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Warmly pivots from Zoom tool to directing warm leads to sales

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By Ron Miller

October 19, 2023

Warmly pivots from Zoom tool to directing warm leads to sales

When Warmly started a couple of years ago, people were meeting regularly in Zoom and the company provided a custom background and information about the participants. It was useful as far as it went, but when the founders had trouble selling the approach, they decided to pivot to a new idea: providing warm leads for […]

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