ACT! Mail Merge Made Classy

How many e-mails do you get in a day?  How many do you just highlight and delete?  I know I’m tired of reading that J. Crew’s sale is ending tomorrow.  I simply no longer believe them.  I just know that there will always be a sale, and its ending.  Click.  Delete. We’ve become desensitized to marketing e-mails.  No matter how eye-catching the images, intriguing the topic or engaging the content, you should know that there’s a high likelihood your e-mails aren’t being read.  So how else can you make sure you keep in front of your customers? Read more

Company Creation Made Easy

Admittedly we are not the best at the “up sell” or diligent about tacking on ACT! add-ons.  We’d love to pretend it’s because we are keeping it “organic” and believe that ACT! can do everything.  Really, it’s because there are so many add-ons it’s hard to keep up.  We don’t like to sell things that we aren’t sure work.  All the more reason that when we find an add-on that does work; we’d like to tell you about it.  Company Wizard by Patricia Egen Consulting is one of those.  Read more

Still scheduling in Outlook?

I was working with a customer just last week, and had a conversation about scheduling. It’s a conversation we have with more customers than you’d think. The customer keeps all of their Contacts in ACT!. They record Histories of their conversations. Read more

Error: “No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.”

Question:You are attempting to launch ACT! when you receive the following error message: “No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.” You click OK and the following error message appears: “The application has encountered an error and has been shut down. Would you like to report the error?”
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Sage ACT! 2011

What’s new with Sage ACT!2011?

Sage ACT! makes it easy for you to have meaningful conversations with customers by giving you an organized view of the people you do business with.
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