Key takeaways
- The pipeline education consultants and training providers actually run: Enquiry, Counselling session, Application, Offer received, Enrolled.
- Where the revenue leaks: Students who attended one counselling session and were never followed up before the intake deadline closed.
- Tallium AI CRM is a flat $99 USD per month for the whole workspace with unlimited users included.
- Every deal carries a next step with an owner and a date, which is the habit that fixes the leak above.
- Enquiries arriving over email and phone, which is how most education consultants and training providers in Ireland get found, are captured as leads with the source recorded.
The pipeline education consultants and training providers actually run
Most CRMs ship with a generic lead-to-won funnel. For education consultants and training providers the stages that carry information are 1. Enquiry, 2. Counselling session, 3. Application, 4. Offer received, 5. Enrolled. Rename the default stages to these once and the board immediately tells you something useful, because a deal sitting too long in "Application" is a different problem from one sitting in "Counselling session".
Where the deals actually leak
Students who attended one counselling session and were never followed up before the intake deadline closed. Ageing on the board is what surfaces it: the deals you need to see are the quiet ones, and quiet deals are invisible in an inbox and in a spreadsheet.
Source tracking for agent and referral channels
Education marketing runs on referrals, fairs and agents. Source tagging shows which channel produces enrolments rather than enquiries.
Intake deadlines drive the follow-up
Application windows are fixed. Working backwards from a deadline into dated tasks turns a seasonal scramble into a schedule.
How this works for businesses in Ireland
Selling in Ireland has its own shape. Irish SMEs frequently sell into the UK and the wider EU from a small home base, so one clean pipeline with clear owner and next-step fields does more work than multi-region CRM configuration. Tallium AI CRM is set up for that: enquiries arriving over email and phone are captured as leads with the source recorded, deal values are entered in the numbers your team quotes in EUR, and the whole team, from a two-person Ltd company to a forty-person operation across Dublin, Cork and Galway, works from the same records at one flat price. Common verticals here, including IT and software, professional services and construction, all run on the same default pipeline with the stage names changed once.
Everyone in the business, on one system
An education consultancy rarely has a clean split between sales and everyone else. The person who answers the phone, the person who prices the job and the person who chases payment all hold part of the relationship. Because every user is included at one flat price, all of them can be on the record instead of only the closers, which is what makes the history true rather than partial.
Tallium AI CRM vs outsourcing to a sales or lead-gen agency
An agency can be the right call when you need pipeline faster than you can hire. The catch is what you own at the end of the contract. If the agency runs the CRM, the outreach and the follow-up, then the relationships, the data and the process are theirs. Running it in-house on your own system costs less per month and leaves you with an asset.
| Tallium AI CRM | outsourcing to a sales agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | One flat software subscription | A retainer, typically many multiples of it |
| Who owns the contact data | You. It lives in your workspace | Often the agency's system |
| Who owns the relationship | Your team | The agency's team |
| Visibility of the pipeline | Live, at any moment | A monthly report |
| What you keep if it ends | Everything. Contacts, history and process | A summary, and a restart |
| Speed to start | Same day | Onboarding period, then ramp |
| Best fit | Teams that want to own their pipeline | Short-term capacity you cannot hire for |
Why teams choose Tallium AI CRM
One account with Tallium Accounting and Marketing
The pipeline, the books and the campaigns share one login and one set of customer records. There is no integration to maintain between the quote you sent and the invoice you raised, because they are in the same system.
Built for WhatsApp-led selling
Enquiries that arrive by WhatsApp are captured as leads with a source tag and an owner, and the contact record carries the click-to-chat link. The conversation stays where your customers are. The commitments live where your team can see them.
AI that removes admin, not judgement
Incoming leads are sorted by intent so the ready-to-buy ones surface first, and follow-up messages are drafted for you to edit and send. It is aimed at the twenty minutes a day lost to admin, not at replacing the salesperson's read of a deal.
Your data stays yours
Contacts, deals and history live in your workspace and export cleanly to CSV whenever you want them. There is no lock-in through an export fee or a proprietary format, which is the right test to apply to any CRM before you commit.
Fast on a phone, because that is where sales happens
The pipeline, contact search and task list are usable one-handed between meetings. A CRM that only works properly at a desk gets updated at the end of the week, which means it is wrong for most of it.
Flat $99 a month for the whole workspace
One price covers the business, not one seat. There is no per-user rate to multiply, no tier to be upgraded into and no contact-count step. Budgeting for a CRM stops being a forecast of how many people you might hire.
Getting started, step by step
- Rename the default pipeline stages to Enquiry, Counselling session, Application, Offer received, Enrolled.
- Import contacts and companies from a CSV export of your spreadsheet, mailbox or previous CRM. Map the columns once and merge duplicates as you go.
- Rename the default pipeline stages so the board matches how you actually sell, then move your open deals onto it with values and expected close dates.
- Publish a lead capture form and put it on your website, so new enquiries create contacts automatically with the source recorded.
- Set the follow-up rule the team will keep: every open deal carries a next step with a date and an owner. This is the habit that decides whether the CRM works.
Frequently asked questions
How do education consultants use a CRM?
As a deadline machine. Every student is a deal with an intake date, and the stages match the real process from counselling through application to enrolment. The reporting question that matters is how many enquiries from each source converted to enrolment, which needs source captured at the start.
Can we manage multiple intakes at once?
Yes. Run a pipeline per intake or tag deals by intake period, so the September and January cohorts are tracked separately while the contact records stay shared.
How much does Tallium AI CRM cost in Ireland?
Tallium AI CRM is a flat $99 USD per month for the whole workspace, billed in USD, which teams in Ireland usually compare against per-seat tools quoted in EUR equivalents. Unlimited users are included, so the price does not change when you hire. There are no per-seat fees, no feature tiers and no contact-count steps.
Does Tallium AI CRM charge per user?
No. Every plan includes unlimited users. That is the structural difference from most CRMs, and it changes behaviour as much as cost: when a login is free, support and finance go on the system too, and the customer record stops having holes in it.
Is Tallium AI CRM suitable for a small business in Ireland?
Yes. It is built for teams of two to fifty who need a pipeline that stays current, contact records the whole team can see, and follow-ups that happen on a date rather than from memory. In Ireland, where much of the selling happens over email and phone, the important part is that enquiries from those channels are captured as leads rather than lost in a phone.
How long does setup take?
Most teams are working in the CRM the same day. The account ships with a default pipeline, contact and company records and lead capture, so setup is importing your contacts and renaming stages rather than a configuration project. There is no implementation fee and no consultant required.
Can I import my existing contacts?
Yes. Export to CSV from a spreadsheet, mailbox, phone or your current CRM and import it, mapping columns to contact and company fields. Deals import with stage, value and owner, so an existing pipeline arrives intact rather than being rebuilt by hand.
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