div class=weblinks weblinks-item weblinks-link-10360 div class=weblinks-body pThe combination of all these factors results in an improved ROI, happier customers (since you?re only talking to the interested), reduction in sales time and an improved bottom line. During the past few years, open source companies have adopted a powerful one-two punch by utilizing SugarCRM and Loopfuse. In fact, according to a MindTouch best practices study, over 40% of the respondents were using the combination to track the activities of the most active prospects in their sales pipelines./p /div!--class=weblinks-body-- /div!--class=weblinks weblinks-item weblinks-link-10360--

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