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GoldMine 6 for Dummies

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I don't know what others are talking about here ... If you have the slightest comfort level with computers, Goldmine 6 and this book ARE intuitive and very valuable. I will say that I looked at previous versions and found this not ot be the case though.

I figured I would order this book and download the 30 day trial before I made the full commitment to the program. After about 10 days of reading this book and working with the demo. I went ahead and purchased the full program. I haven't been disappointed!

I think the book is very well laid out, and tells you how the program works. As to the criticism that it doesn't tell you how make Goldmine useful for your purposes, there are some examples of what the writer does in his own company and other examples, but I would assume most people would already have an idea of what they are trying to do before they get to this point. The book does tell you how to do that if you already have an idea of where you want to go.

All that being said, if you are serious about using this tool to its fullest, and your livelyhood, find a knowledgeable reseller, and ask them to help you for a couple of hours filling in the fine points of what you are trying to do.

The steps are easy to follow and now using more features on GoldMine. Has help simplify my records.

I've been a fan of the "for Dummies" books for some time now. Although my exposure has only covered about a dozen titles, none of them disappoint.

GoldMine 6 is no exception. Perhaps some might think it dumb, I chose to purchase GoldMine 6 despite possessing GoldMine 5 by the same author...feeling confident that the information in "what's new in this release" would more than pay for the inevitable redundancy. It has, indeed.

Scott explains the use of GoldMine 6 in simple (not condescending) language, with a touch of humor and includes the all-important "bombs" alerting readers of potential loss of data or other pitfalls. He incorporates plenty of tips, sidebars and screenshots throughout the book. On occasion, I wish he would have gone into greater detail, but usually you can find enough direction in the software's online help to supplement the book's explanation.

An excellent buy.

Joanne F. Gucwa
President
Technology Management Associates, Inc.
Chicago

This book is a very good intro to GoldMine. At first, I was wondering "what is this program for?" and this book answered that early on -- it didn't assume that "you should already know", it just went ahead and told you in an easy to understand, practical way. It also provides an easy approach to familiarizing one with the program and shows you step-by-step how to use its various features. The only thing I found annoying were a few instances where it talks about things that it has not told you to open in the program (and it doesn't have screen shots of those either), but even in those situations, it was not hard to get back on track.

Buy Goldmine 7 for Dummies if available. This will cover most of what 7 offers if your on a budget. The Dummies version is often easier to understand than the help menu offered by Front Range themselves in the actual software.

Terrific, common-sense writing. As the Midwest's oldest public GoldMine training center, Publish or Perish, Inc. wouldn't be without it as a supplement for our professional training. If you want understandable how-to that's technically correct, and you're not a propeller-head, you really need this book!

I find GoldMine VERY counter-intuitive and difficult to use. I have used numerous other systems and have 20+ years in the computer industry.

This book covers the how to do many of the details of managing your data in goldmine.

Where if falls (very) short is that is doesn't really give you a road-map to use goldmine, no real best practices and how to at a high level.

There IS great info in this book, but by the time I broke down and bought it I had figured out 95% of what is covered. What I was hoping for was a theory of operation, something to make goldmine easier to manage.

All in all the book is better than the program!

Goldmine is very powerful and completely counter-intuitive. This book sheds light on the details of many of the areas of configureation and has lots of helpful information. It does fall short on best practice and usefull methods of using goldmine in a practical fashion.
I have found using goldmine to be a terrible and painful experience, simple things become impossibly complex (like data import) this book DOES address some of these topics.

I was thinking this was going to be better than the manual or the help files. I thought wrong. I was hoping to get some insight to the technical side of GM. This is not that. Typically good dummies book - my low-ish rating is more my frustration in finding a technical GM reference.

Used the product for years, and had nothing but database corruption and Goldsync synchronization problems. I like and use salesforce dot com. Goldmine is a company that has milked the database and not kept up with the times. Act! is also a stronger product. Goldmine's days are numbered, the database is still contact centric rather than account centric which makes it difficult to use in a business to business selling environment.