If your idea of creating and sending an email campaign starts with using Word and then coping and pasting your content into an email client you're doing it all wrong. I understand you're not a web designer, coder, email marketing guru or techie, and you probably cringe when you see...
Year: 2013
Time To Rethink Your Email Marketing Strategy
Admit it—your email marketing strategy has fallen to the wayside. Now is the time to shake the dust off your outdated email marketing strategy and reinvigorate your campaigns. There are thousands of e-mail marketing tools out there, but they all fail in one fundamental way - they're not linked to...
Going Mobile with GoldMine Mobile Edition
GoldMine Mobile Edition brings GoldMine to your iPhone or iPad. Using the standard touch-based gestures you expect on an iPhone or iPad, you can browse contacts, scheduled activities, and emails. You can complete and add notes – and you can also use one of the most powerful aspects of GoldMine:...
Harlem Wizards – Trick-Hoops & Alley-Oops
On Friday, January 11, 2013, the Harlem Wizards, a client of First Direct Corp and users of GoldMine software, were in town to perform at the Beacon High School, in Beacon NY. Members of the First Direct Corp. staff and their families got together and attended the event. At the...
Hiding Out in Your GoldMine Database
Database clean-up is often overlooked and problems are often hiding out under the surface and can bite you in a big way. One reason is that GoldMine administrators don't know where to look. Consider the following 10 places where problems in your GoldMine database can lie: Is the integrity of...
Send a GoldMine Alarm Reminder to Mobile Device
GoldMine's Options (in 9.2.1.72 and higher) now make it easier to set your preferences so that GoldMine will automatically send a message to your mobile device if an alarm is overlooked. In your User's Options, under the tab for "Messaging" you can specify the email address for your device. ...
New Year’s Database Resolution
We make New Year's resolutions for all sorts of areas in our life and business that we want to improve, why not for your CRM database? After all, there is no tool in your business that is more critical for the success of your business than your prospect &...
Are You In Control of Your Network
First Direct's GoldMine customer, Western NRG, Inc. is an expert on internet security. They also sell the leading next generation security appliance by SonicWALL. The world of network security threats has changed radically and there's a good chance your firewall isn't providing the security you need. One of the services...
GoldMine Shortcut Keys
Even with the new GoldMine Premium interface you still have many "Shortcut Keys" available. For a complete listing you can refer to "HELP" under Getting Started > Menu Command Shortcut Keys. In addition to the list below that is supplied within Help, it's useful to keep in mind that when...
The GoldMine Single User Dilemma
Hardly a week goes by at my First Direct office that I don't have an inquiry from single user of an older version of GoldMine who is faced with the dilemma of whether to drop GoldMine or upgrade to the new Premium Edition. Since I get this situation so often, I decided...