| Initial campaign
resulted in $17.3 million pipeline and hundreds of thousands of
dollars in sales
ATLANTA, GA – October 26, 2004 – PointClear,
LLC, a leading provider of outsourced Sales Opportunity Management
(SOM) solutions for companies with complex sales processes, has
helped Indus International Inc., a leading provider of Service Delivery
Management (SDM) solutions, increase its pipeline by $17.3 million
in 14 months. Through a comprehensive SOM program, Indus has seen
significant progress and closed hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of business.
Initially, Indus relied solely upon in-house sales staff and experienced
many of the common pains, including lack of timely follow-up and
the more immediate—RFPs and special projects—prioritized
over the longer term opportunities.
“We had no real processes in place and had no real leads
in the pipeline,” said Chris Hale, director of solutions marketing,
Indus. “Having worked with PointClear at three previous companies,
I knew their approach worked, especially for companies with complex
sales processes like Indus, and that we would get the results we
needed.”
PointClear utilized analysts with industry experience to optimize
Indus’ sales process and establish a meaningful dialogue with
and expand the company’s prospect list. After 14 months, Indus
had a multi-million dollar pipeline and had received over 150 sales
opportunities from the PointClear team, resulting in significant
closed business.
“PointClear continues to exceed everyone’s expectations
and our sales team appreciates the accuracy and quality of the opportunities
that are provided,” said Hale. “Integrating PointClear
into our overall sales and marketing mix has allowed Indus, for
the first time, to close the ‘sales-loop’ process and
present our Executives with a true return on marketing investment
(ROMI).”
“PointClear’s practice of using only experienced professionals,
not novice telemarketers or appointment setters, makes the difference
and creates significantly more value for our clients such as Indus,”
said Dan McDade, CEO and founder. “By having peer-to-peer
conversations with our customers’ targets and leveraging the
expertise of our analysts, we are able to reveal ready buyers that
lead to real revenue.”
About Indus International
Indus is a leading provider of Service Delivery Management (SDM)
solutions, which help clients in a broad array of industries optimize
the management of their customers, workforce, spare parts inventory,
tools and documentation in order to maximize performance and customer
satisfaction while achieving significant cost savings. Indus customer,
asset and workforce management software products, professional services
and hosted service offerings improve our clients’ profitability
by reducing costs, increasing capacity and competitiveness, improving
service to their customers, facilitating billing for services and
ensuring regulatory compliance. Indus solutions have been purchased
by more than 400 companies in more than 40 countries, representing
diverse industries -- including manufacturing, utilities, telecommunications,
government, education, transportation, facilities and property management,
consumer packaged goods and more. For more information, visit www.indus.com.
About PointClear
Headquartered in Norcross, GA, PointClear, LCC is a leading provider
of outsourced Sales Opportunity Management (SOM) solutions for companies
such as Arrow, Cognos, Dell, Indus, Inovis and Sun. PointClear’s
expert team of sales and marketing professionals provide detailed
intelligence that: helps companies understand their markets, identifies
the most qualified sales opportunities, provides sales teams with
ready buyers, and verifies results. PointClear's comprehensive portfolio
of outcome-based marketing services includes: building/optimizing
marketing databases, multi-channel prospecting programs, in-depth
prospect profiling, fulfillment and e-fulfillment, list segmentation,
target market intelligence, closed-loop Sales Opportunity Management,
ROI analysis, and much more.
Contact Information:
Kathy Cabrera
Carabiner Communications
770.569.8221
kcabrera@carabinerpr.com
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