We’ve already pointed you to one potential Act-killer in Oprius Software’s Foundations product. How about another: Big Contacts.
Oprius’ Foundations product appears to be more of a contact “hub” for running your own small business with many features planned that will make their product a full marketing system. Big Contacts, at first glance, is a true Act database online. It comes with a free service level and then tiered levels offering up to 25,000 contacts.
I haven’t had a chance to click around to form a complete opinion of the service, but a few features include quickly adding or importing contacts; generating and assigning notes, logging calls, sending greeting cards, scheduling meetings, adding files and photos, logging tasks and to-to items to any contact.
Looks like you can customize a sales pipeline as well, add products that are used to organize that pipeline, change contact “types” (i.e., Friend, Family, Prospect, Client, etc.), and add custom fields, among other things.
It was only a matter of time before Act (Goldmine/Maximizer/name your CRM software) was in someone’s crosshairs. You can now find multiple, lightweight competitors to Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint online. What I personally love about Pipelinedeals.com, Oprius Foundations, and Big Contacts, is that they’re best served on a platter to small teams and individuals. The most important features are there and tweaks and subtle improvements are often made, but the core idea is to offer a simple, streamlined alternative.
More power to these innovative companies.
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Bill Ferrante
2 years ago
I really love what the folks at pipelinedeals are doing. The one spot they are falling short for me is contact management. I understand their view is more deal centric, but they’re almost there for me.
If their contact management was a bit more full featured, ie. could capture all the personal data I have about a client like multiple phone numbers etc, I think I’d be done.
Thanks for the great posts. This is really helping to make my life easier!!
Brandon
2 years ago
Hi Bill,
Great note and I agree completely. More standard fields would be helpful in Pipelinedeals’ “People” tab.
I’ve also suggested that they include more custom fields allow me to capture and track any information I find important.
Glad we could help. Best of luck to you in 2007!