Goldmine 8 for Dummies - Paperback

by Joel Scott (Author)

If you run a small business, you know how important customer relationship management, or CRM, can be to your bottom line. And you know it can be a bit daunting. Well, not with GoldMine and GoldMine 8 For Dummies!

GoldMine is business software designed to help you organize your contacts, track activities, schedule appointments, create reports that tell you how you're doing, and make accurate business projections. GoldMine 8 is completely revised to make it more useful than ever, once you get the hang of it. That's where GoldMine For Dummies comes to the rescue! Written by an authorized GoldMine trainer, this guide shows you how to:

• Set up GoldMine 8 and customize it for your business
• Create, view, and update customer records
• Schedule activities and manage leads
• Monitor your marketing efforts and see what's working
• Predict sales based on past results
• Work with GoldMine's e-mail system
• Organize and distribute information
• Access GoldMine from outside your office
• Integrate GoldMine with your company Web site

Even if you've used a previous version of GoldMine, you'll find some big changes in this newest revision, but GoldMine 8 For Dummies makes it easy to get up to speed. When you've read this book and discovered how GoldMine can help you keep track of your clients, reduce costs, and improve efficiency, you'll think you've hit the motherlode!

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Customize GoldMine to fit your business needs

Use GoldMine to support sales and service, keep records, and more

There's a reason why it's called GoldMine. When you've read this book and discovered how GoldMine can help you keep track of your clients, reduce costs, and improve efficiency, you'll think you've hit the mother lode! Manage your contacts and leads, schedule activities, track your marketing efforts, create reports, and make GoldMine work for your business.

Joel Scott is President of Computer Control Corporation, a GoldMine dealership that has earned GoldMine's Top 10 Dealer status for ten years. He's also an authorized GoldMine and GoldSync Technician.

• Set up GoldMine and access it remotely

• Use filters, groups, and SQL queries

• Schedule activities and forecast sales

• Monitor marketing projects

• Work with GoldMine's e-mail system

Author Biography

Joel Scott is the president of the Computer Control Corporation, a technology consulting company founded in 1985. Mr. Scott began selling GoldMine software in 1991. The company has been awarded FrontRange's "GoldMine Top-10 Dealer" award eight times since then and has received numerous other awards for GoldMine training and best practices.
In 2007, Computer Control Corporation joined with Core Solutions, Inc., headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. The newly combined company continues to sell and support GoldMine as well as several other well-known CRM products, such as Microsoft CRM and SalesLogix.
This is Mr. Scott's fourth GoldMine For Dummies book, and these sit on his bookshelf right next to the two Microsoft CRM For Dummies books that he has co-authored.
Always happy to hear from readers, Mr. Scott can be reached at dummy@ccc24k.com. To assure a response, please include all your contact information.