Written by Ken Quigley

January 16 2023

People's journey to CRM are always different, and their journey to Act! are often more so. Sometimes people use a method until they outgrow it, others simple use the products they're introduced to along the way. However, people arrive to Act! CRM, the inventor of CRM, we at Keystroke want to make that final migration process as painless as...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 15 2023

On January 19th Keystroke will be releasing some big updates to Link2events, our online event management service for Act! users first released in early 2020. Link2events was the second product in our Linktivity Suite, and the last to get a major overhaul.   What is Link2events? For those unfamiliar with Link2events, it is an online...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 12 2023

About five years ago we released the first version of Act4outlook in response to Microsoft breaking the native Outlook integration with Act!. The truth is they broke Outlook integration with a lot of products, but with Act! this change was causing Act! to crash after users updated their Office. As you might guess, Act4outlook was immensely popular...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 10 2023

The fact that Keystroke is the #1 Act! reseller in the world is not the reason to choose us as your reseller. Over the years we've invested to provide many exclusive advantages to our customers from customer portal, annual free software gifts, cutting edge add-on applications, and many more. It's no wonder that one third of the Act! Consultants in...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 09 2023

Many of the products we develop at Keystroke often satisfy an internal need. The thinking is if we find something useful, odds are other people will too. Well, this was very much the inspiration behind our newest product, QuickMeets, the all-in-one Meeting Management system that integrates with Act!. As the business owner, I would typically have...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 09 2023

When we acquired Qsales in May of 2021, we did not plan to change the version sequence of the product. The Qsales version was 12.x at the time, and we stuck with that through the release of the API version (v13), and then with Classic (v14). The problem we hadn’t anticipated at the time was that our licensing system would require us to release...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 05 2023

Keystroke is excited to share that Act! was just named one of the Top 10 Best Online CRM Software for Small Businesses by SoftwareWorld. This list includes the biggest names in the industry, and we're proud to not only be recognized, but have one of our customers providing a testimonial in the listing. Read more HERE. Top 10 Best Online CRM...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 01 2023

It's been a while since I looked at a New Year with such optimism. My family is healthy, my business continues to grow, and we have a number of exciting personal and professional initiatives planned for the year ahead. My wife likes to tease me for my "insufferable optimism", but the truth is I have always had faith that things will work out, and...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 01 2023

When we first started developing the Linktivity applications, the objective was to help support Act! users in their marketing efforts. The evolution of Link2calendar, Link2events, Link2forms, Link2list, and finally Link2quotes , combined with Act! and Marketing Automation, shaped into a powerhouse suite of lead generation, capture, and conversion...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 01 2023

It's been just over a year, 13 months to be exact, since Keystroke acquired all the addon products from ASDS Computer, and we couldn't be happier with these additions to our portfolio. Funny enough, updating all of them for Act! v24 was easy for us since the original developer, Duane Anderson (our December Employee of the month) has worked for us...