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The ever-relevant concept of efficiency prevails during times of economic uncertainty. At InsideView, we spent the majority of 2009 developing our sales intelligence technology, so that our customers can do more with less and ultimately, close more deals faster. We’re proud of how far SaleView has come to be able to help salespeople be more informed and generate greater results. As we move into 2010, we reflect on 2009 and acknowledge the success of our clients and InsideView, while keeping sight of the ‘next steps’ for the coming year.

Over the course of 2009 InsideView received highly regarded accolades from the sales community, including :

In the latter half of 2009 we partnered with NetSuite and released an application to leverage social networking, including Facebook and Twitter, within both Customer Relationship Management and Enterprise Resource Planning, spawning the Social ERP category.

In May, InsideView also launched the Smart Cloud and Buzz Tab (Twitter CRM integration) to incorporate real-time social media monitoring into all major CRM applications, while significantly enhancing our technology’s integrations with both Oracle CRM On Demand and Siebel CRM applications in support of Oracle’s Social CRM initiative.

We carry this momentum into 2010, and have no doubts that the new decade will be an era of Sales 2.0 technologies to make the life of the sales professional more efficient, more productive and, most important of all, more successful.

The Aberdeen Group’s recent study deconstructed the best-in-class inside sales deployments, surveying 476 organizations and found that sales practitioners using SalesView outperformed other companies in both performance and the adoption of best-in-class practices (as defined in this Analyst Insight). Aberdeen notes the significant increase in overall sales performance, quota achievement, win/loss and lead-conversion rates when compared to companies not utilizing the application.

Aberdeen cites SalesView’s technology, aggregating sales intelligence from social media and traditional sources, in turn increasing sales productivity and velocity. The study credits SalesView’s CRM integration with providing the following benefits:

  • 27% increase in overall productivity
  • 32% more sales reps achieve their quotas
  • 31% more sales reps see a better win/loss rate
  • 18% more sales reps convert leads to the closing stage

According to Peter Ostrow, research director for sales effectiveness at The Aberdeen Group, “Access to sales intelligence, especially when directly fed into CRM/SFA systems, is clearly one of the major enablers for the best-in-class companies in the study. Sales teams who are deploying InsideView’s sales intelligence application are indeed achieving 32% better performance than non-customers, in terms of current lead conversion rates and hitting quota, and year-to-year growth in revenue and win/loss ratios.”

Check out the entire report here.

Interested in learning how your organization can increase sales productivity and efficiency? Of course you are. Tune in tomorrow (Wednesday, 1/27) at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET for valuable insight from Peter Ostrow, the Aberdeen Group’s sales effectiveness research director. Peter will highlight the results and benefits of SalesView, along with other great perspectives.

The Webinar, “How to Blow Out Your Quota in 2010,” is complimentary and will teach you and your organization how to:

  • Achieve an average of 87% overall sales team quota
  • Increase average revenue by 17%
  • Experience an average of 7% improvement of lead conversion rate
  • Raise average selling price/contract size by 45%

Register in advance at http://tinyurl.com/yzm8c7t.

September is a busy month for sales people… after the summer doldrums many of us have to squeeze an entire quarter’s worth of deals into the final month of Q3.  Well it turned out to be a very busy month for the InsideView development team, too.  Our September release includes two new CRM integrations, the addition of Jigsaw contacts, improved industry search, and email notifications for mobile devices.  Phew!

  1. SalesView for Oracle CRM On Demand
    We publicly unveiled our Oracle integration at the OpenWorld Social CRM Inner Circle.  InsideView’s externally-focused ‘socialprise‘ capabilities are a perfect compliment to Oracle’s internally-focused ‘social CRM‘ capabilities.  The Oracle partnership marks our fifth major CRM integration in just the last six months.  SalesView is fast becoming a ubiquitous sales productivity application across the leading CRM platforms (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM, Landslide, Microsoft, Oracle).

    SalesView for Oracle CRM On Demand

    SalesView for Oracle CRM On Demand

  2. SalesView for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
    We publicly announced our Microsoft integration at Interop New York 2008.  We’re thrilled to bring SalesView FREE to all Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers, whether hosted or on-premise.  Microsoft has also proven to be a strong supporter of socialprise, having recognized early on the value of tapping into social media to drive enterprise sales.

    SalesView for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

    SalesView for Microsoft Dynamics CRM

  3. Jigsaw contacts for manager & director titles
    Just a few weeks after announcing an expanded relationship with Jigsaw, we have added director and manager level titles from Jigsaw to the SalesView database.    The addition of Jigsaw provides user-generated content, along with editorially maintained content from Hoovers, D&B, and Reuters and Web crawler content from ZoomInfo.  Jigsaw brings several key strengths to the table including availability of lower level management titles, email addresses, and direct dial phone numbers.

    Jigsaw contacts

    Jigsaw contacts

  4. Improved industry-based company search
    Our new industry classification makes it easier than ever to identify prospective customers by vertical/industry.  You will find the new industries under Find >> Company Criteria.

    New industry search

    New industry search

  5. Notifications for text-only mobile devices
    If you haven’t yet made the switch to a smart phone that support HTML emails, you can delay that purchase a bit longer.  InsideView daily alerts are now readable on text-only mobile devices.  (And for those of you who are used to viewing the nice HTML emails on your iPhone, you still can!)

To learn more about our latest release and how SalesView can help your sales organization, contact your InsideView account executive or click here to request a demonstration.

We hope that with each new release of SalesView your job gets a little easier and you become a lot more successful.  As always, please keep those comments and suggestions coming at marketing@insideview.com.

SalesView just got even better today with our announcement that we’re deepening our partnership with business information and data services powerhouse Jigsaw (www.jigsaw.com). We will now be further integrating data from Jigsaw’s contact and company information directory into SalesView. The folks at Jigsaw have found innovative and incredible ways to collect and leverage user-generated content contributed by its global membership, which amounts to 9 million business contacts and 1 million companies. Jigsaw delivers low-cost and easy access to high-value business information that can be used to identify key decision makers and people for purposes such as sales, marketing, recruiting and customer service. Integrating this wealth of information into the SalesView application means raising the bar for the level of value that the next generation of web-based sales offerings can deliver. Working with great companies like Jigsaw is really what it’s all about for us here at InsideView and we’re very excited to be partnering with them to extend the value of the socialprise.

You can read the full announcement here

UPDATE – Read up on what others are saying about the InsideView + Jigsaw partnership…

Chris Bucholtz, InsideCRM
Defining – and not re-defining – socialprise

InsideView is serving up smokin' hot product updates

You know that guy who selflessly toils away at the grill while everyone else at the picnic enjoys the good food and conversation? That would be our development team. Yes, during the dog days of summer when many of us in sales are enjoying vacations or laying by the pool, the InsideView engineers have been busy manning the grill and serving up some hot new features. When we fired up the grill earlier this month our focus was on making SalesView even smarter and easier to use. The ingredients? First we started with some great user feedback from our growing SalesView community (thank you!) and then we added a little secret sauce from the InsideView team.

Here’s a quick run down on some of the things we’ve been cooking up!
1. Connections Get Kicked Up a Notch
We moved a step closer to perfecting our recipe for connection analysis using what we call entity triangulation. By comparing and merging executive profiles from different data sources, we maximize your ability to leverage relationships. You also get the very best information that sources like Reuters, Hoovers, D&B, and ZoomInfo have to offer — all in one executive profile.

2. Fire Up SalesView Search From Your CRM
Our latest Salesforce mash-up allows you to search SalesView without leaving your CRM. Not finding any search results in your Salesforce? No problem. Use the new SalesView search box in the left-hand navigation to find the company or executive you’re looking for (and export them back into your CRM with a single click!)

3. Capture All the Flavor of Agents in Your CRM
Wish you could easily save the key events and insights found by SalesView’s Smart Agents? Well now you can. Our Salesforce mash-up now allows you to save Agent events as a Task or Note so that you can easily follow up on them. You can also email Agent events to other members of your sales and marketing team without having to leave your CRM.

These are just some of the updates you will notice in SalesView. We’ve also done some great work to make company and executive searches even faster. Check it all out for yourself by logging into SalesView today.

While summer is winding down in most places, our summer is just hitting it’s stride here in the Bay Area. And that means you can look for more great features hot off the grill. In the coming months you will see some great new capabilities related to CRM integration, new content sources, and additional breakthroughs in the use of social media in the enterprise.

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