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Harvest Solutions Announces Social Media Marketing Manager

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:35:00 GMT

Waltham, MA, January 8, 2013: Harvest Solutions announced today that Cathy Boudreau has been promoted to Social Media Marketing Manager.

Harvest Solutions has been very proactive with Social Media and wants to enhance and expand their social media presence. Cathy's previous experience give her the foundation for this new role. As the Social Media Marketing Manager, she will be responsible for creating and analyzing Harvest Solutions' social media strategies to drive website traffic & maintain client retention. Additionally she will monitor, develop and engage our social communities through various social networks including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the Harvest Insight Blog. To assist her in these responsibilities, she will be heavily using HubSpot Inbound Marketing integrated with Salesforce.

Harvest Solutions had previously outsourced the Social Media Manager position. “As a service provider for our own clients, we felt as though there were benefits in outsourcing this position initially. However, now that we have learned the ropes and best practices, it makes sense to bring the role in-house,” noted Sidney Lejfer, Managing Partner of Harvest Solutions.

“I am excited to take on this new role as the Social Media Marketing Manager. It will allow me to interface more with our fans and customers, get a feel for what they need in a CRM implementation partner and provide valuable educational information,” stated Cathy Boudreau.

Please feel free to join us on our social channels – on Twitter @HarvestCRM, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/HarvestSolutions, or on LinkedIn.

About Harvest Solutions

Harvest Solutions is more than just a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consulting firm. For over 20 years, we have developed a successful, solutions-based team that has helped hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses enhance internal marketing, sales and other various departments’ processes, including customer service and social business.

We’re dedicated to helping businesses find solutions that align with their goals by leveraging a variety of data management and technology based solutions. And, we continue to establish partnerships and explore new and innovative technologies to deliver the absolute best solutions for our clients. Harvest Solutions is a certified business partner for Salesforce.com, Nimble, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and HubSpot inbound marketing. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736.

Harvest Solutions Opens Norwalk, CT Office

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:33:00 GMT

Waltham, MA, April 10, 2012: Harvest Solutions announces the opening of a Norwalk, Connecticut office serving the Metro New York area and Bermuda. This office will specialize in the cloud-based CRM application, Salesforce.com, with an emphasis on the financial service industry. This office will be run under the management of Dan Purvis, Director of Business Development.

Dan’s responsibilities include new business development, client acquisition, and building the Harvest Solutions Financial Services vertical. Prior to joining Harvest Solutions, Dan was a Senior Account Executive at Salesforce.com on their Financial Services team. Dan’s financial services background spans fifteen years where he worked primarily in banking with clients from the insurance, law, capital markets and wealth management industries. Passionately driven by his customers’ success, Dan enjoys creating vision and excitement for transformational solutions leveraging Salesforce.com’s social, mobile, and development platforms. Dan’s experience with Salesforce and Financial Services will help clients maximize the use of Salesforce.

Sid Lejfer, president of Harvest Solutions, stated, "We are excited about opening an office in Norwalk, CT. We see financial services as a growing business community and a tremendous opportunity for the Salesforce.com/CRM marketplace. We are fortunate to have Dan Purvis running our office. He brings tremendous amount of experience to our organization."

“By expanding into Connecticut, Harvest Solutions will address the financial service industry’s growing needs for Salesforce.com expertise. I am excited for the opportunity to launch Harvest Solutions’ Connecticut office,” commented Purvis.

The Harvest Solutions’ Connecticut office is located at 40 Richards Avenue, 3rd Floor, Norwalk, CT 06854 and can be reached via phone at (347)-281-2269. Additionally, Dan can be reached via email at dpurvis@harvestsolutions.net.

About Harvest Solutions

At Harvest Solutions, our goal is to build a CRM system for your organization that will help you analyze your customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With our planned and phased approach, we will help your company launch a CRM initiative efficiently by examining your current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes. We are a group of responsive and knowledgeable professionals with a clear course of action to your CRM project. Harvest Solutions is a certified business partner for Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. For more information, please visit Harvest Solutions online.

Harvest Solutions Adds Sales Resources

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:29:00 GMT

Waltham, MA, April 10, 2012: Harvest Solutions today announced that three senior sales resources have joined the firm.

Dan Purvis is a Director of Business Development and will focus on accounts in the Metro NY area and Bermuda. His responsibilities include new business development, client acquisition, and building the Harvest Solutions Financial Services vertical. Prior to joining Harvest Solutions, Dan was a Senior Account Executive at Salesforce.com on their Financial Services team. Dan’s financial services background spans fifteen years where he worked primarily in banking with clients from the insurance, law, capital markets and wealth management industries. Passionately driven by his customers’ success, Dan enjoys creating vision and excitement for transformational solutions leveraging Salesforce.com’s social, mobile, and development platforms. Dan’s experience with Salesforce and Financial Services will help clients maximize the use of Salesforce.

John Rounseville is also a Director of Business Development whose focus will be on accounts in the New England and Florida regions. His responsibilities include new business development and client acquisition. Prior to joining Harvest Solutions, John was the Director, Sales and Marketing Process Improvement at Horizon Lines, a leading domestic ocean shipping and integrated logistics company. John has the unique skill set of both selling and process improvement experience, and has a deep understanding of the challenges involved with CRM implementation, integration and adoption. His strategic thinking, tactical planning, and ability to cultivate client relationships will be a big asset for both Harvest Solutions and their clients.

Karen Holt is an Account Executive on smaller accounts for all of our locations (New England and Florida). Prior to joining Harvest Solution, Karen was a Senior Consultant with a technology consulting firm for LexisNexis InterAction CRM. She was responsible for guiding financial services and professional consulting clients through requirements gathering, design, configuration, data migration and deployment of their CRM solution, and uncovering new opportunities for product expansion. Karen brings over 25 years of experience providing pre and post sales software application support and training, project and product management for client/server and web-based hosted solutions in desktop publishing, document management, and real-time news distribution. Her passion for building trusted relationships and achieving customer satisfaction has been recognized by co-workers who see her as an “exceptional people person” driving projects from initiation to completion.

“We are excited to add these new sales resources to our team. Dan, John and Karen bring extensive expertise in both business and sales and will help us continue the growth of our firm,” noted Sid Lejfer, Managing Partner of Harvest Solutions.

About Harvest Solutions

The Technion Honors New England Leader

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:49:00 GMT

New York, NY, July 1, 2011- Sidney C. Lejfer , President and CEO of Harvest Solutions, received an honorary fellowship from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology during the Technion International Board of Governors (BOG) Meeting in Haifa, June 12-15.

“This honor is in recognition of Mr. Lejfer’s enthusiastic leadership at the local and national levels,” said Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie.

An up-and-coming leader of the American Technion Society, Sid was past president of the ATS New England Region and is now chairman of board. He is also a member of the national Board and is the ATS Assistant Treasurer. He and his wife Nancy established the Berl Lejfer and Alan J. Tichnor Memorial Endowed Scholarship, in dedication to both of their fathers. Other contributions have included gifts to the Nano-Floor (Floor 5) of the Dalia Maydan Center for Advanced Material Studies, and the renovation of the Abraham and Sonya Slifka Auditorium.

Joined at the ceremony by his wife Nancy and four children, Mr. Lejfer is involved with numerous causes in addition to the ATS, including AIPAC, Friends of the New England Holocaust Memorial, Congregation Mishkan Tefila and Combined Jewish Philanthropies.

Some 210 attendees participated in the BOG, which came to a close with an event inaugurating a year of celebration of the laying of the Technion cornerstone in 1912.

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The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is Israel’s leading science and technology university. Home to the country’s first winners of the Nobel Prize in science, it commands a worldwide reputation for its pioneering work in nanotechnology, computer science, biotechnology, water-resource management, materials engineering, aerospace and medicine. The majority of the founders and managers of Israel’s high-tech companies are alumni. Based in New York City, the American Technion Society (ATS) is the leading American organization supporting higher education in Israel, with offices around the country.

Harvest Solutions Announces Partnership with Broadlook

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:24:00 GMT

The leading developer of Internet research software that empowers users to leverage the Internet

Waltham, MA, June 20, 2011 – Harvest Solutions, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consulting firm, has announced their solution partnership with Broadlook Technologies. The partnership combines advanced Internet research and data cleansing technology from Broadlook with the CRM expertise and consulting from Harvest Solutions.

Broadlook solutions automate the research of B2B Company and Contact Information from the Internet in real-time then seamlessly transforms the data into business-ready information for Sales and Marketing, Business development and recruiting. The Broadlook CRM Suite is a plug-in for Dynamics CRM that stops dupes by automatically transforming data to standard naming conventions; eliminates the manual entry of contact information into CRM; and brings fresh data from publicly indexed LinkedIn pages, corporate websites, SEC filings and other web sources into CRM, then mashes that data up with existing Accounts, Contacts and Leads.

“We are excited to partner with Harvest Solutions,” said Paul Cielinski, Director of CRM at Broadlook Technologies. “Bringing together our revolutionary plug-in for Dynamics CRM 4 & 2011, with Harvest Solutions’ extensive CRM knowledge will provide clients with an advantage to keeping their CRM data fresh and clean.”

Sid Lejfer, president of Harvest Solutions states, “Broadlook offers an organization using CRM the ability to identify the target organizations of key interest, qualify the contact and lead data for themselves, and see further into the account and identify those who would be most interested in seeing the product or services offered.”

About Harvest Solutions
At Harvest Solutions, our goal is to build a CRM system for your organization that will help you analyze your customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With our planned and phased approach, we will help your company launch a CRM initiative efficiently by examining your current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes. We are a group of responsive and knowledgeable professionals with a clear course of action to your CRM project. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736. You can also join us socially on Twitter @HarvestCRM, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/HarvestSolutions, or on LinkedIn.

About Broadlook
Broadlook offers intuitive research solutions that automatically pull in real-time and business-ready information from the internet for sales and marketing, business development and recruitment. With Broadlook solutions, you have access to current B2B companies and contact information right within your CRM System. Visit their website at www.broadlook.com.

Harvest Solutions Announces Solution Partnership with Nimble

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:18:00 GMT

New Social CRM Platform Nimble Transforms the Way People Manage Relationships

Waltham, MA, March 18, 2011 – Harvest Solutions, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consulting firm, has announced their solution partnership with Nimble. Nimble Contact is a social CRM platform that combines relationship management and social engagement into an affordable web-based solution. It integrates LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google, email contacts and conversations into one seamless, intuitive environment, empowering small businesses in today’s socially connected world to attract and retain the right customers.

Created by Jon Ferrara, the founder of GoldMine, a pioneering SFA/CRM product, Nimble Contact is the only solution on the market that integrates the “4 Cs” -- contacts, calendar, communications and collaboration -- to enable professionals to effectively manage the way they see, hear and connect with their company's most important asset: their business contacts.

“The problem today is our contacts and our communications are in too many places,” said Jon Ferrara, CEO of Nimble. “Between IM, text messaging, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and email, we can't keep track of it all. Trying to manage all of this in eight different tabs on your browser isn't the solution. We created Nimble to solve our own needs and we’re bringing it to the world to help small businesses solve theirs.”

Sid Lejfer, president of Harvest Solutions states, “We have worked with Jon in the past and we are excited to announce this new partnership with Nimble. We are pleased to offer our customers Nimble Contact which unifies email, calendar and social channels in one application. This will allow our customers to easily see all of the communications made with their contacts no matter where the conversations took place.

Nimble Contact is the next evolution in relationship management – a social relationship manager that makes it fun and easy to nurture personal and business relationships.

About Nimble
Nimble was founded in 2009 to help small businesses transform their communities into business opportunities. Nimble opens a whole new channel for businesses to engage customers in two-way dialogue, leveraging the power of traditional CRM and social media with its web-based social CRM platform, Nimble Contact. Located in Santa Monica, Nimble is in the heart of the Southern California tech community. Please join the conversation on Nimble’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/nimble, LinkedIn and on Twitter @nimble.

Harvest Solutions makes Social Connection with Cloud Computing Users

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:15:00 GMT

Massachusetts-based CRM consulting firm expands online presence with social media

Waltham, MA – Harvest Solutions, an organization with experts in the market of cloud computing software, is expanding its online presence through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and a blog, which re-launched March 15, 2011.

Harvest Solutions builds CRM systems for organizations to help analyze customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With a planned and phased approach, Harvest launches CRM initiatives efficiently by examining current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes.

“We believe Customer Relationship Management is both a service and a philosophy,” said Sid Lejfer, Owner of Harvest Solutions, “and we are excited to extend our customer service through social media avenues in order to help our clients.”

Harvest Solutions is also committed to increasing communication about CRM services among sales and marketing professionals in a variety of markets, and that includes dedicated social media efforts.

About Harvest Solutions
Harvest Solutions, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Automation (SFA) and Business Analytics (BA) consulting firm specializing in small to medium size businesses, provides a variety of services to increase the effectiveness of CRM systems, including needs assessment, planning, customization, implementation, data integration, training and support to a variety of markets including financial services, non-profit, construction management, and health & wellness.

Harvest Solutions is a certified business partner of Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Nimble and Hubspot.

Harvest Solutions Hires Mike Melcher to Manage Southeast Region

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:56:00 GMT

Waltham, MA, August 13, 2010 – Harvest Solutions has named Mike Melcher as the Regional Manger of Harvest Solutions' location in Florida. With the addition of Melcher to the organization, Harvest Solutions will be able to provide comprehensive Salesforce.com solutions in the Southeast.

“We are thrilled to have Mike Melcher lead our Southeast/Salesforce CRM practice. Mike has worked with us in the past and we are pleased that he has joined our firm as a full-time employee. Mike has a diverse background and will be able to provide our clients in the Southeast with a comprehensive Salesforce solution”, states Sidney Lejfer, President of Harvest Solutions.

“Harvest Solutions is well positioned to have a major impact on the Salesforce marketplace in the Southeast. I am excited about the opportunity to lead this growing and dynamic practice”, stated Mike Melcher.

Mike brings a wealth of technical experience to Harvest Solutions. He has over 20 years experience in programming, database design, database administration and system integration.

Mike holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida and is a Certified Salesforce.com Consultant, Certified Force.com Developer and has also completed the certification for Scribe Insight – a data migration and integration tool. Mike lives in Melbourne Beach, Florida with his three children, where he surfs as often as he can.

About Harvest Solutions
At Harvest Solutions, our goal is to build a CRM system for your organization that will help you analyze your customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With our planned and phased approach, we will help your company launch a CRM initiative efficiently by examining your current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes. We are a group of responsive and knowledgeable professionals with a clear course of action to your CRM project. Harvest Solutions is a certified business partner for Salesforce.com. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736.

Harvest Solutions Announces Partnership with Market Builders

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:45:00 GMT

Waltham, MA, August 3, 2010 – Harvest Solutions, a customer relationship management (CRM) consulting firm, has announced a strategic partnership with Market Builders. Market Builders provides an “out-of-the-box” CRM solution for the investment management industry that combines best practices with an extraordinary flexible product architecture that allows individual client adaptation to all aspects of the investment industry.

This new partnership will offer financial services clients the Market Builders’ CRM for Institutional Investment Management^® application which is built on native Salesforce and available through salesforce.com’s AppExchange. Using their proprietary methodology and experience to finish engagements on-time and on-budget, Harvest Solutions will provide the Salesforce CRM expertise for custom development using Apex and VisualForce. Harvest Solutions can also address complex integration requirements as well as enhanced reporting.

“We’re excited to launch a strategic relationship with Harvest Solutions because it will allow us to provide a more comprehensive set of services to our clients. Our clients will benefit from Harvest Solutions’ technical expertise and integration capability with the end-result being a more comprehensive Salesforce solution,” states Ray Dugas, President of Market Builders.

“The partnership with Market Builders allows us to expand our financial service offerings to our clients by providing users access to comprehensive selling, a 360° view of client data and all of the intertwined relationships,” states Sid Lejfer, president of Harvest Solutions. “Market Builders incorporates best practices gathered from over fifty institutional asset management implementations at many of the largest and most prestigious firms in the industry.”

About Harvest Solutions

At Harvest Solutions, our goal is to build a CRM system for your organization that will help you analyze your customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With our planned and phased approach, we will help your company launch a CRM initiative efficiently by examining your current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes. We are a group of responsive and knowledgeable professionals with a clear course of action to your CRM project. Harvest Solutions is a certified business partner for Salesforce.com. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736.

About Market Builders
Market Builders provides perfect fit CRM solutions for the Investment Management industry based on salesforce.com, the leading on-demand CRM.

Market Builders has proven expertise designing and implementing successful CRM systems using industry proven best practices and has worked with many of the largest investment managers over the last 20 years. More than 60 projects in that industry have been completed and we have worked with 6 of the top 10 and over one third of the 100 leading asset management firms in the design and implementation of state-of-the-art CRM systems.

Harvest Solutions Announces Partnership with HubSpot

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:28:00 GMT

Waltham, MA, March 2, 2010 - Harvest Solutions, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consulting firm, has announced their partnership with HubSpot Inbound Marketing software. HubSpot is an effective tool for helping companies get found by qualified prospects that are looking for the products or services that you sell in search engines, blogs and the blogosphere, and social media and convert them to leads and ultimately, paying customers.

"We often find our clients are looking to improve the usage of their CRM system - typically in relation to campaigns and marketing efforts," said Sid Lejfer, president of Harvest Solutions. "With the HubSpot Inbound Marketing software, we are able to help our clients launch an integrated and streamlined marketing effort."

Pete Caputa IV, HubSpot Partner Program Manger states, "We are excited to have Harvest Solutions join the HubSpot Partner Program. As a CRM Consulting firm, Harvest Solutions brings wealth of CRM expertise - specifically Salesforce CRM - to the table. Their extensive knowledge of Salesforce CRM makes them a ‘go-to' partner for HubSpot-Salesforce integration projects."

About Harvest Solutions
At Harvest Solutions, our goal is to build a CRM system for your organization that will help you analyze your customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With our planned and phased approach, we will help your company launch a CRM initiative efficiently by examining your current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes. We are a group of responsive and knowledgeable professionals with a clear course of action to your CRM project. Harvest Solutions is a certified business partner for Salesforce.com. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736.

About HubSpot
HubSpot, Inc. provides Internet marketing software that helps businesses get found online, generate more inbound leads and convert a higher percentage of those leads into paying customers. HubSpot's software platform includes tools that allow professional marketers and business owners to manage search engine optimization, blogging and social media, as well as landing pages, lead intelligence and marketing analytics. Based in Cambridge, MA, HubSpot can be found at http://www.hubspot.com. HubSpot offers free marketing tools at http://www.grader.com and hosts a free marketing community at http://inboundmarketing.com.

Harvest Solutions Joins the Salesforce.com Foundation's Power of Us Partner Program

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:50:00 GMT

Waltham, Mass. and San Francisco - Dec. 14 2009 - Harvest Solutions and the Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business, today announced that Harvest Solutions has joined the Salesforce.com Foundation's Power of Us Partner program. With Harvest Solutions consulting services, nonprofit organizations can improve internal processes, gain efficiencies, and save money on data management solutions by moving to cloud computing.

Harvest Solutions has extensive experience with a variety of nonprofit clients and a focus on neighborhood development organizations. It has been engaged by its clients to manage after school programs, classes and neighborhood volunteers. As a Power of Us partner, Harvest Solutions offers a 30 percent discount to nonprofit organizations off of its standard consulting rate. Additionally, the Salesforce.com Foundation offers 10 free licenses to nonprofit organizations as well as a discount on any additional licenses.

"Our staff understands the importance of giving back to the community which is evident in the number of nonprofits our staff members support with their time and financial commitment," said Sid Lejfer, president, Harvest Solutions. "Our participation in the Power of Us will now allow us to bring our professional expertise to the Salesforce.com Foundation nonprofit community."

The Power of Us partner program is designed to increase the impact of the Salesforce.com Foundation on the global nonprofit community by increasing the number of technology partners to provide add-on services and products to non-profits further enhancing their ability to solve problems faster using world class tools. The Salesforce.com Foundation also mentors companies to successfully incorporate salesforce.com's 1/1/1 integrated corporate philanthropy model - 1% Time, 1% Equity and 1% Product - so that they too can do well, while doing good. Today there are more than 100 companies around world that are part of the Salesforce.com Foundation's Power of Us program.

"The Salesforce.com Foundation's Power of Us initiative allows our partners like Harvest Solutions to join us in helping nonprofits utilize technology to empower their missions. With Harvest Solutions implementing an integrated philanthropy model, there will be an even greater impact on the nonprofit community long term," said Suzanne DiBianca, executive director, Salesforce.com Foundation. "We applaud Harvest Solutions for contributing its services and employee time to nonprofits that may benefit from its consulting expertise."

About the Salesforce.com Foundation

The Salesforce.com Foundation is the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business through its 1/1/1 integrated philanthropy model http://www.sharethemodel.org. The 1/1/1 model harnesses the power of salesforce.com's people and technology through 1% Time, 1% Equity and 1% Product to increase the effectiveness of nonprofits in pursuing their social missions. Since the Foundation's inception in 1999, employees have given more than 165,000 hours of their time; more than 7,300 nonprofits in 70 countries are using donated and discounted Salesforce CRM licenses as part of the Foundation's 1% Product Donation Program http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/product; and numerous organizations are benefiting from technology-related grants. For more information on the Salesforce.com Foundation, please visit http://www.salesforcefoundation.org.

Harvest Solutions Announces New Marketing Services

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:39:00 GMT

Waltham, MA, November 3, 2009 - Harvest Solutions today announced a comprehensive set of new marketing services for its clients. The new marketing offerings are designed to maximize the inherent marketing functionality of Salesforce.com, combined with complementary tools, to deliver a closed-loop marketing system that drives leads and revenue.

The key to marketing success requires an integrated methodology, utilizing the right tools, and then applying them with consistent effort. To meet the increasing marketing needs faced by customers, Harvest Solutions will utilize Vertical Response and HubSpot to deliver a tightly-integrated approach to Internet marketing, lead generation and management. VerticalResponse is a leading provider of self-service email marketing, online surveys and direct mail services empowering small businesses to easily create, manage and analyze their own direct marketing campaigns. HubSpot is an inbound marketing tool that helps companies get found online. HubSpot helps convert traffic into leads and paying customers through website optimization, social media management, optimized landing pages, lead intelligence and marketing analytics. The combined solution enables closed-loop marketing, linking lead intelligence from your website and campaigns into Salesforce, and generating detailed marketing reports showing which leads or campaigns are producing customers.

"We often find our clients are looking to improve the usage of their CRM system - typically in relation to campaigns and marketing efforts," said Sid Lejfer, president of Harvest Solutions. "By offering these marketing services, we'll be able to help our clients launch an integrated and streamlined marketing effort."

Harvest Solutions is teaming up with Jeff Scholes, founder of Scholes Marketing, to provide these comprehensive marketing services. Jeff brings over 10 years of experience successfully leading marketing efforts for B2B software and technology companies.

"I'm thrilled to be partnering with Harvest Solution. One of the biggest marketing challenges I see with customers involves the ability to effectively manage their online presence and easily capture, analyze, measure and report on marketing performance. With the right tools in place, and the right lead generation and Internet marketing programs, companies become better positioned to quickly make informed decisions and confidently know when marketing efforts need to be fine-tuned, repeated or ended."

Marketing consulting services will include optimizing and managing website and Internet marketing, defining and creating the right mix of lead generation tactics, analyzing and measuring marketing performance, and reinforcing these marketing efforts through compelling marketing communications including blogs and social media. All services -from strategic plan development to tactical execution- are intended to help increase leads and sales revenue through a closed-loop marketing approach to marketing.

About Harvest Solutions
At Harvest Solutions, our goal is to build a CRM system for your organization that will help you analyze your customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With our planned and phased approach, we will help your company launch a CRM initiative efficiently by examining your current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes. We are a group of responsive and knowledgeable professionals with a clear course of action to your CRM project. Harvest Solutions is a certified business partner for Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736.

Harvest Solutions Now Available on the Salesforce.com AppExchange

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:07:00 GMT

Waltham, Mass., September 16, 2009 - Harvest Solutions today announced its services are now available on the salesforce.com AppExchange. Harvest Solutions is a salesforce.com partner and an excellent source for consulting and training.

With Harvest Solution's services, customers can get assistance deploying Salesforce CRM or integrating the application to work with existing business systems. The firm's services include: site survey, needs assessment, QuickStart program, business process review, design and development, data integration, data migration, project management, training, and support. Harvest Solutions' entire services offering may be found at the AppExchange, http://sites.force.com/appexchange/listingDetail?listingId=a0N30000001gZjPEAU.

"Our relationship with Harvest Solutions began during a SQL to Salesforce CRM integration project that began to deteriorate. Harvest Solutions quickly understood our complex business requirements and gaps for project success. The firm's consulting services saved the project and helped us realize customer success. It's been a true pleasure working with Harvest Solutions," said Eddie Treizman, director of operations, Dial 800, Communications.

"As a cloud-based application, Salesforce CRM allows us to offer a cost effective and flexible solution to customers," said Sid Lejfer, president, Harvest Solutions. "Due to the nature of cloud computing, the emphasis of our services is around addressing and resolving critical business issues in moving to the cloud."

"The number of services available on the AppExchange continues to grow with the addition of Harvest Solutions," said Kendall Collins, chief marketing officer, salesforce.com. "Harvest Solutions' offerings allow users to realize customer success with Salesforce CRM in the cloud."

About the Force.com Platform and the AppExchange
Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for building and running business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM applications, more than 800 ISV partner applications like those from CODA and Fujitsu, and more than 120,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's 63,200 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel.

Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

Harvest Solutions Implements Salesforce CRM at Lawrence CommunityWorks

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:59:00 GMT

Waltham, Mass. and San Francisco, CA - Oct. 21, 2009 - Harvest Solutions, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consulting firm, and the Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business, today announced that Lawrence CommunityWorks (LCW) is now live on Salesforce CRM.

LCW, a non-profit organization committed to revitalizing Lawrence, MA, is using Salesforce CRM to consolidate and streamline the organization's business development processes. These processes include tracking donation, neighborhood Circles, membership, and training. Harvest Solutions, a salesforce.com partner, led the implementation which is now enabling LCW to improve management of constituents by enhancing the system to capture members, non-members, volunteer management and classroom management.

LCW offers a series of community programs addressing areas such as home purchasing, youth activities, volunteering, real estate development, and family asset building. As a result of these programs, LCW has improved its customer service and internal communications as well as decreased its custom application development costs.

"We're growing at such a rapid pace that we needed a CRM system that will scale and offer the flexibility of the cloud. Harvest Solutions was instrumental in helping us to realize that potential and customer success with salesforce.com," says Glorialyz De los Santos, Website and data systems manager, Lawrence CommunityWorks, Inc.

LCW decided to standardize on Salesforce CRM after outgrowing a home-grown Microsoft Access legacy solution that was no longer able to support the needs of particular business units. LCW chose salesforce.com because it could achieve customer success with the enterprise-tested scale and capabilities of Salesforce CRM in the cloud.

"Nonprofits such as Lawrence CommunityWorks continue to demonstrate the same needs as enterprises when it comes to realizing the potential of cloud computing," said Suzanne DiBianca, executive director, Salesforce.com Foundation. "Harvest Solutions along with the Salesforce.com Foundation cherish customer successes like Lawrence CommunityWorks that may now focus on providing services to the community instead of managing IT infrastructure."

Harvest Solutions has 20 years of CRM experience and has implemented and trained hundreds of organizations on CRM systems. Using their proprietary methodology, Harvest Solutions specializes in building CRM systems in a planned and phased approach. Its services center around examining customer business processes and handling everything from design and development, to data migration, training and support.

Harvest Solutions President Sid Lejfer, states, "We are pleased to offer Salesforce CRM to our nonprofit clients. As a cloud computing application, salesforce.com allows us to offer a cost effective and flexible CRM solution and our emphasis is addressing and resolving critical business issues unique to the nonprofit world. It's a win-win situation for our clients."

About the Salesforce.com Foundation
The Salesforce.com Foundation is the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business through its 1/1/1 integrated philanthropy Model http://www.sharethemodel.org. The 1/1/1 Model harnesses the power of salesforce.com's people and technology through 1% Time, 1% Equity and 1% Product to increase the effectiveness of nonprofits in pursuing their social missions. Since the Foundation's inception in 1999, employees have given more than 150,000 hours of their time to volunteer projects; more than 7,000 nonprofits in 60 countries are using donated and discounted Salesforce CRM licenses as part of the Foundation's 1% Product Donation Program http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/product; and numerous organizations have benefited from over $14 million dollars given out in grants. For more information on the Salesforce.com Foundation, please visit http://www.salesforcefoundation.org.

About Harvest Solutions
At Harvest Solutions, our goal is to build a CRM system for your organization that will help you analyze your customers and opportunities, follow fast moving trends and identify and strengthen successful marketing programs. With our planned and phased approach, we will help your company launch a CRM initiative efficiently by examining your current business, sales, marketing, and customer service processes. We are a group of responsive and knowledgeable professionals with a clear course of action to your CRM project. Harvest Solutions is a certified business partner for Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Sage CRM SalesLogix.

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736.

Harvest Solutions Forms Strategic Partnership with Bay State Office Systems

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:40:00 GMT

Waltham, MA, September 16, 2009 - Harvest Solutions, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consulting firm, announced today their strategic partnership with Bay State Office Systems. Bay State Office Systems delivers a core of infrastructure support and services to small and medium sized companies.

As a Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner, Harvest Solutions offers several services that will launch your CRM initiative or revitalize your existing system to work more efficiently with your business. Our services include: site survey, needs assessment, QuickStart program, business process review, design & development, data integration, data migration, project management, training, and support. Our services help our clients increase revenues and decrease the cost of sales.

Bay State Office Systems offers service and support packages that are designed to provide primary support staff or to augment existing company information technology staff.
"There is a need to align ourselves with an industry leader in CRM. With Harvest Solutions' 20+ years of experience, they are the perfect fit to help our clients implement, enhance and expand their CRM systems," states Dave Mayo, President of Bay State Office Systems.

Sid Lejfer, President of Harvest Solutions , "We are pleased to have Bay State Office Systems as our strategic partner to help our clients with telecommunications IT Project Management, Move Services, Network Support and Computer Room Setup. We feel that our services complement each other and will mutually benefit our clients."

About Harvest Solutions
Harvest Solutions' corporate headquarters is located at 1050 Winter Street, Suite 1000 in Waltham, Massachusetts. We also have a development office in Nashua, NH and an office in Coral Springs, FL. For more information on our company staff or services, please visit our website at http://www.harvestsolutions.net or call us at (781) 530-3736.

About Bay State Office Systems
Bay State Office Systems has two locations in Massachusetts, Our corporate headquarters is located in Agawam and our Sales and Technical Services branch is located in Southborough.
For more information, please visit our website at http://www.baystateofficesystems.com or call us at (800) 899-3021.

CUTTING THE CORD: Be emotionally ready before you sell

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:29:00 GMT

By: Mary K. Pratt

As Appeared on Boston Business Journal: http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2009/06/15/focus2.html

Sid Lejfer saw two choices for his former business: raise the capital he needed to bring the company to the next level, or sell it. On the advice of his investment bank, he decided to sell.

"The stars were aligned. There were lots of mergers and acquisitions going on, there was lots of cash, and the multiples were good," Lejfer said.

So in April 2000, Lejfer sold Success Automation, a customer relationship management consulting and training firm he had started in 1987 and built to $5 million in revenue. But even though the timing was right, Lejfer - who is currently CEO at Harvest Solutions LLC, a CRM, sales force automation and business analytics consulting firm in Waltham - said the process was still a difficult one, proving that selling a business, even in a robust economy, can test just about any entrepreneur.

"The best time for a seller to look at selling is when they don't need to, when they're in a position of strength," said Russell N. Stein, chairman of the Corporate & Business Law Group at Ruberto, Israel & Weiner PC.

But beyond getting the best price, business owners need to be emotionally ready to sell, too. Michael Nolan, managing director of Braver Business Strategies, a Newton-based management consultancy for small and medium-size companies, said owners should give themselves at least three years, which allows them time to accept the sale as well as clean up the balance sheet, income statements and inventory.

That time also allows them to train other executives, who could stay on with the buyer to help run the business.

Much of this, Nolan said, is just good management that should happen regardless of when a sale might happen. That doesn't mean it's always practiced.

Nolan said he has seen owners who aren't sure when they want to get out, so they don't make investments in new processes or equipment, which quickly drags down the company's value. That's why Nolan said he likes to advise owners to run their businesses with an exit strategy in mind, so they're more likely to manage it in ways that bring ongoing maximum value.

Howard Gross, who has sold three companies and bought five, said he took that approach with the businesses he has helped manage. He talked specifically about his last company, the Lincoln, Neb.-based Snyder Industries Inc., which he bought in 1991 and sold in 2005. He also served as the company's CEO.

Gross said he stayed with the company longer because he enjoyed the work. But he got to a point where he was ready, financially and emotionally, to go. And because of his and his partner's management approach as well as their ongoing investments into growing the company - something that buyers find attractive as it gives them something for the future - the timing was right.

"A great time to sell a company is when EBITDA multiples are high and there is a great history in terms of the ebbs and flows," Gross said, referring to Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization. "And you try to sell at the height of the economy, when it has had a lot of growth and there's capital available. It's not that much different than the stock market."

Following that approach yielded Gross a sale price 15 percent more than he had expected.

But Gross, who now teaches entrepreneurship at Babson College and Harvard Extension School, said he also has seen business owners who make poor salesmen.

"There are people who just love their business so much and have so few interests outside that they don't think about the financial interest and they sell too late," he said.