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Tim Ferriss and Derek Sivers

There is an interesting panel discussion with Tim Ferriss and Derek Sivers at Tim’s blog and a transcript at Derek’s. For micro-ISV owners, business owners, or anyone looking to take a different approach to their career: Tim and Derek are two worthwhile people to watch. Being a New York Times best selling author, you’ve probablyContinue reading “Tim Ferriss and Derek Sivers”

This week in PlaybookIQ [SSL, search enhancements, Lighthouse, Twitter, Mor.ph]

Enhancement: Search results Management of PlaybookIQ search results got some attention and enhancements this week. Details at the product blog. SSL for All! We added SSL to all accounts, even the 30 day free trials. Blogged here. Lighthouse and Github Moved the product’s repository to Github and our milestones and issue tracking to Lighthouse. HighlyContinue reading “This week in PlaybookIQ [SSL, search enhancements, Lighthouse, Twitter, Mor.ph]”

New Feature: SSL for All

SSL for all! All PlaybookIQ accounts, including free trials, now get the protection of secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption. SSL is the Internet standard for secure, encrypted transmission of your data. All major web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera automatically recognize and authenticate SSL certificates so, as a PlaybookIQ user youContinue reading “New Feature: SSL for All”

New Feature: Exports

With PlaybookIQ, small business CRM software, we take care of all the work that goes into hosting, serving, storing, and presenting your data. Yet, we know that it is always your data. So, you can always export your contacts’ information. There are two ways to do so: 1. The account owner can export all contactsContinue reading “New Feature: Exports”

This week in PlaybookIQ

Looking for a more professional look to match our small business CRM target audience, the PlaybookIQ product site got a complete revamp this week. The previous site was – in the tradition of web 2.0 – simple, sparse, and curvy. The new design is pleasant, yet more focused on the facts and geared toward businessContinue reading “This week in PlaybookIQ”

New Feature: Copy Playbooks

In PlaybookIQ, playbooks contain your sales team’s best practices. Each playbook is a series of repeatable and measurable steps that can be easily applied to a contact. Each step is assigned a timeline and responsible user. In this way, PlaybookIQ truly combines small business CRM with sales team collaboration and sales best practices. Sometimes youContinue reading “New Feature: Copy Playbooks”

This week in PlaybookIQ

As we continue to improve our products we added two new features to our small business CRM software, PlaybookIQ this week. Message Templates A consistent company image and messages to customers and prospects is an important part of your customer relationship and marketing efforts. PlaybookIQ now supports this aspect with Message Templates. Use message templatesContinue reading “This week in PlaybookIQ”

CRM Message Templates

Consistent image and messages to customers and prospects is an important part of your customer relationship and marketing efforts. PlaybookIQ now supports this aspect with Message Templates. Use message templates to: Be efficient: no need to retype the same email over and over. Be consistent: ensure everyone on your team is putting forth a consistentContinue reading “CRM Message Templates”

37signals going rich?

Is 37signals jumping on the rich web site and rich applications bandwagon? With a wholesale redesign of their website in the works, and based on some recent 37signals blog “posts”: we can predict that rich product websites will be in the mix. This should not be surprising were it not for ….