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:

1. Navigate to the Adminstration -> Manage Campaigns screen
2. Select the Campaign Settings () icon for the campaign you wish to edit
3. Go to the Custom Column Types Screen
4. Edit the custom column by clicking the pencil icon
5. 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.

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/

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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 a Campaign: Leads can be distributed by campaign. The campaign dropdown allows you to specify the campaign you wish to distribute leads from. When you select a campaign Blitz Lead Manager will retrieve details about that campaign and display them below the dropdow. The details include Total Leads, Assigned Leads, and Unassigned 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%.

Which Leads to Include: The Include dropdown allows you to distribute only unassigned leads or to distribute all leads. The number of leads affected by each choice is in parenthesis.

• Redistribute Leads by User

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.

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.

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.

Schedule

Edit Appointment Time Menu - The time menu dropdown now starts at 7:00 AM and ends at 6:00 PM. All other times can be entered manually.

Appointment Type Colors - Each appointment type will now be displayed in a different color on your schedule. Emails are green, Meetings are Blue, Phone Calls are Orange, Personal Appointments are Red, and Tasks are Yellow.

iCalendar Feed - You can now publish your calendar so that it is available in an iCalendar feed. Many different programs accept iCalendar feeds, Outlook 2007 and Lotus Notes 8.5 allow for easy synchronization with iCalendar feeds. Once Outlook or Notes is configured, when you make a change to your calendar in Blitz the update will be shown in Outlook or Notes the next time the calendar refreshes.

To enable your iCalendar feed from Blitz:

• Go to the My Profile page
• Select the Publish Schedule iCalendar Feed checkbox
• Click the save button
• Click the Show iCalendar URL to see your calendars URL
• Note: iCalendar feeds are public and accessible by anyone with the unique URL for your calendar.

See “How to setup an icalendar feed” for more details on how to configure Outlook 2007 and Lotus Notes 8.5.

Lead Statuses

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Customize Lead Log Types

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My Profile - Enhanced Lead Log History Notifications

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Lead log history notifications have been enhanced to allow you to refine your preference so you only get emails when you want them. You can configure your user preference on the My Profile screen. Below is a description of each of the five new fields.

Enable Lead Log Notifications: If you enable lead log notifications Blitz will send you emails to the Blitz configured email address when lead log history entries are added and they meet your notification settings.

Notify Me About: The first notification preference allows you to define a high level of when you want to receive emails. [N/A for Enterprise Parent Company]

• All New Log History Entries - Any time a lead log history record is added you will receive a notification.
• Leads Assigned To My Company - Any time a lead log history record is added and the lead is assigned to your company then you will receive a lead log notification email.
• Leads Assigned To Me - Any time a lead log history record is added and the lead is assigned to you then you will receive a lead log notification email.
• Other options: Select a specific status and/or milestone to further refine your notification preference.

Notify Me When Status Is: To further refine your notification preference you can select a lead status. [N/A for Enterprise Parent Company]

• When you select a specific status, you will only be notified when the lead meets the notify me about, notify status and notify milestone.
• Choose the Any Status option if you don’t care what status the lead is in. You will then receive notifications when the lead meets the notify me about and milestone options.

Notify Me When Milestone Is: To further refine your notification preference you can select a lead milestone.

• When you select a specific milestone, you will only be notified when the lead meets the notify me about, notify status and notify milestone.
• Choose the Any Milestone option if you don’t care what milestone is assigned to the lead. You will then receive notifications when the lead meets the notify me about and status options.

Notify Me Of My Updates: Do you want notified of your own updates? Select this option if you want to receive notifications of your own updates.

We are excited to announce the official launch of Blitz TV. BlitzTv is an online video library dedicated to Blitz Lead Manager.

Every page in Blitz Lead Manager has a link to it’s related videos on BlitzTv. So if you are on the Lead List in Blitz you can click the BlitzTv link and see all the videos that are related to the lead list.

Also, each video category on BlitzTv relates to a specific menu option found in Blitz Lead Manager. So if you choose the Leads option of BlitzTv you will see videos related to the leads menu option from Blitz. We hope you enjoy this new component to the Blitz Lead Manager suite.