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Blitz Release Notes
Release Notes 07/10/2010
Lead Source
Lead Source has been added as an option for each lead in Blitz. There is a new configuration screen for managing the lead sources. (Administration -> Lead Sources)
Adding/Updating Leads - The lead source can be specified when adding a lead from the lead list, importing leads, or mobile add lead screens. The source can be updated from the lead log or mobile update page.
New My Blitz Gadget- The My Blitz has a new gadget that breaksdown leads by lead source. There is also the option to view the breakdown for a single campaign.
Updated Opportunities Gadgets - The Won, Lost, and Pending gadgets have had a new lead source section added so that you can view your opportunities broken down by lead source.
Miscellaneous - The lead source was also added as a column on the lead list, opportunities list, and milestone report. So each of these pages can be filtered/sorted based on the lead’s current source.
My Blitz
On top of the new lead source updates, the opportunities gadgets have been changed so that they reference what has occurred this month and last month. The old “Past Month” opportunity breakdowns have been replaced by “This Month” and “Last Month” breakdowns. This will allow you to track opportunity progress based on month from the My Blitz page.
A new pending breakdown has also been added. The “Still Pending And The Estimated Close Date Has Passed” breakdown will show you all opportunities that have passed their estimated close date. This is useful to make sure that opportunities are being updated in a timely manner and they don’t get left in a pending status beyond the date that they were closed. (This will only work for opportunities that have a defined Estimated Close Date”)
Blitz Release Notes
Release Notes 06/10/2010
Enterprise Edition Defaults
Company’s are now easier than ever to configure. Just setup defaults for Statuses, Milestones, Log Types, Quick Adds, and Opportunity Categories and those values will be used when creating a new company.
Quick Assign Auto-Logging
Now, whenever you use the Quick Assign drop-down on the Lead Log history tab, a log entry will automatically be created that indicates that you just Quick Assigned the lead.
Lead’s Website field
The lead’s website can now be up to 255 characters long.
Blitz Release Notes
Release Notes 05/30/2010
10 New Custom Columns
Lead List/Import Leads/Lead Log Details/Campaign Settings/API - 10 new custom columns have been added. If you had more data than custom columns, now you can take advantage of 10 more custom columns. The 10 new custom columns will behave like the previous 10. You can rename, make them drop-downs, or now even dates.
Custom Date Columns
All 20 custom columns can now be text boxes, drop-downs, or now dates. By making a custom column a date only field, you limit the values that can be in that field to a single date and all searching a filtering will be based on date values.
Administrators can configure the custom columns by:
- Navigate to the Adminstration -> Manage Campaigns screen
- Select the Campaign Settings (
) icon for the campaign you wish to edit - Go to the Custom Column Types Screen
- Edit the custom column by clicking the pencil icon
- Check the Date column check-box and save. Note: Any data you had in that column that was not a date will no longer be shown and potentially will be overwritten if you update the lead.
Campaign Settings Tab Layout
The campaign settings administration screen has been moved to a tab layout. So you no longer have to scroll down the screen to update your custom column settings. Also, the drop-down configuration settings have been moved into this screen so that all of your campaign settings are located on one page. The drop-down configuration is now under the Custom Column Types tab.
Blitz Files - Total File Size
You can see the total file size of all files that are stored in Blitz at the footer of the Blitz Files list.
Merge Lead From Lead Log
You can now merge a lead into another campaign without leaving the lead log screen. At the top of the screen next to the Blitz Tv link you will see the Merge icon. Click the icon to open the Merge Lead page, select the target campaign and merge the lead.
Manage Campaigns
A new column has been added to the manage campaigns screen that displays the number of leads that are in the campaign.
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Release Notes 03/28/2010
New Filtering Options on My Blitz
Enterprise Admins can now filter results by company. The new drop-down allows you to change the gadgets to only display opportunities, statuses, milestones, and assigned to user for a specific company.
Professional Admins can now filter statuses, milestones, and assigned to user by campaign. Just select the campaign you want to filter on in the gadget you want filtered.
Changed Requirements to Delete Milestones, Statuses and Log History Types
In the past if you had used a milestone, log history type or status you could not delete it. With this release you can now remove any milestones, statuses and log types as long as they are not being used for a quick add. You can easily delete or modify any quick adds that are causing an in use error. Also, Converted and Contacted milestones are now fully editable.
Lead Quick Search Result Columns
Contact Name and Phone Number are now included as default columns when doing a Lead Quick Search.
Lead Log History List Report
The lead’s Phone Number and Email Address are now included on the report.
Blitz Release Notes
Release Notes 02/05/2010
Blitz Mobile (Enterprise and Professional Editions)
With blitz mobile you can:
- Search for leads by Name, Contact Name, Phone, Email Address or Zip Code
- Update and Edit Existing Leads
- View and Add History for a specific lead
- Add an Appointment to your Schedule for a Lead
- Add a New Lead and easily add history or an appointment for the new lead
- View your schedule
- Add an Appointment to your schedule
To access Blitz Mobile add a /m/ to your regular login URL.
A link to the mobile login is also on the regular login page as well.
For Professional Edition the login is: https://www.blitzleadmanager.com/login/m/
For Enterprise Editions the login will vary based on your Enterprise Name:
https://www.blitzleadmanager.com/[EnterpriseName]/m/
Blitz Release Notes
Release Notes 01/18/2010
Enhanced Lead Distribution
- The lead distribution has been enhanced to provide more powerful tools in distribution and re-assignment of leads.
- Assign Leads by Campaign has been enhanced to allow percentages to be defined to each user that is to receive leads.
Select Users to Receive Leads:Users that have permission to view the selected campaign appear in the Select Users list. Select the users you would like to assign leads to.
Assigning Percentages to Selected Users: After selecting the users to be assigned leads, you must assign each of them a percentage of the leads to be distributed. Total percentage must equal 100%, and you progress to 100% can be seen in meter to the right. If you go over 100%, the last amount entered will be automatically adjusted so that the total equals 100%.
- Redistribute Leads by User
Select the User who’s leads are going to redistributed: The user dropdown allows you to specify the user you wish to redistribute leads from. The number of leads assigned to each user is shown in parenthesis.
Select a Campaign: The number of leads assigned to the selected user in each campaign is displayed in parenthesis.
Leads to Redistribute: This dropdown contains categories of leads to redistribute.
Neglected Leads: The number of neglected leads is displayed in parenthesis.
New Leads Over 7 Days Old: After selecting this option, you must specify the number of days since the last log date (default is 7). The number of leads falling under this category are displayed in parenthesis.
Abandoned Leads: After selecting this option, you must specify the number of days since the last log date (default is 7) and which statuses to include in the redistribution.
All Leads: This selects all leads assigned to the selected user in the selected campaign.
Leads to be Redistributed: This checkbox list contains all of the leads meeting the criteria defined above. Every checked lead will be redistributed (all checked by default).
Select Users to Receive Redistributed Leads: Users that have permission to view the selected campaign appear in the Select Users list. Select the users you would like to assign leads to.
Assigning Percentages to Selected Users: After selecting the users to be assigned leads, you must assign each of them a percentage of the leads to be distributed. Total percentage must equal 100%, and you progress to 100% can be seen in meter to the right. If you go over 100%, the last amount entered will be automatically adjusted so that the total equals 100%.
Campaign Lead History
- Blitz now supports the ability to add a history record to every lead in a campaign. This includes optionally setting a status and milestone.
Enhanced International Lead Support
- International leads are now fully supported
Enhanced Lead Import
- Does your .csv spreadsheet contain a first name and last name in different columns? Blitz will now concatenate the first name and last name for you during import. Just drag the first name and last name into either the Lead Name field or Contact Name.
- Importing into existing campaigns has been enhanced to allow you view custom column names and identifies drop-down columns.
- Enhanced error messages
- Enhanced state and country support. Blitz now accepts either a valid state/country abbreviation or the state/country spelled out.
Blitz Release Notes
Release Notes 12/02/2009
Lead Log
- The lead log has been enhanced to provide a simpler interface and to speed up the adding of lead history.
- Each section of the lead log is now displayed as it’s own tab. The four sections of the former lead log, Details, History, Opportunities, and Files, have become the first four tabs. Three other features have also been moved/added to the lead log, Directions, Send Email, and Lead Schedule.
- Details Tab - The Details tab allows you to edit any of the leads information.
- History Tab - The History tab allows you to add notes and update the lead’s milestone, status, and assigned to user.
- Opportunities Tab - The Opportunities tab allows you to add and update the opportunities that are associated with the lead.
- Files Tab - The Files tab allows you to attach a file to the lead.
- Directions Tab - The Directions tab contains turn by turn directions from your office to the lead’s address.
- Send Email Tab - The Send Email tab allows you to send an email to the lead.
- Schedule Tab - The Schedule tab shows the upcoming schedule for the lead and allows you to add an appointment to your schedule or another user’s schedule for the lead.
- Quick Assign - Leads can now be assigned to a user at your company by selecting he/she from the Quick Assign dropdown.
- Milestones Reached - The Show Milestones option at the top of the page will reveal the milestones that have been reached for the lead. You can see the progression of milestones as well as how long it took to reach and which user performed the action.
Archive Campaign
- Campaigns can now be archived. Archiving a campaign is similar to deleting a campaign. Archived campaigns are not displayed anywhere in the system. Leads in an archived campaign cannot be viewed, modified or reported on while the campaign is marked as archived.
- To archive a campaign
- Administrators can navigate to the Manage Campaigns Screen
- Click the Pencil icon for the lead you want to archive.
- Check the Archive checkbox
- Click the Save button
Enhanced Dashboards
- The width of all charts will now auto-size based on the amount of data.
- Number of Leads Dashboard
- Added several new charts to allow a further drill-down. Leads are now broken down for current assigned to user and current statuses for a selected campaign.
- Leads Added Dashboard
- Added several new charts to allow a further drill-down. Leads are broken down by how many leads a user added, by the current assigned to user and by the current lead status for leads added to selected campaign.
My Company
- The My Company screen allows administrators to update the company’s address. The company address is used for displaying directions.
Delete Opportunities
- Click on the trash can icon for the opportuntiy that you wish to delete.
- Note:
- Locked opportunities cannot be deleted. If you want to delete an locked opportunity you must unlock the opportunity first.
- Administrators can delete any opportunity.
- Users can only delete opportunities that are assigned to them or that was created by them.
Blitz Release Notes
Release Notes 9/23/2009
Schedule Enhancements
- Appointments can now be added to another user’s schedule without adding it to your schedule. While adding the appointment un-check your name from attendees list.
- Add an appointment while looking at another users schedule. In the past other user’s schedules have been read-only. Now, you have the option to add an appointment directly to another user’s schedule the same you way you would add one to your own.
- All appointments on your schedule are now editable. In the past shared appointments you did not create and appointments in the past were not editable. Now, you can edit and delete past appointments on your schedule as well as any other appointments you created for other users. Appointments you cannot edit or delete are marked with the
icon. - You can now edit appointments that other users create on your schedule. Note that the appointment will be updated for all attendees and the attendees.
Tips
Importing First Name/Last Name Columns
Updating First and Last Name Columns
When you have a spreadsheet that contains a first name and a last name, how can that be mapped to the “Name” field or “Contact Name” field within Blitz Lead Manager? The solution is to create a new field (ex. Full Name) within your spreadsheet before you try the upload.
For example, if you have the spreadsheet and column A “first name” and column B is “last name”, here is how you would proceed:
- Open spreadsheet
- You can insert a new column “C” and call it “Full Name”
- Go to the C2 cell and enter this exact formula: =CONCATENATE(A2,” “,B2)
- Copy the formula (cell C2) down under column “C” (all rows).
- Save the file
Now you can continue with the import process and use the Full Name column to map to the Lead Name or Contact Name within Blitz Lead Manager.
Tips
How to setup an iCalendar feed
Instructions for Outlook 2007
To add Blitz’s iCal feed to Outlook 2007, follow these simple steps:
- In Blitz, enable the public iCal feed and obtain the URL from your My Profile.
- Copy the URL by highlighting it and entering control-C or clicking the copy command in your web browser.
- From your Outlook 2007 Calendar menu, select “Tools”, then “Account Settings”.
- Select the Internet Calendars Tab and click the “New” button
- Paste the URL you copied in step #2 into the box. Enter control-V or click the paste command and click “Add”.
- A “Subscription Options” box will be displayed. You have the option here to change the display name for your calendar and/or add a description
- Click OK
- Expand the “Other Calendars” section in your navigation pane and select the name of the calendar you just setup to view your Blitz schedule. Use the arrows on your calendar tabs to merge/separate your Blitz calendar with your standard Outlook calendar.
Sample Setup Instructions for Lotus Notes 8.5
To add an iCal feed in Lotus Notes 8.5, follow these steps:
- In Blitz, enable the public iCal feed and obtain the URL from your My Profile.
- Copy the URL by highlighting it and entering control-C or clicking the copy command in your web browser.
- Go to Lotus Notes and in the Views panel of the calendar navigator, click My Calendars and then click Add a Calendar.
- In the following “Add a Calendar” dialog box, select the “add” dropdown and choose “iCalendar feed.”
- Click into the “URL” field and paste the URL you previously copied from your My Profile (control-V or the paste command in your web browser).
- Enter Blitz Schedule or some other label you prefer into the “label” field.
- Set any other options you wish and then click the “OK” button to complete the setup.















