BigContacts is a great tool for keeping track of all of your contacts and leads. You have all the information you need at your finger tips. This tool has definitely given me a competitive advantage.

I strongly recommend Big Contacts for the entrepreneur, sales person, business owner or job seeker.

John B.
Toronto, Canada
Web Services

I started with BigContacts a couple of years ago.  Having been a heavy user of Act and Goldmine over 12 years, I was doubtful I’d find a web based contact manage with a good feature set that would come close – at a price I could afford. So I figured – I’d compromise.  It was clear web based made sense, even with fewer features.  We have people from multiple locations (office, home, a second office, part time person outside of office,  Iphone).   I have no IT people and don’t want to manage a server.  I wanted a system that didn’t require more than a few minutes to train staff (including part timers.)  It had to be a really intuitive user interface -- but not give up functionality.  It was critical that it captured email from clients or prospects.  I also wanted in the future to post web inquiries from the website directly into contacts.   I wanted simple backup options and not to be locked into a proprietary format (just in case).

I did a detailed extensive search. I compared and tried at least 6 web based systems, including Salesforce and others much more well known, as well as some of “up and coming” smaller web based companies.

When I tried BigContacts, I was impressed with its intuitive interface.  Having just trialed Salesforce, BigContacts was much simpler and more intuitive. I tried it on 2 staff, they picked it up in just a few minutes.  That was huge.  But then, I dug into all the other criteria, and they met them.  It was easy to set up capturing all emails – and without any extra cost. They allow you to capture leads from the web (we have just implemented that, 2 years later – works great).  No additional cost.  There basic search is great.  Nicely customized reporting, or dump any report to Excel.  It’s easy to send emails and track the history.   Unlimited tracking of attachments.  We are now using their task manager to assign follow-ups (along with other tools they offer).  

The real extra pluses – where the rubber hits the road, is 1) uptime has been terrific.  2) speed has been consistently terrific.  A year and a half ago we started to hit some spots where inquiries were a bit slow (maybe a week or two).  It was hard to know if it was a combo of them or local.  But nonetheless, they helped resolve it and we’ve never seen a problem since. Consistent speed of inquiry at any time of day is not easy.  I’m not sure how they do it but they do, even as they’ve grown.

Tech support has been terrific.  I’m really impressed – I send lots of questions, ask for lots of little enhancements.  They’ve been very responsive. Always   They’ve continually added new features, again at no charge.   When I signed on early on 2 years ago, I knew BigContacts would need to evolve for me to be completely happy. It has.  I waited 2 years to send in my full approval – but the last few months of feature enhancements you’ve added have really brought BigContacts into a pretty robust business system for any business who communicates with clients, prospects and other resources.   Thanks for all your efforts BigContacts.  This is a great employee friendly system that requires minimal training and no support.  And it has allowed me to quickly add staff more productively – which was my goal when we got it.  And to better communicate with our client base. 

And I no longer think I’ve compromised.  The robust features are there. 

Michael C.

Jupiter, Florida

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.

So a BIG THANK YOU TO BIGCONTACTS for a job well done!!!  Please pass this along to all that have put their hard work into developing this program.

Michael S.
Los Angeles, CA
Insurance, Financial Planning

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I run a small online business in the UK and was looking to move from an Outlook-based CRM to a web-based one. After researching and shortlisting I decided to choose Big Contacts. I'm pleased I did.

Big Contacts is an extremely intuitive system. It allowed me to migrate our 2000 contacts and the statuses that we had assigned them, plus Tasks, easily and logically. Because our previous system had been restricted to an office-network, the immediate benefit was that our team (which is spread across the UK) could all use the same application, and at any time.

For ease of use Big Contacts is great. Finding a contact is very fast and logical. But what I really like is the detail. For instance, it automatically stores emails I send (using Outlook) against the contact's record. Even better, when the contact replies to me, their reply email is stored against their record. Running reports has never been easier. Plus, the iPhone app is brilliant!

I understand new modifications are always being built and considered - which is really reassuring: I like knowing that a good product is under continual improvement.

Irrespective of the fact that it is offered at a much more realistic price than some of the competition, this is a great product.

Matt F.
Recruiter - Nursing

Tony S.

Act Killer! Big Contacts, at first glance, is a true Act database online. It comes with a free service level and then tiered levels offering up to 25,000 contacts. Looks like you can customize a sales pipeline as well, add products that are used to organize that pipeline, change contact "types" (i.e., Friend, Family, Prospect, Client, etc.), and add custom fields, among other things. What I personally love about Big Contacts, is that they're best served on a platter to small teams and individuals. The most important features are there and tweaks and subtle improvements are often made, but the core idea is to offer a simple, streamlined alternative.

BNET

Had it with Outlook? Big Contacts lets you manage your contacts, appointments, and more, all from within your Web browser. Just import one or more address books (the service supports everything from Outlook to Gmail to Palm Desktop) and you can log calls, schedule meetings, send e-mail, and even manage sales opportunities. Big Contacts also offers group calendars, reporting, Skype integration, mobile access, and SSL security. I particularly like the one-click access to Google Maps for any contact's address. In short, it's a thoroughly impressive service, though not without a few quirks (like the inconvenient pop-up contact browser, which should be baked in and omnipresent). Big Contacts offers plans starting at $12 per month, but you can get a free account that supports two users, 500 contacts, and 500MB of storage.

Farmington, MI

I have been a Big Contact online user for about a year and find it a wonderful program. I was a long time Act user and I really like Big Contacts compared to Act. The pricing is also very attractive.

When the application came up for the IPhone it was a no brainer and downloaded it immediately! Now I have all my contacts for my business in one place. I still use the Iphone contacts but that is for all my family and friends. Now I have two great databases.

Highly recommend the application!

Robert P.
Manufacturing - Foam Products

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Duct Tape Marketing

Within weeks of loading our data into Highrise, we got the Introductory offer from Big Contacts by email and thought, could this finally be what we've been waiting for? Sort of a Salesforce or Netsuite or RightNow technologies customer identification, interaction and customization tool, sized for our business (not chopped down) and priced for our business-- not $5,000 to $10,000 for every person in our company. Could this be real and not a fantasy or special effects presentation.... So Far... rather impressive. Bordering on brilliant and our strong favorite -- APO (the Art of the Painfully Obvious). And, yes, it looks like we are not the only ones asking about the highrise comparisons. There's a blog out today that addresses that exact issue. (http://blog.bigcontacts.com/bigcontacts/2007/05/big_contacts_co.html) Big Contacts has extensive reporting capability and integration with excel. That means we have to the often-used path between our daily updates with customer data and mail merge. We need this -- like air and water, to stick with the one thing all customers expect today-- individually addressed and customized information, just for them.

Blue Springs, MO

This online database for my contacts allows me to store all my contacts in one place. It's easy to use, the contacts are easy to find and to organize (tags). It's an investment well worth it. Smart business people use smart resources.

Frank J.
Real Estate Broker

Venture Chronicles

For BigContacts the SFA opportunity for low SMB is ripe for picking because the dominant products for sales professionals at this level are long in the tooth and backed by companies not known for pushing any envelope when it comes to extending them in innovative ways. I immediately saw a great opportunity to build some components that pulled data from and feed into BigContacts. This is where the "context" part of everything comes together because while BigContacts could build to the obvious opportunities such as a solution for real estate professionals, what about the less obvious ones like home inspectors who are also in the real estate vertical but need a unique solution...

Legal Andrew

Big Contacts is the most robust, powerful, but simple contact manager I've ever used. It can track everything you ever wanted to know about a contact, email them, send a letter, and dance the jitterbug. OK, I haven't found a jitterbug function, but it wouldn't surprise me. The free version of BigContacts allows up to 500 contact entries. You can get up to 1,000 for $11.95 per month. And you can get even more space for a bit more per month. With web & mobile access, what's not to love?!

Simple Spark

I have been in sales-sales management for nearly twenty years and have constantly been in search of an application would help me effectively juggle a large number of clients and prospects, track my teams sale pipeline, and ensure that my clients received the service they needed. This system helps me to do all that! On top of being a great web-based application, I am able to access information real-time from my Blackberry too! Great job guys. You got this one right!

Technically Speaking

Big Contacts looks to be another in the line of online AJAX contact organizers. There is a fully populated demo you can play around in. I think that is a very nice touch,1bigcontacts.jpg and a good way to sell a new product. Unlike some other sites I have talked about, you can actually see what you are possibly going to pay for in the future. In other words, nice preview for the folks that will pay for your service. Nice job guys. The launch date says January 2007, so you have about 30 more days to drop the bomb on the world.

LifeHacker

We've seen online calendars and to-do lists aplenty, but not many contact managers. BigContacts lets you manage your contacts, appointments, tasks and more, all from within an attractive, Ajax-driven web interface. BigContacts looks like it could be big indeed, as it offers a large selection of tools for individuals, teams and business users alike.

606 Tech

BigContacts, still in public beta launch, is an internet rolodex of sorts, storing and organizing data in a comprehensive manner and integrating useful wiki tools for easy conglomeration of data from multiple users. The way in which tasks, events, meetings and other bits of information are formulated around a single contact is a sensible way in which to arrange the things we find important for each person in our address book.

alarm:clock

The a:c has been looking high and low for a Salesforce.com type of system, but being cheap we didn't want to pay for Salesforce. So far we are thrilled to have the freely accessible BigContacts, which just launched in December.
BigContacts is awesome for small teams. It has group calendars, shared contacts, tasks, notes, history.

Web Work Daily

BigContacts was a pleasant surprise. You can import your existing contacts in a .csv file. As a test, I exported some contacts from Outlook 2003 which should have meant a nasty import experience. BigContacts handled it well. As you click boxes to map fields, the already-selected fields are grayed out. Made the process much easier. There's "sounds like" intelligence when you search for contacts, so a search for "Jayne Doe" will find "Jane Doe." The Ajax contact browser makes filtering contacts easy to select items such as "all contacts with last names that begin with 'B' who work for the 'Crane Company'." Once you have the contact record up, the interface to oversee your history of interaction with that person is clear and well laid out, if not 100% polished yet.

Access O Web 2.0

BigContacts proposes the management of contact multi users. Here how that is presented. When I speak about multi users, I want well on saying that several users can connect themselves to the same data base.

But BigContacts also proposes: * a collective calendar, * upload of files and photographs, * TagCloud of the contacts, * Follow-up via RSS, * integration of Skype, * Importation of contact since an Excel file, * The access to the site via a mobile

BigContacts is declined in several formulas including 1 free. By taking the free option, you will have: * access to 3 users, * 500 Mb of storage, * access only by the Web.

Just a small precision, one can read on the site that during BETA, all the editions of BigContacts are free. It is the moment to test

GenBeta

Big Contacts is a tool that allow us to manage our contacts and go oriented small user groups, small company, local associations, etc... This tool has several plans of accounts, being gratuitous those that to us 500 MB of space offer and up to 3 managers, who can get to be administrators, offering to us a series of options that allow to manually add the contacts us or to concern them from a file csv which we have exported from a leaf excel or from a client of mail. Thus, we will by hand have the contacts in which we can assign to an administrator, where we can manage them by types of contacts. In addition it offers a calendar to us where we will be pointing the encounter, it allows to add notes us by users, to send cards (paying to them), to send an electronic mail to them little and more in which one talks about contact, aside from having his own finder and advanced finder as well as a cloud by type of contacts. The 500 MB of storage will serve us to keep images and archives, we can assign tasks pending to each manager as well as of adding pending things to make, to see the activity of the group and to send information. Soon we have, within our account, a series of concepts where we can change some fields, like the types of contacts, and to add invoicing data and even to accede to the file.

Giovy's Blog

Yesterday "I played" with mine account on LinkedIn, and me they are shrewd that they have arrived to the "considerable one" (for me, since it use in active way) does not number of 33 logons. In the same way I have inasmuch as there are persons, instead, than of the professional contacts they make their job (a.tito it of example, Luca Conti has something like 279 logons). Ok, all it will not even be useful, but it is unquestionable that, for some persons, a management of the contacts is fundamental. There are various software in order to make it in best of the ways (the first one that come to me in mind are Microsoft Outlook, species with the module Business Contact Manager), but... there are also of the services online? ...

BigContacts is one contact manager, entire realized in AJAX, with many typical additional feature of solutions of collaboration, able satisfying also the professional more demanding (or anyone wants to manage in tidy way the own contacts).

In the first place, the contacts: BigContact allows a granular management of the same ones, with a intuitive and fast interface, thanks to the extensive use of AJAX. E' possible to add them, to modify them, to filter them in base to various parameters through the Contact Browser and to try them through the appropriate function or a advanced search much powerful one. The contacts can be subdivided in groups, and to every contact it is possible to associate of notes, to add of the rows or of the photos, to plan encounter and every activity and other action that could be useful in working or personal within

"unknown" feature is the visualization of the contacts like "tag cloud", where the contacts with more activity come evidence to you from a greater character. Moreover, all the numbers of telephone of the contacts are "Skype-ready", and cliccandoci on it is possible to make to directly leave one called Skype-Out towards that number. E' possible moreover to import the own contacts from other applications, through rows CSV. BigContacts includes also a calendar, where the own activities will be able to be managed; various visualizations are available and also wide use of AJAX is made, is here for the modernization that for the insertion of new voices

the pu calendar moreover to be shared between a group of customers (function much profit in collaborative within). If all this were not sufficient, the management of the task (that it lacks, as an example, to the blasonato Google Calendar) is an other of the feature offered to the customers of BigContacts; moreover, to every activity a sight contact can be assigned, so as to to have always just "the reference". All these "feature" are enriched from a history, from a module for the management of the expirations, of the appointments and of i files.

Are available, moreover, feed RSS for all the activities and the programmed appointments. For the customers you furnish is available moreover a version optimized for I use it with cellular, smartphone and pda, that it allows the same functionalist of "the greater" version. You can approach to a demo of the service (with 900 contacts precarica you, notes, appointments and so on) cliccando here. We come to the "famous one hurting": the price. BigContacts costs... NOTHING!!! Or better: a version FREE is available, with of the "limitations" (so to speak, why they are more than sufficient for an intense use); the maximum number of customers for every account is 3, with 500 contacts totals, 500 support and MB storage for the rows only via web. The editions to payment expand the number of customers for account until 10, the number of the contacts until 25.000 and 10 GB of space storage, with support of first level; obviously the price is remarkably greater (is arrived to 59.59$ to the month), but solutions of the sort are destined to team of professionals. But... until 30 March 2007 ALL the editions are free. If you have the necessity to manage your contacts (and those of your work group) from any emplacement in the world, or from any mobile device... beh, dates a glance to BigContacts.

Beth Q.
Lecture Agency