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		<title>SalesCrunch Poised to Disrupt Online Meeting Space With 70% Price Drop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Chalnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; New pricing makes powerful meeting platform more cost-effective for customers NEW YORK (February 14, 2012) – SalesCrunch, a Silicon Alley technology firm helping clients &#8220;apply science to the art of selling,&#8221; has announced a significant price reduction for access to its next-generation online meeting platform, CrunchConnect. CrunchConnect revolutionizes conventional online meeting solutions with a [...]]]></description>
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<p>New pricing makes powerful meeting platform more cost-effective for customers</p>
<p>NEW YORK (February 14, 2012) – SalesCrunch, a Silicon Alley technology firm helping clients &#8220;apply science to the art of selling,&#8221; has announced a significant price reduction for access to its next-generation online meeting platform, <a href="http://www.crunchconnect.com">CrunchConnect</a>.</p>
<p>CrunchConnect revolutionizes conventional online meeting solutions with a simple yet powerful platform that is optimized for sales, measuring every aspect of the presentation: how long participants are paying attention versus emailing or browsing the web; amount of time salespeople are talking versus listening to clients; how much money meetings cost an organization each month. The platform goes so far as to track who opens the presenter&#8217;s follow-up deck, who they forward it to and even how much time recipients spend reading each page, down to the second.</p>
<p>As discussed in his <a href="http://seanblack.com/2012/02/13/when-to-use-radically-reduced-pricing-to-disrupt-a-market/">blog post</a>, CEO Sean Black believes SalesCrunch is well positioned to disrupt the online meetings market and explains the rationale behind the new pricing strategy. &#8220;We were humbled by how positively the market received our platform. We clearly hit a nerve and were solving a big problem. We were surprised when companies started telling us they wanted every employee to have their own personal online meeting room, not just their sales team. They wanted pricing that could scale to hundreds and thousands of users and $59 per person per month just wasn&#8217;t cutting it,&#8221; Black said.</p>
<p>CrunchConnect enables presenters to quickly initiate a meeting without requiring clients to download any software – unlike competing solutions. Each CrunchConnect customer receives their own complimentary and unique meeting room URL, e.g. crunchconnect.com/brad-pitt, which they share with participants.</p>
<p>While access to CrunchConnect for online meetings between two participants (presenter and attendee) remains free-of-charge, monthly rates for premium accounts have been slashed by up to 70 percent. Clients requiring more participants will appreciate monthly rates as low as $9/month, a whopping 80 percent less than Citrix Systems&#8217; GoToMeeting. Further, neither GoToMeeting nor Cisco&#8217;s WebEx offer any of the tracking and measurement or Salesforce.com integration offered by CrunchConnect.</p>
<p>&#8220;We never intended to get into the online meeting market,&#8221; Black added. &#8220;Creating the CrunchConnect platform was the only way we could think of to measure each component of the sales presentation. An online meetings solution that outperforms the 800-pound gorillas, WebEx and GoToMeeting, was simply a byproduct.&#8221;</p>
<h4>About SalesCrunch</h4>
<p>Backed by Accel Partners, First Round Capital, Nextview Ventures and AOL Ventures, SalesCrunch is a Social Selling Platform that takes selling from a fuzzy art to a repeatable process by capturing, measuring, training and tracking sales across a company and its customers. The company&#8217;s smart and social presentation and training solutions, CrunchConnect, CrunchTrainer and SalesSchool, make selling transparent and empower organizations to collaboratively meet the demands of a new generation of buyers to power profits. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.salescrunch.com">http://www.salescrunch.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>Social Media Marketing Intern</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Founded in 2010, SalesCrunch is a First Round Capital, Accel Partners backed Social Selling Platform that takes selling from fuzzy art to repeatable process by capturing, measuring, training &#38; tracking sales across your company and your customers. The company’s smart &#38; social presentation and training solutions CrunchConnect, CrunchTrainer and SalesSchool make selling transparent and empower [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Founded in 2010, <a href="http://www.SalesCrunch.com">SalesCrunch</a> is a First Round Capital, Accel Partners backed Social Selling Platform that takes selling from fuzzy art to repeatable process by capturing, measuring, training &amp; tracking sales across your company and your customers. The company’s smart &amp; social presentation and training solutions <a href="http://www.crunchconnect.com">CrunchConnect</a>, <a href="http://www.CrunchTrainer.com">CrunchTrainer</a> and <a href="http://www.SalesSchool.com">SalesSchool</a> make selling transparent and empower organizations to collaboratively meet the demands of a new generation of buyers to power profits.</p>
<p>SalesCrunch has an exciting and immediate opportunity in its New York office for a paid part-time intern to work directly with the founding team to generate awareness, engagement and community from existing and potential customers through research thought-leadership.</p>
<p><strong>Roles &amp; Responsibilities:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Film events and interviews with CEOs and senior executives at fast growing internet companies about challenges and best practices across a range of subjects from customer development to social media marketing and sales &amp; marketing collaboration.</li>
<li>Manage pre and post-production of interviews by working closely with our marketing team to ensure editorial deadlines are met.</li>
<li>Help produce blog articles on our SalesSchool thought-leadership platform on findings and recommendations from interviews.</li>
<li>Post and manage resulting content across multiple social networks including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, company blog, etc to encourage and nurture engagement and conversation.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Requirements:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Must be a storyteller, a tribe-builder, someone who knows how to connect with people in a real &amp; genuine way to help them to be part of something big.</li>
<li>Film students preferred</li>
<li>Extreme familiarity with social networking, the blogosphere, search tools and general Web 2.0 (Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Wikipedia, Digg, Technorati, Etc).</li>
<li>Very organized and detail oriented.</li>
<li>Strong academic record.</li>
<li>Ability to work and self-manage in a fast-paced, constantly evolving team environment.</li>
<li>Excellent writing and interpersonal communication skills.</li>
<li>Strong experience and ability in common business applications (i.e., Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint).</li>
<li>Familiarity with marketing automation systems like email-marketing tools, CRM and lead management systems a plus, but not required.</li>
</ul>
<p>Apply by emailing us: jobs@salescrunch.com</p>
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		<title>Salesforce.com Plugin Lightens Sales Data Entry Load</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hard part of selling isn&#8217;t the actual sale. Any good salesperson will tell you it&#8217;s the monotonus data entry and admin tasks that get in the way of productivity. Now, online selling platform maker SalesCrunch said it has integrated its next-generation meeting application CrunchConnect into Salesforce.com, with the promise to &#8220;…radically reduce the tedious data entry [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The hard part of selling isn&#8217;t the actual sale. Any good salesperson will tell you it&#8217;s the monotonus data entry and admin tasks that get in the way of productivity. Now, online selling platform maker SalesCrunch said it has integrated its next-generation meeting application CrunchConnect into Salesforce.com, with the promise to &#8220;…radically reduce the tedious data entry associated with customer relationship management.&#8221;</p>
<p><a name="more"></a></p>
<h2>Improved Productivity Moves to a New Level</h2>
<p>The technology takes the promise of CRM&#8217;s improved productivity, through lead tracking, identifying opportunities and sales, to a new level by removing the burden of documenting customer interactions.</p>
<p>This is done through the integration of CRM with actual customer face time, in presentations, demos and email pitches, as the technology now automates the data entry process by auto-populating Salesforce with new leads and contact information from the meeting attendees’ information. This also gives a boost to data input accuracy.</p>
<p>The data captured can include key contact info (names, email and call-from numbers used to access the meeting) plus create a log of the event (demo, meeting, or presentation.) This is recorded as a customer activity in Salesforce with links to a summary page of the event and recording. Contact information already in Salesforce populates SalesCrunch Connect, the company said</p>
<h2>The System is Bi-Directional</h2>
<p>SalesCrunch said, on the flip-side, when you are outside of meetings, the SalesCrunch sales team can sends presentations via email to prospects in CrunchConnect. These presentations are logged through CrunchConnect as activity so that anyone within the company can track which presentations are sent and who actually opened and read them.  This helps track and qualify prospects as they move through the sales process.</p>
<p>The CrunchConnect web site shows the online software still in beta, with features that include Meet, Connect, Present, Track and Collaborate. The company also said the CrunchConnect integration is available with the &#8220;<a href="http://www.crunchconnect.com/pricing?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonuKnJZKXonjHpfsX96OgkT/rn28M3109ad%2BrmPBy%2B0IYCWoEnZ9mMBAQZC81ywQBdCeOHaY5D8g%3D%3D">Better and Awesome</a>&#8221; plans starting at US$ 59.</p>
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		<title>SALESCRUNCH LAUNCHES SALESFORCE.COM INTEGRATION TO NEXT GENERATION ONLINE MEETING PLATFORM CRUNCHCONNECT</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CrunchConnect radically reduces data entry by automatically creating leads, updating contacts and adding meeting and presentation activity to Salesforce NEW YORK (January 30, 2012) — SalesCrunch today announced that its next generation, browser-based meeting and presentation platform CrunchConnect is now fully integrated with Salesforce, reducing the data entry associated with customer relationship management (CRM). By [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>CrunchConnect radically reduces data entry by automatically creating leads, updating contacts and adding meeting and presentation activity to Salesforce</strong></p>
<p>NEW YORK (January 30, 2012) — SalesCrunch today announced that its next generation, browser-based meeting and presentation platform <a href="http://www.crunchconnect.com">CrunchConnect</a> is now fully integrated with <a href="http://www.salescrunch.com/salesforce-case-study">Salesforce</a>, reducing the data entry associated with customer relationship management (CRM). By integrating with Salesforce, CrunchConnect can automatically create leads, update contacts and add activity to Salesforce, eliminating most of the tedious data entry required to effectively use Salesforce.</p>
<p>CrunchConnect now automatically adds meeting attendees as leads or updates email addresses, phone numbers, locations and other information to existing contacts. CrunchConnect then adds presentations, demos and the meetings themselves as activity in Salesforce so users can quickly move on to their next meeting. Finally, CrunchConnect allows users to send and track sales and marketing collateral to customers down to the minutes and seconds they spend on every page, which is also logged as activity in Salesforce for a single view of all their customer interactions.</p>
<p>“We live in Salesforce, so CrunchCrunch integration with Salesforce is absolutely critical to us,” said David Hendricks, Chief Operating Officer at email display advertising platform LiveIntent.</p>
<p>Data entry typically presents a headache for salespeople, who prefer to spend more time talking to customers and less time doing administrative tasks. Yet the data needs to be entered so that the company has a full view of customer and prospect interaction. Sales managers often find themselves micromanaging their salespeople to get them to enter their meetings and demos in the CRM system, resulting in lost productivity, lost sales and frustrated managers and salespeople alike. CrunchConnect not only logs this information in Salesforce but also takes data entry a step further by automatically linking to recordings of meetings so that anyone in the organization can review them later.</p>
<p>“In my experience, the best sales pros don&#8217;t get out of bed looking forward to another exciting day of Salesforce data entry. CrunchConnect’s integration with Salesforce eliminates a huge burden. Another day without Salesforce data entry? Yes, please!” said Andrew Quinn, Head of Sales Training at marketing automation company HubSpot.</p>
<p>In conjunction with the Salesforce integration, SalesCrunch has released a case study detailing how they benefit from CrunchConnect and Salesforce integration, titled “SalesCrunch + Salesforce: Making CRM Magic Happen.” Read more about making CRM simpler at [insert link to case study here].</p>
<p>“Using CrunchConnect to automate Salesforce data entry makes salespeople happier and more productive and customer data more reliable. It’s a no-brainer for any organization trying to realize the true promise of CRM,” said Sean Black, SalesCrunch’s Founder and CEO.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.salescrunch.com/salesforce-case-study">Click here</a> to read the full SalesCrunch | Salesforce case study.</p>
<p><strong>Pricing and Availability</strong></p>
<p>CrunchConnect is available now at <a href="http://www.crunchconnect.com">www.crunchconnect.com</a>. SalesCrunch offers a free CrunchConnect plan for individuals and tiered pricing to fit the needs of most organizations.</p>
<p><strong>About SalesCrunch</strong></p>
<p>Backed by Accel Partners, First Round Capital, Nextview Ventures and AOL Ventures, SalesCrunch is a Social Selling Platform that takes selling from a fuzzy art to a repeatable process by capturing, measuring, training and tracking sales across a company and its customers. The company’s smart and social presentation and training solutions, CrunchConnect, CrunchTrainer and SalesSchool, make selling transparent and empower organizations to collaboratively meet the demands of a new generation of buyers to power profits. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.salescrunch.com">www.salescrunch.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>Free online conference calls done right</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MoneyWatch) Online conference calls are supposed to make our lives easier, but the reality is that they&#8217;re often quite a hassle, with complicated setup, shared conference lines and scheduling mishaps, and limited sharing software that makes it hard to show a PowerPoint deck to a group of remote people. If you&#8217;re frustrated by your existing [...]]]></description>
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<p>Online conference calls are supposed to make our lives easier, but the reality is that they&#8217;re often quite a hassle, with complicated setup, shared conference lines and scheduling mishaps, and limited sharing software that makes it hard to show a PowerPoint deck to a group of remote people. If you&#8217;re frustrated by your existing tools, check out <a href="http://www.crunchconnect.com/features/meet">CrunchConnect</a>, a powerful and free online conferencing tool that seems to get just about everything right.</p>
<p>CrunchConnect is an online conferencing tool from<a href="http://www.salescrunch.com/">SalesCrunch</a>, a sales automation startup. CrunchConnect is a service that requires just a quick account creation to get started. It also depends heavily on JavaScript, and required me to update every web browser I tried to use it on. Once I got past the initial setup, though, CrunchConnect was awesome.</p>
<p>You can start a meeting with just a few clicks, uploading a PowerPoint deck in the process. Invitees don&#8217;t need to join CrunchConnect &#8212; just send them an invite or email them a direct link to the meeting. Attendees can see the PowerPoint deck, text each other with an integrated instant messaging tool, and share control of the screen. You can promote anyone on the call to presenter and give them the ability to display their PC. Conference calls also have a dedicated call-in number, so you can let CrunchConnect call you and connect the call, or you can share the number and passcode.</p>
<p>Perhaps the coolest feature is CrunchConnect&#8217;s tracking tool. When you share the meeting invite, it goes out as a trackable link, which lets you see who opens and reviews your presentation after the meeting is over.</p>
<p>You can try out CrunchConnect for free &#8212; you can store one PowerPoint deck and get 200 conference call minutes. For $39 a month, you can conference up to 10 people with 10 decks, and get 500 minutes. There are additional plans as well, for $59 a month and $99 a month. Check out the <a href="http://www.crunchconnect.com/pricing/">full pricing plans at CrunchConnect</a>.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Read the full article on <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505143_162-57365385/free-online-conference-calls-done-right/">CBSNews.com</a></p>
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		<title>Why Screen Share Sucks And What SalesCrunch Is Doing About It</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think we can all agree: screen share technology sucks. I mean, what&#8217;s with all the plugins and software downloads? How Screen Share Works Screen share works by rapidly taking thousands of pictures of your screen, uploading them to a computer and then broadcasting them to your viewers. Think YouTube in real time. Presenters need [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think we can all agree: screen share technology sucks. I mean, what&#8217;s with all the plugins and software downloads?</p>
<p><strong>How Screen Share Works</strong></p>
<p>Screen share works by rapidly taking thousands of pictures of your screen, uploading them to a computer and then broadcasting them to your viewers. Think YouTube in real time. Presenters need software to capture their screen, and viewers need software to view it.</p>
<p><strong>The Old Guard vs. <a href="http://www.CrunchConnect.com">CrunchConnect</a></strong></p>
<p>The old guard (WebEx, GoToMeeting, etc) forces everyone to download and install desktop software, causing lots of problems for lots of people.</p>
<p>CrunchConnect just uses your browser: everybody has one. Presenters just need Java and viewers need Flash. Most people have both installed&#8211;these are free and so widespread they&#8217;re almost standard issue. This approach gets most people connected immediately without technology getting in the way.</p>
<p><strong>So What&#8217;s the Problem?</strong></p>
<p>Unfortunately, not all computers are up to date. For example, Apple recently started shipping new Macs without Java or Flash, for their own reasons.</p>
<p><strong>What Are You Doing About It?</strong></p>
<p>Updating Flash or Java is a quick one-time thing. In the next few days, we&#8217;re rolling out a feature that will automatically check your setup (and your customer&#8217;s), and quickly guide you through any necessary updates. It won&#8217;t get in the way if you&#8217;re A-OK.</p>
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		<title>SalesCrunch Selected by AlwaysOn as a Venture Summit 100 Winner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York, NY November, 2011 – SalesCrunch today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 winners.  Inclusion in the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. SalesCrunch was specially [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>New York, NY November, 2011<em> – </em></strong>SalesCrunch today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 winners.  Inclusion in the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. SalesCrunch was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.</p>
<p>SalesCrunch and the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 companies will be honored at the IMPACT Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic event, November 29<sup>th</sup> and 30<sup>th</sup>, 2011, at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia, PA.</p>
<p>This two-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on the most promising emerging technologies and new entrepreneurial opportunities on the East Coast. PACT’s annual venture conference, IMPACT 2011, is the most established venture conference in the northeast. For over 20 years, IMPACT has been showcasing the best and most promising investment opportunities in the technology, life sciences, and clean technology sectors.</p>
<p>“The Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 winners are transforming the mid-Atlantic region’s technology community through innovation and creativity,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor at AlwaysOn. “The companies represent some of the highest-growth opportunities in the mid-Atlantic private company marketplace across all industry sectors, including digital media and entertainment, on-demand computing as well as greentech and the life sciences.”</p>
<p>The Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 winners were selected from among thousands of mid-Atlantic technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and greentech industry insiders.  The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2011 list.</p>
<p>A full list of all the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at:</p>
<p>http://www.aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2011-Venture-Summit-Mid-Atlantic-100-Top-Private-Companies</p>
<p><strong>About SalesCrunch</strong></p>
<p>Founded in 2010, SalesCrunch is a Sales Intelligence Platform that takes selling from fuzzy art to repeatable process by capturing, measuring, training &amp; tracking sales across your company and your customers. The company’s smart &amp; social presentation and training solutions CrunchConnect, CrunchTrainer and SalesSchool make selling transparent and empower organizations to collaboratively meet the demands of a new generation of buyers to power profits. For more information visit www.salescrunch.com</p>
<p><strong>About AlwaysOn</strong></p>
<p>AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn’s preeminent executive event series includes the Silicon Valley Innovation Summit, OnMedia, OnHollywood, Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, OnMobile, and GoingGreen Silicon Valley. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.</p>
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		<title>Jive Unveils Industry’s First Social Enterprise Apps Market at Exclusive Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Jive Executives and Jive Apps Partners Explore Impact of &#8216;Consumerprise&#8217; Era on Future of Business PALO ALTO, Calif., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; Jive Software announced today that its CEO Tony Zingale, joined by several executives from Jive and the industry, will lead an exclusive thought-leadership gathering on Wednesday, July 27 in San Francisco. [...]]]></description>
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<p>PALO ALTO, Calif., July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/" target="_blank">Jive Software</a> announced today that its CEO Tony Zingale, joined by several executives from Jive and the industry, will lead an exclusive thought-leadership gathering on Wednesday, July 27 in San Francisco. The participants will discuss the quickly evolving apps market landscape and explore strategies to enable enterprises to thrive in the &#8216;Consumerprise&#8217; era. The event will feature select partners in the <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/apps/jive-apps-market/buying-apps" target="_blank">Jive Apps Market</a>, the first social enterprise apps market.</p>
<p>Apps have become core to employees&#8217; personal and work lives – from mobile devices to the desktop. Delivered from the cloud, they are immediately accessible, social and easy to use. Employees are both demanding and installing them independently of their enterprise organizations. Jive views this as the emergence of the Consumerprise era, which will redefine how apps are developed and used in the enterprise.</p>
<p>This new paradigm presents enterprises with a new challenge: meet the expectations of employees who are demanding consumer-like simplicity in installation and use of their business apps, while empowering IT to drive business results. The Jive Apps Market will enable employees and IT to succeed in this new era. Employees will have access to rich business apps to get their work done, while IT will have the ability to deploy apps that liberate the valuable data trapped inside their enterprise infrastructure.</p>
<p>&#8220;Today, business is happening at the speed of social, and enterprises have to respond to this reality,&#8221; said Chris Morace, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Jive. &#8220;In order to thrive in the Consumerprise era, enterprises need a purpose-built social apps market that satisfies the desire for consumer simplicity with the compliance and security demands of the enterprise. This is the new way to enterprise apps.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Featured Jive Apps Partners Attending the Event</strong></p>
<p>Jive has partnered with leading cloud applications and system integrators to bring rich functionality to all employees across the enterprise, whether they work in sales, marketing, support, engineering or HR. Featured partners include:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.box.net/company" target="_blank">Box</a> – Box, the leading cloud content management platform, makes it easy to share files with coworkers and external parties alike. Using the Box for Jive app, employees can manage and access all their business content online and from mobile devices, with simple, secure sharing capabilities from directly within Jive.</li>
<li><a href="http://crowdfactory.com/" target="_blank">CrowdFactory</a> – CrowdFactory is a pioneer of Social ROI, enabling companies to run and optimize social marketing campaigns that dramatically increase new customer acquisition, drive loyalty and engagement and amplify brand awareness.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hedloc.com/" target="_blank">HEDLOC</a> - HEDLOC&#8217;s mission is to close the widening consumer-enterprise gap and propel organizations into the enterprise evolution by leveraging the latest technology and cloud based services. HEDLOC&#8217;s first Jive App is focused on improving project and task management within the enterprise.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.appfusions.com/display/JRA2JV/Home" target="_blank">JIRA in Jive</a> – AppFusions&#8217; first Jive App helps software development teams save time and increase accountability with on-the-fly lookups and new issue creation to their projects in the industry leading JIRA bug and issue tracker.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lingotek.com/" target="_blank">Lingotek</a> – Lingotek makes it easy to translate content into any language in a rapid, trusted, and cost-effective way. The company helps enterprises that need to engage their global communities translate &#8216;at the speed of Jive.&#8217;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.roundpegg.com/" target="_blank">RoundPegg</a> – RoundPegg brings science to the art of hiring. The company helps businesses start looking beyond the resume and identify the round pegs of who are best positioned for success within their company.</li>
<li><a href="http://rypple.com/" target="_blank">Rypple</a> – Rypple is a social performance platform built for teams to share goals, recognize great work, and help each other improve. The RyppleThanks app encourages a culture of real-time feedback by allowing employees to give thanks badges to their colleagues right within Jive.</li>
<li><strong><a href="../" target="_blank">SalesCrunch</a> – SalesCrunch is a Social Selling platform that takes selling from fuzzy art to repeatable process. The company&#8217;s first application, CrunchConnect, lets sales professionals start live pitches without software, email pitches via links and track who reads them, qualify customers in real-time, and close more deals faster.</strong></li>
<li><a href="http://www.threewill.com/catalog/home/sharepoint-lists-for-jive/" target="_blank">Sharepoint List Viewer for Jive</a> – ThreeWill&#8217;s Jive App enables companies to easily pull important information stored in SharePoint lists into Jive. Using this data, users can start meaningful discussions with others in the company&#8217;s community.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.appirio.com/demo/Jive-CS_demo/Jive-CS_demo.htm" target="_blank">Social Selling with Salesforce.com</a> – With Appirio&#8217;s Social Selling app, a sales rep can update their Salesforce opportunities without leaving Jive. They can bring their colleagues who don&#8217;t live in Salesforce into the critical discussions around those sales opportunities.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.spigit.com/" target="_blank">Spigit</a> – Spigit is the leading provider of collective idea management software, connecting employees, customers and business partners for innovation and insight discovery. Using enterprise-grade social technology, Spigit&#8217;s software taps into the collective intelligence of an organization and transforms it into actionable, predictive information.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.surveygizmo.com/" target="_blank">SurveyGizmo</a> – SurveyGizmo makes customer analysis simple. The SurveyGizmo app enables companies to build surveys, evaluations, polls and quizzes, without tech help. Customers can create an online survey, poll or website form in minutes.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.tungle.me/Home/" target="_blank">Tungle</a> – Tungle, <a href="http://www.tungle.me/Home/rim-acquires-tungle/" target="_blank">now part of Research in Motion</a>, enables companies to eliminate double-bookings, time zone mishaps and the back-and-forth of finding a time to meet. They can now easily schedule meetings, inside and outside their organization.</li>
<li><a href="http://yamlabs.com/" target="_blank">yaM Labs</a> – yaM&#8217;s (short for &#8216;yet another Meeting&#8217;) real-time collaborative app allows companies to effortlessly prepare, run and follow-up on meetings to get the most out of the interaction.</li>
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<p><strong>Free Jive 5 Platform for Jive Apps Partners</strong></p>
<p>During the event, Jive will also introduce the Jive Apps Jumpstart program. It will offer Jive Apps partners free usage of <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products" target="_blank">Jive 5</a>, Jive&#8217;s industry leading Social Business platform, for up to 200 users. This program will help Jive and Jive Apps partners collaborate faster to bring the next wave of Social Business apps to market and change the way work gets done.</p>
<p>Jive Apps Market is available today with Jive 5. To learn more, attend Jive&#8217;s annual user conference, <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/jiveworld" target="_blank">JiveWorld11</a>, which will take place in Las Vegas, October 4-6 at the new Cosmopolitan Hotel.</p>
<p><strong>About Social Business</strong></p>
<p>Social Business is the new way to engage employees, customers and the social web. Jive&#8217;s Social Business software combines the power of <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/solutions/community-software" target="_blank">community software</a>, <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/solutions/collaboration-software" target="_blank">collaboration software</a>, <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products" target="_blank">social networking software</a> and <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/solutions/social-media-monitoring" target="_blank">social media monitoring</a> offerings into an integrated platform. Just as social technologies have changed our personal lives, Social Business is changing how enterprises create competitive advantage.</p>
<p><strong>About Jive – The New Way to Business</strong></p>
<p>Jive is a leading Social Business company that brings social innovations from the consumer world into enterprises securely and at scale. Jive is funded by <a href="http://www.sequoiacap.com/" target="_blank">Sequoia Capital</a> and <a href="http://www.kpcb.com/" target="_blank">Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers</a>. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/" target="_blank">www.jivesoftware.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>AlwaysOn Global 250 – SalesCrunch Makes the List!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Announcing the 2011 AlwaysOn Global 250 SalesCrunch is thrilled to announce that they were chosen as one of the top 250 in the AlwaysOn Top Private Companies list. AlwaysOn is excited to announce the AO Global 250 top, private companies &#8212; plus 15 to watch &#8212; that are creating a compelling, exciting, high-growth technology [...]]]></description>
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<p>SalesCrunch is thrilled to announce that they were chosen as one of the top 250 in the AlwaysOn Top Private Companies list.</p>
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<h1><a href="http://www.aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2011-AlwaysOn-Global-250">AlwaysOn is excited to announce the AO Global 250 top, private companies &#8212; plus 15 to watch &#8212; that are creating a compelling, exciting, high-growth technology marketplace.</a></h1>
<p>It&#8217;s with great excitement that we introduce the ninth annual AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies list. The AlwaysOn Global 250 represent the top emerging companies in the Global Silicon Valley that are demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing game-changing technologies in digital media, mobile, social media, cloud, and SaaS computing.</p>
<p>The AlwaysOn editorial team, along with partners at Morgan Stanley, the Blackstone Group, KPMG, Silicon Valley Bank, DCM, Greycroft, and Bridge Bank, as well as industry experts across the globe, scoured the entrepreneurial community to identify the top 250 private companies that are taking old notions of doing things and forging solutions that will lead to industry shake-up and huge value-creation opportunities. The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2011 list.</p>
<p>&#8220;This year&#8217;s AlwaysOn Global 250 are companies driven by the biggest mega-trends, including the accelerating growth of mobile users, cloud computing, and SaaS offerings, globalization, and the socialization of commerce, and basically everything online,&#8221; says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. &#8220;This year&#8217;s winners clearly represent some of the highest-growth opportunities we&#8217;ve seen in the private company marketplace in the history of the global Silicon Valley.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Tony Perkins is the founder and editor of AlwaysOn.</em></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SalesCrunch is proud have been chosen by <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/" target="_blank">Jive Software</a> as one of only 10 apps for the upcoming launch of the <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/apps/jive-apps-market/buying-apps" target="_blank">Jive Apps Market</a>,  a store for social business apps. We are proud to partner with Jive to  be on a leading edge of helping change the way companies do business in  an increasingly social business world.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=323771"><strong>Jive Unveils &#8216;The Jive Social Network&#8217;</strong></a></p>
<p><em>Introduces The New Way to Partner</em><strong><a rel="attachment wp-att-2337" href="http://www.salescrunch.com/jive-unveils-the-jive-social-network/jive-logo"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2337" title="jive logo - salescrunch" src="http://www.salescrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jive-logo.png" alt="" width="234" height="115" /></a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Palo Alto – Calif. – June 9, 2011</strong> – <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/">Jive Software</a> announced t<strong> </strong>oday <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/partners">The Jive Social Network</a>,<strong> </strong> the first <strong> </strong>industry partner program that brings together Social Business leaders across advisory, technol<strong> </strong>ogy and consulting disciplines into a unified global ecosystem of excellence. With this program, Jive is enabling enterprises to accelerate their Social Business adoption by providing a single point of access to the best talent and technology available in the industry.</p>
<p>The Jive Social Network gives customers the confidence of proven expertise and technology to drive breakthrough outcomes and avoid expensive mistakes or failed experiments. They can select Jive-certified strategic Social Business solutions that best fit their goals, industry requirements and deployment needs. Partners can tap into Jive’s extensive knowledge base of best practices, have access to leading developers and get advanced visibility into Jive&#8217;s product roadmap.</p>
<p>&#8220;Social Business is transforming the way business is done,&#8221; said Christopher Morace, SVP of Business Development at Jive. &#8220;Today we are introducing the new way to partner. We are bringing together the top leaders across the Social Business landscape to give customers unparalleled access to the deepest expertise and latest innovation available to best position them for success.”</p>
<p>The Jive Social Network includes <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/partners/alliance">Jive Alliance</a>, <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/apps/jive-apps-market/featured-apps">Jive Apps</a> and <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/partners/technology">Jive Strategic Technology</a> Partners.</p>
<p><strong>Jive Alliance Partners</strong></p>
<p>Jive Alliance Partners include large global management consultants that provide strategic advisory, change management, custom services, products and solutions on the Jive platform including industry or vertical specialization. They include global leaders such as <a href="http://www.accenture.com/">Accenture</a>, <a href="http://www.csc.com/">CSC</a>, <a href="http://www.infosys.com/iengage/">Infosys</a>, <a href="http://www.logica.com/">Logica</a> and <a href="http://www.sapient.com/en-us/sapientnitro.html">SapientNitro</a>.</p>
<p>Jive&#8217;s Alliance Partners also include select leading regional and boutique consultancies whose focused areas of expertise and accessibility can be matched to any clients&#8217; unique requirements.</p>
<p>“The Social Business market is one of the newest and fastest growing sectors in our practice, where the rules of engagement are being redefined in real-time. The expanded Jive partner ecosystem will benefit the entire Social Business industry, and in particular, customers,” said Steve Warner, Head of Customer Intelligence and Business Information Management at Logica UK.  “It will provide centralized access to industry-leading Social Business services and solutions across the entire adoption lifecycle: from strategy, requirements gathering and software selection, to implementation and solution customization.”</p>
<p><strong>Jive Apps Partners </strong></p>
<p>Jive App Partners represent the most innovative cloud companies. They share Jive’s mission to change the way that work gets done in the enterprise. Using the APIs within the <a href="https://developers.jivesoftware.com/community/docs/DOC-1011">Jive Apps Framework</a>, Jive Apps Partners can immediately make their solutions social and have direct access to millions of enterprise users. Through the <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/apps/jive-apps-market/buying-apps">Jive Apps Market</a>, these partners can offer subscription plans for a single employee or an entire enterprise.</p>
<p>Jive Apps Partners include: <a href="http://www.appirio.com/">Appirio</a>, <a href="http://www.box.net/">Box</a>, <a href="http://www.gliffy.com/">Gliffy</a>, <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/solutions/social-media-monitoring">Jive Social Media Engagement</a>, <a href="http://www.lingotek.com/">Lingotek</a>, <a href="http://www.roundpegg.com/">RoundPegg</a>, <a href="http://www.rypple.com/">Rypple</a>, <a href="../">SalesCrunch</a>, <a href="http://www.spigit.com/">Spigit</a>, <a href="http://www.surveygizmo.com/">SurveyGizmo</a> and <a href="http://www.tungle.com/">Tungle</a>.</p>
<p>“The Jive Social Network is a win-win situation for customers, Jive and Jive&#8217;s partners, including Rypple,” said David Stein, co-CEO at Rypple. “The Jive Apps Market is the quickest way for clients to adopt cloud applications through one-click activation into the leading Social Business platform, immediate visibility to apps your colleagues are using, and enterprise line of sight into adoption.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Jive Strategic Technology Partners</strong></p>
<p>Strategic Technology Partners are best-of-breed technology vendors and solution providers that extend Jive&#8217;s core platform capabilities through deep integration, Jive Connects and Jive APIs. Strategic Technology Partners include <a href="http://www.alfresco.com/">Alfresco</a>, <a href="http://www.akamai.com/">Akamai</a> and <a href="http://www.appirio.com/">Appirio</a>.</p>
<p>“We are thrilled to be part of Jive’s global partner program,” said John Newton, Alfresco CTO. “Social Business systems like Jive are enabling new ways of collaboration in the enterprise and users are adopting them quickly.  Enterprises can have the best of both worlds – by combining Jive’s best of breed Social Business technology with Alfresco’s best of breed ECM, enterprise content becomes both social and organized, resulting in more effective employees &amp; well-managed enterprise content.”</p>
<p>The Jive Social Network is available immediately.  For more information, visit <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/partners">http://www.jivesoftware.com/partners</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>About Social Business</strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p>Social Business is the new way to engage employees, customers and the social web. Jive&#8217;s Social Business software combines the power of <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/solutions/community-software">community software</a>, <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/solutions/collaboration-software">collaboration software</a>, <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/products">social networking software</a>, and <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/solutions/social-media-monitoring">social media monitoring</a> offerings into an integrated platform. Just as social technologies have changed our personal lives, Social Business is changing how enterprises create competitive advantage.</p>
<p><strong>About Jive – The New Way to Business</strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p>Jive is the largest and fastest growing independent Social Business Software company in the world. Jive is funded by <a href="http://www.sequoiacap.com/">Sequoia Capital</a> and by <a href="http://www.kpcb.com/">Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers</a>. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.com/">www.jivesoftware.com</a>.</p>
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