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10% -- productivity increase from sales automation for Companies using automation for sales follow-up (2025)

2025  · Hootsuite

Companies that use automation for sales follow-ups experience a 10% increase in productivity.

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10%
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2025
Entity
Companies using automation for sales follow-up
Geography
EMEA
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https://popcorncrm.co.uk/making-crm-work-for-small-businesses/ ↗
Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl
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Companies using automation for sales follow-up: 10% productivity increase from sales automation. Source: Hootsuite (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/sales-automation-productivity-10
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