Collaboration in the Wild: See How 47 Degrees Strides

Ever since our launch back in March, we’ve been amazingly fortunate to have support from people all over the world helping us to refine our product and prioritize new features.

The guys at 47 Degrees were no exception.

                     

After we released collaboration, we wanted to hear how our users were actually using the new features. So, we reached out to our friends and 47 Degrees to hear what they had to say.

Here’s some of the highlights from our chat with Aaron Regan, their Director of Business Development.

47 Degrees looks awesome, what do you guys do?

47 Degrees is a creative software development company located in Ballard, WA.  We were founded in 2010 by Nick and Justin Elsberry, Derek Punsalan, and Raul Raja.  Our focus is mobile app development for iOS and Android, but we do take on some larger web projects as well.

How did you find Stride, and were you looking for a deal management service when you found it?

We actually went looking for something like Stride.  We had Salesforce in the past (before I was in position) and I had used similar large, and bloated tools at my previous company that were more work than reward.  We wanted something that was free of the clutter and was something we could utilize without feeling like it was another task we had to complete.  When we found Stride in your beta phase, we knew we wanted to be a part of your launch and it’s been great.

How have you integrated Stride into your daily workflow? 

I am the Director of Business Development so Stride’s main purpose in our office, is for me to communicate my interactions and process with our customers and prospects, to our Founders and development team.  Those guys are busy, and I don’t need to forward every email response, schedule state of the business meetings, or bog them down anymore than I have to with multiple communications.  With Stride, I simply have a place to keep my side of the business organized, and they can log in to see the progress and keep up to speed.

As a small team, how has the collaboration features in Stride improved your sales process?

The simplest way to put it is that Stride allows all of our team to be part of the conversation.  We are able to communicate internally with ease, allowing all of us to know the state of our prospective business.

Awesome-sauce. To check out Stride and our new team features for yourself, sign up here.
You may have noticed a new feature in Stride. It’s subtle, but it’s powerful. This weekend, we quietly rolled out Collaboration functionality to all of our beta users, allowing anyone on Stride to invite other folks to team up with them on any of the deals they’re working on. It was something that we heard a need for loud and clear, so we delivered.             Assign tasks, comment on activity, switch between multiple teams, it’s all there. But we took a different tact than most. Instead of charging you per user, we thought it made more sense to allow you to collaborate with as many people as you’d like, without running up the tab. With all of our plans, users are unlimited. Many minds are better than one. You’ll also notice that with the new collaboration features that we are officially out of private beta, meaning that anyone can sign up and use Stride, no invite required. So feel free to spread the love. To all of our early beta users, thank you for all of your support and feedback. Let the journey continue!
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You may have noticed a new feature in Stride. It’s subtle, but it’s powerful.

This weekend, we quietly rolled out Collaboration functionality to all of our beta users, allowing anyone on Stride to invite other folks to team up with them on any of the deals they’re working on. It was something that we heard a need for loud and clear, so we delivered.

           

Assign tasks, comment on activity, switch between multiple teams, it’s all there. But we took a different tact than most. Instead of charging you per user, we thought it made more sense to allow you to collaborate with as many people as you’d like, without running up the tab. With all of our plans, users are unlimited. Many minds are better than one.

You’ll also notice that with the new collaboration features that we are officially out of private beta, meaning that anyone can sign up and use Stride, no invite required. So feel free to spread the love.

To all of our early beta users, thank you for all of your support and feedback. Let the journey continue!

Never Forget That Follow-up: Task Reminders Are Here

One of the hardest things about keeping up with all of your active deals is remembering to follow-up and stay on top of outstanding tasks. That’s why we’ve been working so hard to bring you task reminders.

                   

Available for all Stride users, task reminders provide a simplistic tool for staying on top of your tasks for each deal. Here’s how to set your first reminder:

  1. Enter in a task
  2. Hover over that task 
  3. Click “Add Reminder”
  4. Put in a date or abstract timeframe (ie. next week)
  5. Hit save

As that date comes around, you’ll receive an email reminding you of the task. Simple as that. 

Enjoy!

Contact Info and Deal Description: Come and Get It

Since our very first day, we’ve heard that some folks wanted to have the ability to add contact information (phone number, email address) and a description to the deals they create. 

Our perspective was (and still is) that we didn’t want Stride to become a contact manager. We believe that contact management is better suited on social networks like Linkedin or Twitter and in contact managers like your address book or Google contacts. Thus, we left it out from creating a deal. 

As we’ve been using our product over the past months, we’ve realized that associating simple contact info and deal descriptions helps in the management process and should in fact be included in the deal creation process.

                    

Today, when you create your next deal, you’ll be able to added your preferred contact method and deal description. All of this information will then show up every time you view the details and notes of a deal.

As always, keep the feedback coming (we’re listening)!

Deal Filtering Now Live

Howdy, Striders. We’ve got a new feature, fresh off the wire. Thanks to the input from a few awesome users, we prioritized this feature and now have deal filtering live.

Ideal for folks with more than 10 active deals, filtering will help you sift through your deals in a much more efficient manner than before. There’s three distinct filtering options that you now have as a Stride user.

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Not in love with the default step titles in Stride? No worries, we just released a new feature that allows you to customize all of the steps to your preference. To customize your Stride flow: Log in to your account Click the “My Account” option in the top right of the screen Select “Customize Stride” Enter in the stage names you’d like and hit save — that’s it! At the moment, we only allow you to customize the step titles. You can’t remove or add steps quite yet, that’s coming. We hope you like it!
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Not in love with the default step titles in Stride? No worries, we just released a new feature that allows you to customize all of the steps to your preference. To customize your Stride flow:

  • Log in to your account
  • Click the “My Account” option in the top right of the screen
  • Select “Customize Stride”
  • Enter in the stage names you’d like and hit save — that’s it!

At the moment, we only allow you to customize the step titles. You can’t remove or add steps quite yet, that’s coming.

We hope you like it!

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