Written by Ken Quigley

December 23 2018

With support demands increasing during the recent protexis licensing transition, Keystroke has decided to add a familiar face to our support team - namely Mike Lazarus. Mike is known as "the ACT Evangelist" in the Act! Community, and is one of the most famous Act! Consultants in the world - and one of the busiest too, with 14,000 posts on the...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 20 2018

In a move that we've been pushing for since subscription was first introduced in May 2015, Swiftpage has announced a major change to it's subscription policy with reference to perpetual Act! licenses. For context, Act! is one of the last CRM products to offer perpetual licensing sales, and this has traditionally confused customers as to what their...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 18 2018

Membership should have some privileges. This was our thinking when we developed our "account" based pricing for some of our select addons.Frequently when we're speaking with customers about buying Act! Premium Plus, it's normally with a focus towards selling "solutions". For financial planners this involves Act4wealth, for mortgage brokers it's...

Written by Ken Quigley

December 13 2018

Swiftpage, which is backed by SFW Capital Partners, has acquired Kuvana Inc, a provider of email marketing and marketing automation solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. No financial terms were disclosed. PRESS RELEASE DENVER, Dec. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Swiftpage, the provider of Act! CRM software, a leading cloud-enabled platform...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 06 2018

Attention Act! Customer: We have recently been informed that an embedded third-party software component of Act! that facilitates licensing services is being discontinued by the manufacturer at the end of this year. If you are using a supported version of Act! (namely Act! v19, v20 and v21), a new licensing component will be introduced for your...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 06 2018

 Attention users of Act! v17 or older If you are using an unsupported version of Act! (v17 or older), you are reminded that in accordance with the Act! Support Obsolescence Policy, you are no longer eligible to receive critical updates and enhancements that ensure your product continues to run optimally. Important notice: We have recently been...

Written by Ken Quigley

November 06 2018

From now through to the end of the year, Swiftpage and Keystroke are offering our biggest discount ever on Act! Subscription membership. That's right, all past Act! customers are now eligible to receive 33% discount (see the chart below) off their first year of Act! subscription - which is like getting twelve months for the cost of eight.  

Written by Ken Quigley

October 31 2018

Keystroke is delighted to announce that Tamara Phillips of New Ideas Consulting has joined the Keystroke Partner Program. Tamara has been in the Act! Community since 1997 and has over 35 years of technology experience. She strives to help businesses improve their business operations and expand their sales and marketing efforts. Her background...

Written by Ken Quigley

August 01 2018

All past Act! customers through the month of August are now eligible to upgrade to one of our Act! Premium or Act! Premium Plus memberships (cloud or self-hosted) at heavily discounted pricing. It’s our way of saying thank you for being a customer and choosing Act!. If you’re team is growing, on the move, or if you're interested in getting more...

Written by Ken Quigley

July 29 2018

Keystroke is pleased to announce the addition of Duane Anderson to the Keystroke development team. Duane is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, and has been working with Act! for 25 years and is the original creator of the Act! diagnostic tools, the database repair tools and a host of other custom apps. These tools were developed during his...