12/29/10 - Holiday Replay: Paul Staelin of Birst and Andrew Gaffney of DemandGen Report
December 23rd, 2010
Birst is the industry’s first and only end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI) suite that provides the power of on-premise Business Intelligence (BI) tools with the economics of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). We'll be interviewing Paul Staelin, Vice President of Customer Operations and co-Founder - Birst.
He will be followed by Andres Gaffney, Publisher of DemandGen Report. DemandGen Report is a targeted e-media publication spotlighting the strategies and solutions that help companies better align their sales and marketing organizations, and ultimately, drive growth. A key component of our coverage focuses on the sales and marketing automation tools that enable companies to better measure and manage their multi-channel demand generation efforts.
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December 16 Show: Larry Ritter, Sen. VP of Sage Solutions & Lead Generation Expert - J. David Green
December 18th, 2010
Industry news: Will Crist.
Larry Ritter, Senior Vice President & General Manager Global Product Management & Marketing, Sage CRM Solutions www.sagecrmsolutions.com
Larry Ritter is senior vice president and general manager of global product management and marketing for Sage CRM Solutions, part of The Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier of business management software and services to over 6.3 million small and medium-sized business customers worldwide. Mr. Ritter leads product strategy, development, testing, and marketing for the Sage CRM Solutions product family comprised of Sage ACT!, Sage CRM and Sage SalesLogix. Mr. Ritter has 20 years of software industry experience and, prior to Sage, lead product development efforts for Citrix Systems and Hewlett Packard. He joined Sage in 2004 and as a senior executive within the company’s Global CRM Organization has helped evolve the ACT! product line for use by corporate customers and specific industries, guide Sage CRM and Sage ERP front and back-office integration, and lead the re-architecture of the Sage SalesLogix platform. He is also a significant contributor to the Sage CRM Solutions strategy and vision, as well as product roadmaps.
At Citrix, Mr. Ritter was responsible for worldwide IT infrastructure planning projects for security, application deployment, and network management. During his HP tenure, he was responsible for software development tools that enabled companies to embed microprocessors (Intel, Motorola and others) into various industries including aerospace, manufacturing, automotive and gaming.
Mr. Ritter is quoted frequently on CRM technology and trends in industry and business publications including CRM Magazine, Selling Power, and Computer Reseller Newsamong others. In addition to speaking at various Sage customer and partner events worldwide, Ritter is a guest presenter for the Arizona State University graduate school of business. He has a B.S.E.E. from Iowa State University and has participated in MBA studies at University of Colorado.
David Green, MECLABS Applied Research MarketingExperiments.com
Dave Green has over 25 years of experience in all aspects of lead generation and in channel marketing.b Clients have included Cisco, Microsoft, Qwest, PTC, Avaya, Symantec, Computer Associates, & Novell. Key accomplishments include designing for two of the largest software companies telesales operations that significantly exceeded first-year quota by over 30 and 60 percent, respectively. Green also wrote the business plan and helped secure the funding for a department focused on demand generation and global lead management for a Fortune 500 firm. Green then helped recruit the staff and select the vendors that drove over a billion dollars in pipeline in the first 20 months of operation. In 2001 David teamed with Michael Saylor to co-author The B2B Refinery®, a book about the value of organizational alignment to maximize ROI on go-to-market resources.
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November 11: Jeff Solomon, Jeff Pedowitz and Michael Falkson
November 10th, 2010
SLMA Radio broadcasts live on Thursday, November 11th with the opinions and commentary from the co-founder and SVP of Leads360 Jeff Solomon. Jeff and his company are recognized leaders in B2C lead generation and management marketplace.
Will Crist, the SLMA Radio host, will interview Jeff Pedowitz, CEO of the Pedowitz Group. Jeff and his company have been in the news a lot of late and we look forward to a lively interview. Jeff offered an industry commentary on October 7th. Pedowitz thinks that marketers are revenue generators so we want to drill into his beliefs of why marketers have an obligation to be builders of wealth.
Our second guest will be Michael Falkson, President, eti Sales Support. Michael’s company has been an SLMA Sponsor almost from the beginning of the association. His company has a focus on Lead Generation and Client Retention services. Our questions for Michael will focus on his thoughts of whether companies are spending more on less on lead generation now than they were a year ago. Plus, we want to know what works in lead generation in today’s B2B marketplace.
Tune in at 5 PM PST on Thursday, November 11th.
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August 26 Show Interviewing Mac McIntosh and Joseph Payne
August 26th, 2010
Mac McIntosh - the Sales Lead Expert and Joseph Payne, CEO of Eloqua will be joining us Thursday, August 26 from 5 - 6 pm on SLMA Radio.
The SLMA Radio program is brought to you by the membership of the Sales Lead Management Association.
SLMA Radio is a 50 minute internet radio show which broadcasts live at 5 PM PDT, in the United States from OC Talk Radio. The show is hosted by Will Crist and produced by Paul Roberts and James Obermayer. It will broadcast bi-weekly in August and September.
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| Mac McIntosh, The Sales Lead Expert | Joseph Payne CEO of Eloqua |
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