Contact database management solution - any help appreciated
I have been looking for a solution to my database management for a long time, but didn't find what I need. I hope someone can help.
What I do is send out mostly press release like informational emails to my contact list.
Like there's a new product launch and I send out info to bloggers, media, radio etc. via mailchimp.
What I would need is a solution to have my contacts inside a database, where I can add info and make the database searchable.
I'll give an example: I add a contact, say it is a radio station. At first there's only an email adress. I send my email and in the best case I get a reply.
Now I add that data into my database, my contact now has an email adress, a name - say the person's name who is in charge of the local news dept., maybe a telephone number, a website, a date when I last heard from this particular contact, the kind of info to send there ... etc. In most cases the email adresses will stay the same, even if the person no longer works for the company, soI update the names regularly.
You get the point.
The next time I send out news related to this kind of topic I make a search in my database and find info:
- Which contacts are interested in that particular bit of press release,
- Who I am writing to,
- When did I have my last conversation or correspondence with them, and what was it about
I also want to keep in view when and how to follow up
In the very best of cases this service would be a cloud solution = I can access the same database from everywhere, no need to store and update on local computer
and somehow work with mailchimp, maybe give the ability to import the email list that I exported from mailchimp into the database
I'd be very grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction here
Sorry for typos, my space bar is stuck
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