Central contacts list

We have a sales team who each maintains a sizeable contact list. We'd like
to set up a bulk mailer account which can access their contacts list in one
central fashion, and send out mailers as well as help them clean up their
contacts.

Right now we have them all share their contacts with this central account,
and we can do a good deal with this, but what we'd really like is to have all
these accounts in one list on the central account. And in such a way so if a
sales agent updates his contact list, it's reflected on the central list, and
vice-versa.

So my question is, what's the best way to do this? I don't know much about
MS CRM but it seems like overkill for a relatively minor job ... our sales
team is only half a dozen people. We could feasibly do this via public
folders but the trick there is how they can put set up this folder as a
subfolder in their own contacts folders.
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Ron B.
es.tv

Set it up as a public folder and have them go to the Public Folders section
in Outlook, right-click that public folder and make it a "Favorite". With
Outlook 2007 (and 2010) this is actually easier as the public contacts
folder should already appear on the Contacts pane.

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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
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"Ron B." wrote in message
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We have a sales team who each maintains a sizeable contact list. We'd
like
to set up a bulk mailer account which can access their contacts list in
one
central fashion, and send out mailers as well as help them clean up their
contacts.

Right now we have them all share their contacts with this central account,
and we can do a good deal with this, but what we'd really like is to have
all
these accounts in one list on the central account. And in such a way so
if a
sales agent updates his contact list, it's reflected on the central list,
and
vice-versa.

So my question is, what's the best way to do this? I don't know much
about
MS CRM but it seems like overkill for a relatively minor job ... our sales
team is only half a dozen people. We could feasibly do this via public
folders but the trick there is how they can put set up this folder as a
subfolder in their own contacts folders.
---------
Ron B.
es.tv