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I purchased your program last month. I have to take the time to write and let you know what an amazing job you have done in putting this program together.

Every day I laugh thinking... this is beautiful...why didn't I do this sooner! It has inspired me to work harder, do a better job of managing my clients, and in finding new business. I look forward to opening this program each day.

So a BIG THANK YOU TO BIGCONTACTS for a job well done!!! Please pass this along to all that have put their hard work into developing this program.

Michael S.
 
Los Angeles, CA
Insurance, Financial Planning
The support at BigContacts is far superior to any other web service I have used, including SalesForce.com. Not only are they friendly and professional, their response time has been amazing.

Ray T.
Vancouver, BC
Business Consultant

  Overall, Big Contacts is the best solution I have found in many years. You can use it at a basic level or enhanced to meet your needs. Beginning users need not fear - it will be surprisingly easy to use. Advanced users can feel comfortable that it can meet your comprehensive requirements. The value in this product is excellent.

Lisa M.
Chandler, AZ
Accounting-Business Consultant

Big Contacts has made us better. I have been a user of Big Contacts coming up on two years (July 2008). And though it took real effort for me to break-away from a stand alone version of ACT, I'm glad I've made the move to a web-based CRM...

Daniel M.
Salt Lake City, UT
Mortgage Broker

We love Big Contacts. Easy to use, economical and provides everything we need to schedule follow-ups and communicate with customers. Auto-pilot campaigns allow us to stay in touch with clients behind the scenes, and email templates provide me with a way to ensure my sales people are sending effective and professional communication in an incredibly time-efficient fashion. Before finding Big Contacts, we looked at virtually every contact management system we could find and had just about given up because we didn't like any of them. Our IT dept was going to have to build one in-house. Big Contacts is what we'd have built if we'd done it ourselves, only much better

Brian G.
San Diego, CA
Sports Coaching Services
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International Characters in Contact Management Software

  
  
  
  
  
  

When you launch a new product like this, you never know where the interest is going to come from. Some of the early blogs that picked us up were in countries like Spain, Germany and Italy. To date, about half of the people who have signed up for Big Contacts have come from outside of North America.

Thats great! Except we didn't plan on it. A number of our new users noticed our poor support for International Characters (or Unicode). If you don't know what I mean, I am referring to all of those accented characters you would see used often in Spanish or German or other languages that you do not see in English. Our backend is based on PHP, which is a wonderful language, but has very poor support for Unicode. It works mainly in another character set called UTF8. We have worked around this problem. I am sure most of you don't care about the technical details and just want it to work.

The good news is we now have good support for most International Characters. We also now better support cutting and pasting from Microsoft Word which was bringing in odd characters sometimes. Please let us know if you run across problems with this. Use the send Feedback and tell us about it.

And, we welcome our worldwide user base!

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