Our Mission
1st Contact exists to help businesses and organizations with their Access databases using a collaborative working relationship.
Michelle Meyer feels, very strongly, that end-users know their jobs and
database needs best. Her highest sense of accomplishment is the
collaborative working relationships she maintains with her clients. It
is this approach which ensures for database functionality and user
satisfaction. Over the years, this working style has taken on a life of its own. Michelle's clients were the first to coin the term " collaborative development".
Collaborative development requires time commitment from clients. In the
end, clients are teaching Ms. Meyer about their jobs, about their
clients/customers, about their business. The willingness of clients to
invest more time building and maintaining their Access databases makes
for a very user-friendly database application.
Michelle's commitment to a
collaborative working relationship shows in her willingness to spend
time teaching people the basics of Microsoft Access. Her commitment to
education means a higher sense of ownership by end-users.
Collaboration
means end-users guide 1st Contact services. End-users test and re-test
during the entire life of a project. End-users determine priorities and
help develop task lists based on the priorities they develop. Because
end-users are willing to involve themselves in the maintenance and
development of their databases, they end up with a database that fits
their work processes.
Specializing in Microsoft Access Database Assistance
1st Contact is independently owned and operated by Michelle Meyer. Michelle has over 10 years of experience working with organizations on their Microsoft Access databases. Services provided include:
- Consultation and Tutorial Services on Microsoft Access
- Collaborative Database Maintenance Services
- Collaborative Custom Microsoft Database Development Services
Because Ms. Meyer is an independent business consultant - she has had the opportunity to work on a wide variety of Microsoft Access database application projects. Over the years Michelle has maintained and developed databases for clients over a broad range of organizational models. Her client list includes organizations from non-profits, government agencies, private business, and large corporations.
This broad range of experience means exposure to Access databases in a variety of environments, covering a variety of workplace needs. Ms. Meyer is accustomed to working one-on-one with end users as they work through database projects. Because of this end users feel a high sense of ownership over the final database product.
Company History
1st Contact began as a business-to-business marketing firm. In 1993 Michelle Meyer began searching for a database flexible enough to meet the needs of several different marketing clients. After trying both ACT and Goldmine, Michelle found Microsoft Access.
Ms. Meyer was immediately impressed with the flexibility of Microsoft Access as compared to ACT and Goldmine. Soon afterwards she began developing Access databases for her marketing clients. Michelle enjoyed developing Microsoft database applications so much; that within the year she decided to fade out the marketing work and devote her time exclusively to Microsoft Access. That was in 1993 and several versions of Access ago. | 
