Make Contact. 

Build Relationships. 

Get Results. 

  

Sage ACT! makes it easy for you to have meaningful conversations with customers by giving you an organized view of the people you do business with.

Like the millions of individuals in small businesses and sales teams who use Sage ACT!, you’ll always be prepared with recent emails, meeting notes, task reminders, and social media profiles, because all of these details live in one place.

You can even use Sage ACT! like a sales and marketing assistant to get the right leads, send striking marketing campaigns, and track your overall performance.

The bottom line, Sage ACT! takes care of the administrative stuff so you can focus on building long lasting, profitable business relationships.

 

Details of Sage ACT! 2011 benefits in blog articles.  Find out more about The Automated Selling Machine & Customer Magnet 

 

Do you work on a team that needs to stay in sync?

If so, consider Sage ACT! Premium. It’s designed for people like you who need to efficiently share relationship details. Even if your business is scattered in different places, Sage ACT! Premium gives you and your team access to a central database from Windows® and the web. Plus, it has features teams need to succeed, including enhanced security, group dashboards and reports, and advanced administration. 

 

Competitive Differentiation 

Somewhere between the chaos of sticky notes and spreadsheets, and the complexity of CRM solutions lives an alternative for you—a Contact and Customer Manager. Imagine a personal assistant that keeps all of your phone numbers, emails, meeting notes, and documents for everyone you do business with in one place. What if all of this information was easy to update and even easier to find whenever you needed it?

 

Sage ACT! is the #1 selling Contact and Customer Manager designed to help you engage in meaningful conversations with your customers so you can build long-lasting, profitable relationships.

 

Here are a few reasons why ACT! hits the sweet spot for small businesses and sales teams, like yours:

 

#1 in the world.

Relax, you chose wisely. Sage ACT! is #1 selling with millions of successful customers. Because of this, many of your existing users, as well as future employees, will already be familiar with Sage ACT!.

Designed for you.

Designed specifically for small businesses and sales teams like yours, that is. We cut the fat and focused on the features you’ll actually use from day one—and into the future as you grow.

Easier than the other guys.

Don’t worry about a learning curve. Sage ACT! leads the industry in ease of use. The proof? You can get 25 percent more work done by simply choosing to use Sage ACT! over competitive solutions.

Priced for the cost-conscious.

Sage ACT! is priced for cost-conscious small businesses and sales teams. You don’t have to sweat about hidden costs popping up later or investing in a costly IT stack.

Personalizable.

Feel free to personalize Sage ACT! to fit your business even better. Design views, add fields and tabs, edit drop-downs, and customize templates.

 

Napkin Mike's introduction to What's new in Sage ACT! 2011:

 

Sage ACT! 2011 helps you get more of what you value most—time and money—by automating key activities and unlocking a rich source of new leads.

 

Let Sage ACT! Smart Tasks handle the things you need to get done every day. Think of it as a personal assistant that sends emails for you and puts activities on your calendar so your customers get the service they expect.

 

Once your customers are taken care of, shift your focus to Sage Business Info Services for ACT!, which puts highly targeted prospect lists from Hoover’s™ directly into Sage ACT!.

 

Features and Benefits

1. Automate key activities.

Sage ACT! Smart Tasks handle the things you need to get done every day. Think of it like a personal assistant that sends emails for you and puts activities on your calendar so your customers get the service they expect, with little work required by you. Smart Tasks just get it done.

 

Get started with one of 10+ pre-loaded Smart Tasks and accompanying email marketing templates for the most common activities. These Smart Tasks will set in motion the most basic or advanced processes that allow Sage ACT! to take care of things like reach out to customers that haven’t heard from you in a while or notify you of any sales opportunities that have been stalled.

 

Smart Tasks will even contact customers that are missing key info from their contact records with a survey that automatically plugs that info back into Sage ACT!. And, best of all, you have total control over the timing, contact lists, and opportunities for each Smart Task.  (More on smart tasks, here)

 

Apply Smart Tasks right out-of-the-box or make changes to fit your needs. Because Smart Tasks are built on a powerful workflow engine, you can fully customize them with different actions using one of the easier visual designers on the market. Set up Smart Task guidelines for your entire team so your company’s best practices are followed.

 

Snapshot:

• Get started with one of 10+ pre-loaded Smart Tasks and accompanying email marketing templates.
• Set in motion the most basic or advanced processes to occur automatically.
• Control the timing, contact lists, and opportunities for each Smart Task.
• Apply Smart Tasks right out-of-the-box.
• Customize Smart Tasks with different actions using one of the easier visual designers on the market.

 More on smart tasks, here.

2. Unlock a rich source of new leads.

Add rocket fuel to your sales and marketing machine with Sage Business Info Services for ACT!. Sage Business Info Services for ACT! puts highly targeted prospect lists and business info from Hoover’s™ directly into Sage ACT!. It helps you fill in the gaps in your database and gives you access to more than 65 million companies and 85 million executives.

 

Find new leads based on the traits you’re looking for, along with business info for known contacts and companies, including profiles, financials, industry information, news, and more.

 

Sage Business Info Services for ACT! makes sure your mailed materials find their target with addresses and phone numbers that are properly formatted when imported. Plus, get email alerts from a company watch list to stay on top of the latest news.

 

Start with a free version for basic company, financial, and industry info, or sign up for a subscription to get more detailed contact, company, competitor, and lead info. You receive a special small business subscription rate.

 

Snapshot:

• Find new leads based on the traits you’re looking for, along with business info about known contacts and companies, including profiles, financials, industry info, news, and more.
• Make sure your mailed materials find their target with addresses and phone numbers that are properly formatted when imported.
• Get email alerts from a company watch list to stay on top of the latest news.
• Start with a free version for basic company, financial, and industry info.
• Sign up for a subscription to get more detailed company, contact, competitive, and lead info.

 

3. Eliminate double entry.

Sage ACT! manages all the details of your business relationships and Microsoft® Outlook® manages emails, basic contact details, and meetings across your team.

Now you can have the best of both worlds and integrate your Sage ACT! and Outlook contacts, plus keep your calendars in sync.

Sync your existing Sage ACT! contacts with what you keep in Outlook. It doesn’t matter where your contacts were created or changed, everything will be kept updated in both places. And, you have the option to control which contacts are synced back and forth.

Keep your busy schedule updated in both places, no matter where you add or modify activities and meetings. Sage ACT! will help you cut back on meeting conflicts with rules that handle them automatically. And, you can choose which activity types in Sage ACT! sync back to Outlook so that your Outlook calendar remains free of your Sage ACT! to-dos.

 

Snapshot:

• Sync your existing Sage ACT! contacts with what you keep in Outlook.
• Access updated contact info in both places, because it doesn’t matter were contacts were created or changed.
• Control which contacts are synced back and forth.
• Keep your busy schedule updated in both places no matter where you add or modify activities and meeting.
• Choose which activity types in Sage ACT! sync back to Outlook