I had a customer who recently did a marketing campaign for a new product they offer. The "Call To Action" was a link in the email campaign to "BUY" the advertised product. They had sent this nicely formatted HTML email campaign to approx 1000 of their customers/prospects. Unfortunately the results...
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FREE SQL Backup Software for MS SQL Server 2008, 2012 and 2005 (Express) databases
SQLBackupAndFTP is a straightforward tool to automate the backups of SQL Server of any edition, especially SQL Server Express 2005 and SQL Server Express 2008, since they don't have built in tools for backup. Most remote GoldMine users that sync from a laptop are using a MS SQL Server Express...
QuoteWerks Releases Update for GoldMine PE 2013.1 Compatibility
QuoteWerks has released an update that makes QuoteWerks compatible with GoldMine PE 2013.1 To view the full release notes please click here.
Online GoldMine Training Classes
We (First Direct Corp.) have a list of GoldMine training events that we schedule every week, and repeat throughout the year. These are great, short and affordable ways to get up to speed with using your GoldMine more effectively. Classes are held online and usually are no more then 1...
IntelliClick Product Overview Video
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 CRM database. They allow you to create an e-mail and send to your uploaded contact list and then you can view some...
The GoldMine Guide to SQL Queries – $34.95
Filters & Groups sometimes are great for segmenting and finding data, but sometimes a SQL Query just works best or is the only option, The GoldMine Guide to SQL Queries will teach you how to write those queries so you can get the most out of your GoldMine database. The...
CRM in the Press … recommendations from experts
A recent report by national research firm provided insights on CRM for small and midsize businesses. This firm benchmarks best practices in technology-enabled business initiatives. Their findings provide actionable insights that allow companies to make smart business decisions and match their needs with vendor solutions. In this recently published...
The Balanced Entrepreneur
A little known fact about me, Bob Ritter President of First Direct Corporation, is that I attended Babson College in Mass. and I am the first of 5 students to graduate with what was a new major at that time "Entrepreneurial Studies." Babson has a world-class reputation in business education...
A Great GoldMine View
You never know where things end up! In this case the thing is a GoldMine windbreaker I gave away at a business conference. We gave it to a valued customer, Specialized Office Systems, Inc., who wore it to the Grand Canyon. If you're in the Pheonix, Arizona area check...
Lookup.ini – Automatically Enter or Update Data in a GoldMine Field When Creating a New Record or Updating a Field
Did you know that you can instruct GoldMine to automatically enter information into a field or multiple fields when creating a new contact record or updating a field in an existing contact record? The time saving data entry benefits of this are alone enough to warrant use of this lesser...