creating a database

[PRMum]

I want to create a database to store my press contacts in. At the moment, I have all my contacts stored in an excel spreadsheet. It has different sheets per media type e.g. women’s interest magazines, parenting magazines, national newspapers, local newspapers, tv, radio etc. Within each media type, I have the different publications listed e.g. Newspapers would have The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph etc. And within each of those, I’d have different roles listed e.g. features editors, news editors, shopping editors, homes/interiors editors, travel editors etc.

Now it is nightmare because it means everytime I want to send out a press release, I have to pick through loads and loads of different names to choose the right person. What I want to do is to have a list of say shopping editors or travel editors but who can also be found under their publication type. And I want to be able to update any details in one place and have it updated across all the lists that person is mentioned.

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[FONT='Calibri','sans-serif']Thanks[/FONT]

 

[invictaseo]

Its not as hard as you think. pm me for more details
Mike

 

[BusinessIdeas]

I can write you an access db to do all that and more, will cost about £100 - Gina

 

[brownie]

If it is a database you require you can set one up for free at http://creator.zoho.com/, however you may want to consider a CRM solution and one I can recommend is http://www.zoho.com/crm/index.html

 

[aoteg]

Hi,

My team can provide you, an hosted solution for OLAP cube (Online analytical processing cube)
which is extremely usefully for the representation and projection of data
similar to the challenges you have described above.

what is OLAP cube for more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLAP_cube

You can PM me for more info

 

[GlasscubesDOTcom]

It sounds like you want some form of basic CRM to manage you contacts (and sales).
There are many free/low cost solutions out there - just do a search for them.

We have a very simple contact/sales/ built in to Glasscubes. Its free and only take 20 seconds to get up and running with it.

 

[timjones]

I use amphis customer for exactly this, simple CRM to manage contacts and group them into separate groups, with some contacts part of more than one group.