ACT! 3 for Windows for Dummies [Paperback]

Jeffrey J. Mayer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 18, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0764500279 | ISBN-13: 978-0764500275 | Edition: 1

This is a guide to ACT which is a management database that enables the salesperson to keep up-to-date records on all their customers.

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From the Back Cover

Enhance your productivity and organize your workday once and for all with ACT!® 3 For Windows® For Dummies®. With ACT!, the world's most popular contact manager, you no longer need a pencil, paper, calendar, day planner, Rolodex, or many other contact management tools that clutter your desk. Whether you're a novice or a seasoned user, Jeffrey Mayer helps you make the most of ACT! so that you can become more efficient and effective in no time!

ACT!3 works with Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT, so no matter which platform you work on, you can use this book to increase your productivity!

Inside, find helpful advice on how to:

• Schedule your calls, meetings, and to-dos with a click of your mouse
• Use ACT!'s contact database to keep track of all the important people in your life
• Send and receive your e-mail messages with ACT!
• Create an electronic database of contacts so that you can toss that old Rolodex and stack of business cards
• Produce custom reports, letters, envelopes, and labels
• Get rid of those sticky notes cluttering your desk by using ACT!'s notepad
• Keep ACT!'s alarm by your side to keep you on top of your meetings and appointments
• Use macros to automate ACT!

About the Author

Jeffrey Mayer is one of the country's foremost authorities on time management. For a living he helps busy people get organized, save time, and become more productive. Jeff's claim to fame is his clean desk approach to time management. USA Today dubbed him "Mr. Neat, the Clutterbuster," and People called him "The Dean of the Desk Cleaners."

He walks into an office, one that looks like a toxic waste dump -- with piles of paper, and everything else you can imagine, strewn all over the place -- and in two hours the desktop looks like the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. So much has been thrown away that the wastebasket is filled to the brim, overflowing, and spilling onto the floor. All that remains are a handful of file folders, a pad of paper, and a telephone. Everything else is neatly filed away.

Long ago, Jeff realized that if everybody was better organized, they could take more control over their day and would have more time to focus on their most important work. Once they were done, then they could leave the office, go home, and spend more time with their family and friends.

Today, Jeff is paid more than $1,000 for each desk he overhauls. But he's not paid all this money because his clients want to have a nice, neat, orderly desk. The desk is secondary -- he's paid all of this money because his clients realize that time is money. And Jeff is able to help them convert time that's wasted during the course of a normal business day into time that can be used more efficiently, effectively, and profitably. Jeff's specialty is in teaching people how to improve their follow-up systems. With a good follow-up system, people are able to spend more time working on the things that are important, instead of the things that keep them busy.

Since the founding of his Chicago, Illinois­based consulting firm, Mayer Enterprises, he has helped more than 1,500 men and women get organized and learn how to use their time more effectively. Many of his clients are top executives at Fortune 500 Companies. His corporate clients include Ameritech, Commonwealth Edison, Harris Bank and Trust Company, LaSalle National Bank, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, and Sears, Roebuck & Co., just to name a few.

Jeff has been interviewed by almost every major newspaper and magazine in the United States, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, People, Newsweek, Forbes, Business Week, and Fortune. And he has been interviewed on hundreds of radio and television programs across the United States, including the Today Show, American Journal, CNN, CNBC and ABC News. Jeff lives with his family in Chicago, Illinois.

Product Details

• Paperback: 359 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers); 1 edition (December 18, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764500279
• ISBN-13: 978-0764500275
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,930,074 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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