I am done with “simple”. I say that even considering previous posts here about the virtues of simplicity, my enjoyment of books such as The Laws of Simplicity and Simplexity, and my respect for companies such as 37signals and Google (two companies commonly included in case studies on software simplicity). The word “simple” has severalContinue reading “Done with Simple”
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Product Launch: PlaybookIQ Small Business CRM
Today we announce the launch of PlaybookIQ, offering a unique combination of small business CRM, plus process best practices. Much more powerful than general-purpose contact managers and address books, PlaybookIQ is built from the ground up for sales teams. Simply stated: PlaybookIQ shows you what was last said to a contact and automatically schedules whatContinue reading “Product Launch: PlaybookIQ Small Business CRM”
New Feature: CRM Activity Report
As noted in previous posts, we built PlaybookIQ from the start to be an effective CRM tool for small- to mid-sized organizations to collaborate on their efforts, follow a consistent sales process, and gain insight into their results. When launched, PlaybookIQ offered the Pipeline Overview which shows you how many contacts are at each stepContinue reading “New Feature: CRM Activity Report”
New Feature: Permission Management
PlaybookIQ is built from the ground up as a small business CRM tool for sales team collaboration. To effectively collaborate, all users on your team can perform almost all functions. By default, everyone can create, edit, and delete contacts, tasks, comments, playbooks, and step definitions. Yet, for those times that you want to limit userContinue reading “New Feature: Permission Management”
New Feature: Complete Todos from Dashboard
Your PlaybookIQ Dashboard shows you all tasks and steps that are due today. Sometimes you have all the information necessary to complete the step just from the Dashboard. In these cases, you no longer need to open the contact to mark the step complete. Simply click the ‘completed’ link found on the dashboard and theContinue reading “New Feature: Complete Todos from Dashboard”
New Feature: Mass Task Assignment
PlaybookIQ has powerful search features, including searching for contacts by multiple tags (e.g. all contacts that are tagged both ‘VIP’ and ‘Prospect’). Search results are returned in a list of contacts, with a checkbox next to each one. From day one, you have been able to add tags and remove tags in mass by checkingContinue reading “New Feature: Mass Task Assignment”
Google App Engine
Interested in an excuse to learn Python, and always on the lookout for production environments that are both stable and flexible, and I took a look at Google App Engine. To try it out, I created a simple contact and task manager that is live at http://bizz.appspot.com. I love the speed at which changes areContinue reading “Google App Engine”
Love and Hate
Related to my previous post is this classic from Kathy Sierra, Be brave or go home. It’s worth a re-read now and then.
Another Reason I Love Apple
Two years ago I made the switch by buying a MacBook Pro for my primary development machine. Every day it seems I find another small reason to be glad to have switched. A trip to the Apple store Last week my laptop battery suddenly would not hold a charge for longer than 20 minutes. So,Continue reading “Another Reason I Love Apple”
New Feature: Mass Playbook Assignment
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