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Why do most CRM implementations fail?

Individuals and companies buy ACT! or a competitive product to fulfill a crucial business process. The attitude is that “we need something” because there is a pervasive sense that business is “falling through the cracks” and it likely is. The … Continue reading

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Companionlink Prices to increase

If you don’t already use CompanionLink and have a desire to sync ACT! data on your phone, I encourage you to do so now. Because in less than 2 weeks, CompanionLink Express goes up $10, to $79.95. This nominal increase … Continue reading

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My Fax for ACT! discontinued

We have learned that the company that created this product has been purchased and the new owners have decided to drop My Fax from their product offering. If you need to send a fax you can still do it via … Continue reading

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PDF Merge via ACT! Incredible tool

Forms are way of life in business and PDF formatted forms are quite common. Usually, they have to be printed and then filled out and given physically to someone or scanned and faxed. Not anymore, PDF Merge takes your existing … Continue reading

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Create an ACT! contact from a business card!

Despite the digital revolution business cards are not going away anytime soon! They are still one of the best advertising tools you can have. But, you have those cards all over your desktop from trade shows, networking meetings etc. and … Continue reading

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Share your desktop with anyone

The free stuff just keeps getting better! Yesterday if you wanted to host a web meeting where you could share your desktop and have a phone conference you had to get a account with Go to Meeting (Cisco) or some … Continue reading

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Dropbox makes synching files easy and free!

Not to be confused with ACT! synchronization, this web based service allows you to “drop” files into a folder on your computer and have those same files accessible on any other PC. So far a ho-hum BUT this service tracks … Continue reading

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Web Prospect software adds power to your business

Web Prospect is an inexpensive way to add automate the capture of form data from your website. To use Web Prospect, you must have a website, second on the website you provide a form that your prospects and/or customers can … Continue reading

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Calendar View Plus featured this week

Durkin Computing makes a host of exquisite addons for ACT! and this week we are featuring their Calendar View Plus product. Why would you add this tool to your ACT! arsenal? Because it does all this: Dynamically filter onĀ current contact, … Continue reading

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QuickFile for Outlook automates your folders

Virtually everyone uses Outlook for email. And most folks know you canĀ  create rules to help sort incoming emails, but the rules making process is confusing and often the rules break for no good reason. QuickFile adds a toolbar to … Continue reading

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