We have some new features worth noting in saleslifecycle.com.  We just added a much requested feature to our BCC service.  Now when you send us an email from outlook and bcc (or forward) email to us @ bcc at this domain (saleslifecycle.com) and we can’t find that contact in your account we will add the new contact - Great little time saver. Another new feature we added last week was the new Social media search option.  At the moment it is limited to LinkedIn – but as most B2B contacts are in this network it makes sense to start here. So the next time you want to lookup the LinkedIn profile of one of your contacts you will find it surprisingly easier. We will have more news regarding social media next week – stay tuned!

We are excited to announce that we are rolling out a new SMS feature in saleslifecycle.com. SMS messages are great for sending reminders, keeping in touch with existing customers as well as offering some unique marketing opportunities. Starting from tomorrow, you will be able to send SMS messages as part of your usual contact plans as well as from ad-hoc actions. We are giving your 20 free SMS credits to give it a trial and additional credits can be added as per the usual subscription mechanism. You can read more about the SMS features here. As always we welcome your feedback and any comments you may have.

We will be releasing a new update to your saleslifecycle.com account in the next couple of days.  Once updated you will be able to receive daily or weekly reports in your inbox.   You can see a preview of the report in your account at any time by going to the Email Report page.  Hopefully this will give you ‘at a glance’ insight into your account and how you are progressing. By default email reports will be turned on once the update is released.  To turn the reports off or change your preference from daily to weekly just edit your membership record.

Well it was nice to have such great weather on the long weekend here in Adelaide.  We took advantage of the extended weekend to push some new updates and improvements to saleslifecycle.com   What’s Changed? Advanced Search now supports ‘Saved Queries’.  If you find you are constantly running the same search over and over again you can save time by saving your search query.  Simply build the search you wish to save and after running it enter a name in the ‘Saved Queries’ box on the LHS and click on ‘save’ Another change to the Advanced search is that it now supports the back button in your browser.  If you clicked one a search result and then wanted to get back to your previous search you can simply click on the back button in your browser and we will pull the previously run search.  Another Great time saver! Likewise we now support ‘Saved Queries’ in the Deal Reports.  Now you can build and save repeated reports with a simple one step process.   System Improvements The other big change is one we hope you won’t notice.  We overhauled the database infrastructure over the weekend significantly improving the throughput and stability of our service.  We hope you won’t notice any difference and just take for granted the service quality.   What’s coming next? Tim and I are currently in discussions regarding future directions and features for saleslifecycle.com.  We have some exciting new ideas that we are getting impatient to get ready for production.  I promise to write a new post soon regarding the future for saleslifecycle.com   P.S. Don’t forget to check out our videos on youtube

We pushed updates on the weekend to your saleslifecycle.com account.  Let me highlight some of these changes here: Contact Edit Options For each contact now there is a new bundled edit menu allowing you to easily edit your contacts Download a VCard into outlook Defer actions - this lets you add days to your contacts tasks Clear Errors - If you have actions in an error state (email blocked or invalid) you can clear these errors now with one easy click. Edit Member Options The members section also has been improved with a new edit menu. Defer actions across the entire team members contacts New Suspend user option - This will allow you to suspend the user allowing you to add another member in their place.