Like many small businesses and
sales teams, it’s likely you’re on the relentless pursuit to find more time in your day or at least to maximize the time you have. Not only that, but the lines between your business and personal lives are becoming increasingly blurred. Don’t think it’s possible to keep it all together? It is when you use the new productivity and efficiency features in Sage ACT! 2012.
Find What You Need in an Instant with a Faster, More Expansive Search Option
You’ve got all the details of your business relationships organized in Sage ACT!, but you need an easier way to dig into that data. With
a new universal search option, you can find that one thing you need in an instant, because search is faster and more expansive than
ever. Let’s say you’re looking for the sales proposal prepared for “Yellow Jersey Bikes”. Sage ACT! will search your contacts, groups,
companies, opportunities, notes, history—even attachments for that term. Further hone your search when you filter by all dates, last 24
hours, last week, and last month. Once your search results are displayed by relevance, simply double-click on the item of interest and
you’re taken to that particular field or attachment for more detail. And, if it’s not what you’re looking for, simply use the back button to
view the search results page again.
Connect to Powerful, Subscription-based Sales, Marketing Services, and More
Rely on Sage ACT! as your business command center, further specialized for your specific business when you connect to powerful, subscription-based sales and marketing services, plus other desktop applications and web-based productivity tools. Subscribe to Sage Business Info Services for ACT! via the new Connections page in-product for access to highly-targeted leads from Hoover’s™ that you can segment and import directly into Sage ACT!, or Sage E-marketing for ACT!3 to easily create and send impactful email marketing campaigns, and track results within Sage ACT!.
Further, you can connect to Microsoft® Outlook® and Google® from the new
Connections page. Setup synchronization, manage individual preferences,
and more.
Access Sage ACT! from Where You Are, from the Method Most Convenient for You
Your business takes you everywhere and you need Sage ACT! to be there with you. Now it can be. When you subscribe to
Sage ACT! Connect, you have convenient access to the details you need from virtually anywhere. Details like your Sage ACT! contacts and calendar are stored in the Cloud, so you can quickly pull up that customer address you’re headed to, make changes to an existing phone number or email address, and check your meeting schedule for the day. Do this from popular smartphones, including BlackBerry®, Windows Mobile®, and Android™ devices. Plus, access via web browsers, including Internet Explorer®, Firefox®, Google Chrome™, and Safari® on your laptop and tablet, like the iPad2. And, not only will you have access to Sage ACT! details, you can keep your Google® and Yahoo!® contacts in Sage ACT! Connect too. Even link Facebook® pictures to your contacts, so it’s that much easier to put a face to a name.
Revolutionize the way you manage your day with a convenient, virtual notepad, you can use with or without opening Sage ACT!.
Work seamlessly with Gmail to view business and/or personal emails sent and received from Gmail within Sage ACT!.
Keep all or just a subset of your Google Contacts and Google Calendar in sync with your Sage ACT! contacts and calendar.
Find what you need in an instant with a faster, more expansive universal search that gets you to that key document or piece of info.
Access your contacts and calendar from where you are and from the method most convenient for you with Sage ACT! Connect.
Connect to powerful, subscription-based sales and marketing services, desktop applications, and web-based productivity tools from the convenient Connections page.
Generate Actionable Demand with End-to-End E-marketing1
(This feature is not new for ACT! 2012, but is a powerful feature well worth mentioning!)
ACT! E-marketing intelligently and automatically reaches out to your ACT! contacts, runs e-mail marketing campaigns in minutes, and delivers results right to the ACT! contact record, saving you money by helping you focus on the right customers. With ACT! E-marketing, you get:
E-mail marketing—Create striking e-mail templates and send to contacts, lookups, groups, and companies in ACT!.
Drip marketing—Create a series of e-mails that are delivered to ACT! contacts over a period of time, automatically.
Survey and Web forms—Gather valuable feedback from existing contacts so you can build and grow your ACT! database.
Marketing results tab—Use a ranked call list of the most interested contacts so you know who to call first.
Revolutionize the Way You Manage Your Day
Forget about conventional paper-and-pen lists that fail to keep you on task.
Revolutionize the way you manage your day with Sage ACT! Scratchpad1, a
convenient, virtual notepad where you can quickly capture impromptu notes, phone
numbers, and personal reminders, with or without opening Sage ACT!. But that’s
not the best part. Prioritize and check off items once completed, print the list to take
it with you, and push tasks that require further follow-up into Sage ACT! with just a
few clicks. Send them to Sage ACT! as activities, notes, and history—even assign
them to contacts. Let’s say you’re working on a proposal for Chris Huffman, but the
phone rings, so you get distracted. You quickly jot down a reminder in Sage ACT!
Scratchpad. When you have time at the end of your day, you push that activity into
Sage ACT! on Chris Huffman’s contact and set an alarm to go off first thing the next
morning. Finally you can rid yourself of the sticky notes and legal pads that have
been cluttering your desk for years and actually get through your to-dos!
1 Requires additional subscription.
*Sage ACT! Certified Consultants are third-party vendors. Sage and its affiliates are in no way liable or responsible for claims made related to the services provided by third-party vendors.
For Sage ACT!: Review Sage ACT! system requirements at www.act.com/2012systreq. You must purchase one license of Sage ACT! per user. Scalability varies based on hardware, size, and usage of your database. Visit www.actsolutions.com or contact your add-on product provider to determine compatibility for your add-on products. For Sage Connected Services for ACT!: The mobile component of Sage ACT! Connect requires an active data plan. You are responsible for all data related charges to your mobile phone. To facilitate mobile setup, Sage ACT! Connect sends a text message to your mobile phone. Based on your wireless plan, you may receive an extra charge from your carrier for this text message. Sage E-marketing for ACT! is powered by Swiftpage™. For ACT! 6.x or Prior Customers: Customer activation and registration are required to use Sage ACT!. Certain features may have changed or are no longer available, including inbound caller ID functionality, WinFax integration, recording and playback of macros, email/modem–based database synchronization, and SideACT!.
About ACT!
ACT! by Sage is the #1 selling Contact and Customer Manager in the world with 2.8 million users. It’s designed for you to organize all the details of your customer relationships in one place for a complete view of the people you do business with. Improve your marketing effectiveness to attract new customers and get more from existing relationships. And, take action on your most qualified sales leads with total visibility and control of your pipeline. Because ACT! is easy to learn and use, you can be more productive right away. Continue working with your existing business solutions, like Microsoft® Outlook®, Word, Excel®, and Lotus Notes®, because they integrate with ACT!.
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