If your business has seen a slow down due to the Coronavirus, now is a great time to focus your time on cleaning-up and improving your GoldMine CRM System. The following are just some of the things you can be doing to prepare for when business starts to pick-up again:...
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GETTING THE BETTER OF THE VIRUS
My heart is with all businesses in America that are struggling with the extremely difficult business climate caused by Covid-19! First and foremost is health and safety! I also understand that for so many businesses this is the most difficult challenge their business has ever faced! My remarks below do...
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. ...
It’s that time of year again… GoldMine Database Clean-up
One of the things we recommend to all our GoldMine Database Administrators, is that as the end of the year rolls around you want to ensure you do a good GoldMine database clean-up. What does this database clean-up include, you might be asking. Well it includes a number of things...
What can you do with a GoldMine RESTful API?
Approx 2 years ago I embarked on a mission to make the GoldMine database accessible via the web in the form of a RESTful API. This was mostly due to customers demands to be able to do certain things with their GoldMine that they wouldn't be able to do otherwise....
GoldZip – Zip Code Lookup Updater for GoldMine CRM
GoldMine users have long enjoyed the ability of GoldMine to automatically populate the City and State fields after entering a Zip Code when creating/editing a contact record. There are over 42,000 zip codes in the US, and the zip code database is constantly changing. GoldMine does not have the ability...
How To Protect Yourself From Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware has been making the headlines recently, after cyber criminals successfully hijacked hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide. Ransomware, which is often transmitted by email or via browser pop-ups, involves encrypting your data and threatening to destroy it if a ransom is not paid. The global cyber attack has affected hundreds...
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...
Using the Summer Slowdown to Speed Up your GoldMine CRM
In December 2018 I wrote a blog post about setting goals for making better use of your CRM system in the coming year. Here is the link to that article in which I identified four specific areas for targeted improvement. Consider my bullet list of suggestions in that article. During the hot summer months,...
GoldMine RESTful API
REST and HTTP(S) The internet works via HTTP(S). HTTP is a stateless protocol that has a standard set of methods. Your web browser (Google, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc.) communicates with web servers by speaking in HTTP verbs like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE and the web servers are configured...