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    Organize your information with Sage ACT! so you can zoom in on the details of your customer relationships whenever you need to. When customers call unexpectedly, you're instantly prepared with the email they sent you last week, notes from your last phone call, and their Facebook profile to see what they've been up to—all at your fingertips.
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    It helps you fi ll in the gaps in your database and gives you access to more than 65 million companies and 85 million executives. Find new leads based on the traits you're looking for, along with business data for known contacts and companies, including profiles, financials, industry information, news, and more.
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  • Take Control of Your Sales Pipeline
    Manage prospects through an out-of-the-box Sage ACT! sales process or a process that you personalize to fit your business. Keep detailed progress notes and see the probability of close for each opportunity. This gives you total visibility and control of your sales pipeline so you can stay in contact with those opportunities most likely to close.
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What's New

February, 2012
Sage Peachtree 2013 begins beta testing. Sage Peachtree is being renamed Sage 50 with the launch of the 2013 release.

January 13, 2012
Hotfix 1 for Service Pack 1 of Sage ACT! 2012 is released for download. The hotfix must be applied after the Service Pack. Contact us or the Sage ACT! Download Center for more information.

January 2012
Service Pack 8 for Sage BusinessWorks 2011 is released. It supercedes Service Pack 7, because it contains tax table changes implemented in last week of December. Download

December 2011
Service Pack 6 for Sage BusinessWorks 2011 (containing year-end payroll forms) is released.

Service Pack 1 for Sage ACT! 2012 is released.

Sage BusinessWorks 2012 begins Alpha testing. Integrated Credit Card Processing is major new feature

November 2011
Don Joseph receives certification as ACT! Premier Trainer and Sage BusinessWorks Certified Consultant.

Don Joseph leads Outbound Internet Marketing discussion for Chicago North Shore area club of Institute of Management Consultants USA.

October 2011
Don Joseph attends Perfecting ACT!, with other Certified Consultants, Sage Management, Support, and Engineering to maximize the value of Sage ACT! to our clients.

September 1, 2011
Sage ACT! 2012 is released! Contact us now to see exciting new features: Work seamlessly with Google® Apps; Universal Search (database and attachments); Virtually anywhere access with Sage ACT! Connect.

June 2011
Illinois Civil Unions law takes effect. Payroll users need to adjust systems accordingly. Affected employees are Single for Federal Taxes and Married for Illinois.

April 2011
Sage Peachtree 2012 new and improved features announced.

Don Joseph leads Nurture Marketing for Prospects and Inactive Clients demonstrating simple, inexpensive tools to automate drip marketing for Chicago North ABC of Institute of Management Consultants USA.

November 2010
Sage announces three Sage Business Care for ACT! plans to protect your business-critical investment.

October 2010
Password recovery offered for Sage ACT! and Sage Peachtree clients by Northbrook Consulting Group,

Northbrook Consulting Group has first-ever installation Sage KnowledgeSync Business Activity Montoring software with Sage BusinessWorks client to insure response to key business events.

May 2009
Don Joseph presents "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the ACT / Sage BusinessWorks Link and More" to Sage Partners as part of annual Sage Insights 2009 in Nashville