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User guide for learning more about how you could use ACT! everday to make you more efficient. - more...
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Step-by-step instructions on making your own database, layout, template, and report changes. - more...
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Manage your ACT! database with confidence with procedures for setting up users, synchronization, and other advanced topics. - more...
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Review Planning & Maintenance GuidePlanning and Maintenance Guide for ACT!
The perfect tool to help you document your ACT! database design and implementation using extensive checklist. - more...
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Your guide to importing .csv and .txt files, as well as other ACT datbases...without destroying your existing ACT! database. - more...
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Guidelines to use with your staff on consistent data entry into the database. Includes on-line testing tool. - more...
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Fun end-of-the-day wrap up of topics covered during class. Easy to customize to your own topics. - more...
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ATTENTION: ACT! Do-It-Yourself-ers!

Wouldn't you like to take
ACT! beyond
using it like a Rolodex?

Do you feel like...
  • you could do more with ACT!, but you just don't know where to start?
  • you are wasting time trying to accomplish something that ACT! could do for you?
  • your staff desperately needs training in ACT! to get the most out of your investment?
Your answer is at the left. Whether you have been left to your own devices to figure out how to best use ACT! or you want to find a way to train your entire staff, we have an option for you. ACT Support

My name is Susan Clark. I literally wrote the book on ACT! software. I'm the author of The Official ACT! Quick Study Guide (now in its 6th edition) which sells on ACT!'s home page.

I am a Sage Authorized Premiere Trainer and our courseware is used by many consultants in their training classes nationwide. In fact, I train and certify ACT! Certified Consultants for Sage (really…they hire me …they don't do it themselves).

In addition, I've been consulting with small to medium-sized businesses on their sales and marketing efforts for over 20 years (as well as with a Fortune 500 company every now and then). So, I know what works and what doesn't.

Easy to understand guides

I've always hated software documentation that says...
Click on the Exit command in the File
menu at the top of the screen.

Why can't they give you instructions in sequence, with a minimum of descriptive verbiage, like ...
Click File, Exit

And what about procedures that start with...
Click on the Format command.

...but they forgot to tell you that you need to be in the Design view to find that command?

I got tired of working with user guides like that and we have been writing our own since 1987. In any of our books you can pick and choose what sections you want to work with and dive right in. No section is ever dependent upon completing the previous section. Steps are clearly documented. We not only tell you how to do it, but why you would want to.

When you buy our books, you'll get...

  • A great learning guide, with a
  • Color cheat sheet, and a
  • Keyboard template

Oh . . . by the way . . . our manuals also contain a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor every now and then. We hope you'll forgive us and not groan too loudly.
Courseware Title Price Sample Pages Course Outline
ACT 2008 Software
ACT! 2010: Everyday ACT 2010 software manual - Everyday $28 Everyday ACT2010-1
ACT! 2010: Customizing Customizing ACT Database $28 Customizing ACT2010-C
ACT! 2010: Administering Administering ACT Database 2010 $28 Administering ACT2010-A
ACT! 2010: Planning/Maintenance Guide*ACT 2010 Planning and Maintenance Guide $175 PMG ACT2010-PMG
ACT 2008 Software
ACT! 2009: Everyday (full day) $28 Everyday ACT2008-1
ACT! 2009: Customizing (full day) $28 Customizing ACT2009-C
ACT! 2009: Administering (full day) $28 Administering ACT2009-A
ACT! 2009: Planning/Maintenance Guide* $175 PMG ACT2009-PMG
ACT 2008 Software
ACT! 2008: Everyday (full day) $28 Everyday ACT2008-1
ACT! 2008: Customizing (full day) $28 Customizing ACT2008-C
ACT! 2008: Administering (full day) $28 Administering ACT2008-A
ACT! 2008: Planning/Maintenance Guide $175 PMG ACT2008-PMG
ACT! 2007: Everyday (full day) $28 Everyday ACT2007-1
ACT! 2007: Customizing (full day) $28 Customizing ACT2007-C
ACT! 2007: Administering (full day) $28 Administering ACT2007-A
ACT! 2007: Planning/Maintenance Guide $175 PMG ACT2007-PMG
Upgrading to ACT! 2006 (4-6 hours) $28 Upgrade ACT2006-U
ACT! 2006: Everyday (full day) $28 Everyday ACT2006-1
ACT! 2006: Customizing (full day) $28 Customizing ACT2006-C
ACT! 2006: Administering (full day) $28 Administering ACT2006-A
ACT! 2006: Planning and Maintenance Guide $175 PMG ACT2006-PMG
Upgrading to ACT! 2005 (4-6 hours) $28 Upgrade ACT2005-U
ACT! 2005: Everyday (full day) $28 Introduction ACT2005-1
ACT! 2005: Customizing (full day) $28 Customizing ACT2005-C
ACT! 2005: Administering (full day) $28 Administering ACT2005-A
ACT! 2005: Planning and Maintenance Guide $175 PMG ACT2005-PMG
ACT! 2004/6: Upgrade (half day) $20 Upgrade ACT2004-U
ACT! 2004/6: Introduction (full day) $28 Introduction ACT2006-1
ACT! 2004/6: Intermediate (full day) $28 Intermediate ACT2004-2
ACT! 2004/6: Administrator (3 days day) $75 Administering ACT2004-A
ACT! 2004/6: Maintenance Manual $175 MM ACT2004-MM


Call 713-661-5200 if you want information on versions 2, 3, 4 or 2000/5.

All courseware (except Administrator) comes with a cheat sheet, a keyboard template (on cardstock).

If you are interested in our older non-ACT! courseware, click here.

To order, call 713-661-5200 or
ACT 2008 Manuals

ACT! Site Licenses

A site license allows your company to have unlimited rights to modify, to rearrange, to edit (with your own custom screen shots), or to print copies for your own internal and/or customer use*. There is no time limitation imposed upon copying rights and no annual fees. The site license is priced at $900 and includes:
  • CD containing the courseware title: "Everyday ACT!"
  • associated cheat sheet
  • keyboard template file
...in Word format

If you would like to additionally purchase the Customizing ACT! and Administering ACT! user guides in site license format, it would be an additional $650 for the combined set.

If you are an existing Cornerstone Site License owner, you may upgrade to the newest version for $300 for the Everyday course and $250 for the Admin/Customization set.

*You may not re-sell, share, or distribute the source files or, manuals printed from the source or modified source files, to other Certified Consultants or similar organizations.

To order a site license, call 713-661-5200

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