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ACT! 2005 For Dummies by Karen S. Fredricks
Book Summary InformationAuthor: Karen S. Fredricks Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2004-09-24 ISBN: 0764575325 Number of pages: 408 Publisher: For Dummies Product features: - ISBN13: 9780764575327
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of ACT! 2005 For DummiesBook Review: For the Beginner, For Someone Upgrading Summary: 5 Stars
You would think that maintaining a list of your customers would be easy. You keep a stack of calling cards, you write down a few special phone numbers in a small address books. But you don't have much space to write down that Alison's little boy is named Kevin, that he turned five on the 23th of last month, or that Alison told you to call her back on the 5th of next month for a big order. And sending out an e-mail to those of your customers who will be interested to know that your Model 14 just came out in a new color is a bit of a chore.
Act automated this process by essentially building a nifty contact oriented front end to a database. It is so nifty that more than 4 million people use it. It is so nifty that these 4 million people have continued to make suggestions on how to improve it and that each new version contains more features that just might be what you need.
As with all the For Dummies books, this is a good introductory book. It gets the absolute beginner started using the system. It describes all the features in the package (and gives you some extra tips on using them) so that you can see how to do that new task that you just thought up.
Summary of ACT! 2005 For DummiesACT! 2005 will help you manage your business contacts and relationships (not just with customers, but also with prospects, vendors, and suppliers) more efficiently and effectively. But there is a catch?you have to ACTivate it. ACT! 2005 for Dummies helps you get your ACT together with basic information about fields, records, files, and navigation, and step-by-step guidelines for: - Setting up and customizing databases
- Using the calendar to plan your schedule
- Using the alarm to alert you to things to ACT on, whether it?s checking on a huge order or remembering a customer?s birthday (so you?ll get another huge order)
- Protecting your database by assigning specific security levels to users or password-protecting it
- Creating reports and broadcast e-mails
Written by Karen S. Fredricks, an ACT! Certified Consultant, ACT! Premier Trainer, and self-professed ACT! FanACTic, ACT! 2005 For Dummies covers both ACT! Standard Edition 2005 and ACT! Premium Edition 2005. It shows and tells you how to: - Use ACT! Notes and ACT! Histories to maintain records of all communications and activities
- Tag contacts (to designate whether they are interested in a new product, whether they like golf, whether they rate a glorious gift basket at Christmas or get the automatic fruit cake, or whatever)
- Integrate with Excel, Outlook, and other programs
- Use ACT! reporting and forecasting tools to manage and track sales
Contacts and relationships are the key to any successful business. With ACT! 2005 helping you manage them, you can focus on building your business. Wouldn?t it be nice to have a lot of new customers to add to ACT! 2005?
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