Here’s a new poll question I just posted at LinkedIn:
For print magazines with digital editions:
1) We charge extra for digital edition ads
2) No extra charge for digital edition ads
I plan to leave the poll up for a week or two, and then share the results here and in several groups at LinkedIn.
One of the more time-consuming tasks in sales is capturing contact information from company web sites or web-based directories. So I’m happy to report I’ve just found a free tool, Contact Capture from Broadlook Technologies, which makes the job easier. And faster.
With Contact Capture, you simply select your contact data, copy it, and with 3 quick clicks of your keyboard, the contact data (company name, address, phone number, etc.) pops into the appropriate fields in the program. Then you can quickly send it into a contact management system/CRM like Act, Goldmine or SalesForce. Or you can export it to Outlook, Excel or a simple text file.
Broadlook also has a program called Diver that automatically extracts information from search engines. I plan to try it out this week. Stay tuned!
Just started testing BatchBook from BatchBlue software, and from what I’ve seen so far, I like it a lot. The integration with ShoeBoxed (for converting business cards into importable data) will save a lot of keyboarding time, and the ability to track social media activity to my advertising clients is something I look forward to using. As someone who’s been using PC-based systems like Act! and GoldMine for years, I’m finally warming up to the idea of my customer data being in “the cloud” instead on my hard drive.
