Christmas, 2018 New Year, it’s the time of year to show your business associates your appreciation! A token to highlight how much you value their relationship, and a perfect excuse to keep your relationship warm and to stay top-of-mind.

Knowing who to send a token of your gratitude to should be as easy as browsing your address book. A well-organised contact list will enable you to select the individuals with whom maintaining personal relationships is essential for you and your business. 

Blackberry’s demise can partly be attributed to the fact that many businesses now equip their employees with iPhones.

If you’re one of those people making the move then you’ll want to make sure all your contacts are transferred over.

As the industry leading mailer software, you’ll be wanting to import contacts from a diverse range of software into Mailchimp.

You can import mailing lists and contacts from everything from your accounting software such as Sage, Freshbooks and Quickbooks or your lead or customer relations software (CRM) such as Salesforce, Eventbrite or Google.

The original business phone has become less of an essential as Android and Apple have become more established.

Although Blackberry produces Android phones nowadays, you may find you need to transfer contacts from a classic Blackberry to an Android phone.

Backing up your phone contacts from time to time is a great way to prevent losing your numbers. You can also download any numbers on your phone to add to databases for various reasons.

One of the more popular CRM software options, Hubspot is a great tool for marketing. If you’re changing over or you are setting up for the first time, Hubspot offers several ways to import data from other CRM’s into its database.

One of the popular CRM software options, Infusionsoft is a good way to manage your business contacts and leads. If you use Infusionsoft for your marketing needs, you’ll want to know how to import business leads and contacts.

Hubspot is a great Marketing, Sales, and CRM software, that allows you to manage all of your company operation at one place. You can grow like a company twice your size while connecting like a real human being.

If you want to make sure your iPhone contacts are available across all devices, one of the best ways of doing this by syncing to a Google account.

This is especially handy if you use an Android phone as well as an iPhone or if you use Gmail to send emails regularly.

Transferring iPhone contacts to Gmail is actually pretty straightforward.

Facebook has gone from being just another social network to an essential contact tool for both work and pleasure.

Thankfully it’s very easy to sync your Facebook contacts with any Android device.