Written by Ken Quigley

April 19 2022

Act! v24 Update 4 adds impactful new functionality, pragmatic usability enhancements, and vital performance and security updates to the powerful 64 bit v24 platform released in Fall 2021 which alsosupports Windows® 11. Earlier this year Act! and the BPAC (Business Partner Advisory Council) convened to review the top priority feature...

Written by Ken Quigley

April 19 2022

This morning Act! LLC announced that a security vulnerability has recently been discovered with Act! Pro, Act! Premium and Act! Growth Suite software, which may make it possible for a threat actor to gain unauthorized access to your system. Please review the details on Act!’s web page notice for information on how it affects your version...

Written by Ken Quigley

March 09 2022

If you’ve been ready to make the plunge into greater CRM efficiency in 2022, there’s never been a better time to Act! than now. As part of Keystroke’s exclusive March Mobile Madness campaign, we’re offering FREE HANDHELD CONTACT SUBSCRIPTIONS ($84 value) to all customers purchasing new Act! Premium or Act! Pro v24 licenses for the rest of March...

Written by Ken Quigley

February 22 2022

For the month of March, all new and renewing Keystroke subscriber customers have something new to look forward to, and that is a 3-month trial of almost all our Linktivity products. During February and into early March we've been hosting weekly deep-dive webinars on each of the products in the Linktivity Suite, and now that Link2quotes is about to...

Written by Ken Quigley

February 17 2022

Keystroke is pleased to welcome Shannon Hawthorne, of Essentials Software, to the Keystroke Sales Team. Shannon is a long time Act! Certified Consultant based out of Atlanta, Georgia, having gotten certified in the same class as our support manager, Michael Kadlub, back in 1998. We got to know Shannon a few years ago when she joined our Keystroke...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 17 2022

Therese "Terry" Williams of TMW Consulting has provided small business support as an Act! Certified Consultant and a QuickBooks Certified Pro Advisor since 1998. Over the last couple of years, though, Terry started to focus her business more on consulting, and she came to the smart conclusion that success requires commitment, and she could...

Written by Ken Quigley

January 17 2022

Keystroke is pleased to announce the acquisition of the assets of Effective Business Solutions, LLC, of Colorado. Kathleen Vanden Broecke, the owner of EBS and long-time ACC, reached out to us recently to let us know she intended to retire, and discussions quickly evolved from there. Kathleen is a Gold Tier ACC, and she has supported her...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 21 2021

Yesterday we hosted the 2nd Annual Keystroke Virtual Christmas Party, and while it was fun, we certainly hope next year we can assemble together in person. From a staffing perspective, 2021 certainly was a year of change as we saw the departure of team members like Paul, Farah, Adrielle, Bhavin, and Lyleen, along with the return of Joe and the...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 15 2021

The Issue: On Dec. 9, 2021, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache log4j 2 was identified as being exploited in the wild. Log4j vulnerability, a bombshell zero-day exploit with global impact. Public proof of concept (PoC) code was released and subsequent investigation revealed that exploitation was incredibly easy to...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 13 2021

Keystroke has employed our industry-leading VIP and Orange Care support plans for over eight years now, and they have worked great to provide our loyal customers a balance of reliable break/fix support and professional project management service. Over the years we’ve even implemented online renewal services to make these plans less expensive and...