Create distribution lists from BCM catagories

[Guest]

Please tell me that I don't have to type everyone into a distribution list.
There should be a way to generate an email distribution list from the BCM
catagories.
Thanks in advance!

 

[Leonid S. Knyshov]

Please tell me that I don't have to type everyone into a distribution
list.
There should be a way to generate an email distribution list from the BCM
catagories.
Thanks in advance!

There should be a way, but it doesn't exist out of the box.

You can use mail merge for this. You'll probably have fewer issues with that
method anyway.
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[Guest]

Thanks for your response. I thought that maybe I was missing something. Using
the power of organizing your contacts to send communication seems so basic
and email is so prevalent. I thought that perhaps BCM was more powerful. I'll
have to look into the mail merge feature.

{I just keep thinking back to the days of DOS and a program I used called
Brokers Ally that did everything I wanted with a simple monochrome interface.
We have all this stuff now.... but no one knows how to use it! Seems like a
waste, but I guess it is good for business. You have to buy a separtate
program for everything and then buy it again a year later if you want any
support.}

OK....I'm done ranting.... Thanks for your help. I'll go study more.
Dave

 

[ANDREA DONNELLY]

Did you try exporting the data to excel where you can then manipulate it
easily? This is very easy & quick to do.

 

[Guest]

Sure, that will work.... my point is that this is "Business Contact Manager"
and should have the feature built in. You should be able to select a
catagory of business and send a communication to that group. I'm having flash
backs to the 80's world of DOS and it seems a simpler time.
To use Excel to grab all of the email addresses from my group of contacts,
then paste or import them into something like Serial Mail and send out the
blast. That will work, but I'd prefer less steps....
I know Microsoft has a list manager, but the cost is over $300 a year
forever the last I looked.
I have use Gold Mine in the past, but my version isn't supported anymore and
it is complicated and time consuming to set up that type of function.
I'm looking to the Seattle gurus to build in this basic function for any
business today... email to groups of people.
Thanks in advance!
Dave

 

[mrtimpeterson via OfficeKB.com]

Dave,

If you are open to considering other alternatives to BCM, you don't
necessarily have to look only to the Seattle gurus to build this type of
functionality. It already exists among several alternatives to BCM. One
nicely designed competitive Outlook SQL add-in that comes to mind is the
Avidian Prophet application. This solution has a VERY easy to use group
email wizard that is built right into the product. There is no need even for
mail merge with word. I wish it were otherwise but MS is NOT a leading
innovator within the smaller user CRM space. BCM is a sloooooooowly evolving
but still very basic contact manager that (even the next 2007 v.3) continues
to have glaring limitations.

Check out demos for Prophet at www.avidian.com.

Best wishes,

-THP

Sure, that will work.... my point is that this is "Business Contact Manager"
and should have the feature built in. You should be able to select a
catagory of business and send a communication to that group. I'm having flash
backs to the 80's world of DOS and it seems a simpler time.
To use Excel to grab all of the email addresses from my group of contacts,
then paste or import them into something like Serial Mail and send out the
blast. That will work, but I'd prefer less steps....
I know Microsoft has a list manager, but the cost is over $300 a year
forever the last I looked.
I have use Gold Mine in the past, but my version isn't supported anymore and
it is complicated and time consuming to set up that type of function.
I'm looking to the Seattle gurus to build in this basic function for any
business today... email to groups of people.
Thanks in advance!
Dave

Did you try exporting the data to excel where you can then manipulate it
easily? This is very easy & quick to do.

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[P Fruin]

Troops, DCNOTPC is just trying to encourage Microsoft that BCM SHOULD have
these capabilities built in! We don't want to have to use all kinds of add
ons when these could be easily made a part of a robust program! Heck, if it
could be done back in the earaly DOS days, surely these "gurus" can figure
out how to do it now! Just Do It MS - You can do it! And make it simple!

Dave,

If you are open to considering other alternatives to BCM, you don't
necessarily have to look only to the Seattle gurus to build this type of
functionality. It already exists among several alternatives to BCM. One
nicely designed competitive Outlook SQL add-in that comes to mind is the
Avidian Prophet application. This solution has a VERY easy to use group
email wizard that is built right into the product. There is no need even for
mail merge with word. I wish it were otherwise but MS is NOT a leading
innovator within the smaller user CRM space. BCM is a sloooooooowly evolving
but still very basic contact manager that (even the next 2007 v.3) continues
to have glaring limitations.

Check out demos for Prophet at www.avidian.com.

Best wishes,

-THP

Sure, that will work.... my point is that this is "Business Contact Manager"
and should have the feature built in. You should be able to select a
catagory of business and send a communication to that group. I'm having flash
backs to the 80's world of DOS and it seems a simpler time.
To use Excel to grab all of the email addresses from my group of contacts,
then paste or import them into something like Serial Mail and send out the
blast. That will work, but I'd prefer less steps....
I know Microsoft has a list manager, but the cost is over $300 a year
forever the last I looked.
I have use Gold Mine in the past, but my version isn't supported anymore and
it is complicated and time consuming to set up that type of function.
I'm looking to the Seattle gurus to build in this basic function for any
business today... email to groups of people.
Thanks in advance!
Dave

Did you try exporting the data to excel where you can then manipulate it
easily? This is very easy & quick to do.

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catagories.
Thanks in advance!

 

[Gwood]

Goldmine and ACt are both more functional in terms of creating distribution
lists and more friendly for sales guys. Our company (50 people) have
recently gotten Outlook with MS BCM. It is a great high end Rolodex for
stuff after the sales and marketing is done. Unfortunatly not good for the
front end.

Troops, DCNOTPC is just trying to encourage Microsoft that BCM SHOULD have
these capabilities built in! We don't want to have to use all kinds of add
ons when these could be easily made a part of a robust program! Heck, if it
could be done back in the earaly DOS days, surely these "gurus" can figure
out how to do it now! Just Do It MS - You can do it! And make it simple!

Dave,

If you are open to considering other alternatives to BCM, you don't
necessarily have to look only to the Seattle gurus to build this type of
functionality. It already exists among several alternatives to BCM. One
nicely designed competitive Outlook SQL add-in that comes to mind is the
Avidian Prophet application. This solution has a VERY easy to use group
email wizard that is built right into the product. There is no need even for
mail merge with word. I wish it were otherwise but MS is NOT a leading
innovator within the smaller user CRM space. BCM is a sloooooooowly evolving
but still very basic contact manager that (even the next 2007 v.3) continues
to have glaring limitations.

Check out demos for Prophet at www.avidian.com.

Best wishes,

-THP

Sure, that will work.... my point is that this is "Business Contact Manager"
and should have the feature built in. You should be able to select a
catagory of business and send a communication to that group. I'm having flash
backs to the 80's world of DOS and it seems a simpler time.
To use Excel to grab all of the email addresses from my group of contacts,
then paste or import them into something like Serial Mail and send out the
blast. That will work, but I'd prefer less steps....
I know Microsoft has a list manager, but the cost is over $300 a year
forever the last I looked.
I have use Gold Mine in the past, but my version isn't supported anymore and
it is complicated and time consuming to set up that type of function.
I'm looking to the Seattle gurus to build in this basic function for any
business today... email to groups of people.
Thanks in advance!
Dave

Did you try exporting the data to excel where you can then manipulate it
easily? This is very easy & quick to do.
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catagories.
Thanks in advance!