CRM | Sales | Marketing Insights by Lindsay Garrison
Zen and the Art of CRM Training Visualization can be a powerful method to help you achieve goals. Want your CRM implementation to succeed? Here’s a twist – you can be successful by imagining failure. I know that’s counter-intuitive; stay with me. I’ve used a variation of this idea in planning sessions (e.g.”Let’s talk about what could go wrong with the project:”) with some success. But now I know I […]
The newest release for Act!, Act! version 16, is less than a month away and I’m as excited about this version as a cat in a tuna-fish factory. Here’s why this version makes me purr: Act! was acquired last spring by Swiftpage, a company dedicated to serving up new technologies the old-fashioned way – by providing the solutions customers want and need. • ACT! 16 will include more user-requested features […]
I recently posted which Zoho CRM features are “nice-to-have” vs. “have-to haves”. This same discussion occurs when discussing ACT! CRM features as well. Looking at a single ACT! CRM feature and dismissing it as the single reason to buy is a perfectly logical response. You’d be crazy to invest hundreds of dollars in upgrades each year to just be able to do one cool thing (unless of course that one cool thing […]
Sage announced today that they have reached an agreement to sell it’s non-integrated CRM products, Sage ACT! and Saleslogix, to Swiftpage. Sage will focus on core solutions; this sale does not include SageCRM. Swiftpage is a long-time partner with Sage; their Swiftpage email subscription-model service is rebranded as Sage eMarketing and integrated as a paid, connected service. As an UK organization focused on accounting and ERP systems, Sage never quite meshed the ACT!/Saleslogix […]