Contact Databse - Need to update

[Jake]

Hi everyone -

I've been given a task at work to go through our 300+ person contact
database and clean up any bad data as well as collect more information
that we will be using to implement a new marketing software in 30
days. The problem I have is that I don't have enough time to contact
each one of these customers to go over their information and make any
updates. Instead, I would like to make this more automated and send
out an email with a PDF attachment that has a list of questions and
contact information that they need to verify for accuracy and make any
changes necessary.

So here are my questions:

1. Can I create a pdf document that I can email out to customers for
them to update and send back? Keeping in mind that not every customer
will be using a email client like MS Outlook or Outlook Express and
they might be using a web based emailed system such as Yahoo or GMail.
I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not.

2. The current contact information was given to me in MS Excel and
I've been asked to give it back in the same format. Is it possible to
use Excel as the so called database for all of the information from
the pdf document to be linked to?

Thanks in adavance for any help.

-Jake

[Yang Lu]

Hi Jake,

It seems our software CenoPDF is not the best candidate for this task. In my
opinion, the best way (maybe the easiest way) is to create a simple web
form, email the link to your customer, have them to fill the form then
submit, your server side code can intercept the data and save them into
Excel.

To answer your question:
1. Web based email system will have problem to populate form data. Also FAQ
1 shows other alternatives: http://www.lystech.com/faq.aspx#q1
2. If you can somehow workaround above problem, you can create emails with
special format, for example, divide the data fields with tab key, etc and
manually import the data in an email into Excel.

Thanks,

CenoPDF Support
-- http://www.lystech.com/contact.aspx

Hi everyone -

-Jake

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