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In ACT! 2010 Essential Training, author and ACT! Certified Consultant Karen Fredricks explains how ACT! can help small to mid-sized businesses become more organized, efficient, and profitable. ACT! is the most popular contact management software on the market, and this course is designed to get users up and running fast. Karen demonstrates how to build a database of contacts and customers, work with notes and histories, and run reports. Scheduling and task management are covered in depth, as well as integration with Word, Excel, and Outlook. Karen devotes time to new features in ACT! 2010, including e-marketing and integration with social media.

Join professional songwriter Cliff Goldmacher as he shares his insights on the songwriting process and on what it takes to make it in the music business as a songwriter.

Small business consultant Dave Crenshaw offers a simple three-step sales system (explore-present-act) that you can incorporate into your own small business to boost sales.

The California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) is the first major privacy act to come out of the United States.

Ratchet is a fantastic framework for prototyping mobile apps. Ratchet prototypes look and act just like native iOS and Android apps, but they're programmed with languages familiar to almost all web designers and developers: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Join Chris Griffith in this course, as he shows how to configure your development environment to work with Ratchet, and build your first app prototype, from creating the initial screen and adding transitions between pages, with Push.js, to using Ratchet's iOS and Android built-in themes, which make your app immediately look at home on either platform.

A countdown timer is a great way to increase anticipation for a product launch or announcement on your website. In this installment of Design the Web, Chris Converse shows how to add an elegant and responsive countdown using a free jQuery plugin.

Explore your data in new ways with interactive dashboards in Tableau. Dashboards act like dynamic reports that can be used for in-depth data analysis or to present information to clients. In this course, Nate Makdad shows you how to create them.