Contact Management
When you start a new business, maintaining your contacts is one of the first things you absolutely must do thoroughly, correctly, and perpetually—and it is probably one of the easiest and least expensive projects ahead of you relative to the value it will bring. Thankfully, the days of awkward and overpriced contact management software have come to an end.
It is surprising to see that a large portion of the business community takes no interest in proper contact management since technology has made it so easy to keep your information in systems such as SalesForce.com, SugarCRM, Act, or Goldmine.
Systems like these can store all of your contact names, addresses, phone and fax numbers, while integrating the data with your business calendar, phone services, PDA, Word documents, fax software, e-mail, web links, and web data.
As a side note, we are big critics of Outlook for several reasons, including that it is the most virus-prone software in existence, and it is controlled by Microsoft.
