Dropped $500 on a fancy CRM tool and it totally backfired

I thought I was being smart by buying Salesforce for my little startup back in July. Paid $500 for the basic plan and spent like 3 weekends trying to set it up. My team hated it, said it was too complicated for what we actually needed. Now it's just sitting there with half our contacts imported and nobody using it. We actually lost track of leads because the automation kept messing up. I should have just stuck with a simple spreadsheet or a free Trello board. Anyone else waste cash on a tool that made things worse instead of better?

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taylorshah12d agoTop Commenter

Yeah but $500 is nothing if it actually works, you probably just didn't give it enough time.

diana61712d ago

My friend tried that exact thing and her whole system crashed.

the_ruby12d ago

Yeah well sometimes a fresh install fixes everything.