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Subject:Re: FWD: Contact management for consultants From:"Amy G. Peacock" <apeacock -at- WOLFENET -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 14 Jul 1998 15:19:56 -0700
> I am an employee considering becoming a technical writing
> contractor/consultant. I want to know what
> software people use for tracking contacts.
>
> Act?, Access?, Is Outlook taking over? Are custom solutions the way to go?
I don't know too much about Access or Outlook but I have used Act! -
They weren't my contacts but I did get to use it a bit. Seemed pretty
cool but had a few quirks (of course I can't really remember what they
were). You could generate mailing labels to do mass mailings
and such. If I remember right there were also reports you could
generate.
Amy Peacock
techwriter & jewelrymaker
Snohomish, Washington
apeacock -at- wolfenet -dot- com