Set CRM Goals for the New Year

With a full new year ahead of us, now’s the perfect time to set goals for putting your GoldMine CRM to better use in 2017 and beyond. Here are 7 areas regarding your CRM system which you can brainstorm around to develop ideas that may lead to great goals and even greater...

A New Way to Find the GoldMine Training You Want

We Made It Faster & Easier to Find the Training You Want! Here at First Direct Corporation, we rethought how we present our webinar training topics to you online. 1st,  we removed events that were not popular.  It doesn’t matter if we think they are useful -- the market rules! 2nd, we grouped...

Is Your Kitchen More Organized Than Your CRM Database

Think about the tremendous organization that exists in most people's home kitchen. Everyone in the house knows where the silverware, plates, glasses, napkins go.  Open the fridge and you know where to find the ketchup and the butter.  Need a plastic container or aluminum foil, you know where to look....

Another Year Wiser – Humor for the holidays

With the holiday's upon us, and another New Year about to be marked, I suspect we all are feeling the a little bit older.  This post is dedicated to growing wiser, in the spirit of holiday laughter.  Humor is a funny thing - not everyone finds the same things funny,...

3 Must Have Apps for Building an Effective Internal Communications Strategy

The more effectively and efficiently an organization communicates internally, the greater that organization’s ability will be to serve its external prospects and customers! There are various technology tools to help with communication. What Modernist architect Louis Sullivan said in the 1930’s is still true today – “Form Follows Function.”  This...

Using Color to Support Your Message

COLOR WHEEL: Graphic designers, interior decorators, and of course behavioral psychologists, have long made conscious use of color to create a mood or associate a feeling with their presentation. The color wheel is a tool that any design professional can quickly put their hands on. But many of us in...

Killer App – Email Templates

You’d have to live under a rock to not be using Email today. But a lot of businesses have failed to take advantage of one of the great features in most email applications – Templates. Simply put, an email template is a pre-written, pre-designed, and stored email that is ready...

[Survey] – What are you using for your bulk/mass email marketing system?

Molly K. McLaughlin of pcmag.com recently wrote a great article/review of the "The Best Email Marketing Software of 2016". In her article she states, "Email marketing is a proven affordable strategy with which to promote your business. Email marketing helps you attract new customers and maintain close relationships with existing...

Managing Failure On The Road to Success

In the competitive arena of sales, and generally where people’s activities are concerned, most of the emphasis is on recognizing and rewarding success.  There is little attention given to failure.  We tend to reward success and tell people to “keep up the good work.” Failure is success inside out: It...

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