Fredrik - Making a better CRM

How to Build Your Own CRM With Nocode Tools

A good CRM system will let you keep track of all your sales and help you automate some of your processes, without being messy or complicated. Sometimes when you're just starting out, you can get by with building your own CRM without any coding by gluing together popular nocode tools

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What to Look for in a Small Business CRM?

Picking the right CRM for your business is critical since selecting the right one will help you grow while choosing poorly may even slow you down. Reaching out to potential customers and maintaining relationships should be easy and your CRM should help. These are some things to look for when

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How to Validate Your Startup Idea in One Day for $0

So, you've got a brand new idea for a startup and are looking to validate it to see if anyone is interested in your new thing? Sounds good! This will let you know how the market responds to it and give you valuable information and fuel to keep going and

changelog

Better Search & Email Actions

I hope you're having a great summer so far! I'm happy to share some exciting new features which will make working with contacts and email even easier in Wobaka. 🔍 Better searchWe've added support for searching through your contacts' notes, messages and tasks. This allows you to search for things like

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Bulk Actions and Pipeline Filters

We're super excited to share our most recent product updates with you. We've been working on some pretty neat things during the past weeks such as bulk actions, new filters for pipelines and other small improvements. 📚 Bulk actionsBulk actions makes it super easy to perform the same task on multiple

privacy

Why We Don't Track

At Wobaka we take privacy seriously. We do not track your behavior and use a privacy friendly analytics app¹ that collects minimal data. For some of you this may seem like common sense. However in today's internet, it's becoming increasingly common for services to track you and sell your data

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Tag Suggestions, Better Mailbox and More

We're very excited to share the latest additions to Wobaka with you. During the past few weeks we've made a bunch of small improvements such as better search and performance but we've also made a few bigger changes. 🎉 Tag suggestionsTag suggestions makes managing and working with tags much easier. When

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Customizing Contact Statuses

I have some really exciting news to share with you today. After two years we're finally making it possible to customize your contact statuses to tailor it to your sales process. When I started Wobaka I had a view of an easy-to-use and kind of opinionated CRM system that would

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How to get your first podcast sponsor

Having relevant sponsors on your podcast can be a great way to earn some money on your passion and perhaps enable you to make a good business out of it. During the past years I've learned a thing or two about contacting and closing sponsors and I'll share some tips

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Task Filters, Default Opportunity Settings and Zapier

I've got three features that I'm personally super excited about to share with you today. Better task filterI've added the possibility to filter tasks by user. This is really useful when you want to see only tasks assigned to you or want to see who's working on what 👀. Default opportunity

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Custom Attributes and Edit Upcoming Emails

I've got two really nice features to show you this week. Custom attributes allows you to save any kind of data on a contact and upcoming email editor makes it possible to customize any email sequence, after it has been started 🤗. Custom attributesSave any information on contactsCustom attributes makes it

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How to Find Sponsors to Your Newsletter

Starting a newsletter is exciting. I remember my first newsletter about remote work back in 2015. It was so cool having an actual audience of people to write to every week. It was like I had my own TV show or magazine or something. I later on realized that you

guides

How to Use FastMail App Passwords in Third Party Apps

FastMail provides a great way to stay secure when using third party applications for sending email, managing your calendar and more. Why app passwords?FastMail requires all third party apps to use app passwords rather than your normal password to login. This is great because it provides additional security for

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How To Use Gmail App Passwords in Third Party Email Apps

Google App passwords are a great way to use your Gmail account with third party apps. This is how you activate and generate them. What's an App Password?It's basically a password that you can provision to some third party app to use access your account, for example to send

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Launching Automations 🚀

I started working on Wobaka in January 2019 and officially launched the first version in August the same year. Now, after using the system myself for more than a year, making sure to nail the basics, I've added a long awaited feature 🥁. Automations! Starting an automation — Easy as pushing playWhy

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How to Automate Your Email Outreach With Wobaka CRM

Email outreach can send a lot of hours down the drain and this can be very hurtful if you're a small team trying to get things done. Instead of wasting hours on manual outreach you can now put your sales on autopilot and step back in control when it's needed.

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Introducing: Tags 🎉

I'm super happy to announce that tags are now available on Wobaka. This makes it super easy to segment contacts on attributes like industry, location, size or where in your process they're at. I think it is something most CRMs are lacking and I'm super happy to release it on

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Contact export and small improvements

Hey friends! I've been working on contact export and some general site reliability things the past week. Everything to make sure Wobaka runs smooth without hiccups. 🥝 Export contactsYou can now export your contacts to a csv file at any time. Just click the "Export" button in the top-right corner. It

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Daily Digest and Improved Forms

Hey everyone! I've been enjoying dealing with timezones and email this week. I also felt that some forms could use an update. Let's go through this week's changes. Oh, and if you haven't set your timezone yet, you can do it on your settings page. 💌 Daily digestThis is a big

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API Docs, Timezones and More!

✨ Brand New API DocumentationI'm pretty excited to announce our new API documentation today. You can check it out on docs.wobaka.com. It has support for dark mode and a spotlight-style search. I hope you'll like it and look forward to see what you'll build. Short aside: The docs are

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Making a Friendly API

As developers and designers we put a lot of effort into making our apps enjoyable but we tend to forget about that when we ship our APIs. Maybe it's time for us to consider that people are actually using our APIs as well? Sure, some of us are lucky enough

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New pricing, looks and a better dashboard

A lot have happened the past two weeks. Most of it is backend improvements that you probably won't notice much but we've made some tasty frontend changes as well. New pricingWe've decided to change our pricing model to $29 per user and month. This is to make it easier to

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Making a Modular Landing Page Video

Wobaka has changed a lot since our first launch. While this is great progress, the video I made a few months ago is now outdated. So when it was time to make a new video to match our current design, I thought about how to make it adoptable for future

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Better tasks view, chat widget and more!

Hey friends! I hope you’ve had a great week so far. I’ve spent some time working on improvements for Wobaka and especially the tasks feature. I'd love to hear what you think, and what I should work on next? New task form You can now add tasks directly

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Weekly updates, stage icons and more

Hello friends! Every week from now on I plan to write a little about what I've been working on, ideas and more. Kind of like a changelog with some sprinkles. 🎉 If you'd like to get this as an email, let me know on [email protected] and I'll add you