Hello,
I am a new agent and I am seeing several different programs out there for keeping track of customers, doing cma's, etc. Top producer seems ok but it looks like it is more for people who arent real good with computers and it only works with Palm. I was looking at some add ons for Outlook. (Microsoft Outlook based Real Estate Contact Management System) and was wondering what others are using and recommend what a new agent should use.

As far as contact managing goes, Outlook has a contact manager, and although it doesn't call it a "Real Estate Contact Management System", it still holds contact extremely well and efficiently along with calander, all that other stuff, etc...

We use Outlook to manage contacts where I work, and it has not failed us yet. As far as a seperate tool to the job, as well as doing CMAs and a whole lot of other stuff (including a really cool HTML-based satelite imagery feature), you may want to look into joining the Site To Do Business, from CCIM. It is at http://www.stdbonline.com.

As a Top Producer user I will say that it is the best on the market and worth the money

Leadcommander..... Act second.

Have you tried Leadcommander, Montana?

By the way I recall seeing a dedicated real estate Outlook module advertised on internetcrusade.com at one time. This was a bit of software that "piggybacks" on Outlook instead of a standalone application like Act, Goldmine and the like.

Yes, I have Leadcommander. It is really straight forward and has a slight homemade feeling to it. It is supposed to interface with adtrakker, so Im in the process of learning what bells and whistles it has. Now I just have to fill it up with leads hopefully

My office uses outlook first and act second.

Moving to top for you Jim. Has some more info in it for your refrence.

Was a duplicate post. see http://www.agentsonline.net/forum/ultimatebb.php/topic/4/168.html for more information.

Please try Contacts Clinic a plugin for Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002(XP), 2003. You can Auto update outdated Outlook contact, Remove duplicate outlook contact, Import and Export Outlook Contact, Extract Email Ids from Outlook mails and folders, Extract email addresses for Internet Explorer IE pages. Contacts Clinic is secure and no 3rd party data handling.

Contact Clinic is the best Microsoft Outlook Contact Management Software in the market.

Try it http://www.srimax.com/contactsclinic

Top Producer seems to be the best out there. We prefer the 6i. (Older edition) it's not web based and not $34.95 per month.