Hi all,
I am currently working for a new business startup for a free to pickup recruitment magazine, we are getting together a pretty big database of clients now and are looking for a good tool to enable us all to write notes on what happened after a sales call to the advertisers, and to hold their contact details and maybe even past adverts (artwork etc) that they have.
In the office there are three of us, two do the marketing and one does the Quark and photoshop stuff (and a bit of marketing too.)
There are currently three machines (soon to be four) one XP Pro machine that acts as simple server, the rest are XP Home. The network is a workgroup at the moment with one shared printer.
As the company is running on a shoestring what would be the best method for us to have a central DB with all the contacts that we could call up records to conduct sales calls with and write notes on the outcome that could also be used by the other members of the team for the artwork and design setting portion of it.
Currently everyone is working from an excel spreadsheet, but this is not proving at all efficient for large amounts of calls that need to be made from it and also the fact that it cannot be edited freely.
I have used a few CRM solutions in the past (goldmine, act and some bespoke ones) but in this scenario do you think getting in a seperate machine as a sql server database (mysql or something) would be the best answer? and if so what would be the best (and cheapest method or handling the data for the processes that we will be doing with it ?
any help would be much appreciated as productivity is steadily decreasing with the current situation!
Cheers
BrOw


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