March 6, 2017
BY Caitlin Delohery IN Mindfulness
If you’re like most people — and most people on your team — you pick up your smartphone before you even get out of bed in the morning. You’re checking your email, your social networks, and your Slack channels before you even brush your teeth. You already have a barrage of incoming information, pulling your attention from one topic to the next, before you have your first cup of coffee. Startups, especially, are hotbeds for constant work: you and your team are driven to get more done, faster. You likely work around the clock so your company will survive and … Continue reading Stumped on How to Bring Mindfulness to Your Business? Learn from Top Brands →
February 28, 2017
BY Krista Garver IN karmaCRM News and Updates
You’re busy. Your whole team is busy. Who hasn’t had a few things slip through the cracks? This month’s updates focus on tools to make keeping up with your sales activities as simple possible. New deal-tracking tools We love deals. After all, deals are what sales is all about! That’s why we’re super excited to have just launched karmaCRM Deals v2. You can now get a visual deal pipeline as well as tools to measure your deal progress and deal stats. It’s pretty cool. Learn more here. Browser notifications Keep everyone in the loop with our new browser notifications feature. … Continue reading New Deals Tools, Browser Notifications, and More: What’s New at karmaCRM This Month →
February 27, 2017
BY John Paul Narowski IN Company
In a CRM, deals are typically our lifeblood. After many customer discussions, surveys and white-boarding sessions we’ve made deals in karmaCRM a first class citizen, are proud to announce deals v2! We’re best friends now. What’s it all about? Visual Deal Pipeline The new deals system comes with a number of enhancements. First and most importantly is a visual deal pipeline. I don’t know about you but I’m a visual person. I like to see my pipeline in simple visual display, which is why we revamped the homepage of deals to contain this format. If you love the list view … Continue reading Announcing Deals v2 – Visual Pipeline and more →
February 13, 2017
BY Caitlin Delohery IN Mindfulness
By now you know what mindfulness is and that tons of people swear by it. Here are 10 benefits of mindfulness for your business. 1. Fewer distractions Your brain is like a computer. Having too many tabs open at once or activating those pop-up windows can slow down your system. Mindfulness closes out the unnecessary stuff that clogs your brain. You may not be able to reduce external distractions and interruptions in your workday. But practicing mindfulness can help you tune them out or reduce their impact. 2. Rapid memory recall When your brain isn’t scattered and thinking about … Continue reading 10 Benefits of Mindfulness for Your Business →
February 11, 2017
BY John Paul Narowski IN Company
Do you ever end up with a stack of business cards from strong leads, but they just gather dust sitting on your desk? Us Too! The last time we spent 2 hours entering business cards into karma we decided it was going to be the last time. We’re proud to announce our new business card scanning feature. This allows you to take a picture of a business card with our karmaCRM mobile app, then a new contact is created in your CRM from the information on the card. These cards are scanned by humans so you don’t have to worry about errors. … Continue reading Announcing Business Card Scanning →
February 6, 2017
BY Caitlin Delohery IN Mindfulness
As we continue our series on mindfulness, let’s discuss what we really mean. Mindfulness is a buzzword that’s tossed around a lot. It’s becoming one of those trendy words that can get overused to point of confusion (e.g., “literally”). Simply put, mindfulness is the awareness of the present moment without any judgement of it. Mindfulness means to sloooooow down and get present with the here and now. Wherever you are, that is. It could be at work, at home, in a meeting, at the gym, in traffic, at the airport. Being there without distracted thoughts, worries, or narratives. Or, if … Continue reading What Does Mindfulness Really Mean? →
February 3, 2017
BY John Paul Narowski IN Company
Stop competing with your team’s busy email inbox and keep everyone in the loop with our new Browser Notifications feature. This has come from a few conversations with our users who often lose the battle for people’s attention throughout the day. Enter the browser notification hero! If you’re using either Chrome, Firefox or Safari, you should have seen a recent request to allow karmaCRM to send you browser notifications. As long as you accepted, you’re in. What is a browser notification? As long as you have karmaCRM open somewhere, a browser notification will show up in the top right hand side of your monitor (see above screenshot). … Continue reading Announcing Browser Notifications →
January 30, 2017
BY Caitlin Delohery IN Mindfulness
So much in this world is about more more more — more products, more features, more communication, more meetings, more sales, more! It’s so easy to get distracted by MORE. I’m here to remind you about the power of less. Mindfulness is such a buzzword in business these days because our philosophy of more is getting in the way of productivity, success, and happiness. Our push for more has gotten us too much. We think we need all the bells and whistles, until we find ourselves with so many bells and whistles constantly ringing and whistling that we can’t … Continue reading Mindfulness and Simplicity: Using Less to Do More →
January 26, 2017
BY Krista Garver IN karmaCRM News and Updates
Can you believe it’s already the end of January? At karmaCRM, we’ve started the year off strong with a host of new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new. Bulk task creation and contact editing Save time by creating tasks in bulk! Now you can bulk create tasks for contacts, companies, and deals. You can also add and remove contact buckets in bulk. Available on the per user pro plan. Oodles of new email formatting options We’ve added all sorts of fancy new formatting options to the email composer. You can now change the font and font size, add bullet points, … Continue reading Email Formatting Options, PDF Templates, and More — What’s New at karmaCRM This Month →
January 15, 2017
BY John Paul Narowski IN Company
If you print contracts or PDFs based on information from your info in karmaCRM, then this feature is for you. Now you can easily create PDFs from the data you already have in your contacts, companies, and deals. This feature is for the Per User Plans only. To create a template, go to your settings and then print templates To use the templates go to the actions menu of your record (in this case we’re in the contact record) and select “Print Template”. You now have the option to make any final edits to the template before it’s turned into … Continue reading Announcing Print Templates →
