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Impulse!
- Contact Management Software -
By
International Solutions, Inc.
52 Tolman St., Canton, MA 02021 USA
Voice: (617) 575-0290
Fax: (617) 821-4487
Copyright 1993 International Solutions, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
For more information about this product, please start it up by
typing
C:\> i
Then select, Help/About or Help/Other Products.
Impulse!
An Overview
What Will Impulse! Do For You?
Impulse! will help you succeed because you can:
- access vital information efficiently
- target your hottest leads productively
- sell your products and services more competitively
- handle potential clients more effectively
- increase repeat business more aggressively
The bottom line is that Impulse! will help you increase sales,
profits, customer satisfaction, referrals, etc.
How Does Impulse! Work?
Impulse! is a powerful business tool that is designed to help you
and your company succeed in today's competitive world. With it,
vital information is available instantly and at the press of a key.
It ensures that the communications link between you and your
contacts is continually maintained. Keeping in touch with your
contacts whether customers, members, students or constituents is
the key to success in any profession. With so much going on,
maintaining a network of contacts is becoming increasingly
difficult to do, yet increasingly more important.
How Does Impulse! Work?
Impulse! can be used in your direct mail, telemarketing and outside
sales efforts.
Direct Mail: Impulse! will print form letters, labels and reports.
Letters can be mail merged with the contacts information to produce
personalized letters. Criteria can be established to target only
the contacts you want.
Telemarketing: It will dial the telephone and note the phone call
on the contact's record. Telemarketing scripts and notes of
previous conversations with the contact can be displayed.
Outside Sales: Sales history, communications and preferences can be
accessed instantly. Schedules can be kept. Information from the
field sales rep's computer or laptop can be intelligently merged
with the main database on the home office computer.
How Easy Is It To Learn And Use?
The entire package is completely menu-driven and help screens are
available at any time to provide more information on the feature or
option. As a result, anyone can learn to use it in minutes. Once
you are comfortable with the program, you will appreciate how easy
it is to move around in the program. This is due to the fact that
most of the day-to-day features are accessed by a single keystroke.
How Flexible Is Impulse!
The software has been carefully designed to minimize the learning
curves and maximize productivity. All this and the ability to
control it to suit your needs and applications. Information
specific to your company can be entered. Reports can be designed
and changed on the fly. Form letters can be given that personal
look. Labels can be printed to fit your label stock. Follow up
dates and activities can be setup to save keystrokes.
Powerful Features That Make Impulse!
The Professional's Solution
Scheduler/Log Reports
Impulse! includes scheduler and logbook features that provide
historical information of previous events as well as future
activities. A single key stroke can display a chronological account
of meetings, phone calls, appointments and other activities with a
contact.
Its tough enough remembering what day it is. But trying to remember
all the people you need to call and the reason for each call is a
lot to handle effectively. Impulse! can help you in your job by
displaying a list of all the people to be followed up with. It will
show a summary of all the previous conversations with each of them
and an activity report to track everything from initial contact to
the closing. The Tickler/Log reports will help you close more leads
and increase repeat business.
Targeting Contacts
Consistent and effective marketing is vital to succeeding in
today's competitive business world. Few businesses can afford to
direct mail or telemarket to the whole world. But by targeting
specific contacts, you can reach the ones with the most potential.
That way you can concentrate your efforts and resources on the
right contacts, not just any contact.
For instance, with just a few keystrokes you can send a letter to
contacts with service contracts or insurance policies up for
renewal. Or perhaps a letter to residents in 'MA' with an income of
$500,000 or more.
Printing
Impulse! also enables you to design creative and personalized form
letters. Once designed, contacts can be mail merged into a letter.
This feature can also be used for printing reports with headers,
footers and totals. Or just simple mailing labels. Impulse! comes
with several predesigned form letters, labels, rolodex formats and
labels. You can modify these or create your own.
Customizing The Database
To help you maintain information vital to you and your
organization, Impulse!'s database can be customized. For instance,
a real estate agent would want to keep track of the selling price
of a property, the number of bedrooms, baths, etc. Impulse! allows
you to define up to 1000 fields particular to your needs.
Product Price
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First Impulse! 69
Entry-level contact management system designed to assist
sales and marketing professionals with direct mail,
telemarketing and outside sales efforts. Features
include: complete client profile information, built-in
word processor, unlimited notes per client, scheduler and
logbook, 1000 user-definable fields, report generator,
lookup tables, mail-merge, envelope printing, pull-down
menus, help screens, unlimited number of contacts,
unlimited number of client databases, notepads, pop-up
calculator, imports from xBASE/ASCII. Single-User Only.
Impulse! Professional v3.0 199
Mid-range contact management product which adds on to the
features of First Impulse! for more demanding users.
Supports Novell, Banyan-Vines, 3Com, Lantastic,
LanManager and NetBios networks. Features include fax
capability, e-mail, caller-id, statistics, demographics,
expense tracking, currency conversion, timezones, spell
checking, duplicate-checking, export to ASCII,
intelligent merging and security options. Network Ready.
Impulse! Professional v3.0 - Network Node 99
Supports additional user of Impulse! Professional on a
network. Serialized.
Impulse! Sales v1.0 299
Contact management software with the ability to track
customer sales, orders, inventory and accounts
receivable. Impulse! Sales adds several features to
Impulse! Professional. These include order entry,
invoicing, product pricing and lookup, quantity breaks,
inventory control, client sales history, product sales
history, billing and accounts receivable. Network Ready.
Impulse! Help Desk v1.0 299
Contact management software designed specifically for
technical and customer support specialists. Provides
ability to track customers' configurations, support
agreements, and history of calls for technical support.
Ability to create your own database of error codes,
symptoms and resolutions, look up by keyword, description
or error code. Network Ready.
Impulse! Survey v1.0 299
Software designed to assist in surveys and market
research applications. Provides ability to create survey
data-entry screens, specify valid responses (1 of many,
many of many, free form, rank, scale 1-5). Statistical
analysis of responses can be generated as well as direct
mail pieces to contacts with particular responses.
Network Ready.
Impulse! Sales/Help Desk/Survey - Network Node 149
Supports additional user of Impulse! Sales on a network.
Serialized.
First Impulse! To Professional Upgrade 130
Upgrade from First Impulse! to Impulse! Professional.
Databases created in First Impulse! are completely
compatible with Impulse! Professional. Screen layout and
menu system are similar. Available to registered users
only.
Impulse! Professional To Sales/Survey/Help Desk 100
Upgrade from Impulse! Professional to Impulse!
Sales/Survey/Help Desk. Databases created in Impulse!
Professional are completely compatible with Impulse!
Sales/Survey/Help Desk. Screen layout and menu system are
similar. Available to registered users only.
Send all requests, registrations and suggestions to:
International Solutions, Inc.
52 Tolman St.
Canton, MA 02021 USA
Voice: (617) 575-0290
Fax: (617) 821-4487