25 August 2010

Editing Drop Down Lists

One of the best ways to make ACT! by Sage "your own" and speed up data entry, and searching, is to customize drop-down boxes field choices - or List Values - to better match your business needs. Eliminating excess tags, or changing existing values cleans up the screen, and gets you to important data quicker.

10 August 2010

ACT! E-marketing Extreme Makeover

ACT! E-marketing is getting an extreme makeover with the upcoming launch of Sage ACT! 2011, starting with its name. From now on, our E-marketing service will be known as 'Sage E-marketing for ACT!.' This will help us be consistent when we roll out additional services for E-marketing and other categories.

Along with the name change, Sage E-marketing for ACT! will have a new icon on the contact, company, and group toolbars - a more stylized version of the current users have seen, which conveys a greater sense of motion or action as well as a consistent style with other ACT! icons. Go check it out!

But the makeover doesn't end there - there's lots of new features inside Sage E-marketing for ACT!, including:
  • Integration with Smart Tasks Sage E-marketing comes integrated with ACT! 2011 smart tasks out of the box. When you're designing smart tasks, you can easily add a step to send an e-mail or add a contact to a drip campaign and directly access your email templates and campaigns. Talk about a personal assistant!
  • Ability to edit imported templates At long last! Sage E-marketing for ACT! now includes an Advanced Editor which can edit imported templates. Instead of having to make edits using the source tool and re-import, customers will be able to apply edits to the already imported templates. Customers who regularly import templates are going to love this!
  • Landing pages You can now publish email templates as landing pages, bringing sophisticated campaign capabilities to your fingertips. Don't have time or money to add web pages to your website? Create them instantly and let Sage E-marketing for ACT! host them for you!
  • A new template manager Sage E-marketing for ACT! has a new template manager which makes your life much easier. Organizing, publishing, and distributing email templates is much easier. And you can upload images and documents into a library for repeated use. Speaking of documents - you can now link PowerPoint, Excel, and text files to your templates in addition to pdfs!