Which Contact Management System Is Best?

by airpr23

Posted: 12 years ago 21 replies

OFFLINE MARKETING

I've reached the point where my online sites are taking off, I now want to start doing some offline marketing, in the form of direct response advertising. The question I had was which contact management system is best? I'm currently using Getresponse with my list and my list includes home addresses and phone numbers. So is Getresponse fine to use as a offline contact management system?

Which brings me to my next question. How or where can I load up my customer addresses to have them all printed out? So I can send out mail to them. Is there an automated system or service I can pay to have this done for me?

And if anyone knows of any good companies I can use for voice broadcasting, that would also help. Thanks any help would be awesome.

#contact #management #system

geotargeted 12 years ago

There was just a thread here asking the same thing. Maybe do a search for CRM. There are open source variants like sugarcrm and vtiger. Their are of source many paid subscription based ones as well.
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- David Miller 12 years ago
  
  Jason had recommended FREECRM.com on another post. It looks like a good choice, almost too robust!
  
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  seocrest 12 years ago
  
  I would recommend WORDPRESS the best CMS
  
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  P1 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by seocrest
  
  I would recommend WORDPRESS the best CMS
  
  OP said Contact Management System not Content Management System lol
  
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  iAmNameLess 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by seocrest
  
  I would recommend WORDPRESS the best CMS
  
  As p1 said, CONTACT not content... and even as a CMS, wordpress is maybe the best in a sense of user friendliness on the backend where people who aren't experienced can put up sites, but it definitely is nowhere near the best CMS
  
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Steve Solem 12 years ago

If you've got a list of addresses already, there are a number of ways you can put that to good use depending on what kind of mailings you want to send out.

You could use that list and merge it with a Word document to print letters or postcards from your computer.

Many online printers will let you upload a list to mail merge with postcards or letters and will do all the printing and mailing for you. I've looked at Click2mail before but haven't used them, but most printers you'll find online offer mailing services too.

Personally, I use SendOutCards to print and mail cards and gifts to my clients and prospects, but you should write out a list of the features you need in a mailing/cms solution then try a few services out to see which works best for you.

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Steve
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airpr23 12 years ago

Thanks for the responses.
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SirThomas 12 years ago

As always, it's worth to check Google first ;-)

Insightly: Google Apps CRM and Project Management

I've heard it's good.

Thomas
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- David Miller 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by SirThomas
  
  As always, it's worth to check Google first ;-)
  
  Insightly: Google Apps CRM and Project Management
  
  I've heard it's good.
  
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  Everything is a matter of taste. I've used Insightly and thought is was horrible, others thought it was great. Same holds true for ACT....I have the CD in my desk and it makes a great coaster, but I know others who love it. Best thing to do is try several out and pick the one that may not be the "best" but is the one that you are most comfortable in using.
  
  The idea of a CRM is to make the most of your time and information, if you have a CRM that is a pain in the butt for you to use, it defeats the purpose.
  
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Aussieguy 12 years ago

iAmNameLess........not the best CMS would've been one thing but, "definitely nowhere near" the best? Can you elaborate?
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- iAmNameLess 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Aussieguy
  
  iAmNameLess........not the best CMS would've been one thing but, "definitely nowhere near" the best? Can you elaborate?
  
  I don't really want to change the topic, but basically if you're a baseball fan... Wordpress is the rookie league, not even AA, not AAA and nowhere close to the majors. Internet marketers love it because of how easy it is to throw up a site. Doesn't mean it is flexible, or even close to ideal in many situations. I expand on it in more detail in the numerous threads that show up in the web design and internet marketing part of the board.
  
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Aussieguy 12 years ago

good point, i didn't mean to take it off topic either. will take a look at your threads in the other forums (since getting stuck on the offline board i haven't left yet, lol)

I'm very, very surprised though that you put it that low. Goes against everything I've been reading/learning thus far. Although a WP web designer devotee I respect recently said, "Joomla is a bit more flexible and then Drupal for enterprise level", yet at the same time he (and the WP head guy for that matter) would say: there's nothing they can imagine that they couldn't do via WP?
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Marvin Johnston 12 years ago

Put me down as one who likes ACT! I started with it back when it was still a DOS application, and liked the relative ease of using it. I probably should upgrade though .

I did have a client a few years ago though that used the Windows version, and it seemed okay.

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JerrickYeoh 12 years ago

The would be more than 100 types of CMS in softaculous but my famous still with wordpress while it the best and easy CMS for me to manage a website.
With the rich of social plug in allow me to manage and operate my website friendly and effective.
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Magento developer

12 years ago

I am using wordpress its good to use.

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Dan DaSilva

12 years ago

Originally Posted by JerrickYeoh

The would be more than 100 types of CMS in softaculous but my famous still with wordpress while it the best and easy CMS for me to manage a website.
With the rich of social plug in allow me to manage and operate my website friendly and effective.

Originally Posted by Magento developer

I am using wordpress its good to use.

Hey guys,

You're off topic again! Please, read what the thread is all about and get this straight:

CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management while...
CMS stands for Content Management System

This thread is about CRM!

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Aaron Doud 12 years ago

Any other suggestions? I am too curious on this.
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DRO 12 years ago

Best CRM IMO is:

salesforce ($5 is cheapest) (web) (learning curve has all bells and whistles) (iphone/bb/andr app)
zoho (web) (free cheapest plan)

some other options

nutshell $49 per month (leads/sales/contacts)
FAT FREE CRM free
sugarcrm $360 year
ContactMe (has free plan) (organize contacts)
solve360 ($39) (crm and project manager)
freecrm (free) (basic crm, cons: very ugly and pita for importing)
civicrm (free) (alot of nonprofits use, opensource and you need to install)

Refer to this thread
http://www.warriorforum.com/offline-...nt-system.html
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godinu 12 years ago

I've heard many good things about MailChimp as well, and they have a free version.
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OliverRealize

12 years ago

I just signed up for Insightly and I like it. It's not much to look at. But's it's what I was looking for and I can track my gmail and calendar usage for my offline calls and contacts. I also like the opportunities and projects it lets you create.

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tftom

11 years ago

Originally Posted by OliverRealize

I just signed up for Insightly myself. You're right - it's very plain looking. Maybe they should call it Unsightly. We'll see how it works out.

I have vTiger installed on my site, but it's overkill and a little complex for my needs.

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