CRM Idol 2011: The Reviews Continue to Roll #4B
Okay, you’ve had time to digest the morning posts from CRM Idol, now time for the afternoon reviews That would be Vigilus, Assistly, Front Row Solutions. We’ve tried to be as kind as we can to the good and bad in these reviews. We recognize these are small enthusiastic companies who feel like they are […]
CRM Idol 2011: The Reviews Continue to Roll #4A
The first round of CRM Idol 2011 – The Americas is now officially over with the EMEA competition looming. We have completed the demos/reviews of 39 companies for the Americas (we lost one due to personal reasons at the last minute) and about 25 of the reviews are completed and published. You’ve seen 14 of […]
CRM Idol 2011: SMB Vendors Come to the Fore #3B
Okay, its now 2pm and I’m getting weirdly sleepy. So I’m going to post three more CRM Idol reviews that I’m begging you, pleading with you on my hands and knees to write your comments on here or on the CRM Idol website in the reviews section. This can actually have an impact on the […]
CRM Idol 2011: SMB Vendors Come to the Fore #3A
Wow. We are pouring it on aren’t we? CRM Idol has so far been interesting and you’ll see at the end of week one and before we go to Dreamforce, an analysis of what the primary judges have noticed so far, given what we’ve reviewed. Some fascinating findings though keep in mind our sample is […]
CRM Idol 2011: The SMB Vendors Jump to the Fore #2B
Here’s two more CRM Idol Reviews. We are almost done with the competition’s Americas round. Semi-finalists will be named and interviewed in early September. Now up: SplendidCRM,and Cosential. An interesting twosome – in a nice way that is. SplendidCRM SplendidCRM was founded in 2005 by Paul Rony and a group of fellow engineers looking to […]
CRM Idol
The CRM Idol competition starts this week. If you aren’t aware here’s the basic rundown. It’s the brainchild of Paul Greenberg who is no stranger to the speaking circuit and a believer in making CRM entertaining. Idol, as the name implies, is a competition focused on emerging companies and its purpose is to identify one […]
CRM Idol 2011: The SMB Vendor Jump to the Fore #2A
More and more and more…CRM Idol reviews keep coming. Here are three more from the last few days of judging. Please feel free to comment here on them. This round, Relenta, RightAnswers and Connected. Here we go: Relenta Relenta is an interesting company, with a product that can stand on its own, but, as we […]
CRM Idol 2011: The SMB Vendors Jump to the Fore #1B
Its now 2pm ET and, right on time, here (and on ZDNet) are the next two reviews for CRM Idol – Soluciones S.A. and Jaguar TPM. Same rules apply. Please do me a favor and comment on what you think. You may be able to affect the semi-finalist choices if you do. Here we go… […]
CRM Idol 2011: The SMB Vendors Jump To the Fore #1A
From now on through the next few weeks, I’m going to bombard you with the reviews that an esteemed panel of judges (well, esteemed except me) are writing for the companies that are participating in the CRM Idol 2011: The Open Season competition. This thing has burgeoned into something rather large – at least within […]
CRM Idol Update #4: CRM Begins TODAY!
CRM Idol 2011 begins today. Finally. And We’re all ready. Contestants are. Judges are. Mentors are. The general public? Who knows? But those that are in the thick of it know what they have to do. So I figured we’d do one final update to get you up to speed and introduce the competition and […]
