Written by Ken Quigley

December 23 2020

In 2016 Keystroke acquired Handheld Contact and immediately set out to improve its’ feature set. Opportunities were added to the basic contacts & calendars and then followed by mobile mapping, searches, quoting, favorites, contact pictures, and so much more.  This year we took it a step further and introduced a new technology called...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 19 2020

This blog is to remind everyone that the Act! emarketing (AEM) feature in the current version of Act! will be retired on December 31, 2020. After this date, the service will no longer function. We understand how important integrated email marketing and marketing automation are to the success of our customers, so we want to remind everyone about

Written by Ken Quigley

December 14 2020

With each holiday season we rejoice with family and friends, and despite the many challenges of the year gone by, we always find it in us to look ahead to the coming year with optimism.January, 2020 started off no different, but by early March we knew it was, in fact, quite different. Trips were cancelled, schools were closed, many businesses shut...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 02 2020

It’s not a new concept for online vendors to present “recommended items” when you add products to the shopping cart. It is however different to discount these recommended items when bundled together, but that’s precisely what we’ve done, effective today, with the Keystroke Marketplace. This is how it works. Each time you add an item to the cart...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 28 2020

Few business people invest in software without thought of the benefits to their business. These benefits, though, are often perceived to be limited to the bright shiney new features, more than improvements made under the hood, and that certainly seems to be the case with the Act! Web API. Introduced with Act! v18.2, the Act! Web API is...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 27 2020

In today’s business world, most everyone has a website. They have become so ubiquitous they’re actually conspicuous in their absence. Even work-at-home personal service professionals like real estate agents, mortgage brokers, and dog groomers all have personal websites to promote their services. In fact, by the end of 2018 only 4.46% of North...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 23 2020

Back in early 2019 when we originally brought Book2act to market, the first and only appointment setting program for Act! users, we did not envision that it would inspire an entire family of online products. As we approach the end of 2020, that is precisely what has happened as Book2act was renamed Book2calendar, and then Book2Events came in...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 29 2020

In June of 2015 Swiftpage entrusted Keystroke.ca to be the Act! Master VAR for Canada. This meant we were entrusted to grow the Act! market in this country, while further developing the Canadian reseller channel. A lot has changed in the past five years, as many Act! related products & services have come and gone, not the least of which has...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 28 2020

Are you a business professional that hosts group meetings with your customers? Perhaps you’re a financial planner, or insurance, mortgage, or real estate broker who organizes training events or networking sessions to help educate your contacts, build loyalty, and generate leads. If this sounds like you, then you know the frustration of trying to...

Written by Ken Quigley

October 28 2020

Regardless of which industry you’re in, 2020 has been a challenging year. The same can certainly be said for us at Handheld Contact, which saw us invest heavily in new syncing technology only to see the world suddenly become less mobile in March. Now that we’re seven months into this new world order, we’ve learned to adapt and to slowly improve...