Comments on: BigContacts, a good lightweight SFA solution http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/05/bigcontacts-a-good-lightweight-sfa-solution/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:44:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: » Dennis Howlett’s equation: Attention + composition = x2 revenue | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/05/bigcontacts-a-good-lightweight-sfa-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-116334 » Dennis Howlett’s equation: Attention + composition = x2 revenue | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com Tue, 22 May 2007 23:00:56 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/05/bigcontacts-a-good-lightweight-sfa-solution/#comment-116334 [...] Friday, Jeff Nolan, CEO of Teqlo, a startup developing an application assembly environment, said:    [...] [...] Friday, Jeff Nolan, CEO of Teqlo, a startup developing an application assembly environment, said:    [...]

]]> By: Tim Bednar http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/05/bigcontacts-a-good-lightweight-sfa-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-66095 Tim Bednar Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:21:28 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/05/bigcontacts-a-good-lightweight-sfa-solution/#comment-66095 I'm following BigContact with interest. I'm developing a similar product called Plaid. http://www.plaidfile.com/ And when Jeff wrote, "Note to self: always remember that it’s not the product feature set that makes the product but the context by which it is rendered to users." I smiled. Plaid is a contact manager (of sorts) for church ministry leaders. Church management software is often so complex and bloated with features that actually practitioners in ministry don't use the products. I'd be interested to hear if Jeff thinks that a contact manager with a niche focus like Plaid has a chance. (FYI: I estimate the church management software market to be about $3 billion). I’m following BigContact with interest. I’m developing a similar product called Plaid.

http://www.plaidfile.com/

And when Jeff wrote, “Note to self: always remember that it’s not the product feature set that makes the product but the context by which it is rendered to users.” I smiled.

Plaid is a contact manager (of sorts) for church ministry leaders. Church management software is often so complex and bloated with features that actually practitioners in ministry don’t use the products.

I’d be interested to hear if Jeff thinks that a contact manager with a niche focus like Plaid has a chance. (FYI: I estimate the church management software market to be about $3 billion).

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/05/bigcontacts-a-good-lightweight-sfa-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-64844 Dennis Howlett Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:48:21 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/05/bigcontacts-a-good-lightweight-sfa-solution/#comment-64844 Immediate integration (or is it compositing) between BigContaqcts and GMail, Google Calendar would be nice. Immediate integration (or is it compositing) between BigContaqcts and GMail, Google Calendar would be nice.

]]> By: Paul Freet http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/05/bigcontacts-a-good-lightweight-sfa-solution/comment-page-1/#comment-64405 Paul Freet Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:41:25 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/05/bigcontacts-a-good-lightweight-sfa-solution/#comment-64405 Jeff, I think you're definitely on the right track as regards the market opportunity for producst like Big Contacts. ACT has sold millions of copies of it's contact manager into small businesses over the years. And salesforce has pretty much abandoned the small business market as it works to close big deals with Cisco, Merril Lynch and others. Tools like Google calendar and their anemic address book offer very little to small businesses. No ssl, no uploading of files and photos, no link between calendar events and contacts, no tasks, etc. The single most important feature of a contact management system is having a history of everything you have done with a contact that is easily accessible by your whole team. Otherwise you cannot support your customers and clients. A true contact manager is a business tool, Google's products are consumer products. Thanks again for the comments. Love the blog. -- Paul Jeff, I think you’re definitely on the right track as regards the market opportunity for producst like Big Contacts. ACT has sold millions of copies of it’s contact manager into small businesses over the years. And salesforce has pretty much abandoned the small business market as it works to close big deals with Cisco, Merril Lynch and others.

Tools like Google calendar and their anemic address book offer very little to small businesses. No ssl, no uploading of files and photos, no link between calendar events and contacts, no tasks, etc. The single most important feature of a contact management system is having a history of everything you have done with a contact that is easily accessible by your whole team. Otherwise you cannot support your customers and clients. A true contact manager is a business tool, Google’s products are consumer products.

Thanks again for the comments. Love the blog. — Paul

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