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29% -- sales performance increase for sales professionals using CRM (2025)
Sales professionals using a CRM system achieve an average 29% increase in sales performance compared to those without one.
- Secondary citation from Salesforce State of Sales research cited in a marketing blog
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29%
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Data Vintage
2025
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B
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50
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60
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20
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30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Salesforce
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Tier C
https://blog.automatedsalesmachine.com/what-is-crm/ ↗
Source Article
What Is CRM? The Complete Guide to Customer Relationship Management - The Conversion Feed
TL;DR: A CRM, or Customer Relationship Management system, is software that centralizes every customer interaction, lead record, and sales pipeline stage in one platform — replacing scattered spreadsheets, siloed inboxes, and disconnected apps. Modern all-in-one CRMs go further, combining marketing a…
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sales professionals using CRM: 29% sales performance increase. Source: Salesforce (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/crm-sales-performance-increase-29
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