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Contact Manager for Outlook

Contact  Manager  FAQsDoes contact manager software do anything
else?
How is a Contact Manager application
different from Contact Management or CustomerYes. Contact manager applications include
Relationship  Management  (CRM)  ?sales management reports that show your
opportunity pipeline and forecast sales. Your
Contact manager, contact management and CRMcontact manager reports can include estimated
are all essentially different names fordollar value of your opportunities, stage in
software applications that help you managethe sales cycle, probability of closing the
your contacts so you can make every contactsale and anticipated close dates. You can
count and turn your calling efforts intosearch and sort your contact manager reports
sales. In fact contact manager applicationsby any of these fields, or by sales rep,
are often also referred to as salesregion, contact or product. These contact
management  programs.manager reports are an invaluable sales
management tool that can be created on demand
How can a contact manager software programand used daily to assign resources and tasks
make me more effective in buildingto those activities with the greatest sales
relationships?potential.
You may wonder how a computer program canHow does Prophet Contact Manager compare to
make you more effective in buildingthe  competition?
relationships and ultimately sales. The key
to contact manager applications is that theyProphet Contact Manager is similar to other
help you keep track of every activitycontact managers in function, but very
surrounding a contact, so you remember whatdifferent in how it performs those functions.
you've done, what you need to do next andAll contact managers are built around the
what the potential opportunity is worth.idea of creating opportunity files that
Contact managers include organizationalinclude all contact information, history and
tools, such as those you use everyday -activities in a single location, with the
calendars, email, notes and task managers.ability to search the information and
What makes contact manager applicationsgenerate sales management reports. All
different from your other office productivitycontact managers include some way to connect
tools is that they link all these things to ato calendars, task lists and email, so you
contact or "opportunity" file, so you can setcan follow-up your calling efforts by
up appointments, assign tasks or send anscheduling next steps and sending appropriate
email, while you're reviewing related notescommunications. What makes Prophet Contact
and history. Contact managers allow you to beManager so different is that it works within
more efficient by having all your tools inOutlook, making use of your current Outlook
one place. Contact managers also make youcontact list, familiar email, task and
more effective by placing all related contactcalendar functions. You don't need to learn
manager information in one file, so you arenew office productivity tools. Prophet
fully informed and focused on the sales goal.Contact Manager is simply an extension of
Outlook. You'll recognize the toolbars and
What is meant by a contact managercommands. There's essentially no training
"opportunity"  file?curve and you'll see virtually instant
results.
When you first call on a prospect, or make a
first call about a particular businessHow do competitive contact managers'
opportunity, you open an "opportunity" fileproductivity  tools  work?
in your contact manager application. That
becomes the main file for tracking yourEach contact manager application is slightly
opportunities. Contact information is linkeddifferent, but none, other than Prophet,
to the opportunity file from your contactallow you to work directly inside
manager contact list, and you make notes inOutlookÂ(R). You either need to use a
the file each time you contact the prospectduplicate set of tools within your contact
about the opportunity, building a history inmanager for your contacts, calendar, tasks,
your contact manager application. Anyetc., or you have to synch up to Outlook to
appointments you schedule, tasks you assigntransfer information between your contact
and emails you send to the contact related tomanager and Outlook. These things make our
this opportunity all add to thiscompetitors' contact managers more difficult
comprehensive  opportunity  file.to learn, more complex to use and, to varying
degrees, redundant.



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