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Posted by satis
Dec 9, 2018 at 03:29 AM
Amontillado wrote:
>Seems like there should be something out there to handle correspondence
>without being a full blown enterprise CRM.
Apps and services don’t need to be ‘full blown’. If you want to manage correspondence a CRM is a good choice, and there are consumer and small business solutions that would fit the bill.
If you want to merely to manually keep track of basic lists of responses, a checklist would do, or perhaps something made in Airtable or Numbers.
https://www.apple.com/numbers/
Posted by Hugh
Dec 9, 2018 at 02:55 PM
Jeffery Smith wrote:
In the early 90s, Symantec made a wonderful program called ACT! that
>managed all of my letters and memos and contacts. Since then, everything
>seems to be way more expensive, web-based, business-based, and way more
>than I need.
A very long time ago, I used ACT! for what was essentially a small-scale CRM operation. I agree that it was really good for the times, and not hugely expensive. Unfortunately for the OP, it was then, and from a cursory glance at its website appears still to be, a Windows-only application.
Posted by Steve
Dec 9, 2018 at 03:18 PM
The one I know would work for you is only available in Windows OS. The rest of the CRM’s out there don’t look like they do much for mail merge of snail-mail. Also, they’re complex and therefore overkill.
What are you using now for your database of contacts? Is it a spreadsheet?
Steve
Posted by satis
Dec 9, 2018 at 03:18 PM
Jeffery Smith wrote:
> In the early 90s, Symantec made a wonderful program called ACT! that
>managed all of my letters and memos and contacts.
Even before that, in the 80s the Mac had an app called CAT (Contacts, Activities, Time) that pioneered the idea. Then one day the app disappeared. I often wondered if they were bought by Symantec and it was transformed/recoded into ACT.
Posted by washere
Dec 9, 2018 at 05:37 PM
There are crm that are not subscription based, also some freemium, better some free, better yet some open source.
There are also genres of software. But I think the OP would be happy with Mozilla thunderbird which is free open source and with numerous plugins. Don’t think he needs various genres of email environments.
Just learn how to search for thunderbird plugins & themes & add-ons, by function, how to activate and setup, etc. Should be easy to learn, should be some YouTube videos too. Multi platform too, better than the old ACT.