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How do I / Should I categorize my contacts in CRM Online

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Hello everyone,

we just switched our small business to CRM Online. The contacts are imported. 

I was wondering how it would be best practice to select the role / define the category of our contacts.

We have been using the CRM "insightly" before were we were able to select tags for contacts. This allowed for custom labeling and multiple categories for our contacts. The risk or defecit was the inconsistency and growing labels.

Should we just define the key roles of contacts in our business and add that in the contact form? For Example, customer, sales partner, consultant, project partner etc?

Thank you

Markus

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    ScottDurow Profile Picture
    21 on at
    RE: How do I / Should I categorize my contacts in CRM Online

    There are a variety of options - perhaps the easiest is to create yes/no fields on the contact form for each role.

    Alternatively if there is more contextual information needed, you could use Connection Roles to connect records together.

    You could also create a custom 'tag' entity with a N:N relationship between Contact and the tag entity - put a subgrid on the contact and it would allow you to tag your contacts.

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    Abed Haniyah Profile Picture
    4,287 on at
    RE: How do I / Should I categorize my contacts in CRM Online

    Hi mteich79,

    If I were you I will choose the first option from Scott's suggestion, it will give you the ability for creating contacts views based on selected categories  :)

    Hope this helps,

    Abed.

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