Contact management

Zoho has a mobile side....
I don't know about for Blackberry...

Any recommendations for a good sales contact management software?

Here is a prety cool and easy to use CRM system for simple clients and tasks, works really great and simple to use.

It's a cool start-up and they are inviting a limited number of users/beta testers.

It's WP-based and fairly intuitive.


Go to: strideapp.....com/users/sign_up

and put in the this for the Beta Invite Code: ZDBETA


TECH Crunch -

Stride a new CRM system designed to meet the needs of freelancers and small business owners, is launching into private beta today. The product, which was born out of an actual need for a more simplified CRM system, is focused on efficiency, not a complex feature set. It's not for adding contracts, managing cases, or allocating tasks to a team of salespeople. Instead, Stride is about deal-tracking and high-level metrics only.

"For salespeople, this app is going to make them cringe," says Stride co-founder Andrew Dumont.
Carnes explains the history of Stride's creation detailing the frustrations he had running a small design shop and not being able to find a CRM system that fit his needs.

"I didn't need multiple salespeople or complicated reports," he says, "and I didn't have time to enter contacts and manage them."

IMO - you could simply use your calendar in gmail or whatever else you prefer. If it's just to manage when and how to contact someone back (an appt), you can put all that in the appointment on a calendar and it will pop up at whatever reminder time you set.

You don't need a CRM or a database until you HAVE customers. It never fails that people are going to try to sell you things you don't need. The bottom line is, until they have agreed to be your customer, you don't need to keep their information in any type of database. Keep them on your excel list or whatever you are calling from, and THEN when you make them a customer put them in your database. These people that are trying to sell you a "lead management system" are playing off your lack of knowledge. Why do I need to manage a list of "potential customers" in an online database? I don't...I need to call them, and I can do that off an excel list, or any other type of list, and then spend my time managing my actual customers in whatever database I choose.