by Karen | Apr 13, 2010 | CRM Usage Tips |
Today’s post is by guest blogger, Deborah Shane of Train with Shane. Deborah is an empowerment expert who specializes in career transitioning for women and provides sales, marketing and branding consulting. She can be heard on her weekly on Blog Talk Radio.... by Karen | Apr 9, 2010 | CRM Usage Tips |
I love sports and I’m a sucker for Cinderella stories so I was pretty excited to see that Butler made it all the way to the NCAA Basketball Championship final this week. After all, if my beloved Gators couldn’t be there I was glad to see that my dad’s alma mater was...
by Karen | Apr 2, 2010 | ACT & Zoho Training, ACT Software, CRM Usage Tips |
This being Easter weekend I thought I’d share a couple of my favorite ACT Easter eggs. In case you’re not familiar with the term, a software Easter egg refers to a bit of hidden code in the software. Although these Easter eggs are all represented by fields and... by Karen | Mar 26, 2010 | CRM Usage Tips |
I’ve lost ten pounds since the holidays! Having been on the Injured Reserve list with a knee injury for over a year I packed on the extra weight. I’ve been fortunate enough all my life not to have to deal with weight loss issues so I wasn’t sure what to do. Quite...
by Karen | Mar 19, 2010 | CRM Usage Tips |
A few years back I worked with a large cruise line company. Although the cruise line spared no expensive when it came to onboard amenities, the CEO flatly refused to spend money on an ESP (e-mail service provider) to help send out his e-marketing campaign to his very... by Karen | Mar 12, 2010 | CRM Usage Tips |
I got a call from a potential client the other day who wanted help in converting his existing databases into the latest version of ACT; he was a long-time ACT user and had accumulated over 20 databases. He then went on to explain that unless I could match the...
by Karen | Mar 6, 2010 | CRM Usage Tips |
One of my clients recently sent me a one of his proposed e-marketing templates for my review. He had spent quite a bit of time developing his message and was understandably quite proud of it. What he had in mind was for me to review it, make a few suggestions and...
by Karen | Feb 25, 2010 | ACT & Zoho Consulting, ACT & Zoho Training |
The publishing industry has gone into a free fall. It’s almost impossible for a publisher to compete with the constant stream of new – and relatively cheap – information that we can be accessed via websites, blogs and e-books. Small wonder that so many... by Karen | Feb 20, 2010 | CRM Usage Tips |
Many years ago my husband and I attempted to wallpaper our dining room. Of course it didn’t help that we began work on this DIY project two weeks before Thanksgiving and were under a time crunch. I carefully set up a table in the garage where we applied the paste... by Karen | Feb 16, 2010 | CRM Usage Tips |
I recently ran across a wonderful story in the Washington Post about two high school kids who stumbled across an abandoned baby on their way home from school 20 years ago. The baby, only hours old when the kids found her, were ultimately turned over to authorities....