Posts Tagged ‘video’


"ACT Received Horrid Reviews, is the 2008 Edition Any Better?" Part 2

Part 1 of this message can be found here So you can imagine the disenchantment as a peppy business owner, sales rep, or entrepreneur pproaches their computer with the latest version of ACT in hand, going to upgrade their ACT software, only to realize later that there was more in to it than they anticipated, [...]

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My Daylight Savings Time Woe… (you got one?)

After a couple weeks of preparing you, my subscribers via email, and working hands on with customers for the Daylight Savings Time switch of 2007 for North America. I had to take care of my own system. And like most of my client environments, my environment converted fine following the procedure outlined in the DST [...]

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New Info On Daylight Savings Utility for ACT Software

Just a quick note to let you know there is an update regarding running the DST utility against your database. This was sent to me in an email directly from Sage Software (makers of ACT! Contact and Customer Management Software): “We have completed additional tests for the ACT! handheld links and ACT! For Palm OS [...]

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Daylight Savings Time Update for ACT! Software

As I read up more this weekend on the issue of Daylight Savings changes (found here) which go into effect in less than a week, I realized that the potential exists for many ACT! by Sage customers to have significant issues if they do not take action. I decided the best way to inform my [...]

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Good Hardware Makes ACT by Sage Run Faster

Many people ask me what can be done to make the ACT! by Sage Contact Management system run faster. This is especially true for those who have used ACT! 6 (or older) for years, and are puzzled to know that the newer versions (now running Microsoft SQL) are slower. My answer… “it depends.” Actually I [...]

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