What's New in Sage ACT! 2013 ACT! is 25 years old.  That's 25 years of serving the Contact and Customer Management needs for small businesses and sales teams.  The new version has fixed several outstanding minor bugs and issues, but to us the most important feature is the ability to run Smart Tasks on a schedule, offline, on a server.  This is HUGE. It means you can now automate a variety of functions and put staff doing more productive things like selling your product.  

Last week, I had a great lunch with a friend here in town who owns a marketing firm that has a particular emphasis on social media.  One of the things we discussed is the changing face of marketing.   What is also changing is the role of sales and salespeople. That gave me the idea for the article today. I’m going to start it off with this chicken and egg question – which came first – marketing or sales.  Talk to a Salesperson and they will tell you it was them