--- title: "Blog :: Vanessa Hunt Consulting | CRM consultant | Marketing | Salesforce" description: "Salesforce | Vanessa Hunt Consulting Ltd wants sales, marketing and service teams to love using their CRM as much as we love selecting, designing and configuring it for you. We blog about sales and marketing topics, including how to ensure you get value from your CRM right from the outset - and how to prepare your whole team for using a CRM. 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Maybe you got a reply, but not soon enough. Just last week I completed a web form on the site of a large CRM vendor who specialises in customer experience. Guess what. Nobody followed up my enquiry! I ended up chasing them via chat (which worked really well). It's okay, these things happen. But not everyone would've given them a second chance. It made me wonder how many other companies are missing out on business because they're sluggish responding to leads? Posted on Wednesday, 3rd June 2020 by Vanessa Hunt [CRM](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/crm) [HubSpot](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/hubspot) [Insightly](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/insightly) [Productivity](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/productivity) [Salesforce](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/salesforce) [SAP CRM](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/sap-crm) [SharpSpring](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/sharpspring) [Read full post »](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/2020/06/sales_velocity_shorter_sales_cycle) ![Guest blogging earns Gold for best article in CRM Writers' Awards 2017](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/360.png) ## Guest blogging earns Gold for best article in CRM Writers' Awards 2017 I love creating content on current CRM topics like user adoption, sales enablement and training for [SalesMethods](https://salesmethods.com/blog/). So I was even more delighted for my client when I learnt that my guest blogging had won the Gold and Silver awards in two categories of the CRM Writers' Awards 2017.  Posted on Tuesday, 25th April 2017 by Vanessa Hunt [Blogging](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/blogging) [CRM](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/crm) [Marketing](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/marketing) [Salesforce](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/salesforce) [Read full post »](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/2017/04/guest_blogging_earns_gold_for_best_article_in_crm_writers_awards_2017) ## An interview with Data2CRM: Customer experience and CRM I was recently interviewed by Nataliia Matsyk (Marketing Manager) of [Data2CRM](https://www.data2crm.com/), who asked some interesting questions about my experience of working in the CRM industry. Posted on Friday, 12th August 2016 by Vanessa Hunt [Consultancy](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/consultancy) [CRM](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/crm) [Salesforce](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/salesforce) [Training](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/training) [User Adoption](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/tag/user-adoption) [Read full post »](https://vanessahunt.co.uk/blog/2016/08/an_interview_with_data2crm_customer_experience_and_crm)