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    Issue 04

    The Sales Pro Stack

    Five tools. $312/mo. Replaces $12,000/mo of SDR and sales ops.

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    $312/mo
    Total stack cost
    $12,000/mo
    What it replaces (SDR + sales ops)
    14 days
    Setup time

    The Lineup

    1. 01.
      Close
      The CRM built for closers.
    2. 02.
      Lusha
      Direct dials, verified emails, on demand.
    3. 03.
      Fathom
      Every call recorded, summarised, logged.
    4. 04.
      GetResponse
      Webinars and sequences in one tool.
    5. 05.
      Calendly
      Booking links that respect your calendar.

    Why these five.

    The best sales reps don't have more hours in the day — they have a tighter stack. Every tool in this kit removes a specific friction point that kills deal velocity: prospecting research, scheduling tag, note-taking, call follow-through, and nurture for the leads who said 'not now'. Strip those frictions out and the same rep closes thirty percent more deals on the same number of conversations. That's the entire pitch.

    These five were selected because they map cleanly to the five stages of a sales week. Lusha owns prospecting. Close owns the outbound and the pipeline. Calendly owns the booking layer so prospects pick a time without fourteen back-and-forth emails. Fathom owns the recording and post-call work. GetResponse owns the long-tail nurture for prospects who weren't ready when you were. Together they form a closed sales loop that runs whether you're at your desk or not.

    After thirty days running this stack, the rep should be able to point at a measurable lift in conversations-per-day and meetings-booked-per-conversation. If the dialer in Close, the data in Lusha, and the booker in Calendly are all working, those numbers move. If they don't, the problem isn't the tools — it's the script. Either way, the stack tells you the truth fast.

    Carlos Gil, founder of BestStacked

    What you can build with this stack.

    Three real workflows already running on this five-tool combination.

    01

    100-call power day

    Pull a 100-record list from Lusha, dial through it in Close's power dialer, let Fathom record and summarise every conversation that lands. End the day with summaries in your CRM, not a notebook.

    Stack
    Close + Lusha + Fathom
    Time
    1 working day
    Cost
    $129/mo
    02

    Booked-meeting-as-a-service

    Cold sequence in Close ends every email with a Calendly link. Calendly auto-assigns rep round-robin and pushes booked meetings into Close as deals. The rep wakes up with the calendar booked.

    Stack
    Lusha + Close + Calendly
    Time
    2 hours setup, runs nightly
    Cost
    $78/mo
    03

    Closed-lost re-engagement

    Closed-lost deals in Close fire a webhook into a 6-month GetResponse drip. When the prospect re-engages, Fathom records the next call and the cycle reopens with full context.

    Stack
    GetResponse + Close + Fathom
    Time
    1 day setup
    Cost
    $87/mo

    Implementation difficulty

    4/5

    Moderate-hard. Data hygiene and the integration layer are where this stack lives or dies.

    The math.

    Without this stack
    • SDR (loaded cost)$7,500/mo
    • Sales ops contractor$2,500/mo
    • Salesforce + add-ons$1,200/mo
    • Data subscription$500/mo
    • Calendaring tools$300/mo
    • Total$12,000/mo
    With this stack
    • Close Professional$109/mo
    • Lusha Pro$49/mo
    • Fathom Premium$19/mo
    • GetResponse MA$59/mo
    • Calendly Teams$76/mo
    • Total$312/mo
    Bottom line
    $11,688/mo saved

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