The review of ACT! by Sage 2010 is now officially available to the public, and we’d love to hear your feedback. Beyond the complete video review of this edition of the software covering the 7 major improvements of the ACT! 2010 software, there’s something new. After hearing from customers with last year’s review of ACT! by Sage 2009, it became clear that many are uncertain what they should be looking for in a contact manager, many are new businesses, or newer business who have outgrown outlook, excel spreadsheets, and paper tracking systems. If you are just starting a new business, or never before shopped for a contact management system, this year’s bonus content was created with you in mind.
ACT! by Sage 2010 Complete Review Now LIVE & More
Entitled 7 Elements of an Good Contact Manager those who sign up for the review of the latest ACT! by Sage Software will also get access to this 29 minute bonus video content covering features and functions that are musts in a contact management software for today’s business (doesn’t have to be ACT!, either!). You can get access to the ACT review and the 7 Elements video training here.
Below is a video preview from YouTube, if you can’t see it for some reason, you can find the ACT 2010 Preview here.
Early Feedback: Many of our subscribers got a sneak peek of the review and bonus content shortly after the video was first produced (one of the benefits of being a subscriber), and offered comments and feedback (if this is you, you are probably smiling now…) THANK YOU. I have included your comments and my responses below in the comments section. Your input is priceless as we seek to be as helpful to you as possible.
It doesn’t matter if you have been a user of ACT! in the distant past or recent years, the video is designed to help you understand what the new improvements are and how you might use them. If you are new to ACT!, you will also learn what you should be looking for in a contact manager, and if ACT! is a fit for you. Whether you are a single user, 5, 10, 20, 25, or 50+ user environment, you will gather important *no-fluff* information as you seek to determine if ACT! is a fit for you and your organization.
Here is the Preview of 7 Elements of a Good Contact Manager:
Your Turn: If you have already reviewed the content, please offer your comments and feedback in the comment boxes below. I look forward to connecting with you and hearing your honest feedback.
Hi, my name is Travis Campbell, I operate this site. A key to success in any business is to effectively manage your relationships. ACT! is a software product helping millions when it comes to doing just that. This Website is designed to assist both those considering ACT! software for their business, as well as to provide insight to ACT! users who want to effectively use it in their day to day operations. So login, post, browse and enjoy.
I thought your video instruction was very well done, easy to follow and would be very helpful for new customers to ACT. ACT 2010 does not appear to be very different form my version 2006 which I guess is good so when we change over there will not be a huge re-learning curb for the staff.
Thanks for sending this.
Joan
Travis
Useful to see the use of dashboards and social media interfacing. A little hard to see the ACT page as you demo’ed the various features of ACT.
Nice job. Helpful to me.
Regards,
Hall S. Dillon II
Travis
I watched your video and I think you have done a great job.
I liked the zoom in effect and your small insert web cam of you.
One observation, I note in Step 2 – Histories you created a TO DO using record history but showed a call completed in the history, suspect the date order was not sorted correctly so the new history did not appear at top
Cheers
Kind regards,
Michael Bryant
I went to sleep….stand up in front of a big screen, a really big screen way over 50″ and point to something, shoot us a screen shot then back to Travis doing something and moving around….I felt like I was watching draperies fade…
Good Morning Travis-
Thank you for including me in your mailing list to review the Act! 2010 product video. This is very timely as I was recently given a copy of Act! 2009 and had not decided to implement as yet. But after reviewing your video and explanation of the features of the Act! 2010, I will be recommending to my clients that Act! 2010 is the way to go.
I found your video very informative, easy to follow, included actual ‘hands on’ snapshots of Act! 2010 in motion. This is extremely important if an individual representing himself /herself, or representing clients, etc.. What has happened to a number of scenarios over the years of my I.T. Consulting, clients /associates /friends tell me of seeing a demo in person and being sold a different product . When they install it, the software did not look like the same software that they had seen in the demo.
I know that with your knowledge, experience, and reputation in Business Marketing, the scenario that I just described will not happen with Sage and the Act! 2010 product. I would hope that you will keep my name /E-mail on your mailing list for similar review and/or demos, It is greatly appreciated! Again, I want to thank you very much for the E-mail and link to your review of the Act! 2010 demo.,
Have a great Sunday,
Ron Mussack
Travis,
Like past work your attention to details in design very well done.
What I noticed when your PPT sheets show elements in the video window player at the bottom I can see a thin yellow line of text which I think is the URL of some location. If you wanted that seen you need to change the scale or move that text up a full line.
Audio for Elements 2, 6, 7 little low compared to the others.
James
Travis,
Videos are nicely done. I like the small window for you and the larger for the demo.
From my experience the first step in selecting a contact management system is take the time to write down what your particular reason and needs are for doing this in the first place, your personal checklist. I know you know and do that with you clients but just a suggestion for those watching your 7 Elements video.
thanks. I enjoyed,
eric
I want to do email database marketing for my auto-home insurance agency, would Act 2010 be a good data base?
Dean-
Good question. Not sure. Do you prefer to primarily manage a database on a windows PC and have marketing function s as a secondary strength? Or do you want the strongsuit to be marketing, with contact management as a secondary priority? ACT! is shorting up the marketing functionality with this latest release, and their strongsuit is contact management.
-Travis
What I am trying to do is send emails and keep track of the emails I am sending and scheduled future emails to my data base. Kind of drip marketing but using Act to email, schedule and keep track of my emails.
You can do that with Swiftpage for versions of ACT! dating back several years. ACT 2010 is the first version that comes with Swiftpage integrated. Is that what you were looking for?
-Travis
The videos are very easy to understand and they enhance the knowledge of the product. Thanks for giving such a beneficial idea. The content management system helps a lot to new users to well understand the subject.
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Dave-
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. I appreciate your feedback and will take it into account.
What are draperies?
Ron-
All of the feedback here is welcomed, and appreciated. Comments like yours, however, I find worth re-reading.
Thanks for stopping by, and taking the time.
James-
Thanks for pointing that out. The thin yellow line is corrected later in the video.
-Travis
Eric-
Yes, putting together a printable checklist is something I’d like to do for subscribers… The list is long really…
I’ll let you know if it becomes available.
Others? Would you like to see a printable checklist there along with the video?