Contact manager software. It’s a basic but essential thing for just about any business, no matter what its size or industry. For a business, contacts are key. A business depends on and thrives because of its contacts, whether they be employees, customers, leads, or partners. Therefore, it serves a business well to retain any and every person of interest in its database. And why not? Today’s technology makes it quick, efficient, and painless to add contacts to your database. Initially, it’s hard for a business-owner to feel the need for a specialized contact management solution. After all, the business only has a handful of contacts at that stage, and an equally small number of employees. At that stage, a spreadsheet, for example, seems more than adequate to fill the “contact management” needs. But before one knows it, the business grows, and so do the employees, and, naturally, the contacts. The spreadsheet is grossly under powered for handling the contact managerial nightmare haunting the business now. And that is where a specialized solution comes in. Smart entrepreneurs with foresight know they will require such a solution eventually, so they actually invest early to reap the benefits from day one.