If you are a professional with an entrepreneurial spirit, or a self employed maverick and need a better way to manage your contacts other than Outlook, you could use one of these. SalesForce.com is the leader in Enterprise CRM solutions and they offer free accounts to individuals. All of the features available to Enterprises are not available, but all of the basics which is all you really need to manage information is available on demand.
The personal edition is customizable so you can add logos, special links and setup email templates for mass communication. The reporting functionality is great. so if you want to get a quick graph of opportunities you are working on, or need to check when the last time you had a conversation with I have been using one for a couple years now and it has been extremely helpful when on the road and I needed to call Steve Jobs and didn’t have all of his contact information handy.
Get this and the integrated Outlook toolbar and you can automate the syncing of the data so it is always current.
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