Manage your sales processes with ACT! 2000. – NEW!

• Forecast and track sales opportunities to effectively manage your sales pipeline.

• Generate custom sales reports with the graphical report generator.

• Create instant graphs displaying your sales pipeline within a specified timeframe.

• Customize your graphs to represent all forecasted or actual sales.

• Save your graphs and use them in other documents or presentations.

Close more sales using ACT! 2000’s sales development process. – NEW!

• Use the proven methodology and tips from Dale Carnegie Training®, the leader in sales training programs.

  - Get concrete and practical selling techniques
  - Help establish rapport and create solutions
  - Forecast revenue and probability of sales closure
  - Produce long-term, cumulative sales results

• Create a graphical “Sales Funnel” to visually see where all of your sales opportunities are in the sales process.

• Use the funnel to view how many opportunities are near closing or to see how many new leads you need to work on.

• Link to the Dale Carnegie Training® website for more information.

Organize your contacts by individuals, group accounts, or company. – NEW!

• Create subgroups within your accounts/groups to reflect the structure of the account or organization.

• Keep notes for a particular group or account.

• Easily identify and view all contacts and activities related to an account from one central location.

• Easily assign new or existing contacts to groups using group membership rules.

• Generate group reports. Choose from three different reports to manage your accounts. Run one report that includes groups and subgroups.

Enjoy greater Internet connectivity. – IMPROVED!

• Extend customer information using links to Internet partners. Gain quick access to some of the most popular and informative business sites.

• Update your area codes with HotData®.

• Send and receive Internet business cards using vCard (Virtual Card).

• Send and receive meeting requests and responses over the Internet between ACT!2000 and other Ical (Internet Calendar) compliant applications.

• Locate associates or acquaintances on the Internet or any LDAP directory (e.g. Yahoo, Bigfoot), even when you only know their name or e-mail address. Add them to your ACT! database or send them an e-mail.

Work even more efficiently. – NEW!

• Use Quicken ExpensAble® expense reporting software with ACT! 2000 to enter expenses as you clear events from your calendar, to ensure that you don’t forget to enter expenses for reimbursement.

• Take advantage of the tighter integration with Microsoft® Outlook. Share calendar information between ACT! 2000 and Outlook. ACT! 2000 allows you the ability to manage remote mail and your e-mail folders. View, create, and manage your Outlook e-mail directly in ACT! 2000.

• Get up to speed quickly using ACT! 2000’s new multimedia tour, which introduces ACT! 2000’s new features and highlights their capabilities.

Schedule activities more effectively. – IMPROVED!

• Save time using the automated Activity Series feature. Pre-define and save a series of automated activities and automatically schedule them as needed. Once an activity series is defined, you can easily schedule these activities in a single action. ACT! 2000 will automatically place the activities in your ACT! 2000 calendar.

• Schedule a specific activity series based on a start date or due date.

Find contact information quickly. – IMPROVED!

• Use a keyword search to look through your entire database, including notes and details, to find the contact or any other information you may need.

• Search for information on any contact by name, address, phone number, or a host of other fields. Also, search on empty and non-empty fields; for example, look up all contacts without a fax number.

Stay productive on the road. – IMPROVED!

• Transfer up to 250 names and numbers from an ACT! 2000 database to a digital phone, using FoneSync® from Paragon Software. Complete FoneSync software is included in the box; all you need is a cable for your digital phone. FoneSync® is supported by most major digital handset manufacturers, including Ericsson, Nokia, Sony, Panasonic, and Mitsubishi.

• Link ACT! 2000 to your PalmPilot, using the included PalmPilot link.

• Access other valuable add-on solutions from the ACT! Add-On Catalog to help keep you more productive on the road.

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