With GoldMine Premium version 8.00.80208 and higher you can easily add any GoldMine pull-down menu item to your toolbar. Just click on the options button on the end of your toolbar for editing your toolbar. Choose “customize.” (Don’t confuse the taskbar customize button with the toolbar.) Once that window opens...
Month: March 2009
How Many Records Do I Have?
Ever wonder how many primary contacts, secondary contacts, or history items you have in your GoldMine database? Here are three simple SQL Queries to give you an answer! First, go to Lookup | SQL Queries or Go To | Filters & Groups | SQL Queries Tab in GoldMine Premium Edition....
Email Validation & Verification
As database administrators struggle to keep email addresses in databases clean and accurate, web site form validation becomes key. At this point, the state of email address validation is poor. Feel free to prove it to yourself: go to your favorite site that requires registration, and enter dlkjfdklj@djflkjdlkj.com as your...
Details Plus – Get More Out of Details
GoldMine’s Details tab has always been an area with great potential for customization and can be used to solve many common data storage problems. It makes sense to use a custom detail, rather than a custom field, any time there is a one-to-many relationship between a contact and some type...
Time To Get Help
Recently we received a technical support call from a large customer about how to export data out of GoldMine. This is a red flag to us that something may be wrong. It’s not always a sign of a problem because often times the customer is just trying to supply mailing...
Dial the Phone with GoldMine
What image do you conjure up when you think of someone who’s selling? Possibly you pictured someone talking on the phone. Surely you’ve heard the expression “dialing for dollars” as a way to describe the daily efforts by salespeople and telemarketers to reach prospects and customers. Whether you’re cold calling,...
Sharpening the Saw
Question: If your consumers are buying less should you market less? My answer is NO!! You market better! That’s not to say you should be spending more on advertising. You may find you can spend less and get greater results. There are several reasons for this including but not limited...