Invest Time to Save Time, and Make Money! What if you could predict the future? If you could anticipate what people will do, would you leverage that knowledge for success? You can and here’s how! The other day I was in my first working meeting with a new client. I...
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Technology and Sales – A Love-Hate Relationship
By now most sales executives accept the need for technology, even though many still love to hate it. Then there are those sales people, probably the majority, for whom technology is a love-hate relationship which swings back and forth, albeit onesided. But strange as it seems, I love my technology!...
How to Use Reporting to Grow and Manage Your Business
A two-part look at how organizations can use reporting of information in their customer relationship management (CRM) system to increase sales and manage more effectively. Part I - 5 Ways Reporting Can Increase Sales We all accept reporting as a means for management to evaluate business activity of one type...
The Power of Repetition – Eight Smart Reasons to Use Repetition!
We hear the word repetition used over and over again in marketing. Especially from anyone trying to sell us advertising! Maybe they’re just trying to sell us something, or maybe they know something. Here’s what I know about the power of repetition and what it can do for you: The...
Seven Ways to Create a Sense of Urgency
Urgency Lifts Response - In Direct Response Advertising, “Later is Never!” Urgency is a stressful state from which a person seeks to remove him or herself from. Urgency is its own driving force. Therefore, a consumer may respond to the stress of urgency, as well to a motivating factor related...
It’s Time to Build a Marketing Machine
Is it time to build a Marketing Machine … let’s examine the benefits. The Best of Both Worlds There’s marketing and there’s sales, and each has its pros and cons. To ensure your marketing and sales people work in concert with one another as teammates, like they should, you need...
QB2CRM Customers Should Avoid Upgrading to Windows 10
Due to a recently discovered anomaly on a single Windows 10 machine, First Direct Corp. is advising our QB2CRM customers to NOT upgrade their users’ computers to Windows 10. Specifically, users’ machines that have both GoldMine and QuickBooks installed should avoid upgrading to Windows 10. Users’ machines with just GoldMine...
GoldMine Premium Edition 2015.2 HotFix 2 Released
GoldMine Premium Edition Version 2015.2 Hotfix 2 GoldMine Premium 2015.2.0.183 / GoldMine Connect 2015.2.0.357 Updated January 07, 2016 Note: Run the GoldMine Premium 2015.2 HF 2 installer for a new installation or to upgrade GoldMine Premium Edition 9.0 or newer. If you are upgrading from a version of GoldMine previous...
Announcement from Maker of GoldMine (Heat Software)
Today, the maker of GoldMine Software, including GoldMine Web and GoldMine Mobile, made the following announcement. "The release of GoldMine 2015.2 with a mobile responsive design means that a GoldMine user can access their database using desktop, laptop, tablet, and smart phone – all with the same data display and...
IntelliClick for GoldMine Special Limited Time Offer
New IntelliClick customers get an additional 3 Months of service with their 1st year subscription if they purchase before March 31, 2016. There are thousands of e-mail marketing tools out there, but they all fail in one fundamental way – they’re not linked to your internal sales process or your...