add more capabilities as your business needs them.
Nutshell offers the robust features needed for corporate development, whatever your industry. With best-in-class sales pipeline management, advanced reporting and analytics, and a host of marketing features, Nutshell is the all-in-one CRM and marketing platform organizations use to generate real growth.
Consider the features you gain with Nutshell as your business development CRM:
Essential for corporate development is the ability to efficiently manage relationships with partners, leads, clients, and other important stakeholders. To do that, you need a single source of truth for customer data that your sales, customer success, support, and marketing teams can access to optimize every interaction, always say the right thing, and stay up to date on any new developments in a relationship.
By storing all your contact and lead information in one place, Nutshell empowers your team to create a seamless experience across every single touchpoint. Check on your next appointment with a client, review notes from your last meeting, see which emails they’ve opened and clicked, quickly summarize your entire relationship, and open attached documents—all from the same page.
And with contact management features like pinned notes, data enrichment, and powerful filters, Nutshell makes it easy to remember important details about every customer, quickly gather information that can help you make a sale, and quickly create laser-focused email marketing lists.
At Nutshell, we understand that business development takes careful strategy. When you’re growing your business, inefficiency, lack of insight, and an overly complex sales process are your enemies. Fortunately, Nutshell makes it easy to simplify and streamline your sales process for even better results.
With our sales pipeline management features, you can:
Plus, you can keep track of all your leads in a single dashboard, so you never have to worry about a lead falling through the cracks.
As you grow your company, crafting timely email messages and staying in touch at just the right time can become a juggling act. Reliable business development software can help you keep those juggling balls in the air through automated personal emails and drip sequences.
Nutshell lets everyone on your team create and send professional email sequences triggered by specific actions within their pipeline. This helps you keep in touch with stakeholders and leads when it matters most, all while typing less.
Nutshell’s email automation features let you:
Nutshell’s marketing features make it easier than ever to fill your pipelines with high-quality leads. Start the process by defining your ideal customer profile, then use our prospecting tools to identify contacts out there who fit your criteria. Add these new leads to your Nutshell pipelines, where you can start sending email drip sequences, booking meetings, sending web forms, and growing the relationship.
With marketing features in Nutshell, you can:
Analytics capabilities are one of the most important considerations when selecting a CRM. Business development software should empower your team to leverage data for enhanced business insights and decision-making.
Beyond basic reports like new sales and losses, Nutshell offers advanced reporting capabilities, so you can see into team productivity, emails sent, and sales forecasting, to name a few.
Here are a few of the functions your team gains with Nutshell’s reporting and analytics features:
Nutshell is the best value for the money. The versatility and functionality make it a very easy and powerful product to use.
Mark M. Southwestern Scale Co.
I have used Act, Goldmine and Salesforce in the past, and I have found that Nutshell was the easiest to get started with and to set up custom fields. I would recommend Nutshell to others that are interested in an easy to learn and navigate CRM.
Craig C. Thermal-Tec
We left Hubspot for Nutshell because Hubspot was too complex. Nutshell makes software for humans.
Daniel H. EOS
When we were evaluating CRMs, the one deciding factor between Nutshell and Salesforce came down to spin up time and price. Nutshell wins on both counts (by a huge margin). Salesforce was 10 times as much per month for what we wanted.
Jason C. Arrow Container Corp
A CRM is an integral part of your company’s tech stack, but there are other mission-critical applications and platforms that you need to connect too. And with integrations between all these solutions, your team can increase efficiency, keep your data clean, and automate your workflows.
Nutshell’s extensive integrations—including native, one-click, and Zapier-enabled integrations—include:
If you’re looking for business development software to take your company to new heights, Nutshell has the features and services you need.
For more than 15 years, Nutshell has helped thousands of companies across industries and around the globe build stronger relationships and close more deals. Growing your business is our business, and our Ann Arbor-based team is hard at work every day creating the tools and solutions you need to sell more.
With Nutshell as your corporate development CRM, you get:
Our customers have lots to say about our CRM software. Check out our customer stories to learn more about how Nutshell has helped companies just like yours achieve and exceed their goals!
When you choose Nutshell as your corporate development CRM, you have the option to partner with 500+ digital marketing experts to help drive leads to your sales team.
In today’s highly competitive business landscape, having the right tools for corporate development is essential. Nutshell CRM gives you the contact and pipeline management, email, marketing, and reporting features you need to seize opportunities for growth, make every customer interaction count, and stay organized with the data your company needs to thrive.
Discover why so many other businesses have used Nutshell to grow. Sign up for a free 14-day trial, or speak to our friendly team to learn more about how Nutshell can help your organization make greater progress.
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