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New: Dropbox System

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

It’s taken a while and a lot of testing but we released the new version of our dropbox system today. With the new system:

  • Email is parsed in realtime, no more waiting for email to appear
  • Each Organisation, Person (and most importantly) Opportunity, now have their own dropbox so you can attach email directly without having to login
  • You can now forward email automatically from your mail client to the dropbox to automatically keep email up to date

If you already use the built in email client in Tactile CRM, or use the mail links you don’t need to do anything different. However if you have your old dropbox address saved in your mail client you will need to update it to the new address. You can easily find it by logging in, clicking on the email tab and getting it there:

dropbox

The old dropbox system will carry on working until the end of November at which point it will be turned off.

We hope you find this new feature useful and easy to use. Do let us know if you have any thoughts, comments or feedback.

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New: Updated View Pages

Monday, October 26th, 2009

If you log into Tactile CRM today, you’ll notice that we’ve made some changes to the way you view organisations, people, opportunities and activities.

As the first stage in making the view pages more useful we’ve added the ability to show/hide the information relating to the item and the ‘Recent Activity & Notes’ – so if you are more interested in notes/emails etc., you can hide the items details, or vice versa.

New Item View

This new view applies to organisations, people, opportunities and activities.

We’ve also moved the permissions/created/last updated information in to the main area to remove some of the clutter from the right hand side and added this information to opportunities and activities (it was not displayed before).

We hope you find this update useful and it makes using Tactile CRM even easier. Keep an eye out for more updates coming soon, and as always do please let us have any feedback.

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How to capture web leads directly into Tactile CRM

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Tactile CRM has a built in tool for you to easily add a web form to your website so you can capture leads and customer data directly into Tactile CRM. Check out the 30 second video below on how to set it up, or scroll down to see more information:

Setting Up A Web Form

Setting up a web form in Tactile CRM is easy. Login as an admin user, visit the admin section and chose the ‘Configure Tactile CRM Web Form’.

You’ll need to choose which values you want to capture and make sure you tick the ‘Enable Web Form’ box to turn this feature on.

Web Form Setup

Click save and copy the code Tactile CRM gives you into your website and start collecting leads from your website. Check out our website to see a web form in action

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Case Study: Writing It Right for You

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Your Name: Pamela Hilliard Owens
Your Company name: Writing It Right for You
How many people do you employ?: 1 employee (me) and several full-time and part-time contractors

About My Company

Writing It Right for You, knows that “It Matters How You Say It”! I work with individuals, university students, and businesses throughout the United States, Canada, the Middle East, India, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom on a variety of writing and editing projects of all sizes.

How long have you been using Tactile CRM?

After trying about just about every CRM out there, I have been consistently using Tactile CRM for about eight months.

How has Tactile CRM helped you manage your business and time?:

Tactile CRM is extremely helpful for me to keep up with the proposals and projects of myself and my team. I just input the information once, and the application keeps up with everything: emails, proposals won, lost, or cancelled, activities to be completed for the sales process, and my sales pipeline and sales history.

What specific problems has Tactile CRM solved for you?

I now have one place to keep all of the emails and documents for a particular client–and keeps them separated for each contractor. I can see graphs and run reports for myself, the whole company, or each contractor. I can click on a prospect or client and see their entire history, including our email conversations and their Freshbooks invoices. I can also keep track of activities and events on my Outlook and Google Calendars, which of course show up on my Blackberry and iPhone. I can immediately see what’s going on for everyone quickly and easily in one place. I don’t have to switch back and forth between programs and I can “fire up” TactileCRM from any computer or mobile platform. Plus, since Tactile CRM is “in the cloud”, my assistant can log on from her office and my contractors can log on from wherever they are (and they are everywhere!) and everything stays current.

If you were recommending Tactile CRM for friends in business what would you say?

With Tactile CRM, you will have a robust, cutting-edge CRM application that will serve your small business well. No bloat, continuous upgrades and improvements, Freshbooks integration, and super-fast and fantastic customer service. You also get Jake…which makes the very affordable subscription price worth it!

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New Help Pages

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

We’ve been really busy with lots of new features for Tactile CRM recently but the current help system has been a bit lacking to tell people how to use them.

Today we’re really pleased to announce the new help system for Tactile CRM located at http://help.tactilecrm.com. We’ll be adding to it over the coming months and would love to hear your thoughts and feedback on what is currently there and what we can expand on.

The new help site has built in search, the ability to rate help articles and allows for you to add comments to articles too.

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How do I subscribe to my activities in Google Calendar/GCal?

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Tactile CRM provides an iCal feed you can subscribe to in your favourite calendar application. These instructions show how to easily add your events to Google Calendar where they will be automatically kept up to date:

  1. Sign into Tactile CRM, visit your preferences, and under ‘External Access’ copy your ‘Calendar URL’, if you don’t already have one you can click the button to automatically generate it
    Find your iCal Feed
  2. In your Google Calendar simply click the add button (on the left hand side, under ‘Other Calendars’) and then the ‘Add by URL’ link
    Add a calendar to GCal
  3. In the pop up window, paste the calendar URL from (1), click ‘Add Calendar’ and you events will be pulled through to Google Calendar and kept up to date.
    Subscribe to your iCal Feed

Google Calendar does not currently deal with ‘ToDo Items’ so only events that are added in Tactile CRM will appear in Google Calendar

Google Calendar will periodically update with the latest changes from Tactile CRM, and events other people assign to you will also show up in your iCal feed/Google Calendar.

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