GoldMine Standard 6.7 Review

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(More customer reviews)I have used Goldmine for five years and find it to be invaluable for managing contacts and projects for my consulting business.
Best Features:
#1) Organization Charts can be created that can include other organizations as a subset. This is the feature that I utilize the most and don't know of any other product that has this capability. To manage projects, I include vendors that I have contacted under the client organization chart that they support, yet can tie them to other clients as well and maintain their own independent org charts.
#2) All phone calls are logged under my contacts as are emails. You can file relevant documents such as Word and Excel documents under a contact also but this is not a feature that I make use of.
#3) There is sales forecasting feature that I've worked with that is another important capabiity but I'm not taking full advantage of that yet.
Other Comments:
Another reveiwer found the syncronization and learning curve to be a problem. I was syncing Goldmine with my Palm Pilot and it was a two step process - first syncing to Outlook and then another step to sync to the Palm. I have stopped using this feature as I'm generally in the field and didn't have the cradle available for the Palm. I'm looking at using a smartphone as my PDA that has a USB connection, so I expect to go back to syncing. The two-step process is inconvenient but like other workarounds with technology, I've gotten use to it. Goldmine definitely has a learning curve but there are a lot of features and is a very powerful program, so I expect that.
Tip:
I recently started to keep four quadrants open in the program at all times: 1) Contact Records, 2) Calendar, 3) Contact Search Center, and 4) E-mail Center. I read about this technique and it greatly speeds up my use of the application.
Things Goldmine Could Do Better:
#1) I would like to see a To Do List similar to Franklin Planner method whereby you could assign priorities along with the suspense date that you want them to show up on instead showing future items before they are needed.
#2) Have a more flexible method of showing more phone numbers under a contact - I have contacts with multiple work numbers (as they work at multiple locations), two cell phones (work and personal), home phone, fax numbers (work and home)and the list goes on. As I recall, ACT does a better job at handling this issue but I find Goldmine's other features to offset this.
I totally depend on this program to manage my contacts and feel that it is an ideal program for small businesses. While it isn't perfect, I can recommend that you seriously consider it. I give it four stars as while it is quite robust - it can benefit from further improvement.

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ACT By Sage Premium 2008 10.0 Review

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(More customer reviews)Check the date of the reviews before taking them serious. 6 of the 8 reviews were written on Sept. 28, and the other two reviews are doubtful. Just an observation and in conflict with the reviews of the non premium version ACT! 2008 10.0 .

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My Ultimate Organizer Review

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(More customer reviews)I mainly wanted this for the address book but liked the idea of the password manager and all the forms that came with it. The address book is so inflexible! If you have your address alphabetized by last name, your address labels will print like that, (i.e. Smith, Joe) otherwise your address are alphabetized by first name. No options for anything else. What if I can't remember someone's 1st name? I have to go through all the addresses to find it! I would not reccomend it and should have listened to the other review!

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MyUltimateOrganizer is the perfect personal organization utility for home and office use. Set up appointments, track contacts, record events, send emails, create to-do lists and keep notes. With an easy-to-use interface and the ability to synchronize your data with Palm and Pocket PC devices, MyUltimateOrganizer is the perfect way to get organized.

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JobFish 2010 Software For Job Seekers: Find Employment, Register With Online Job Boards, Automate Job Search, Career Finder, Manage Your Resume, Manage Contacts, Task List, and More Review

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(More customer reviews)I was wasting a lot of time and effort and was needing a way to automate my job searching. I came across an Ad for JobSearch doing a Google search. After reading the description and testimonials on ButterflyVista's website I decided to give JobFish a try and purchased it.

After an easy install I noticed right away that Jobfish's User Interface looked almost deceptively simple and easy. However just like Google it hides a lot of complexity and power under it's hood. I should mention that it is a good idea to take a little time to read the help documentation before starting. A lot
of my questions were answered there.
It came to pass that it was necessary to contact technical support. The issue before me was an apparent conflict with my McAfee Anti-Virus. McAfee didn't like one of JobFish's DLL's. I wasn't put off by this. Rather I was curious what the support would be like. ButterflyVista doesn't offer telephone support. Rather it's an email based system. I was apprehensive at first. But I got a response the very same day.
From that point on the support people at ButterflyVista worked persistently and diligently in helping me isolate the cause of the issue.
As mentioned McAfee wasn't playing nice with one of the Jobfish application's DLL's. The problem was resolved several builds later with a version of the DLL
compatible with McAfee. There were 1 or 2 other small technical issues which the ButterflyVista staff helped me with immediately. Since then the Jobfish Application has been working great ever since.
Function wise JobFish 2010 rocks. After doing a preferences setup, Jobfish got right down to business downloading Job classifieds off of the major job boards like [...] even Craigslist.
In a short time I was neck deep analyzing job descriptions, processing and despatching resume's and cover letters. Job Fish makes use of Outlook or other popular email clients to send out resume's. I haven't tried it yet but I believe it's also be possible to use a direct Pop Server hookup such as those provided by Yahoo or Gmail and possibly use less resources. Speaking of customizations. I liked the fact that Jobfish offers multiple color themes or skins. A nice touch.
The basic impression that I get with this program is that the people who wrote it really care deeply about quality and service. It seems that they have been in the shoes of fellow job seekers themselves and were sympathetic to peoples needs. There are a number of thoughtful features. Sometimes you don't even know they're there until you need them. On my wish list I would hope one day to see the equivalent of speed keys to help a user quickly get to essential features such as note taking on important calls or recording contact info.
For anyone looking for a way to efficiently and methodically look for work and Network with contacts I would say that JobFish 2010 is best of breed. I'm glad I took the plunge and am quite satisfied with my purchase.

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ACT™ 6.0 For 2004 Review

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(More customer reviews)Wow, take a program that had some decent features and screw it up. If you don't compress and reindex MINIMUM once a day this thing actually loses info as you type it in! We have close to 7,000 contacts. I called regarding the losing of info and was advised "the program wasn't designed for holding that many contacts". Hello! It's a contact database! If this isn't designed for holding thousands of contacts what are they doing selling it as a contact database? We use it because we must as we use ACT on a daily basis and can't go without it at all. We put all our (abbreviated) conversations in the notes section so it's vital to our business. But, if another product comes along that will make the transition smooth, fast and easy we'll go for it. Or if those ever-changing software manufacturers of ACT get it together and make a version that can actually hold and KEEP info we'll go with that but so far that hasn't happened. My recommendation? Use Outlook.

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Act By Sage 2007 Review

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(More customer reviews)Dear Lord! I've been an ACT! user for over 11 years, coming up through Windows 3.X and even administering a 7-user (13,000+ contact)ACT! network. Those of us who are old hands at ACT! know that the program can be a wonderful slave and a terrible master. Such is the case with lots of crucial technology.
My last upgrade was to 2005. That one went off without a hitch. Since I decided to register that time, I've been getting 'Upgrade to 2007' emails from Sage for about 9 months. I normally will ignore these solicitations, but the 'integration with Outlook' feature caught my eye. I went ahead and downloaded the program (giant 250+mb file)last Monday.
After backing up my ACT! data to 3 separate locations, I proceeded with my install. Virus software 'off', closed all non-essential programs, etc. This thing was a mess from the get-go. After failing to start the install process several times, I called support, and after about 55 minutes of hold time, was handed off to a nice woman named Muralidharan who spent the next THREE HOURS on the line with me deleting individual items from the registry, downloading patches from Microsoft, etc. At the end of that ordeal, we had a successful install, meaning the program would run.
Next up was converting my database. That actually went smoothly, just humming along and proclaimimg success at the end. When I opened said database, I was pleased to see my contacts intact and even displayed in the template I had customized. Excited, I went to check my calendar, since that's the main screen I use. No calendar items. Check to see if the filters are out of whack-nope. Items show on the task list, and future to-dos, calls, and meetings show under each individual contact's 'activities' tab, but there was no way in Hades I could get it to show up on the Calendar. Regarding the Outlook functionality-it's not there if you use Word as your Outlook email editor. If you don't use Word, it's still a clunky, lame interface that requires a special ACT! address book in Outlook, etc.
Back to tech support. a 45 minute wait connected me to a very nice person who listened to my woes and promptly disconnected me. The next person I spoke with, after a nearly 1 hour hold (nice New-Age hold muzak, btw), was equally as friendly but apparently suffered fronm the same phone problems as the prior tech, since he disconnected while putting me on hold.
Fast forward to today. I fired up the evil box for a day in the office, hit the ACT! launch button, and watched it load significantly faster than I had remembered. Heartened, I waited for the activities to roll over. I can tell you now-I think I'd still be waiting for that rollover if I hadn't killed the process. I watched an hourglass for about ten minutes before doing a cold boot and retrying. Same result. Last straw.
I called ACT! and requested a refund. After a (surprise!)30 minute wait, I was connected with a gentleman who credited me back for my full purchase price. For the record, everyone I've dealt with at Sage has been helpful and friendly. One person I spoke with (likely NOT on a recorded line!) even lamented that the product may have been brought to market 'prematurely'.
Bottom line: There's no compelling reason to 'upgrade', and many, many reasons not to.

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ACT By Sage 2008 10.0 Review

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(More customer reviews)I have been in IT for 20 years and am currently an IT manager for a Fortune 500 company. Act 2006 and then the "upgrade" to Act 2008 have been the worst software experiences I have ever seen, bar none.With a ~12 seat install of Act premium, we got Act 2006 up and running with the help of a Certified Act consultant. It was ugly and the entire user base complained of not only Act being very slow, but the computers slowed to a crawl when performing all other functions as well. See the reviews of Act 2006 and you will see my experience is the norm.
An upgrade to 2008 was ordered. Cold feelings of dread went up and down my spine. The same consultant returned and we started.
Every single machine had a minimum of 6 errors related to the upgrade. Some had many more. A listing of actual and paraphrased errors follows. The consultant struggled until late in the evening to get the first four or five working. SQL was removed and installed, registries were hacked and edited. Finally she got those working.
The next day I personally attempted to do the rest.
Eventually after about 5 person-days I got the machines installed, and now the users are telling us that this version is even slower than the dog called Act 2006.
This should not reflect badly on the consultant. She was quite good. This is all about the product put out by Rage Software.Run, don't walk away from this evil thing called Act.
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Small sample of the errors I jotted down as we went down this bloody path:
All users had errors when adding an Outlook address book, Licensing error-User count. Which eventually went away after 6-8 tries or 10 minutes, not sure which fixed it. We had the proper volume licenses.
When updating the local DB all laptops gave an error pop up "Error in the Application" with "ok" being the only choice. It seemed to complete ok after this however.
Over half had SQL errors upon upgrading from 2006 to 2008. Gave up and removed 2006 and 5 related pieces instead of upgrading.
None could register online due to Act not speaking SSL through a Windows configured proxy. (A fairly standard configuration in a corporation) We did work around this by connecting/activating with another method.
Half of the laptops caused Outlook 2003 errors when launching. "Error in registry for extension: (Exchange Extensions) Syntax or format of the registry entry is incorrect." This dialog appeared about a dozen times in a row and then Outlook would eventually launch.
25% had errors when upgrading related to SQL. The upgrade from 2006-2008 did not handle the SQL portion well at all. Once we manually uninstalled Act 2006, 4-5 SQL pieces and the XML 6 Parser, and then installed 2008 and then manually installed SQL Server it went somewhat better. There were still a couple that had major errors though relating to SQL even after doing this elaborate process.
Errors with SQL failing to start - SQLWriter-SQLDumper library failed initialization. Installation Corrupt/tampered with.
SQL Server could not find specified named instance (ACT7) please specify the name of an existing instance at the invocation of sqlserver.exe
And on and on and on.....

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Make contacts. Buildrelationships. Get results.ACT! by Sage 2008 (10.0) is a feature rich, robust contact andcustomer managerideal for individuals and small business customers of up to 10 networked users1in a variety of industries looking to organize contact information, manage dailyresponsibilities, and communicate more effectively to improveyour productivity.ACT! by Sage 2008 (10.0) is for individuals and small business customers in avariety of industries looking to organize contact information, manage dailyresponsibilities, and communicate more effectively to improve yourproductivity.

ACT! is the #1 selling contact and customer manager that helps you organizecontact information, manage daily responsibilities, and communicate moreeffectively to improve your productivity. With over 2.7 million users and 41,000corporate customers, ACT! has maintained its position as #1 for 20 years becauseit's renowned for being easy to learn and use, and is an effective solutionfor anyone who regularly works with contacts.Why Should You Choose ACT!?

Keep important contact details in one place with ACT! so you have quickaccess to the information you need.
Be up and running quickly because ACT! is easy to learn and use.
Manage your daily responsibilities soimportant calls, meetings, andto-dos don't slip through the cracks - and ultimately improve yourproductivity!
Integrate ACT! with everyday applications, including Office, so you canwork the way you're accustomed.
Use ACT! out-of-the box or highly customized to fit the needs of yourbusiness..

ACT! can be used out-of-the-box or customized to suit your needs, and alsointegrates with everyday tools like Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel.WithACT! you'll have critical contact

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QuickBooks Customer Manager 2.0 Review

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(More customer reviews)I hate to be so negative, but I spent several hours trying to make this software perform some very basic functionality, and then waited over an hour on hold (during normal business hours) only to be told that the software won't do what I need it to.
What I needed it to do: I have organizations with more than one address. I have contacts that reside at these various locations. I needed to import the organizations (one unique organization record for each unique organization location, since the software does not have 3rd heirarchy, i.e., organization > location > contact), and then import the contacts and have them link to the organization (e.g., by organization name).
What it can't do:
1. You cannot import just organizations (i.e., a parent record). If you do, it will import the "organization name" to the "contact name" field and leave the "company" field blank, even though you set the field mapping to be "organization name" to "company name!" What you end up having to do is create fields for first and last names in the organization file to be imported, and these names have to be unique or the record will not import. So, you either have to assign a contact name (note, this cannot be a name of another contact that you will import later), or enter some arbitrary unique id. In my case, I entered a #.
2. It cannot recognize and link contacts based on a field (e.g., "organization name"); instead, you have to manually add each contact to the organization record's "related contact" field. However, even then these contacts are not truly "linked" - they are hyperlinked. The difference is that, after linking the contacts, if you were to make a change to an organization's record (e.g., if they changed the company name due to incorporation, changed office suite/address, etc.) the contact records would not be updated (i.e., they would still show the old company info...disasterous for any kind of targetted marketing effort!).
What I ended up with was a list of company records with numeric names, and contact records with identical company fields but absolutely no correlation or true link to the parent record. The tech support rep (which, again, I waited over an hour on hold for, and before that wait I had some customer support rep insisting that I buy a tech support package even though I literally just bought the software) told me that I would have to manually link each contact in the "related contacts" field of the company record. When I inquired further he conceded that it is still not a true link, but merely a hyperlink.
The bottom line is, if you're looking for even the most basic contact management functionality, this isn't it. Steer clear of it and save yourself hours and headaches. If you know of any really good contact software for small business contact management (Mac OS X preferrable, but either PC or Mac is fine), please email me!

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ACT 2006 Premium for Workgroups Review

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(More customer reviews)The product is terrible, the support is worse. Trying to run "Premium" version on SQL. Hijacks SQL server. Sets its own SQL admin password and ACT won't tell you what it is. Need to uninstall SQL (including any other databases you may have running on that server) to re-install ACT. ZERO integration with enterprise backup software. Proprietary scheduler is buggy, buggy, buggy. I have spent two weeks fighting with this software and this ridiculous company. Save your money and your hair - buy something, anything, else.

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ACT! 2006 Premium for Workgroups is ideal for small businesses and workgroups or divisions of larger organizations. Not only is it a top contact and customer information management program for sales professionals, it is also a solution for managers and administrators that provides advanced workgroup functionality for administration, deployment, and security.
The new ACT! 2006 builds on its past successes of providing a central customer database to track contact details, notes, history, appointments, to-do lists, documents, and new opportunities and adds more features and better integration with Microsoft Office, Lotus notes, and handheld devices.

ACT! 2006 Premium for Workgroups will help boost your team productivity by providing advanced workgroup functionality. Keep critical customer information up to date with pre-arranged and automatic database synchronization and backup. Group scheduling gives everyone in the database at-a-glance user availability, the ability to determine resources, and a task bar notification when a meeting is sent.

Special administration and deployment features are designed to meet the needs of large teams and workgroups. For instance, ACT! can be installed, activated and registered on the server and then pushed to users on the network, eliminating the need to install it on each worker's computer. User preferences can be set by the administrator, or each user can change preferences to meet their own, individual needs. ACT! Premium for Workgroups features five security levels, and administrators can assign levels to Standard users to control who can delete data or export to Microsoft Excel to enforce security. Contact access can be similarly controlled.

With all your contact information in one place you can more easily track key customer data. Each customer record includes over 60 pre-defined fields, including Name, Company, Phone, Address, Website, Email, Last Meeting Date, ID/Status, and other customizable fields depending on your specific needs. When you create company records you can view a compiled history with notes and opportunities related to each contact at that company. The Groups feature lets you communicate and schedule with related contacts. The notes and other entries you create can be customized using Rich Text Formatting (FTF) so you can add color, links, bullets, graphics, and more. You can also customize layouts by changing colors, adding logos and moving fields so that each record displays the most important information to you in a way that's clear to you.

One of ACT!'s greatest strengths is its ability to help you stay in touch with growing business relationships. With it you can track customer correspondences and view a history of all communications with that company or organization. It also supplies pre-formatted templates for emails, letters, memos and faxes so that you don't need to fuss with the details or start from scratch each time. Perform a mail merge by selecting a group of contacts to send one email or letter, and a history of the correspondence is then automatically generated for each contact. If you choose, you can use the ACT! E-mail Client to create, send and track e-mail, or use your existing client, as ACT! has seamless integration with Outlook, Outlook Express and Lotus Notes.

ACT! helps you prioritize work so that you never lose out on opportunities or forget to follow up with a contact. With ACT! you can easily schedule calls, meetings, and to-dos, or filter these actions by priority, date range, or user. The calendar can be viewed by day, week or month, giving you specific actions for each day or a broader view to plan out an entire month. If you mouse over any activity in the calendar, you'll see a pop-up window with an "at-a-glance" view. Additionally, Activity Alarms will help you stay on top of action items, and incomplete activities will roll over to the next day until they are checked off. ACT! and Outlook calendars can even be synchronized so that you can still schedule appointments with those who don't use ACT!.

ACT! doesn't just let you plan for today: you can also use it to forecast for tomorrow. The built-in Sales Process helps you track sales opportunities, and you can view all opportunities at once or filter by specified criteria. The Product List lets you track products or service names, along with item number, cost, and price, and you can generate quotes for sales opportunities without having to re-enter information. There are over 20 pre-formatted Sales Reports, or you can export reports to Microsoft Excel for further data analysis.

Those on the go will appreciate the ability to synchronize the ACT! calendar, contact list, to-do information, notes, and history items with Palm OS or Pocket PC devices. Or if you prefer paper organizers you can print to more than 20 of the most popular organizer formats. When out of the office, you can access critical information via Citrix or Terminal Services.

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Act 6.0 Review

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(More customer reviews)Our company had been using ACT since version 2.1, and we still have the big red box with those floppies in it. And after three months of working with ACT 6.0 and the two patches released since launch, we've started to wonder if dusting off those old 80286 machines which once ran ACT 2.1 might be a safer idea. To summarize our experience: It almost killed us.
Late last year, I came to this company as a consultant in information technology and saw a complete disaster built around ACT 5.0 on a peer to peer network. One workstation fed data to three others, and a fourth operated through email synchronizations out in the field. After putting a dedicated and capable server (Dual P3-600, 1G RAM, 18G RAID array) together as a host for the ACT data files and synchronization software, we thought we had it licked. Unfortunately, we should have stopped there. E-mail based synchronization was flaky due to a slightly unreliable ISP.
We then identified an interest in managing QuickBooks Pro and ACT together, which was offered by ACT 6.0. So, when a phonecall came from Interact offering us full version licenses at the upgrade price, we jumped on it, hoping for improvements in the synchronization process and the ability to extend ACT's functionality to other software and devices, such as a considered deployment of Palm OS devices to our sales force. Once we got ACT 6.0 at the office, we were updated and running with it within a week.
Then the trouble started. Synchronization fell even further into a pit, with lost contacts, appointments that refused to reschedule across synchronization, and a complete breakdown of the email software built into ACT. They had seperated the Internet e-mail tool from the main program in a way that seemed to make no sense, spawning a new window while still interrupting the main thread of the ACT database. If your email client hung for some reason, the entire application would stall and require a process kill. And if your email program has a problem finding the hostname to one of your mail servers, forget it. It'll hang.
Accessing the database across our LAN became intolerably slow under ACT 6. Our database, with 4500 contacts, would take a half second to a second or more simply to page through the contacts. Under ACT 5, this is practically instantaneous. Loading the calendar view with only 5 users scheduled, and filtered to only display two, took between 15 and 30 seconds. Under ACT 5, one to two seconds, tops.
We have one of the ACT Advantage support memberships, and even had an ACT certified professional who seemed very knowledgeable look at our setup. He went over every inch of our network and ACT configuration, and saw nothing wrong with anything I had done. The ACT Advantage people told me to install Outlook on the server on the off chance that might work. Why should I need to use a third-party application to make ACT work? If the built-in Internet E-mail option for synchronization is unreliable, why include it for something as important as this?
The "Library" tab was an absolute joke. We could not resize images displayed in it that had been scanned using our sheetfed desktop scanners, and viewing a contact with this tab took up to a minute. It simply boggled the mind how much this "feature" wasn't.
Our largest initial annoyance was the fact our scanners could no longer scan directly into the ACT application. Under ACT 5.0, the scanner functioned simply. View the contact you wanted to attach a document to, feed the document through the scanner, and done. Attached as a note to the contact. Under ACT 6 this broke, and ACT claimed it was a third-party application that they did not support. We had only a very basic program, PaperPort, that managed this interface. It seems to simply use the drag-and-drop functionality inherent to Windows to perform this task. Under ACT 6, this was broken, but of course can be worked around by spending two hundred dollars on an "Add-In"...
In general, ACT 6 felt like a very shoddy product. It felt for all intents and purposes like someone had taken the ACT 5 codebase and decided to split it up into smaller components in order to facilitate the selling of even more Interact and third-party applications and "Add-ins" to increase revenue.
We returned it. It really is not worth the risk.

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ACT! 6.0 organizes all your customer information in one place to give you instant access to every detail of every customer relationship. You'll be able to find anyone or any detail in seconds, including names, phone numbers, addresses, notes from previous conversations, upcoming appointment details, call histories, a list of follow-up activities, and much more.
ACT! even manages your sales pipeline with forecasting tools and built-in reports, and allows you to safely share complete customer information with your workgroup. It even works with Outlook, handhelds, and paper planners to propel your business to a whole new level.

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ACT 2006 Contact and Customer Manager Review

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(More customer reviews)Unlike many product reviews that I read before I purchased ACT, this one is written by somebody who has no experience with previous versions or other contact management applications. Therefore, I approached the choice somewhat ignorantly and fearfully, but my fears were unfounded. The program is as advertised, that's the key thing. In my still limited experience, it has never crashed or failed to work properly. It is very easy to learn and use. In our fair city (Atlanta) it is well supported with certified technicians. And it's fun. I recall reading that veteran users have experienced problems with conversions of databases. Starting from scratch, we have not had to do that, so I can't confirm or deny it's a problem. But importing contacts from spreadsheets has been flawless.

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No rebate needed - not eligible for Sage Software mail in rebate offers.

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ACT 4.0 Review

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(More customer reviews)This is the best contact management program ever!
I have been using Act since 1990 and without this I would have lost clients that today help me to own my own business.
As I said, without this program I would be lost!
R Jones

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With more than 1.3 million ACT! users, Symantec focused its efforts on developing an innovative feature that would address the needs of a fast-paced business world as well as top user requests. ACT! 4.0 spotlights Internet features that deliver the world of Internet information directly to the ACT! desktop. ACT! 4.0 also features tight integration with WinFax PRO, which allows use of WinFax PRO cover pages and attachments, direct support for Internet (SMTP/POP3) and Eudora Pro e-mail, easy synchronization setup with an administrative synchronization log, as well as many ease-of-use improvements. ACT! 4.0 allows users to get extended up-to-date and accurate information on contacts, using the Internet. Users can automatically link to numerous sites on the Internet including Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! Company Search, Yahoo! Stock Quote, Inquisit Contact Watcher, and much more. For example, with one click of the mouse, the user can search the Internet for company information, see a street-level map of the contact's business or home location, and get driving directions to the client's site. The advantage of a contact manager is instant access to complete customer information, including information available on the Internet. For users who want optimal utilization of ACT!'s power, this latest version features Getting Started with ACT! 4.0, a computer-based multimedia training video produced by ViaGrafix. This training familiarizes both new and old ACT! users with ACT! 4.0 features, allowing them to achieve higher levels of productivity in minutes.

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Easydirector - Contact Management Software Review

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(More customer reviews)Great software. Using it to manage my contacts and customer information,and all the various documents that I received from them. Great alternative for other expensive contact management software. You get luxury fir affordable price.

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