{"id":3100,"date":"2017-12-11T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2025-05-29T04:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:22:59","slug":"5-roadblocks-to-a-healthy-project-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/blog\/5-roadblocks-to-a-healthy-project-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"5 roadblocks to a healthy construction project pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Your construction company is built upon strong customer relationships. After all, repeat business and referrals are driving forces filling most sales pipelines. But as your company grows and more individuals on your staff are interacting with current and prospective customers, you can lose sight of those critical relationships. Silos of information begin to form. Frustration builds. And customer satisfaction takes a hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you know when it\u2019s time to take a more customer-centric approach to your business? Here are five roadblocks that could be hampering your customer relationships and ultimately your sales pipeline:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. You are not communicating regularly with your customers and prospects in order to be top-of-mind when a new project comes up.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Bid follow-up is falling through the cracks.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Your employees don\u2019t know how other staff members are working with your customers and sales prospects (for example, your field superintendents are in the dark about upcoming projects until they receive a work order).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. When a customer calls in, only one or two people have enough information to help them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Employees have retired or left your company and took their marketing, sales, or other important contacts and relationships with them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Removing the roadblocks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    To improve the quality of each prospect and customer interaction, some construction companies are adopting customer relationship management (CRM) practices and technology. CRM software<\/a> provides a 360-degree view of your company\u2019s interaction with past, current, and future customers by centralizing the data so it can be shared\u2014security permitting\u2014across your organization. How can you best use CRM technology?<\/p>\n\n\n\n