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Salesforce stock jumped 13% this week. Their shareholders are having a great day.

You're probably not one of them — and if you're running ops or marketing at a mid-market company, that stock price tells you something worth paying attention to.

When a CRM vendor's valuation climbs like that, it's rarely because customers suddenly found the product easier to use. It's because Wall Street likes the recurring revenue, the expansion contracts, and the consulting ecosystem that keeps customers locked in and spending. That's the business model. You are the business model.

Every "customization" that requires a certified partner, every workflow change stuck behind a support ticket, every seat you're paying for because downgrading is somehow more complicated than upgrading — that's what a 13% pop looks like from the outside.

If you've already been through the cycle — big platform, big promise, six-figure consulting bill, same problems with a different logo — you know the pattern. The vendor wins whether the implementation works or not.

The question isn't whether Salesforce is a good company. It's whether a company optimized for shareholder returns is the right tool for a team that just needs customer data to work on Tuesday.

A CRM that fits your business shouldn't require a financial analyst to explain why it costs this much.

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