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BEYOND THE LIMITS OF INFORMATION AND NETWORKING CONNECTIONS there is BLINC, THE TOTAL MAILING LIST MANAGER FOR WINDOWS published by Eastern Digital Resources PO Box 1451 Clearwater, SC 29822-1451 Tel. (803) 593-0870 This edition of BLINC is distributed as shareware. You may freely copy and distribute this program to others. Please register your copy. SHAREWARE REGISTRATION JUST $35.00 Quick, tell me who is the manager of the local Pizza Hut. Or how about the Vice President for commercial development at the bank. Can you tell me the pastor's name at Trinity Methodist Church. Do any of these people have interest in Little League Baseball? If you live and work in the local business community, those kinds of questions are asked constantly, and while the information is public knowledge, knowing the details and being able to use those contacts is the key to being a successful business executive. IT'S OK TO DREAM Over the years, folks have asked me over and over for a system to provide that information; something that will allow me to keep up with my business contacts, and prospect for new customers. Looking back now, I realize that most of the early attempts at implementing the dream were rather pathetic. The systems provided a basic data base of businesses, or a list of people, but was virtually helpless in showing and manipulating the relationships between the two. But, Beyond the Limits of Information and Networking Connections, there is BLINC, the exciting new data base and prospecting system. Now you can know the movers and shakers behind your local market. If you do business with business, you need BLINC to effectively prospect your market. MORE THAN JUST A MAILING LIST The thing that makes BLINC unique is that it's a relationship manager. When I've been asked in the past for a mailing list manager that provides (you fill in the blanks) details about the folks on the list, the links a person has to the organization has been made secondary to the name and address information. But what you really want to know is; Who's the president of Who works for Give me a list of outside sales reps I need to know the doctors who work at Who are the real estate agents I know and are any of these folks affiliated with the groups I'm a member of. THE END OF A DREAM Some dreams die a rather harsh death when confronted with the reality of day to day business competition. Others fade away in the realization, the realization that what you've actually dreamed of for years, has finally come to pass and you can experience it, sometimes beyond your wildest imaginations. BLINC is such a product. While working on another problem about a year ago, I suddenly realized that the relationships are the key to an effective contact manager. Therefore, BLINC is centered around the relationships between people and groups. On the one hand you have the group (a business, charity, church, civic club) and on the other hand members. Some groups have a one to one relationship with a member, as in the Director of the Red Cross, Others have a one to many relationship, as in donors to the Health Care Foundation. And still others have a many to many relationship as in members of the local Baptist Churches. BLINC can handle them all. You can add your own details to the people and organizations already in the data base or you can even add new members and organizations. And since BLINC operates with Microsoft WINDOWS, it's quick and as easy as pointing and pressing a button. BLINC is great for prospecting. In addition to all the standard stuff like mailing labels, customized letters, and roladex cards, BLINC incorporates the electronic version of sticky notes. Any person or group can have a sticky note attached to remind you of a date or to record an important event. Use it to keep track of sales, remind you of luncheon dates, and call back on prospects. Like the groups and members files, sticky notes knows about relationships and that provides the key difference between BLINC and assorted unrelated pieces of paper. OUR IRONCLAD GUARANTEE Use BLINC for 90 days. If it doesn't fit your needs, return it and we'll refund your money. It's that simple, no ifs, ands or buts, about it. WHY YOU SHOULD REGISTER BLINC When you register your copy you will receive the most recent edition. The shareware edition is always 1 release behind the registered version. When we release a new edition to our registered users, we then upload the earlier version to selected bulletin boards. Registered users are not presented with the BLINC invoicing screen each time the program is run, saving you the trouble of choosing Cancel or Print before you can use the program. Registered users will also receive 1 FREE year's subscrip- tion to our magazine JUST SOFTWARE. This magazine features articles on software and computer usage without the overwhelming hardware focus that most magazines have. P.S. If you don't want to register BLINC, you can still subscribe to JUST SOFTWARE - 1 yr. $15.00 - 2 yrs. $25.00. When you register you will also receive over $100 in FREE discount coupons for other computer products and services. You'll receive special access to our Answer Line for telephone support on the use of the program. And finally, FREE upgrades to BLINC for 1 year from date of purchase. (There is a nominal $7.00 shipping and handling fee). Send your payment to: Eastern Digital Resources - PO Box 1451 - Clearwater, SC 29822-1451. ... and we thank you for your support! License BLINC is not, nor has ever been, public domain or free software. The commercial, registered version of BLINC may not be duplicated other than for backup purposes. A registered copy of BLINC must be treated like a book, in that the same registered copy of BLINC may not be used in more than one computer at the same time, just as a book may not be read by more than one person at the same time (without making an illegal copy). Users are granted a limited license to use the User Supported, trial version of BLINC for a limited evaluation period of up to 45 days, in order to determine if it suits their needs. Any other use of BLINC or use past this period requires registration. All users are granted a limited license to copy the User Supported version of BLINC only for the purpose of allowing others to try it, subject to the above restrictions as well as these: BLINC must be distributed in absolutely unmodified form, in- cluding ALL program, documentation, and other files. BLINC may not be included with any other product for any reason whatsoever without a license from Eastern Digital Resources. No charge or payment may be levied or accepted for BLINC. Bulletin Board system operators may post the unregistered, User Supported version of BLINC on their BBS for downloading by their users without written permission only if the above conditions are met, and only if no special fee is necessary to access the BLINC files (a general fee to access the BBS is ok). The following section contains information on registration and licensing. REGISTRATION/ORDERING INFORMATION Registering BLINC allows you to use the product after the trial period. Registered BLINC users get the current copy of BLINC on disk along with their own serial number, mailed notification of major BLINC updates, and priority when calling for BLINC Software support. (we guarantee no support to unregistered users). Most importantly, registered users know they are helping to make sure that high-quality software like BLINC continues to be sold in this low cost way. BLINC registration costs $35 US, and includes 'registered' copy of BLINC on disk. An evaluation disk with the current copy of BLINC on it is also available for $7 US. This is to be used to try out BLINC, and does not include registration (the right to use BLINC after the evaluation period). The fee covers the cost of diskette(s) and handling. Payment may be in the form of check, money order, or with a VISA card. We also accept corporate purchase orders. To place an order, please use the order form on the following page, or call us at (803)-393-0870 with your VISA or Mastercard. QUANTITY AND CORPORATE PURCHASES There is an invoice form on the install diskette which following page may be used to reguster your copy of BLINC. Discounts on multiple copies are as follows: 1 - 10 copies no discount 11 - 20 copies 10% discount 21 - 50 copies 15% discount 51 - 100 copies 22% discount 101 - 200 copies 30% discount 200+ copies 40% discount Purchases of up to 50 copies are bulk purchases and include that many copies of BLINC on disk, as with single registrations. Purchases of 51 or more copies are site licenses. Eastern Digital Resources provides a master copy of BLINC and the appropriate number of diskette labels. The licensee is responsible for copying the disks (backups of the MASTER do not count towards the total copies in the license). The name on the order form is considered the contact and is the person with whom all correspondence will take place. Note: All prices and discounts are subject to change without notice. Discounts apply only to separate orders, they are not cumulative. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: IBM compatible 80286 computer or higher, 2 megabytes of memory, VGA monitor, Windows 3.0 or higher and dot matrix or laser printer. For information or to order, call (803) 593-0870 Eastern Digital Resources PO Box 1451 Clearwater, SC 29822-1451 OTHER RELATED PRODUCTS FROM EASTERN DIGITAL RESOURCES ZIP FINDER II Zip Finder ii is a complete city level zip code directory of over 42,000 zip codes which you can use to validate cities and zip codes and will save you a great deal of time when entering names and addresses because you won't have to type the city and state. With the addition of a CD-ROM drive and Accumail, Zip Finder ii will also add zip plus 4 codes, carrier route codes, and delivery point codes to your mailing list. Zip Finder ii is designed to intergrate with BLINC and is available separately from Eastern Digital Resources for $79.95. ZIP PLUS 4 YOUR LIST AND SAVE $$$ If you can't justify the cost of a CD-ROM drive, and the Accumail database, we will update your list for you and add the zip plus 4 codes and delivery point codes so you can take advantage of maximum postal discounts. Up to 2000 names for just $45.00. Additional thousands to 10,000 for $12.00 / m. Call for details and pricing on larger lists. Strict Confidentiality assured. NEED MAILING LISTS - WE'VE GOT EM We currently maintain over 80,000 names in house of computer users, dealers, VARS, and opportunity seekers. Available on diskette or peel and stick labels at $65.00 per thousand. Give us a call to discuss your list needs. COMPS - The Complete Realtor Database Now you can use BLINC to maintain information on people and COMPS to maintain your listings. These two programs integrate to give you a complete Windows based system for managing the real estate agents most time consuming tasks.... $135.00 BLINC TOOLKIT The shareware version of BLINC will handle a limited number of records. This limitation is dependent on the amount of memory you have installed in your computer. A system with 4 megabytes of memory will handle approximately 3,000 records in each data file. The BLINC toolkit will allow you to handle an unlimited number of records. With Toolkit you can also merge multiple files and purge duplicate records. Toolkit includes a report generator, allowing you to define your own label formats and report layouts. The BLINC Toolkit is required for using BLINC in a multi-user mode on a network. You may install BLINC on a network in a single user configuration, but no internal safeguards are in place to protect your data should two people access it simultaneously. A real bargain for just $79.95. The features included in Toolkit would cost you hundreds of dollars with other programs. DUPFINDER Dupfinder is designed to allow you to find those annoying near match names that are in your list. It builds an index to records based on similar sounding names and addresses and allows you to choose whether to delete or keep these names. Dupfinder is an excellent add-on to BLINC for those who are involved in serious mailing list maintenance. THE TOTAL MAILING LIST MANAGER FOR DOS If you have machines in your organization which are not able to run Windows, The Total Mailing List Manager for DOS will allow you to do file maintenance on BLINC files and print labels and reports. TMLM for DOS does not support some of the advanced features of BLINC. Its price is $75.00. GET THE WORKS & SAVE $234.85. When you register BLINC, you can get Zip Finder ii, Dup Finder, Toolkit, and 3,000 names from the category of your choice for the low price of $235.00. That is a savings of $234.85 from the individual price and less than you'd pay for just renting the names from most list houses.