93% of B2B marketers use email to distribute content. (Source: Content Marketing Institute) What we know! We know that consumers check their email daily. According to Litmus.com 2018, over 50% and rising of all email is opened on Mobile devices.) We know that consumers prefer email communications over being called by...
Author: Bob Ritter
President, First Direct Corp., (845) 221-3800, www.1stdirect.com, www.GoldMinesSuccess.com
GoldMine Data Assessment
Assessing the quality of your CRM data is an important way to shed light on possible data cleanliness errors and marketing holes (missing emails, address, etc) in your GoldMine database. Findings offer actionable opportunities for improving the quality of your data, your sales team's discipline and the effectiveness of your marketing. ...
A ONE Record Email Merge? YUP!
Most marketers are familiar with doing a broadcast email. Regardless of which email service a organization uses, the concept of doing a broadcast email is widespread knowledge. Many companies are personalizing their broadcast communications - let's call that an "email merge." By the same token, I doubt you have heard...
HAPPY END OF YEAR!
Wishing all our customers, vendors and friends a healthy, joyful and prosperous New year! Bob & Mary, Jay Jeff, Joann and Max First Direct Corp.
First Direct Corp. is the #1 QuoteWerks Partner in the USA for 2019
Aspire Technologies, the makers of QuoteWerks and a robust suite of quoting applications announced that First Direct Corporation is the #1 QuoteWerks Partner for 2019 in the USA and #3 QuoteWerks Partner Worldwide. First Direct has maintained this high level of performance for over 10 years! We are proud to...
Gratitude Changes Everything
GRATITUDE is not a passive response to something we have been given, gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without and beside us. Gratitude is not necessarily something that is shown after the event, it is the deep, a-priori state...
NO Catch – Two GoldMine Add-on Applications for FREE!
Details Plus and Scanner Plus Many years ago one of my favorite GoldMine experts and developers, Paul Redstone in England, wrote two add-on applications for GoldMine - Details Plus and Scanner Plus - to enhance GoldMine CRM. With the help of GoldMine Partners, Paul has sold thousands of licenses across...
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Rolling Up Your GoldMine CRM Data
Rolling Up Your GoldMine CRM Data Organizations handle a wide range of business matters relating to: Relationships (prospects, customers, vendors, etc.), Opportunities, Projects, Customer Service Issues, etc. One of the greatest challenges with staying organized is having the means of tracking those various interactions and related information. Examples: Calls, Appointments, Emails, Documents,...
A Cloudy GoldMine Future
Is the Cloud in your future? The decision to purchase or upgrade GoldMine is a different decision than whether to move to the cloud. With the rest of the CRM industry fully invested in SaS (software as a service), GoldMine Premium CRM remains one of the very few CRM applications offering...