If you are using GoldMine Corporate or GoldMine Premium Editions, there are times when you will need to backup the GoldMine database manually. This is done through the MS SQL Server Management Studio wherever SQL Server is installed, and usually where your GoldMine is installed as well. SQL Server, which...
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Embedding/Attaching Images In Email: Why Shouldn’t I Do It?
If you are new to sending marketing emails and need advice on how to design html email templates , or if you are currently sending email but aren't satisfied with the click-through or deliverability results, this article explains why embedding/attaching images in email may actually make your email less successful...
Five Free Data Recovery Programs
While the best defense against data loss is redundant and real-time backup, we understand that sometimes data loss sneaks right up on you. Whether your important office documents accidentally got deleted from your computer or if your family photos have gone missing, having emergency data recovery tools handy is crucial...
Great Tips for Designing Your Own HTML Emails
This article is intended for the individual at your organization responsible for designing all your HTML emails. I would strongly suggest sending this article to them, if you are not that person. With that out of the way, lets begin. Building a rock-solid HTML email There are a whole host...
5 Things That Influence Your Email Sender Reputation
The holiday season is approaching, which means you’re busy crafting the perfect emails in hopes to drive up sales. But what if your emails don’t make it to the inbox? Deliverability concerns often get pushed aside, but Return Path reported that 20% of legitimate, non-spam emails will never reach the...
Maintain Control of Your Email Reputation and Avoid Blacklists
Most businesses are not aware that their company has a status on the Internet; let alone what it is or how to check it. In fact, it is called a Reputation, and this is the grade that is given to either your domain name and/or the IP addresses/systems that you...
24 Marketing Tips For Your Business
You've probably experienced it before - a promise of something great; however, never got the results you were promised or expecting. It is quite easy to feel at home with not spending money on marketing when this has been your experience. Small business owners will tell me, "I've tried that...
“Round Robin” Assigning of New GoldMine Leads
Is your GoldMine connected to your website so that you can capture leads from your web forms and automatically create/update new Contact Records in GoldMine? Would you like to do a “Round Robin” assignment of the "New Leads" to your GoldMine Sales Reps? Well, with GoldMine, you can do that...
How To Configure MS SQL Server to send an email if a SQL Server (Backup) Job fails
Here is a great article on how to setup and configure your MS SQL Server to send you an email if your nightly backup fails. It isn’t difficult, but if you miss one step, it won’t work. Ugh!! It requires that you know your mail servers SMTP settings for sending...
Record Ownership and Record Curtaining
I recently had a conversation with a customer about how to prevent other Sales Reps from calling/contacting other Sales Reps customers or even seeing the email communications between other Sales Reps and their customers/prospects. This conversation comes up a lot, so I wanted to add this post so people are...