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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.

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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.

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Vancouver, BC
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  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.

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Chandler, AZ
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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
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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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Replacing Snap Preview with Amazon Alexa

  
  
  
  
  
  

I really like the idea behind Snap Preview. I learned about it from Michael Arrington's Techcrunch - he uses it extensively to great effect on his blog. The value of a web page preview is there. I am definitely more like to click on a link if I can see a thumbnail of the page. I'm not sure how universal this feeling is, but it is absolutely true for me. BTW, I wonder why Google or Yahoo don't do this for their text ads, if it bumps click-through by a percent or two - hmmmm.....

Unfortunately, we've had to turn off Snap Preview. It was just too inconsistent for us. Every once in a while it would significantly delay the page loading. To be fair, we're changing links on the fly with Ajax and I'm not sure Snap is designed for that. We spent some time trying to decipher the Javascript but they've obfuscated it just enough where we could not tell where the problem is. In the end, since we could not fix things and decided we could not accept the occasional delay, we had to drop Snap Preview.

The good news is there is a  new alternative available. Amazon has released Alexa Site Thumbnail. We have tested it and it works quite nicely. It should be available within a week or so on Big Contacts. Two downsides. We have to pay $1 per 5,000 thumbnails (I think we can handle that!) and Amazon says there could be up to a 24-hour delay before a new site is thumbnailed (is that a word?). We will request the thumbnail as soon as someone saves a web site, so the delay may not be too noticeable. Hopefully, it does not actually take that long and/or Amazon speeds things up as the service matures.

Stay tuned ....

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