Written by Ken Quigley

May 31 2019

Get more free membership benefits with these new productivity tools from Keystroke On June 3rd, 2019, Keystroke will be introducing a new customer entitlement called "Subscription Plus". Subscription Plus will be offered to all customers that bundle our OrangeCare support plan with their Act! subscription, and will include a free year's...

Written by Ken Quigley

May 31 2019

Act! Growth Suite is proving to be an excellent value for our customers, and many are taking advantages of the discounts being offered for the rest of June (see HERE for promo details). However, regardless of the excellent savings to be had, customers should NOT assume that Act! Marketing Automation is an unfettered license to hunt.  Like with...

Written by Ken Quigley

May 24 2019

Time is money. There is nothing new about this truism, but the way we manage our time would not always suggest we accept this as fact. Too often chunks of productive time during the work week get frittered away as we try to coordinate meeting times with our customers & prospects. Literally every day I’ll have someone try to book a time with...

Written by Ken Quigley

May 16 2019

In late 2018 when Swiftpage introduced their new product licensing system (www.Soraco.co), the transition for most users went smoothly, with few noticing much difference between the old system (Protexis) and the new. There was one important difference, however, that we’d like to explain because it could end up costing customers money if their...

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 CONTRACTFirst...

Written by Ken Quigley

May 05 2019

New quoting features, proximity search, calendar importing, and HHC Restore are coming to a mobile device near you! Some exciting changes are being introduced with Handheld Contact this week, making the #1 Act! mobile experience more complete than ever before. Quoting/Invoicing: Ever finish a meeting with a prospect that ends with you saying...

Written by Ken Quigley

April 19 2019

We knew it was coming, but we didn't expect the changes to be this big or the combined savings to be this good. Starting today (May 1st), Swiftpage will announce the launch of Act! Growth Suite 2.0 as part of the Spring release of Act! 21.1, and usher in a new era for the Act! product line. Act! 21.1 is the latest major patch to Act! and includes...

Written by Ken Quigley

April 05 2019

Since Act! Marketing Automation was released last November, there has been a lot of discussion about the comparative benefits of the different tiers of AMA. So much so, that many prospective subscribers had trouble understanding where the benefits of one tier ended and the next began.   While Keystroke has put together a fairly exhaustive...

Written by Ken Quigley

April 01 2019

With the old protexis licensing system officially retired, and large price increases scheduled for May on many Act! products, April is the time for owners of obsolete versions of Act! to upgrade.  Last fall when the news of the imminent demise of protexis (the embedded 3rd party licensing system used by Act! since 2005) was first announced many...