Involve Technology Forms Strategic Alliance with Sales & Marketing Executives International.PHOENIX -- StreetSmarts to Provide SMEI SMEI Sales & Marketing Executives-International SMEI Sony Music Entertainment Inc. SMEI Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy SMEI Small/Medium Enterprise Initiative Members with On-Demand Resource for Sales Best Practices Involve Technology(TM) Inc., a world leader in innovative, powerful sales support technology, today announced a strategic alliance with Sales & Marketing Executives International (SMEI), a worldwide professional association for sales and marketing executives. SMEI will use Involve Technology's StreetSmarts(TM) software to share sales best practices, information, advice, and tips between its 10,000 members to support the organization's five founding principles: professional identification and standards, continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). , sharing knowledge, assisting students, and supporting the free enterprise system. StreetSmarts is a patent-pending system specifically designed as a single source for sales and marketing people to get real-world answers needed to help close more sales faster. "The SMEI Exchange is set to paint our founding principle of 'sharing knowledge' with a bold stripe," stated Willis Turner, CSE (Certified Systems Engineer) See Microsoft certification. , president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SMEI. "The state-of-the-art StreetSmarts program developed by Involve Technology will allow SMEI to share its greatest asset, knowledge and experience of sales and marketing professionals, with our members in an intuitive and exciting online format." "Involve Technology is enthusiastic about the goals and market potential of our strategic alliance with SMEI," stated Lisa Cramer, president and COO of Involve Technology Inc. "The combination of our innovative StreetSmarts technology with their knowledge and experience in sales best practices will provide a cutting-edge, on-demand resource with strong value and benefits to members of their organization." StreetSmarts Technology Overview The StreetSmarts sales support technology is a fully Web-based product, which allows users to request and receive sales best practices at any time and from any place. It can even be used offline. Gathering and disseminating valuable information or answers is automated through e-mail and triggered by a variety of configurable items. Likewise, the management of the system is automated and doesn't require an IT person. StreetSmarts is scalable from dozens to thousands of users and works in conjunction with a company's CRM/SFA system, e-mail system, and intranet. The look and feel of StreetSmarts can be configured to match an existing software application and users can subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; receive recent answers in their areas of interest or from selected experts. StreetSmarts delivers a completely different, yet complementary set of features and functions from SFA/CRM. It uniquely addresses and solves many of the problems faced by sales organizations such as: reducing the sales cycle, ramping new reps, and increasing productivity of existing reps. About Sales & Marketing Executives International Sales and Marketing Executives International (SMEI) combines the strength of an international organization with local chapters to provide ongoing seminars, workshops and activities designed to promote excellence through shared experience and to created success through shared knowledge. SMEI is the only worldwide educational and relationship-building forum created for sales and marketing executives and entrepreneurs who seek professional growth in experience, leadership skill and peer contact. With more than 50 affiliate chapters around the world, members benefit from both the strength of an international organization and the resources that a local chapter provides through ongoing seminars, lectures and networking opportunities. For more information, visit www.smei.org. About Involve Technology Inc. Involve Technology is the developer and marketer of a new generation of sales support solutions that enable companies to increase their sales effectiveness by capturing, sharing and disseminating sales best practices and practical, deal-specific, proven answers to salespeople sales·peo·ple pl.n. Persons who are employed to sell merchandise in a store or in a designated territory. . The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. is StreetSmarts, a breakthrough in sales support technology which focuses the power of Involve Technology's thinking to help sales teams close deals more easily. Involve Technology's founders, executives and directors possess top-level backgrounds in sales, marketing, consulting, product development and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. earned at industry-leading organizations such as Accenture, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , KnowledgeWare, Miller Heiman, SalesLogix, and Viasoft. Each has been involved with the creation, marketing, and/or integration of technologies tied to the sales process A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. , CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , call center, training and other key business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.involvetechnology.com or call 800-997-9098 in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. or 602-953-7711 outside the United States. Involve Technology and StreetSmarts are registered trademarks of Involve Technology Inc. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such. |
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