A GoldMine customer was looking for reasons to upgrade from their Corporate Edition GoldMine to Premium. With 21 users they were concerned they could justify the investment in software and services. Demonstrations and discussions were enough to convince them that it was the right move and they opted to move...
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Penny Wise and Dollar Foolish
Is a discount or promotion the reason to buy CRM? While special promotions help to close sales, they’re not the reason I sell CRM, and they certainly should not be the reason one purchases it! When it comes to CRM, you spend money to make money! You purchase CRM to...
Got Skills?
From surgeons to carpenters, from police officers to accountants … every profession uses tools. And, so it is with sales professionals. CRM is far and away one of the most important tools in a salesperson’s toolbox! Professionals need to know the terminology, trends, and facts in their field. They need...
If Not, Why Not?
I hear it all the time: We want to do more marketing with our CRM. We want to pull in leads from our website. We want to automate follow-up communications to qualified leads. We want to be able to maintain a library of template letters and emails and we want...
How to put a “Folder” on your GoldMine Taskbar
The Taskbar is an incredibly handy feature in GoldMine. And, because I find a lot of organizations and users are either not aware of or are not using it, I should begin with a brief explanation of the GoldMine Taskbar. On a tangent note, it never ceases to amaze me...
Time To Revisit Your Users’ Menu Rights
As you know, in GoldMine Premium some pull down menus have changed. And, some new features have been added. So for all of you GoldMine Administrators out there, it’s time to revisit your “User Properties” and “Security Profiles” in order to update their available “Menus.” When you do, the User Properties dialogue...
RSight Takes GoldMine to the Next Level
Our Golden Nugget this issue is about company called RSight Investigations, Inc.. (http://www.rsight.com) As their name implies, RSight provides investigative services to the insurance industry, employers, TPAs, and others. The RSight organization started using GoldMine since its inception in 1999. The customer had originally contacted First Direct back in Sept....
Access to Information
This article begins with comments about the value of information and then progresses on to offer some suggestions for using GoldMine Premium. If “information is power” then your access to it will determine your power to sell. Here’s another old adage that speaks to the point of this article. Know...
One-Too-Many Details
One of the many advantages of GoldMine over other CRM applications like ACT! and Outlook Business Contact Manager is the “Details Tab” that GoldMine has for storing “one-too-many” types of information. Unlike a “Flat Field” which can only store one entry per field per record, the “Details Tab” stores data...
Where Do Your Web Leads Go?
With all the PPC spending going on one must assume there’s a lot of websites getting hits. Where do all those web leads end up? It’s one thing to generate a hit, another to keep them from bouncing off your site, and another to bring them into your organization’s house-file. ...