RE: Good database for wedding clients?
I showed her DeskTop Set (http://www.desktopset.com/), which a brilliant PDMLer (I forget who) recommended. She loved the program, and at $19.95 it's a lot more reasonable than Act! Looks like she's got a winner. chris On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, tom wrote: I forget who posted this originally...did your friend make a choice? I've been playing with Outlook Business Contact Manager for a few days now and it absolutely sucks. I may try ACT! again as a PDMLer told me offline that he's been using it forever. Logically I can't see how it caused my problems, though the coincidence makes me nervous. tv
Re: Good database for wedding clients?
Chris Brogden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I showed her DeskTop Set (http://www.desktopset.com/), which a brilliant PDMLer (I forget who) recommended. Ooh! That were me! She loved the program, and at $19.95 it's a lot more reasonable than Act! Looks like she's got a winner. I've been using it since about 1995 (when it was $99.00!) and found it to be excellent. On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, tom wrote: I forget who posted this originally...did your friend make a choice? I've been playing with Outlook Business Contact Manager for a few days now and it absolutely sucks. I may try ACT! again as a PDMLer told me offline that he's been using it forever. Logically I can't see how it caused my problems, though the coincidence makes me nervous. tv -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
RE: Good database for wedding clients?
-Original Message- From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] she wants contact management software, not a database. Act! is one that i hear a lot of good things about. it's not specific to photographic uses and i don't see why she needs something that is that specific. I'm not sure, but I think it was Act! that hosed my hard drive last week. As soon as I had installed it my hard drive started acting wonky. When I talked to a tech buddy about it, he mentioned Act! was cr*p and suggested I just upgrade to Oulook 2003 and Get Business Contact Manager, which is what I have done (in addition to buying a new PC). So far so good. On a related note my backup strategy seems to have worked fine. I pulled the 2nd hard drive out of the old PC, disconnected the 2 external drives and other stuff, swapped in the new pc and had all my programs and data up within 2 hours. Pretty cool. tv
RE: Good database for wedding clients?
On 20/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: I'm not sure, but I think it was Act! that hosed my hard drive last week. Hi Tom, I thought you'd been a bit quiet lately. Never mind lad, it's kept you out of trouble... Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
Re: Good database for wedding clients?
tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] she wants contact management software, not a database. Act! is one that i hear a lot of good things about. it's not specific to photographic uses and i don't see why she needs something that is that specific. I'm not sure, but I think it was Act! that hosed my hard drive last week. As soon as I had installed it my hard drive started acting wonky. When I talked to a tech buddy about it, he mentioned Act! was cr*p and suggested I just upgrade to Oulook 2003 and Get Business Contact Manager, which is what I have done (in addition to buying a new PC). My contact management software is Desk Top Set. I've been using it since about 1994. Latest version is pretty slick and it's only 20 bucks. Worth a look for that price, eh? http://www.desktopset.com -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
Good database for wedding clients?
A friend of mine who shoots 10-20 weddings a year is looking for recommendations for a good database program to let her keep track of client info for the next 10+ years. It will be for pre-wedding info as well, so it needs to be able to record all the stuff photographers need to know about the clients and their requirements. It needs to be searchable by client name, date, etc., and able to be sorted according to those fields (ie. can call up every wedding from a particular year, or shot at a particular location). I imagine most db programs can do this, but she's not very computer literate, so it would be nice to have software designed for this purpose, with the templates already made. It doesn't have to be free/shareware (though that would be nice), but it can't cost $500 either. She's hoping to spend under $100. Any recommendations? Thanks! chris
Re: Good database for wedding clients?
she wants contact management software, not a database. Act! is one that i hear a lot of good things about. it's not specific to photographic uses and i don't see why she needs something that is that specific. Herb - Original Message - From: Chris Brogden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PDML [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:13 AM Subject: Good database for wedding clients? A friend of mine who shoots 10-20 weddings a year is looking for recommendations for a good database program to let her keep track of client info for the next 10+ years. It will be for pre-wedding info as well, so it needs to be able to record all the stuff photographers need to know about the clients and their requirements. It needs to be searchable by client name, date, etc., and able to be sorted according to those fields (ie. can call up every wedding from a particular year, or shot at a particular location).
Re: Good database for wedding clients?
I imagine most db programs can do this, but she's not very computer literate, so it would be nice to have software designed for this purpose, with the templates already made. It doesn't have to be free/shareware (though that would be nice), but it can't cost $500 either. She's hoping to spend under $100. Access would be the best, but it is reasonably complex to set up (relatively easy to use) Excel spreadsheet would be really easy to set up and quite easy to use. C'mon, with 20 weddings a year, over the next decade, you will only end up with a handful of entries anyway. This is what I'd do. Any recommendations? Thanks! chris (*)o(*) Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
