Consulting CRM

Expand Current Clients and Win New Ones Over.

Don’t let the foundation of your consulting business – long-term relationships – rot in a jumble of spreadsheets, contact management systems, and generic CRM tools.

Our all-in-one cloud-based consulting CRM software helps you grow client relationships without manual data entry, email deluges, or analyst Google searches.

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UnlockThe Power Of Your Firm's Relationship Network

Make New Business Development a Team Sport

Uncover relationships (and their strength) across your firm in real time with the right CRM platform that connects all your team members.

Find your next engagement by instantly scanning your firm’s relationship networks to determine the best path into a company via referral or warm introduction.

Build stronger client relationships by finding the right opportunities to engage and stay top of mind with our personalized network updates and notifications.

Visualize and Manage Your Pipeline

Handle multiple projects simultaneously and streamline the quality of your business consulting services with high-level visibility across every stage and activity.

Easily customize your workflows with stages and custom fields tailored to your business needs.

Build custom reports and dashboards to view key metrics, prevent bottlenecks, and identify new opportunities.

Simplify pipeline management by tracking your entire sales process from a single view.

Ramp up on New Projects Faster

Automate your research - identify notable company events, funding history, and internal experts to call and demonstrate value on day 1.

See prior client communication across your firm - so your project management team has context to exceed your client's expectations.

Identify experts in your firm or outside independent consultants to cross-sell with and expand your work across functions, business processes, and geographies.

Avoid Missed Deliverables and Miscommunication

Advanced task management features enable you to assign tasks, set recurring reminders to engage clients, and visualize prior client communications, ensuring follow-up.

Access key communications and documents from wherever you are - in the browser, in your inbox, or via our mobile apps (iOS + Android).

Sync with email marketing and marketing automation tools to create marketing campaigns and share expertise - from small business clients to the Fortune 100.

Consulting CRM FAQs

Why do Consultants Need CRM Software?

The right consulting CRM will help you leverage your and your team’s relationship network to find, manage, and close more consulting engagements while empowering your firm to provide a high-quality client experience.

The best CRM features go beyond storing contact information; they enable you to track client interactions, uncover potential clients, and streamline your sales cycle. By centralizing communications and providing visibility into your network, a consulting CRM drives business growth and creates a foundation for repeatable success.

Relying on siloed spreadsheets documents and other software to manage relationships and business development processes leads to inefficiencies and missed opportunities. Teams that spend hundreds of hours per year manually entering data spend less time working on high-value client work, affecting the overall customer experience while missing out on potential revenue opportunities.

A consulting CRM empowers your firm to automate data entry, build better opportunity pipelines, leverage the power of your team’s relationships, and unlock growth by relying on repeatable business development processes.

Why Should Consulting Firms Stay Away From Generic Sales CRMs?

As a consultant, building client relationships that last beyond a single engagement is essential. However, most generic CRMs are built for sales teams focused on short-term sales activities and moving prospects through a linear funnel. While they may offer strong forecasting and pipeline management, they often fail to support long-term business development, lacking the ease of use and specialized custom fields that consulting firms need to manage relationships effectively.

Implementing generic CRMs, such as Salesforce, Pipedrive, Hubspot, etc., will result in a costly and lengthy deployment and onboarding process to try and adapt a sales-focused product to your unique consulting needs. At the same time, your team will still need to spend hundreds of hours constantly entering data into the system.

On the other hand, a CRM designed for consulting and other deal-driven teams serves as a complete, end-to-end business development and client management platform that leverages relationship intelligence, automatic data entry, and activity tracking to engage with prospective clients and support existing ones.

This article details why generic sales CRMs are not the best option for consulting firms.

Why Should Consultants Implement a Relationship Intelligence CRM?

CRMs with relationship intelligence allow you to quickly find new connections and understand who is connected to whom in your team.

Relationship intelligence algorithms give you the power to see your entire network of contacts across your firm, complete with a relationship score. Allowing you to see who on your team has the strongest relationship with a particular person.

With a relationship intelligence CRM, you eliminate time-consuming back-and-forth within your team and the need to ask questions like “Do we know anyone at this company”? Or “Do we know any subject matter experts that can help us with this project”? With relationship intelligence, you can reach out via a warm introduction instead of sending a cold email.

By showing you these oftentimes hidden paths, relationship intelligence can help you find your next opportunity and gives you instant access to experts, allowing you to provide a better client experience.

How Can a CRM Solution Make Me a More Efficient Consultant?

A consulting CRM improves efficiency by:

Streamlining client interactions across every project and engagement

Supporting invoicing and document access to keep operations smooth

Supporting invoicing and document access to keep operations smooth

Ensuring your processes are user friendly and scalable for ongoing business growth.

How Will a CRM Save My Team Time?

How many hours a year does your team spend on administrative non-billable work? Are you spending hours manually entering data? Can these hours be devoted to more productive client work? If yes, your team will benefit from a CRM with workflow automation. Automating data entry ensures your CRM data is always current and clean.

By automatically capturing all activity and communication with prospects and clients, you can maintain timely follow-ups with potential deals to create a repeatable process to source, manage and close more consulting engagements.

What is the Price of a Consulting CRM?

Please visit the pricing section of our website for the most up-to-date pricing information.

Compared to other generic sales CRMs 4Degrees is priced competitively and includes access to expert customer support and a customer success team that understands the intricacies and workflows of a consulting company.

How Can a Consulting CRM Help With Lead Generation and Lead Management?

Consulting CRMs are end-to-end business development systems designed to scale your BD process with comprehensive customer data management, custom fields, and intelligent segmentation for tracking opportunities.

Relationship management was a huge differentiator for 4Degrees versus other CRMs.

Ashley Kegan
Director of Corporate Development

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We also integrate with select CRM systems to provide relationship intelligence alongside their sales pipeline functionality. Integration partners include:

DealCloud and Salesforce (including CRMs in the Salesforce ecosystem like Navatar)
Hubspot
Other customer relationship management software (via Zapier or API)

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