Written by Colleen Reddington, Swiftpage

January 29 2020

Customer Relationship Management (or better known as CRM) software helps business owners track and engage with current customers, prospect new business leads, and drive overall sales growth. CRM software is also essential in facilitating better communication between team members, and providing real-time insight to the current state of sales...

Written by Mallory Bowers, Swiftpage

January 25 2020

In case you missed it, Swiftpage launched a new version of Act! Growth Suite in November, and last week they spruced it up with the release of a major update. To watch a Swiftpage video tour of the new features introduced with Act! v22, click the play button below.  Or click HERE to watch Keystroke's feature overview video. Act! Growth Suite...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 11 2019

Since Swiftpage first took over Act! in 2013,  many tiers of subscription customers have evolved – first under Business Care and then later under Act! Premium Subscription. The numerous iterations of these subscription customers included Business Care migrators, Loyalty, Early Adopters, as well as full-rate on-premise and cloud customers, with...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 01 2019

Last year when Swiftpage acquired Kuvana, the makers of Inbox Guru (later to be known as Act! Marketing Automation), they communicated to their customer base that marketing automation was integral to their future. For the uninitiated, Marketing Automation was defined by PC Mag as “the smarter and more powerful older sibling of email marketing...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 01 2019

As many Act! Pro customers may have noticed, Swiftpage has “de-emphasized” Act! Pro since early this year, removing it from www.act.com entirely in February. It’s no secret that their focus has been their Act! Premium subscription offerings and Marketing Automation, and as a result the next version of Act! Pro due out in mid-November, namely Act...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 01 2019

The 2019 edition of our Actoberfest Sale is possibly the biggest we've ever had based on the savings. This is partly due to the natural fanfare surrounding this annual promotion, and the fact that Swiftpage announced a number of end-of-life discounts that are tough to beat.  Here is the breakdown: Act! Pro v21 Sale:   A customer relationship...

Written by Ken Quigley

July 09 2019

Update 8 July 2019: The repackaged Update 3 has now been publicly released following an additional period of testing. This resolves the earlier issues reported where Act! add-on applications did not load correctly. This issue was partly caused by pending Windows updates on customer machines. As part of addressing the problem, the installer will...

Written by Ken Quigley

June 05 2019

From entry-level to full-featured CRM, Act! has a solution that's right for your business. Choose Act! Premium or Act! Premium Plus solutions for an on-premise deployment, or in the Cloud for instant online access to Act! in a modern, secure Cloud environment—no IT needed, no hardware required, just an affordable subscription. With Act...

Written by Ken Quigley

May 14 2019

The Spring launch of Act! Growth Suite ushered in many new exciting commercial bundlings to help customers grow their business with better value. However, it also introduced Act! 21.1, a new service pack to the version released in November of 2018, and it contains many exciting new features, upgrades, and compatibilities. The following is a quick...

Written by Ken Quigley

May 06 2019

At a recent internal sales meeting, I was asked to explain the details of selling Growth Suite to existing subscribers vs new ones, so I thought I would share that explanation in a blog so customers can understand it better from the buyer's perspective.   These are the scenarios to consider: PRORATED VS FULL TERM GROWTH SUITE CONTRACT First...