Quick Question: What is or was the most difficult part of starting and growing your small business? We’d venture the guess that, more often than not, the answer to that question is “getting the money.” You don’t have to watch Shark Tank to realize just how difficult it can be to get investors for a great idea, especially...
As you already know, BigContacts offers a unique Contact Dashboard that allows you to easily capture and store all communications with your customers and prospects, including notes, calls, meetings, tasks, files, photos, sales opportunities PLUS all email communication — all from one screen/view! We now have three new features that we think will...
In the digital market, there are many vendors vying for the same customers. As web offerings increase, but the potential customer base essentially stagnates, or at best, grows more slowly than the products and services offered, it will become increasingly difficult to find new prospects. To stand out from the crowd, your business has to do more...
Often, the biggest difference between small and large companies can boil down to a few indicators: budget, manpower, and organization. The first and second are based on revenue; a business with 5 employees won’t ever make as much profit as one with 2,000, and it’s budget – marketing or otherwise – along with its ability to...
As a small business owner or manager, you only have limited funds available to market your products. And too often, small businesses like yours choose to invest in more immediate promotional opportunities, thinking that they are better served to get the word out about a current promotion or new product than spending it on something less tangible,...
For years, we’ve offered our customers the ability to connect their existing webforms to their BigContacts account. While our webform connector allows for a great deal of customization, it requires that you know someone with a basic knowledge of HTML. They insert some HTML code into your web form and use a special web form URL and key to...
For as long as there have been businesses and customers, there have been strategies aimed at keeping clients happy and loyal to a certain product or service. But as business processes have evolved and technology has begun to play a major role in how businesses interact with their clients, customer relationship management (CRM) has become a more...
For the past several months, we’ve been working closely with a company by the name of PieSync. PieSync offers a seamless two-synchronization platform that will enable synchronization between BigContacts and dozens of other popular web applications. You will always have the most current data at your fingertips – no matter what program you...
BigContacts is built on and continues to evolve based on the great insights and feedback of our customers. One of the things that we work very hard to do as we continue to enhance our platform is to ensure that we maintain a very clean and intuitive user experience. Having said that, we are always very careful about what we choose to add to...