Business Contact vs. Just Contacts

[Mr. Beach]

I've been trying to find out what the difference is between the business
contacts and the plain contacts. I am a realtor and getting ready to add
about 500 contacts and I want to make sure they get added to the right place.

Anyone know the difference?

 

[Dmitri Yukhnovets]

for someome it's very sensetive, for others it's not important

if you track your records in plain contacts in the structure with Exchange
Server, you are able to share this contacts givin access rights to people
over Exchange. if you put contct in BCM this contact become anavailable for
Exchange sharing but the people who share BCM db is able to see these
contacts. so in result you stupidly have two sets of contacts in plains and
BCM that mostly dublicate each other.....

 

[Lon Orenstein]

One suggestion is to keep personal contacts (relatives, friends, et al) in
Outlook and business contacts in BCM. I keep ALL my contacts in BCM but I'm
not sharing with anyone. It depends on what you're willing for others to
see.

HTH,
Lon


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Lon Orenstein
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Author of Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager For Dummies
Author of the eBook: Moving from ACT! to Business Contact Manager
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[Technicater]

The handling of contacts is different between the 2.
BCM has more power for customising your database & forms, plus handling your
contact info.
Right click on a contact in Outlook you get 4 options to create new items.
BCM gives you 10, most of which are automatically saved to the contact's
history.
BCM allows you to customise the form which appears when you open a contact.
You can put your own fields on this form & save having to navigate to other
forms to see more info on the contact.
If you modify or tweak the views, i.e. resize columns it is auto saved in
BCM whereas Outlook requires you to save your changes manually.
These are just a few of the differences I've found so far.
Hope this is helpful, Regards Mick.