Mike Muhney: That is a good question and if I would even pretend to know where we would be today back then, I would obviously be lying to you.īack in April 1, 1987, when ACT! was released to the market, the laptop, as it was called, was still a very new thing. Small Business Trends: It is the 25th anniversary of ACT! What are your impressions where we are today with CRM and did you think we would be where we are today back when you started ACT!? That is what I am looking to provide today with VIPorbit. So many people with iPhones and iPads want to have the same robust, desktop functionality on those devices that I once enjoyed in a windows laptop. We sold the company to Symantec in 1993.įast forward to today. Pat Sullivan and I co-invented ACT! and created the category of contact management that is acknowledged as one of the catalysts to the creation of the CRM industry. I have never forgotten the value of that orientation and that meaningfulness in my own career.įrom IBM, fast forward in 1986.
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My IBM sales training taught me not how to sell more but, how to deal with more people, more effectively, so that I can sell more. Mike Muhney: I started my career with IBM in the mainframe era and I actually learned a lot of design, which became an input that was part of ACT!. Small Business Trends: Can you tell us a little a bit more about your background? Tune in as Mike Muhney of VIPOrbit joins Brent Leary for an in-depth discussion on the value of meaningful relationships.
“Meaningful businesses always depends on meaningful relationships that transcend time and technology.” Truer words were never spoken. The key, however, is to cultivate meaningful ones in order to be truly successful. With today’s technologies, there are so many ways to build relationships. We’ve come a long way, baby! And times, they are a changing.
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