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Forbes

The Main Street Tech Report: $5 CRM Software?

(This column originally appeared in Forbes) Welcome to The Main Street Tech Report, your weekly roundup of the most important small business technology news. Here are…

Gene MarksApril 20, 2026

Forbes

Business Tech Roundup: LinkedIn Rolls Out Post Boosting For Lead Generation

(This column originally appeared in Forbes) Here are five things in tech that happened this week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?…

Gene MarksNovember 10, 2024

Forbes

These Are The Worst CRM Applications For Your Business

(This column originally appeared in Forbes) Recently, USA Today published their list of the Best CRMs (Customer Relationship Management) software for 2024. And there…

Gene MarksFebruary 12, 2024

Forbes

On Technology: The Achilles Heel Of AI That No One Is Talking About

(This column originally appeared in Forbes) You can’t visit a tech website nowadays without the words “AI” all over the place and I’m as guilty…

Gene MarksJune 23, 2023

Forbes

On CRM: Key Steps To Ensure A Clean, Reliable And Effective CRM Database

(This column originally appeared in Forbes) Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and other software vendors love to tout their features, functionality, automation, AI tools and analytics.…

Gene MarksJune 8, 2023

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A Bigin Deepdive: Getting Information from Bigin

In the first installment of this series about small business CRM I described a CRM system as being nothing more than a database. No matter…

Gene MarksMay 16, 2023

Forbes

On CRM: 9 CRM Applications That Are Already Using ChatGPT

(This column originally appeared in Forbes) Right now, as I write this, countless software companies are building new features into their products that will leverage…

Gene MarksMay 9, 2023

client posts

A Bigin Deepdive: Access To Data And External Apps with Bigin

My company has been implementing CRM systems for more than two decades. Sometimes people ask me what’s changed the most over that period of time.…

Gene MarksMay 9, 2023

client posts

A Bigin Deepdive: Increased Automation And Productivity with Bigin

I write and speak a lot about the economy and although there have been plenty of economic challenges facing small businesses over the past few…

Gene MarksMay 2, 2023

client posts

A Bigin Deepdive: Better Communication and Collaboration With Bigin

In my first blog I explained why Bigin is a better and more cost effective option for a small business than Zoho CRM or other…

Gene MarksApril 25, 2023