Pipejump.com offers a web based service that manages the lifecycle of a sales opportunity from drunken pitch you delivered at the pub into a closed deal.

Pipejump’s service will appeal to any small business or sales person that is managing several sales opportunities at any one time — Particularly the ones that suffer from chronic disorganisation. Also, sales managers that want to keep tabs on their team will be pricking up their ears.

Sales managers will undoubtedly be interested in the sophisticated reporting interface that Pipejump offers. Coupled with an attractive ROI proposition, it’s not a far stretch to imagine Pipejump.com as a regular addition to any sales office.

Like anything, the quality of the reports that Pipejump.com spits out is only as good as the data entered in. Will sales people busy wining and dining be able to stay on top of the administrative components of the service? Or will this be a case of gargbage in -> garbage out?

Whatever mental image comes to mind when you think ’sales’, there’s no doubt that sales people are also, in a way, accomplished street performers. Whether it’s a mostachioed-and-plaid-sportscoat-clad-”only-used-by-a-grandmother-to-get-her-groceries-twice-a-month” car salesman or the uber-slick super deal closer, there’s a lot more to sales than charm and a cheque. These pros are juggling more phone calls, deals and appointments than your most dextrous street-juggler and all of his balls, clubs and flaming chainsaws.

Pipejump.com is offering an ever-so-simple solution to an age old problem - with all of these sales prospects going on at any one time, how can you keep track of the comings, goings and closings in an easy and efficient way? This web-based solution allows users to create sales leads and funnel them through the sales pipe to end at a closed deal. Notes, reminders and contact details can also be added, making pipejump an attractive sales-diary-cum-CRM system.

The interface is intuitive and well designed with drag-and-drop functionality that works in much the way that you would hope it would. There’s also plenty of help along the way as well as some cutesy - if a little gimmicky - fortune-cookie sales advice tips like “Always follow up! Keep yourself on your prospect’s mind and show a sincere interest in that deal.” that are also delivered daily by Twitter. The main strength of pipejump’s service has to be the reporting functionality that gives account administrators a birdseye view of all user’s sales and pipelines. The reports are quick, cool and useful.

Pipejump is a well rounded and carefully considered project only let down by a couple of small oversights. The appointment function is basic to the extreme, only allowing you to set a reminder for morning/noon/afternoon/evening and there is no sms notification option as yet. The reminder function comes across as an afterthought and slightly sours the overall tight package. I’d also like to see a quick-search function included allowing users to find clients, deals and appointments without having to flick through all of the tabs individually. Also, since sales people are often mobile, some sort of application for blackberry/iPhone would be an ideal bed fellow for the web based app.

Pipejump is funded by user subscriptions that start at a slightly-steep $24 per month for individuals right up to a bargain-of-the-century $59 per month for a ’super’ account with unlimited users and unlimited deals. Really? No Enterprise subscription? I’ve just got this horrible feeling that Cisco and AT&T are going to roll pipejump over all 10,000 people in their sales force and pipejump will be kicking themselves from ‘unqualified’ to ‘closure’.

If you’re a small business or a sales person that is constantly battling with the cantakerous twins Procrastination and Disorganisation, then Pipejump is an attractive solution. If you are a sales manager or you run a business that wants to keep on top of what sales are being lost and won, who is pulling their weight and who is just enjoying the perks of the company Amex, then you should be writing a business case to bring on Pipejump as soon as you’ve finised with this review. Check out Pipejump here.

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