# How 3M uses Salesloft

**1,000 customers**: “The first Salesloft Cadence reached a whopping 1,000 customers in a week”

As published on [salesloft.com](https://www.salesloft.com/resources/case-studies/3m-shrinks-time-to-close-by-60-percent), September 2021. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-20.

- Company: [3M](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/3m.md)
- Tool: [Salesloft](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/salesloft.md)
- Industry: [Manufacturing](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/manufacturing.md)
- Teams: Inside Sales, Sales Operations

## The use case: how 3M deploys Salesloft

3M's US and Canada inside sales team uses Salesloft to standardize and automate sales processes, run cadences to reach customers, and identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities within its existing customer base. It also helps new sales hires get up to speed faster.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Salesloft and 3M, not ours.

> 3M’s implementation of Salesloft in the US and Canada occurred during the pandemic with the inside sales team working remotely. The first Salesloft Cadence reached a whopping 1,000 customers in a week.

- **10 customers per day**: “New hires were talking effectively to 10 customers per day the second week on the job.”

> Salesloft was a one-stop-shop platform that offered solutions to a variety of our needs.
>
> Jason Amidon, Director, US & Canada Sales Operations

Source: [salesloft.com](https://www.salesloft.com/resources/case-studies/3m-shrinks-time-to-close-by-60-percent), captured 2026-10-20.

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- [Augury](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/augury.md) — Observed
- [HighRadius](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/highradius.md) — Observed
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- [Sprinklr](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/sprinklr.md) — Observed

## Salesloft users in Manufacturing

- [Emerson](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/emerson.md) — Confirmed
- [Vention](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/vention.md) — Confirmed

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-20.

- Checked: the figure 1,000 customers is printed word for word on the page, near the name of 3M.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of 3M.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: 3M uses Salesloft. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-20.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/3m-salesloft · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology