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#1 (permalink)   05-21-2008 VagabondetteVA Junior Member Latest blog post: The Benefits Of Personal Time Management   Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Currently in Portland, OR Posts: 417 Outlook with Business Contact Manager Does anyone use this? It looks like it could be a good CRM. It covers contact management, sales leads, marketing, project/task management. Since it's MS it's fully integrated and if you use microsoft accounting it will even data dump for invoices, etc. It's $149 but when you look at a lot of the SaaS CRM systems they're $15/month so this would pay for itself in 10 months and probably be easier to use. __________________ Amanda Moore Virtual Assistant VagabondetteVA Blog

#2 (permalink)   05-21-2008 Rebecka Melson Resident Member Company name: Virtual Business Services   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oklahoma, USA Posts: 1,118 Re: Outlook with Business Contact Manager I have it and like it a lot. It comes with the Pro version of Office. __________________ Rebecka Melson ~ Virtual Business Services

#3 (permalink)   05-21-2008 VagabondetteVA Junior Member Latest blog post: The Benefits Of Personal Time Management   Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Currently in Portland, OR Posts: 417 Re: Outlook with Business Contact Manager Do you use the accounting aspect too? __________________ Amanda Moore Virtual Assistant VagabondetteVA Blog

#4 (permalink)   05-21-2008 Rebecka Melson Resident Member Company name: Virtual Business Services   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oklahoma, USA Posts: 1,118 Re: Outlook with Business Contact Manager No, I use QuickBooks Pro for my accounting. No matter what you choose, you're better off paying a one-time fee for a program than a monthly fee. Monthly fees seem convenient but in the long run they are a rip-off. __________________ Rebecka Melson ~ Virtual Business Services

#5 (permalink)   05-21-2008 Rebecka Melson Resident Member Company name: Virtual Business Services   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oklahoma, USA Posts: 1,118 Re: Outlook with Business Contact Manager $149 isn't bad, but before you pay it, you might check out ebay for Office Pro, it will come with Contact Manager. You might be able to get the whole program for about $200 on ebay. __________________ Rebecka Melson ~ Virtual Business Services

#6 (permalink)   05-21-2008 VagabondetteVA Junior Member Latest blog post: The Benefits Of Personal Time Management   Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Currently in Portland, OR Posts: 417 Re: Outlook with Business Contact Manager I already have Enterprise. I'm looking into options. I have friends as Microsoft. __________________ Amanda Moore Virtual Assistant VagabondetteVA Blog

#7 (permalink)   05-21-2008 Rebecka Melson Resident Member Company name: Virtual Business Services   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oklahoma, USA Posts: 1,118 Re: Outlook with Business Contact Manager It's always good to have friends in the right places. __________________ Rebecka Melson ~ Virtual Business Services

#8 (permalink)   06-11-2008 JenniferStewart New Member   Join Date: May 2008 Location: Merriam, Kansas Posts: 27 Re: Outlook with Business Contact Manager I have Outlook with Business Contact Manager. I have not used it to it's full capacity, but I like it so far. I like that you can track projects, opportunities and communications in one place. Jennifer

#9 (permalink)   06-11-2008 VagabondetteVA Junior Member Latest blog post: The Benefits Of Personal Time Management   Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Currently in Portland, OR Posts: 417 Re: Outlook with Business Contact Manager I've started using it more but I need to get a book or something on it so I can really learn to use it well. __________________ Amanda Moore Virtual Assistant VagabondetteVA Blog

#10 (permalink)   10-05-2008 tg180078 Contributing Member   Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: NC Posts: 74 Re: Outlook with Business Contact Manager I never thought of using Outlook with business contact manager i alway assumed that there was no big diffence between that and outlook. Maybe i should check into. Thanks ladies for the post it was informative.