Carlstone Consulting, LLC are an ACT!® Certified Consultants.  Carlstone has completed a rigorous certification process, ensuring the highest quality of consulting services and value.

Carlstone specializes in the development of Customer Relationship Management software and its integration into your workplace using ACT! contact management software. 

We are involved in the Community and serve on the Board of Directors of the Westport Weston Chamber of Commerce.

The following links offer detailed information on ACT! and our related services.

ACT! Features ACT! Features Datasheet (PDF)
View graphical walkthrough of ACT! features (ACT.com)  ACT! Market Opportunity Datasheet (PDF)
ACT! 2000 Upgrade Features ACT! Competitive Matrix Datasheet (PDF)
Download Free ACT! Trial Software ACT! Positioning Datasheet (PDF)
View Online demo of ACT! (ACT.com) Link to ACT.com, ACT!'s official web site
ACT! Wall Street Journal Article   ACT! Outlook Comparison
 Carlstone ACT! Services
Largest SMB Customer Base in CRM and Growing
Best Software* established the market for contact management with ACT! and later made the market for CRM in the SMB space with SalesLogix. Today, more than four million individuals and 14,000 corporate accounts rely on ACT!, making it the CRM leader for small to mid-sized businesses.

 

 The success of ACT! has not gone unnoticed. In January 2003, ACT! was named "Product of the Year" by Customer Inter@ction Solutions® magazine. Also, SalesLogix was honored recently with seven different industry awards in categories ranging from product functionality to end-user success and satisfaction, including the PC Magazine Editor’s Choice Award for Best SFA product.

ACT! Press Release

SCOTTSDALE, AZ – June 25, 2002 –ACT!TM, the best-selling contact manager from Interact Commerce, today announced that a new version of ACT! will be delivered later this summer. The new product will include over 50 new features and a sneak peek is being shown this week at TechXNY/PCExpo in New York.

During the lifecycle of ACT! 5.0, over 5,000 corporate accounts have been added as customers and the installed based of users has grown to over 12,000 corporations and four million individual users. In addition, ACT! has earned awards and distinctions such as PC Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Award, PC World’s World Class Award, Winmag’s WinList, Winmag.com’s Win100 Award, the Top 100 from Computer Shopper, Computer Current’s Readers Choice Award, Yippee Shareware’s 5-Star Rating, the Smart Business A-List and MVP Awards, and the Willy Award for Best SOHO CRM Solution.

“As a reseller of accounting software, we use ACT! to track our leads from origination to close, to track the modules owned by our existing clients so we can market and sell to our install base, and to track our implementation projects,” said Aaron Huckstep of Huckstep & Associates, LLC. “We have been able to completely customize ACT! and in doing so we have decreased time spent on administrative tasks and increased our sales tremendously. ACT! is so closely tied with how we run our business that I don’t know how we could survive without it! We are really excited about the next version and can’t wait to try it out.”