B2B Sales Glossary

CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

A CRM is the system of record for every prospect and customer interaction. Modern B2B CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho) store contact data, deal stages, activity history, and revenue forecasts — and increasingly act as the hub for AI-driven sales automation.

What is crm (customer relationship management)?

A CRM's value compounds with the cleanliness of its data. Stale contacts, missing fields, and inconsistent stage definitions break every downstream report and automation. The best B2B sales orgs treat CRM hygiene as a daily discipline, automate enrichment via tools like EazyReach to keep contact data fresh, and enforce required-field validation at each deal stage. CRM is also the integration point for the rest of the GTM stack — marketing automation, contact enrichment, lead scoring, sales engagement, and now AI calling.

Examples

→Salesforce: dominant in enterprise; deeply customizable; expensive
→HubSpot: best-in-class for SMB/mid-market; clean UX; integrated marketing
→EazyReach + CRM: auto-enriches contacts so reps never have a "no phone number" excuse

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Related terms

RevOps (Revenue Operations)

RevOps is the unified operations function that runs sales, marketing, and customer success on a single data, tooling, and process spine. The premise: revenue is one bowtie-shaped funnel, so the operations supporting it should not be three siloed teams.

Sales Operations Specialist

A Sales Operations Specialist owns the tooling, data, processes, and reporting that let a sales team execute efficiently. They are the bridge between RevOps strategy and rep day-to-day workflow.

Lead Scoring

Lead scoring is the systematic ranking of leads by their probability to convert. Demographic data (title, company size, industry) gets a "fit" score and observed behavior (page visits, email opens, demo requests) gets an "intent" score — combined into a single number that prioritizes SDR outreach.

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