Gist.

This is a guest post from a user who wanted to share how he was using Gist. If you would like to do a guest post on the Gist blog then please send an email to marketing@gist.com.

Jeff Grosse is the founder of http://salesforcechannel.com and you can find him on twitter at @crmfyi. Enjoy his insight.

For me, Gist is one of those tools that gives me a competitive advantage unlike I’ve experienced before. It gives me one place to unearth information on everyone I know from all electronic and social media venues. It crosses business and personal lives to help me know my coworkers, business partners, and my friends even better.

Instead of taking 10-30 minutes researching the people I plan on reaching out to, I spend just a couple of minutes glancing through my Gist dashboard to prepare myself for meetings each day. What I find, helps me engage better with people, and I even use it to know who to reach out to when we’ve been out of contact too long.

One feature I enjoy is when Gist picks up on people who get CCd on emails I receive so I can effortlessly build a deeper network and track relationships. And since the integration of Gist to Gmail for Google Apps came along, I’ve been able to drill to updates on people almost effortlessly. The data is just there for me to read and deeper details are just a click away in the Gist website.

In time, I’ve come to trust Gist as my “master contact list” since it integrates to all the sites and tools I work with regularly. It aggregates information painlessly, and keeps me from scrambling around the Internet to extend relationships.