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"Turn your contacts into gold! GOLDMINE. The # 1- Rated Contact Manager". So says the box that GOLDMINE comes in. It goes on to list seven bullets from "complete contact tracking" through "leads and marketing analysis".
When I first got this software to review, I thought it was just another time management tool or some more software that I would never have time to use. I must confess I still never seem to have time to use it, but what it does, it seems to do very well. I must also confess that I am still discovering what it can do.
As I opened the box at first, it seemed to me that software that needed "only" 8 MB of hard drive space would never do all that it claimed. Especially since it was all contained on 3 diskettes that took less than 15 minutes to load and set. Up and running in less than 15 minutes! Can you imagine any software this sophisticated being ready to use that quickly? I can't.
Another thing to amaze me is the documentation. I expected a small pamphlet-style Users Guide and lots of references to online help. What I got was three '/2 inch thick manuals, a User's Guide and a two-volume...