GoldMine for Dummies |
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| Title: | GoldMine for Dummies |
| Author: | Joel Scott |
| Publisher: | For Dummies |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 07 March, 2000 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0764506080 / 9780764506086 |
| List Price: | $21.99 |
| You Save: | $4.84 |
| Amazon Price: | $17.15 |
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Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
GoldMine For Dummies enables you to use GoldMine to manage client relationships and excel in areas of sales, marketing, and customer service like never before. Written in plain English, this book helps you discover the easy way to prospect for customers and mine your contacts:- Familiarize yourself with GoldMine basics, from navigating the database to setting preferences and default values.
- Organize contacts by understanding screen functions, fields, and notes as well as contact, detail, and referral tabs.
- Get a grip on upcoming events by scheduling activities, and check on those already scheduled.
- Understand GoldMine Filters and Groups, which enable you to send out batches of letters, faxes, and e-mails.
- Use the InfoCenter to store and distribute company information.
- Configure GoldMine for those who travel or for those who manage people who don't work in the main office.
Amazon.com Review
It's a common scenario: your company decides to standardize on a software application that's totally alien to you. In this case, you find yourself using GoldMine to manage contact information, but you have no idea of how to use the program, let alone take advantage of its advanced workgroup features. If this is your situation, GoldMine for Dummies will get you up to speed. The author gives equal time to basic functions, such as creating and viewing client records, and more advance features, such as working with statistical analysis and synchronizing data. The shift from the more mundane tasks to the increasingly difficult ones is a bit abrupt, but Scott is adept at explaining even the most difficult concepts. The best sections explain how to work with e-mails, faxes, and linked documents--the features GoldMine users will most take advantage of. As far as contact managers are concerned, GoldMine is one of the more intuitive programs available for novices. But if you find yourself blanching at its more advanced features, or if you need to get up to speed on the basics, GoldMine for Dummies will ease the transition. --John Frederick Moore
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• Mining Gold From Goldmine With A Tin Pan?
22 April, 2004
Goldmine is arguably one of the most powerful contact management software database packages available, competing with ACT! and even Outlook for the important task of keeping sales contacts and activities and distributing information about them to others in your organization. Goldmine is notoriously difficult because of the very power and complexity. Will this "DUMMIES" book help you master it?The problem with this book is that it gives some outlined use instructions for Goldmine but in NO WAY replaces a structured training course. If you have some experience with database management, you can pick your way through Goldmine, learning experientially, and this book is better than randomly poking at the keys. The very best part is Part III: Managing Activities. This goes over scheduling, viewing, completing, forecasting and filtering activities. The other chapters are similar--outlines of typical activities like distributing information to your organization, entering contact info, etc. But this is not an exhaustive tutorial book, more like a series of schematics on how to get things done in Goldmine. If you need more depth, or are starting from ground zero, this helps you avoid some landmines in Goldmine, but won't get you completely to the expert status. In summary, helpful, quick to read, not the complete story.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Goldmine "help" Just As Helpful.
13 December, 2006
I found this book to be a basic re-write of the Help section already included with the software. Yes, this book explains concepts and the underlying reasons for having to complete a task a certain way, but really did not go into the detail I was hoping/expecting to find in a book about Goldmine. Its unfortunate Goldmine relies so heavily upon their consultants for disseminating information about the product. It is a great piece of software for the money, unfortunately most small business owners don't have the time or knowledge to figure out how to use all of the great features.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Goldmine - Not For Single Users
04 March, 2002
If you have an inclination to buy this book, look at ACT! or MS Outlook instead of Goldmine. These books are written by Goldmine Certified Consultants. Do you really believe they are going to give their secrets away...when they charge thousands a day?You will find the only real solution to any problem beyond the GoldMine Unknowledgeable Base (which I believe they purposely do not update) or their Customer ...Department is as basic as it gets. FrontRange (owner of Goldmine) constantly refers you to Goldmine Certified Consultants. It is obvious that FrontRange is leaving individuals and small business owners...
- Amazon Customer Review
• Excellent Beginner Book (and More) On Goldmine
23 March, 2002
After installing Goldmine 5 I bought this book when it first became available. I was not new to CRM software but found this book very useful. If you are new to Goldmine you will not be disappointed with this book. It can teach you a lot,even beyond the essential basics of this software. Read the book with your software running and apply what you just learned. After this foundation you should have little or no problem making the software do what you want. However, if you objective is to customize the software for your business, get a professional.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Perfect!
28 September, 2009
Awesome book, especially if you have no experience with Goldmine. Came fast and in perfect condition.
- Amazon Customer Review
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