Freelance voice actors should ALWAYS be prospecting; at least when they’re not busy servicing their regular customers.
For a good many modern marketing mavens, that means building email lists. Lists that you can use to reach out to people that might hire you. Lists that explain who the contact is, where you met
Organizing all those contacts & info into something that is usable, makes sense, and is easy to keep track of can be a challenge.
That’s where CRM’s came into being. The internet made it easy (kinda – see my caveat below). And there are a gazillion Customer Relationship Management tools and software packages. Some free, some quite costly.
I’ve tried a number myself, Batchbook, Cloze, Nimble, ZohoCRM to name a few. But these companies keep coming and going. New players enter the scene, and updates/upgrades can really change the product.
CAVEAT
Ultimately, I found myself spending too much time learning, configuring, and customizing the software itself, and never found it helped me manage my clients. I’ll admit to being a geek about this stuff. I always tell people I never play computer games,
Others tell me they do just fine with Excel as a tool to organize this information.
Like anything else online these days, ya gotta stay with the flow and find what works best for you.
In that spirit, let me link you to a pretty nice comparison tool I found from Zapier. Zapier is a
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Just click “The 16 Best Free CRM Apps“ or on the logo to the left to see this resource.
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