Today is the big day. At 9:55 PST Charlie and Mary Pat will be going on stage to introduce and demonstrate SalesWorks to an audience of over 700 attendees. We launched our GiftWorks product there a couple years ago and have had a lot of success with it. I think we'll see the same kind of success with SalesWorks. I will try to summarize some of the press that we get over the next few days.
We've worked with Blodgett Communications for the launch of SalesWorks. Renee Blodgett, the founder of the PR company, has posted an article that illustrates the problem we are trying to solve with SalesWorks...
"Frustrated with the poor user interface and clumsiness of existing contact management solutions like GoldMine and ACT and the fact that I'm not really the right business model to go with a more expensive Salesforce.com online only solution, I'm left without a useful product. Meanwhile, my contacts sit in three apps (Outlook, Filemaker, and GroupMail), since individually, they do not give me the combined functionality I need. Sigh."
I think she's right on with that and it's exactly what we are hearing from the other small businesses we've been talking with.