Salesforce.com customers and partners can now deploy ClearMeeting™ SA directly within Salesforce
Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference - ClearMeeting™, the no frills Web conferencing company, today announced the availability of ClearMeeting SA (the Sales Accelerator edition of ClearMeeting) for salesforce.com's AppExchange. Salesforce.com customers can now deploy ClearMeeting SA within their Salesforce implementation to dramatically improve results when prospecting and giving pitches by telephone. Built on the Force.com platform, ClearMeeting SA for AppExchange is immediately available for test drive and deployment at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. The announcement was made today at Dreamforce ‘07, salesforce.com’s User and Developer Conference.
A powerful selling tool, ClearMeeting SA adds visuals and interactive elements to phone calls, giving sales professionals the ability to show a story, not just tell a story. ClearMeeting SA follows a low-tech, basic approach to reach prospects and customers regardless of their computer type or technical ability. ClearMeeting SA helps sales professionals exceed their quota by giving them the ability to:
* Engage more prospects
* Better qualify prospects in the sale cycle
* Spend more time selling
* Accelerate the sales cycle
* Increase communications (and sales) with existing customers
With AppExchange, salesforce.com customers now have access to new applications that bring the benefits of salesforce.com to an entire business, letting them manage and share all of their company information on-demand. Using AppExchange, companies can easily add any number of new on-demand applications to their existing Salesforce deployments, extending their success and making the full power and creativity of the salesforce.com customer, partner and developer community available with just a click.
“We designed ClearMeeting SA specifically for real-time sales prospecting and presentations,” said Marjie Zander, President of ClearMeeting. “In the critical early stages of the sales cycle, you don’t know what type of computer expertise or resources your prospect may have. Our low tech approach gets technology out of the way, so both the sales rep and the prospect can focus on the message, and not the medium. We invite salesforce.com customers to take advantage of our free One-to-One license, or purchase a higher capacity or team license.”
”The AppExchange has gained tremendous momentum, with thousands of applications available to extend the power of Salesforce," said George Hu, Chief Marketing Officer at salesforce.com. “ClearMeeting's AppExchange application enables salesforce.com customers to prospect and give sales presentations over the Web, without ever leaving Salesforce. ClearMeeting is a solution focused on the needs of sales professionals who want to do simple and powerful web presentations as a seamless part of every workday."
Force.com Platform and the AppExchange
Force.com is the on-demand platform for the next generation of business applications. Force.com reinvents traditional customization and integration and enables the creation of a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond client/server computing. Force.com allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace, enabling all the innovation that Force.com unleashes to benefit the entire on-demand community.
The AppExchange economy continues to expand as thousands of salesforce.com customers have installed thousands of on-demand business applications available on the AppExchange, found at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange.
About ClearMeeting™
ClearMeeting™ is a tool for adding visual and interactive elements to traditional telephone conference calls. ClearMeeting™ is sold as an on-demand service, also called SaaS (Software as a Service). ClearMeeting™ requires no capital investment, no hardware, no complex setup, no lengthy contract and no formal training. Its basic approach gets technology out of the way. The ClearMeeting™ SA edition is tailored specifically to meet the needs of sales and marketing professionals and is sold on a per-presenter basis via online signup at www.clearmeeting.com. ClearMeeting™ is a division of privately held AudioCast Inc. (www.audiocast.net), a pioneer of innovations in database driven streaming media products and corporate online communication systems since 1997. For additional information, please visit www.clearmeeting.com.