[pianotech] Database for Piano Business

[phil at emvkeys.ca]

Outlook certainly has email but also includes fairly powerful contact 
management with many info fields and notes as well as a calender 
including flags and reminders, meeting invites etc.

Personally, I use Mozilla Thunderbird with the Lightning add-on to cover 
all the same bases and it's FREE (PC/Mac/Linux) and the calender and 
contacts synchronize with my PocketPC with a utility called BirdieSync

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

http://www.birdiesync.com/

Phil



Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft wrote:
> /Uh, Isn't Outlook E-mail? Maybe Access?
> Ron N
> /
> And yet another function <G>
>
> Reminds me of a joke I wont tell here.
>
> Al
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 7:20 AM
> To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Database for Piano Business
>
> > Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft wrote:
> >> I use Outlook also. Works very well for me. Besides keeping records of
> >> the work that has been done I use the flag to schedule the next tuning
> >> date and set up a reminder. Syncs up with my PTD, so I have all the
> >> customer information anytime I need it. When I'm at a clients home, I
> >> can check what I did last time I was there. Temp/Hum, pitch deviation
> >> repairs etc. I keep all the customer history.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Al
> >> 
> >> 
> >>
> >>     *From:* David Love <mailto:davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
> >>     *Sent:* Monday, March 02, 2009 10:52 PM
> >>     *To:* pianotech at ptg.org <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>
> >>     *Subject:* Re: [pianotech] Database for Piano Business
> >>
> >>     You can use Microsoft Outlook which has a totally programmable data
> >>     base for contacts with different fields.  You can format email
> >>     reminders, group sort, contact dates, service history, email and
> >>     snail mail addresses, all the stuff you need to do.  I'm in the
> >>     process of converting my old database (obsolete now) to this and
> >>     it's simple and easy.  There are others though.
> >>
> >>     
> >>
> >>     David Love
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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