This is TeleMagic's 23rd year: Organizing, Simplifying and Empowering computers, telephones, and people to work together for sustainable business success.
Yes, it is hard to believe that this is TeleMagics 23rd year. How many software titles have done that? It's been five years since Sage pulled the plug on R&D but not on sales. Still delivering one of the best bangs for the buck, TeleMagic is licensed by the number of concurrent users. There are no recurring fees or additional per "named user" costs. It is available on-line with a quarterly subscription model, or it can be used with go global, terminal servers and other remote access solutions.
The companies and individuals that have figured out that TeleMagic is a rapid application development tool (written in Visual Foxpro and Delphi) that can be rapidly configured and reconfigured to do many unique contact management tasks. My clients use it for suspect, prospect, new customer, customer retention tasks and even collections for workgroups charged with these functions. It also works for recruiting, interviewing, employee records and human resources tasks. These TeleMagic users have often customized and linked their application with Hot Buttons, or Outlook Magic, or ... to the point where upgrading to more expensive and often more complex and less easily adapted contact managers is not so easy to do.
Those that never got further than a rolladex and calendar get by fine with Outlook and countless other programs that do this. All those lost and and forgotton contacts that would have purchased if someone had followed up. Those that imagined something new that could save time and increase profits, implement it in TeleMagic and do their thinking slightly out-side of the predefined box really get the true benefit from what TeleMagic can do to automate and organize the process. There are an infinite variety of ways to set up and use TeleMagic for profit.
Yes it's amazing to see a software concept make it to 20+ years. Or a software consultant for that matter.
Steve Heising has been using and supporting TeleMagic since 1985.
Marketing Center Associates
Boulder Colorado USA
303-581-9296
Our 23rd year using TeleMagic and the Internet for Sustainable Enterprise.
Putting TeleMagic and the Internet to work for sustainability. TeleMagician since version 8.3b in 1986. More than 300 installations and counting. Custom Databases, Imports and Exports. Email and Web services, USA.NET CMS e-mail and hosted Microsoft Exchange services since 1997. Information Systems Consultant - Work group databases, strategy and tactics for successful IS implementation. Setup and support for in house and outsourced solutions, TeleMagic, TeleMagic Online, GoGlobal, Terminal Services. Moving forward, I would like to be able to help more companies with Green and Sustainable products invent new and sustainable ways to do business.
BioTech Startup through Venture Capital: 1981-1989 - 8 years with Evans BioControl Company. Startup though 8.5 million in venture capital, 0 to 60 employees and 0 - 3 facilities. Sales Rep, Greenhouse Manager, Marketing Director, Vice President. Although the venture capital funded adventure ultimately failed, (and I can tell you about three business principles that were overlooked or ignored, and why we failed), three biological control products and techniques we pioneered; parasitic wasps for control of flies in feedlots and daries, protozoan pathogens for controlling grasshoppers, and entomogenous nematodes for suppressing hydroponic greenhouse pests are in common use today. Created new database applications and setup and adapted my first TeleMagic contact database for this highly seasonal adventure.
Computer Related Employment: 1989-2006 - 17th year of self-employment providing database and internet information services. TeleMagic, Act, GoldMine, USA.NET, UCN In-Contact, PeakWebHosting, and several other products and services over the years. While it doesn't usually work right the first time we try something new (as in a new release), it usually works right in the end. If there is a bug in a new version of software, I can find it, and then usually quickly find a workaround. I've given up supporting the other popular legacy products Act! and Goldmine (less flexible and less robust) and currently support custom TeleMagic and TeleMagic database applications, small networks, email and web based solutions.
Now that TeleMagic has officially been "Sunsetted" by the powers that own it, it is proving to be pretty hard to kill it. Many users are just now figuring out how to use all the stuff that is in there. We 've even had some users switch to brand x and then switch back. New seats and upgrades are still being sold and registered daily. Best Software is continuing to sell and register new licenses for new and upgrade users. End user support continues to be handled by the 100 or so successful resellers who support thousands of users over the 20-year-old client base.
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