database software???

dandare

hey folks i'm gathering together loads of company names/websites/emails etc that i plan to use to promote my work. at the moment i've got them on notepad but i'm looking for something a bit better some type of database that i can bulk email from, group in to different categories etc
any ideas freeware preferred.
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dan

Browntoa

I suspect open office will do it

http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html

it has a database part and a word processor part, all microsoft office compatable

Cricri

Why not just use Excel?
If you need to store some kind of relationships between fields, use Access.
If you want it free and don't have MS Office, use OpenOffice as suggested above.

seaweasel

As mentioned, OpenOffice will probably be fine, however if you're using your database for bulk emailing, it might be better to set up a mailing list server. Alternatively you could use the address book in your email client.

As for database applications, I much prefer FileMaker Pro to Access but I don't think a full database app is what you need.

Idiophreak

seaweasel wrote: »

Alternatively you could use the address book in your email client.

Just to second this, something like outlook will enable you to store common details and then add each contact to a number of groups. Can then just send a mail to "all customers" "uk customers" "customers who want to buy blue socks" and so on

superscaper

Idiophreak wrote: »

Just to second this, something like outlook will enable you to store common details and then add each contact to a number of groups. Can then just send a mail to "all customers" "uk customers" "customers who want to buy blue socks" and so on

It does seem the OP only needs a contact manager not a full blown database. And Outlook should be perfectly adequate for that.

Mark7799

Sorry to bring this thread back to life but I have been trying to search and this seems to be the closest I can find to my query. I have a mailing list of approximately 500 addresses, currently stored on MS Access and I'm trying to set up a list whereby I can print (up to) 50 different labels every week.

Some will be written to every week, others maybe once in a season. What I am trying to find is a way I can get printed labels of specified records only e.g. I can sel;ect to print records 1, 5, 8, 35, 71, 77-79,91 etc.

Hope I've explained this OK and someone can offer me any suggestions.

netlang

Take a look at Filemaker Pro or Bento

isofa

netlang wrote: »

Take a look at Filemaker Pro or Bento

Access can do this, but you'll need to approach it differently. This is how I would do it...

First add a "to_print" or "to_select" field to the table, which is a Boolean (Yes/No) field.

Then list the names/ address and checkbox (i.e. tick) the ones you want to print.

Then run a query to select all fields, where the "to_print" field = TRUE

Then you can base either a report on this to print labels, or link the data to a word mail merge to do something similar.

Obviously you can get more sophisticated and add a "mail_to" with various options such as weekly, monthly etc, set-up correctly this will enable to to select everyone to mail in the correct week - my above example was just a illustration of how to approach a simple selection.

Bob63

What about Free CRM?

Mark7799

Thanks to all whop have offered suggestions. I'll try them and report back as to which, if any, works for my purpose.