A Less Complicated CRM Program: Highrise

I’ve been using a prod­uct from a com­pa­ny called 37 Sig­nals for quite some time now called Base­camp. Base­camp is a web-based, project man­age­ment pro­gram that allows for good col­lab­o­ra­tion with­in a com­pa­ny on projects. It offers a mes­sage sen­ter, upload­ing of files, to-do list, mile­stones, a white­board and the abil­i­ty to com­ment on any­thing post­ed. My favorite fea­ture is the email­ing of reports, when some­one post a com­ment and reminders of when assign­ments are due. I’ve tried out a num­ber of oth­er project man­age­ment pro­grams and Base­camp is at the top of my list. 37 Sig­nals also cre­at­ed a num­ber of oth­er help­ful pro­grams that help small, medi­um and large busi­ness­es to be more orga­nized and pro­duc­tive. The one I’m rec­om­mend­ing is called High­rise. High­riseis a less com­pli­cat­ed CRM, con­tact man­ag­er pro­gram. Most CRMs (Cus­tomer Rela­tion­ship Man­age­ment) have a lot of gad­gets and func­tion­al­i­ty. I’ve dis­cov­ered that in the small busi­ness world, most folks end up only using a small por­tion of the func­tions: emails, to-dos, cal­en­dar, and oppor­tu­ni­ties. High­rise devel­op­ers cut some of the fat from large CRMs and sim­pli­fied the func­tions of their web-based High­rise to offer a more user friend­ly pro­gram and pro­duc­tive soft­ware. High­rise is quite sim­ple to use and afford­able. While most CRM pro­grams (like Sales­force, Sug­ar­CRM and count­less oth­ers) charge a month­ly fee per user, High­rise is avail­able for a small month­ly fee and allows for a bun­dle of users. For exam­ple, for $25 a month, a com­pa­ny can have up to 6 users have full access to High­rise with lim­it­ed deals or oppor­tu­ni­ties. The best rate is $50 a month for 10 users and unlim­it­ed oppor­tu­ni­ties. For a small busi­ness guy like me, I can uti­lize the free version…and absolute­ly love it! If you think $50 a month is high, ask me why I think it is afford­able and very rea­son­able! If you want the full capa­bil­i­ties, say from Sales­force (mobile includ­ed) you will like­ly spend $65 per month per user. One of my favorite things I like about High­rise is the to-do list/​task func­tion. I always have a pile full of small projects going on. High­rise makes it sim­ple for me to write down the action items and be sent an email when those items are due: even down to the minute! So try High­rise for free today. Sign Up Online (note: I do like Sales­force CRM and endorse it. I also real­ized a lot of small busi­ness users (my audience/​clients) can­not afford or will use all the func­tions Sales­force has to offer. If you have the mon­ey and want a lot of functions…oh and will use them…go with Salesforce!)