Thursday, March 22, 2012

My Quick Highrise Review

By Ashley Micheals


37Signals is the company responsible for Highrise. Highrise is best defined as an online system intended for businesses that want to manage contacts in an organized manner. All these contacts are important. You need a system like Highrise to keep the interaction system simple.

People mistake Highrise as just another marketing automation software, but it does more than automate your business. A marketing automation software can help you a lot but Highrise does more than that.

Highrise is popular as a contact and conferencing software. All the information you upload into the system can be accessed by workers or employees as well as clients.

You can import your contacts easily into the Highrise interface from MS Outlook. When the contacts are added, you can easily view the list.

Contact Monitoring

Sort your contacts and keep the lists public or private. Keep track or monitor the latest communication you are having with a client.. Using Highrise, you'll know when the last time you communicated with a client was.

Some files are only for specific contacts. Highrise can help you distribute various files to different contacts. Remind yourself how you want to communicate with the person in the future by putting notes that say you need to call this person in a particular date. Also, list upcoming tasks involving a contact. Your dashboard has all the things you need to manage your business.

Share information with your group easily. For a specific project, make sure to attach files and collate everything inside a briefcase. You can find everything you need if your stuff is nicely organized.

How much does the system cost? There are different plans to choose from. The cost could vary depending on the number of contacts you have on your list. The free plan allows you 250 contacts and 2 users, and is only good for trial. Under the free plan, file sharing features are unavailable. The ultimate plan is one that costs 99 USD a month, and you can have up to 40 users. At this rate, you can have 20 GB of storage, set up unlimited cases, and have up to 30,000 contacts. If you plan on keeping less than 5,000 contacts, then the 24 USD/month plan is for you.



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