Lazarus recognised as Trusted Expert by @ExpertsExchange

GL Computing is proud to announce that Mike Lazarus has achieved another honour unique to the Act! world.

Experts Exchange has recognised him as a Trusted Expert for 2019 in their new acknowledgement for Certified Professionals.

When a crisis strikes, you want help from experts you can trust. Experts Exchange’s Certified Professionals have real-world experience, maintain top certifications, demonstrate high levels of professionalism, are well-known and remain highly dedicated to sharing their knowledge with users like you.

As the second-highest level of recognition, Trusted Experts have proven to be trustworthy and knowledgeable through their continued professional interactions on site.

Experts Exchange encourages users like you to network with these vetted, passionate individuals who are committed to staying current with certifications and the industry’s latest best practices.

Meet the Certified Professionals - Trusted Experts 

See Mike Lazarus's Profile on Experts Exchange

Mike is also the world’s only Certified Act! Expert – Sanctioned by Swiftpage.

Who Is Mike Lazarus, the Act! Evangelist – A Bio

Mike Lazarus, the Act! Evangelist, was born and raised down-under in Sydney, Australia. He lives and breathes Act! CRM and has been involved with the software for nearly 30 years.

After going to NSW University to study Computer Science, he went into hardware engineering. First at IBM on 80xx series mainframes. Then at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he won an Engineer of the Year award. This was also when he moved over to the faster pace of the software side of the computing industry.

With personal computing taking off, he joined Sourceware as a Product Manager. Tasked with looking after the Australian and New Zealand marketing and support for a range of software products including the Australian-made, Tracker – one of the first Contact Managers.

In 1987, PC Extras, which had just picked up distribution of a new Contact Manager called ACT!, asked Mike to take over the Product Management role for it and other products. In the first year, sales went from four seats of Act! in the first month to a thousand in the twelfth. Thus began three decades of Mike’s association with Act!. It was also at this time that Mike Muhney (one of the co-founders of Act!) called him, what soon became his internationally recognised title, “Act! Evangelist”

In 1991, Mike got the urge to put into practise many of the ideas he’d been teaching Act! users to do. He started his own business, GL Computing, which specialised in small to medium business computing. Through his business, his love and passion for Act! continued to grow.

As part of his dedication to helping small to medium businesses reach their potential, Mike developed and added a range of skills to his own portfolio. He has helped a huge number of Act! users make the most of their customer data through training and support services. In addition, he’s supported many the Act! Certified Consultants to improve their skills. Mike also assisted a number of the Act! add-on developers with design input, quality assurance and beta testing for their products that provide a range of solutions for act! users. A special focus of his has been with products that enable Act! users to be mobile with smart phones, tablets and web browser access to their data.

On a personal note, he is very passionate about his family, friends, Rugby Union (a Life Member of the NSW Waratahs) and Blues music … Not necessarily in that order!

You can find links to other various on-line profiles here: About Mike Lazarus of GL Computing

Additional Achievements:

• One of the first ACCs to have a web site – 1995
• Selected to train Symantec’s technical staff when they purchased Contact Software International
• Served two terms on the Act! Advisory Board (the first member not from North America)
• Awarded the Community Contribution Award in 2002 – voted by all global ACCs
• Wrote the History of Act! and most of the content on Act! CRM Wikipedia page
• Is the most prolific Act! poster on on-line forums, since Symantec started them on CompuServe. This includes fourteen thousand posts on the Act! Community Site, alone
• Founded and administers the Act! Fanatics Group on LinkedIn, which has more members than the vendor's own group

 

Qualifications and Awards

• Swiftpage Act! Certified Consultant – 2014
• Certificate III in Micro Business Operations – 2014
• Experts-Exchange Certified ACT! Genius – 2012

• Sage – First ACT! Community Development Partner – 2011
• Experts-Exchange Titan Award – 2010
• Willy Award - Unsung CRM Hero – 2010
• Sage ACT! Community - Platinum Elite Contributor – 2010
• Experts-Exchange Titan Award – 2009
• itToolbox ACT! Top Contributor Gold Achievement – 2009
• itToolbox ACT! Enthusiast Gold Achievement – 2009
• Experts-Exchange Certified ACT! Sage – 2009
• Experts-Exchange Titan Award – 2008

• Sage ACT! Community Leader – 2008
• Experts-Exchange Certified ACT! Guru – 2008
• ACT! Certified Consultants - Community Contribution Award – 2002
• Symantec ACT! Certified Consultant – 1994
• Novell Certified Netware Engineer – 1994
• Contact Software International ACT! Authorised Trainer – 1992
• Digital Equipment Corp - Engineer of the Year 1986

 

Act! CRM Fanatic Links

If you’re interested, here are a few other Act! related feeds, forums and tools that I monitor:

• LinkedIn ACT! Fanatics - http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ACT-Fanatics-49896
• Twitter List - https://twitter.com/GLComputing/act-crm
• ACT! CRM Daily Paper - http://paper.li/GLComputing/actbysage
• Facebook Interest List - https://www.facebook.com/lists/10150654560093127
• Google+ ACT! Fanatics - https://plus.google.com/communities/109892208109008763279

 

Certified ACT! Genius @ExpertsExchange #SageACT

GL Computing’s Mike Lazarus has become the first Certified ACT! Genius at Experts-Exchange

Click image to see EE Profile or here to see PDF Certificate

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GL Computing wins @ExpertsExchange Titan award – 3rd time!

Experts-Exchange Titan 2010 

For the 3rd consecutive year, GL computing has earned a spot as a Top Expert in the 7th Annual Expert Awards.

From a competitive field of over 30,000 qualified experts worldwide, GL Computing's Mike Lazarus has been awarded the:

Titan Award - 2010

From Experts-Exchange: “Thank you for sharing your unparalleled, inconceivable, and brilliant knowledge with the members of Experts Exchange, without you Experts Exchange would not be the #1 IT resource in the web.”

Mike has won the Titan Award in 2008, 2009 and is the only Experts-Exchange Certified ACT! Sage

It is truly gratifying to have received this award, along with those others I’ve been honoured with recently.

Sadly, I still get no acknowledgement from Sage for the effort I put in to support users - including over 9,400 posts to their own ACT! Community Site and hosting the ACT! Fanatics Group.

Wishing you all a very festive season from GL Computing

I would like to thank all the readers of this blog and hope you have enjoyed the information I have shared during 2010 and found it useful.

I’d especially like to thank:

• Rich Bohn of SellMoreNow who honoured me with a Willy 2010 award for being a CRM Unsung Hero:

• Tony Holowitz of GetMyACT! Together for this very nice post titled: I Like Mike

These wonderful tributes encourage me to keep assisting users and resellers of ACT!

I thought I'd let you know that I won't be taking a break over this time, so feel free to post a comment here on the blog, to the ACT! Fanatics Group or the GL Computing Facebook Page should you have any questions I can help you with.

Please also feel free to post any suggestions for the types of content you’d like to see from me in the new year - your opinions are important to me.

I'd like to wish all of you and your families a safe, wonderful and successful new year.

Kindest Regards,
Mike Lazarus
ACT! Evangelist

My LinkedIN Profile
ACT! Fanatics Group
GL Computing Facebook Page

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ACT! Fanatics LinkedIN Group 1000th member prize

The LinkedIN ACT! Fanatics Group was created as a place where ACT! users, resellers, add-on vendors and Sage staff from around the world could communicate and share their knowledge of using ACT! by Sage

The success of this is proven by the huge volume of valuable information that has been shared and now we are rapidly approaching 1000 members.

As a special present, some of the add-on vendors who are members of this group have offered to put together two packs of ACT! add-ons:

• One for the 1000th member to the group
• One for a random member of the group at the end of the week that the 1000th member joins
  To be eligible for this prize, you must post a reply to the News article referring to this offer in the LinkedIN group stating why you would like to use any of the add-on products in this promotion.
  The decision on the winner will be made by me in conjunction with the add-on vendors taking part

Both packs can be used by the winners or, if won by a reseller, Sage staff member or a user unable to use them, they can be sold at their retail values.*

The following products are included in both packs:

Handheld Contact – Professional Edition (1 yr)	Handheld Contact wirelessly syncs and manages your ACT! Contacts, Activities and Notes/Histories from your BlackBerry, Pocket PC, or Treo Smartphone - it's like having ACT! with you anywhere, anytime! *iPhone version now in beta and due soon
itDial – Advanced	Enhanced calling interface from ACT! via TAPI phone systems and/or Skype VoIP. itDial for ACT! makes keeping track of telephone calls easier than ever. Using  itDial, ACT! users can dial and answer calls, update contact information, add new contacts, create history, and schedule activities for incoming and outgoing calls with just the click of a mouse.
Company Wizard	Mass update and build company records based on a Lookup of Contact and create the contact links
Duplicate Contact Wizard - Expert	Powerful De-duplicating Contacts and Companies in your ACT! database while retaining the extended data (Notes, Histories, Activities, Attachments, etc).
ACT! E-marketing (6 months)	ACT! E-marketing helps you reach out to your contacts, grow your database, qualify new leads and automate your business processes. The offer will be 6 months of: Pro service level Silver Drip Marketing 1 user on the account 1,000 email per day send limit
Stonefield Query (6 months)	Stonefield Query for ACT!® is a user-friendly database report writing, query, and data mining tool designed specifically for ACT! putting Business Intelligence reporting in the hands of the end-user where it belongs. Stonefield Query has been customized specifically for ACT! giving you an intuitive, easy-to-use BI reporting solution that you will love!

* Option to resell does not apply to ACT! E-marketing or Stonefield Query

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GL Computing awarded Experts-Exchange Titan award – 2nd year in a row

The epic performance of GL computing in 2009 has earned a spot as a Top Expert in the 6th Annual Expert Awards.

From a competitive field of over 30,000 qualified experts worldwide, GL Computing has been awarded the:

Titan Award - 2009

From Experts-Exchange: “Thank you for sharing your unparalleled, inconceivable, and brilliant knowledge with the members of Experts Exchange, without you Experts Exchange would not be the #1 IT resource in the web.”

GL Computing also won the Titan Award – 2008 and is the only Experts-Exchange Certified ACT! Sage

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First Certified ACT! by Sage SAGE

Experts-Exchange has given the first Sage Certification in their ACT! Zone to Mike Lazarus of GL Computing, who also won their annual Titan Award

According to Experts-Exchange, “The Experts Exchange Sage is celebrated for his or her vast wisdom, unfaltering judgment and years of experience. In the way that Obi-Wan Kenobi guided Luke Skywalker to Jedi awesomeness, the Experts Exchange Sage selflessly strives to lead all members to their maximum information technology potential.”

It is novel that this, the highest certification to be awarded so far in the ACT! Zone, make’s Mike the first Certified ACT! by Sage Sage.

Mike is also Sage’s ACT! Community Leader and the leading poster in many ACT! forums including those on itToolbox and Tek-Tips

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GL Computing wins Experts Exchange Titan Award 2008

Experts-Exchange announced today that The Titan Award for the highest percentage of support points earned in an Experts-Exchange Zone was awarded to GL Computing.

Experts-Exchange interview with GL Computing's Mike Lazarus

GL Computing’s Expert-Exchange Certifications for the ACT! Zone

GL Computing’s Experts-Exchange Profile

Having been the first Expert to earn Master Certification in the ACT! Zone, and the only one so far to have earned Guru and Wizard certifications, this award is further evidence of Mike Lazarus’s evangelical support for ACT! over the past 21 years.

To win this award from among some 250,000 experts world-wide supporting nearly 4 million IT professionals is simply amazing, and we’d like to thank Experts-Exchange and the users who have appreciated his support in this and many other forums.

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Mike is also Sage’s ACT! Community Leader and the leading poster in the ACT! forums on itToolbox, Tek-Tips and many others.

2008 Product Of The Year Awards From Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine for ACT! by Sage And Sage SalesLogix

Sage North America announced on December 22nd that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®)’s Customer Interaction Solutions® magazine (www.cismag.com) has named Sage SalesLogix v7.5 and ACT! by Sage 2009 (11.0) as 2008 Product of the Year Award winners.

The Sage CRM Solutions were cited for outstanding innovation and will be featured in the January 2009 issue of Customer Interaction Solutions magazine.

“For eleven years, Customer Interaction Solutions has recognized companies that demonstrate excellence in technological advancement and application refinements,” said Nadji Tehrani, Executive Group Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Customer Interaction Solutions. “I am pleased to honor Sage for its commitment to quality and delivering return on investment for its customers.”