Stanford Venture Capital Holdings Invests in Mountain Partners Group ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Swiss investment company, Mountain Super Angel AG (Open Market Frankfurt, ISIN: CH0033050961, www.super-angel.ch) and her parent company, Mountain Partners AG, have announced that Stanford Venture Capital Holdings has committed to invest in the Swiss company and its funds. Stanford will also nominate one member to each of the Boards of Directors for both Mountain Partners AG and Mountain Super Angel AG. A Winning Proposition THE SALES CYCLE IS ALMOST a gauntlet: Between working hard prospecting for new business and finally getting the order, there’s a long road fraught with any number of pitfalls. And maybe the most intimidating hurdle is the proposal. Fortunately, more automated and user-friendly tools are coming to the table to help channel partners do their best in the proposal process. A salesperson lives and dies by reputation and the first impression. If the proposal is shoddy, the customer may not take you seriously.
The Sunday Times Bonmarché blames Brexit and weather for sliding profits new Bonmarché, the discount clothing retailer, blamed a string of factors, from bad weather to Brexit, for sliding annual profits and its failure to increase market share. The company, which specialises in clothing for women aged over 50, complained that last year had been more challenging than it had expected and that it had not managed to...Bonmarché, the discount clothing retailer, blamed a string of factors, from bad weather to Brexit, for sliding annual profits and its failure to increase market share. The company, which specialises in clothing for women aged over 50, complained that last year had been more challenging than it had expected and that it had not managed to...Bonmarché, the discount clothing retailer, blamed a string of factors, from bad weather to Brexit, for sliding annual profits...
10 Hot Web Startups Changing the Face of Retail Macala Wright is the publisher of FashionablyMarketing.Me, one of the leading fashion and retail industry business websites. She is a retail consultant and business strategist who specializes in marketing consulting for fashion, luxury and lifestyle brands. You can follower her on Twitter at @InsideFMM or @Macala. In 2010, branded content was one the largest trends among retailers and brands. In 2011, branded content shifted to branded entertainment. Enterprise Architecture Tools, Institute For Enterprise Architecture Developments (IFEAD) Troux Troux provides a set of purposed, packaged applications built on a highly scalable software platform along with a best of breed modeling tool that delivers significant business value from Business Technology Management and Enterprise Architecture. Troux’s customer list is a who’s who of the Global 2000 with successful deployments ranging from small EA teams to ones with more than 10,000 regular users.
A Groupon For Sports? Crowd Seats Brings The Daily Deal Model To Sports Tickets Daily deal sites, by and large, seem like they’re here to stay, much to Rocky Agrawal’s chagrin, surely. Whether or not you agree with Rocky’s flurry of posts last month about Groupon and its claque of clones, the daily deals model is not perfect, and it’s certainly a worthy endeavor to make sure that small businesses and merchants are not coerced into structuring one-sided relationships with daily deals sites. Justin Cener, the Founder and CEO of Crowd Seats, agrees that the daily deal model is not ideal for every industry and merchants shouldn’t force the model just because daily deals are all the rage these days. That being said, Cener thinks he’s found a niche that is suited well to the daily deal and group buying model: Sports tickets.
Quote & Proposal Management Software : Customer Relationship Management Screen Shots- On Demand CRM Salesboom Quote management is a flexible means of creating customized quotes that are integrated out-of-the-box with Marketing, Sales, Service & Support as well as the Quotations department and management. Many businesses, both SMEs and large enterprises alike, have difficulty protecting margins in these times of volatile commodity prices and constantly changing product prices. Most often quotation departments are so out of tune with real product costs and Sales promotions that quotations are sent to the customer without adequate margins, due to the difficulty of sharing information corporation-wide that directly effects the bottom line. Salesboom Cloud Quote Management Software, on-demand gives your business the tools to share real-time data about product pricing and availability, current offers and promotions, sales pipeline and delivery volumes so that quotes can be generated with up to the second data, which can mean the difference between profit and loss on each and every sale.
6 Startups to Watch in 2012 An Olympic games, a U.S. presidential election and the end of the world are already planned for 2012, but we're more excited about the startups. Here are six of them (in no particular order) that we expect to help define the coming year. We chose companies based on the momentum they gained in 2011, promising new takes on old problems and, in one case, the possibility of an IPO. Did we look at every startup in the world before compiling this list? Nope.
Office Business Application for Sales Proposal Document Management Many organizations that offer a commodity or service accept Request for Proposal (RFP) documents from their customers. An organization that receives an RFP then creates an RFP response document for the customer that provides the answers to the questions asked in the RFP. An RFP can include requests for information on topics that span a wide range of areas. Some examples are requests for corporate information, pricing quotes, product specifications, and technical details. The odds are slim that a single individual will have the knowledge and expertise to answer all of the questions posed in a complex RFP, requiring the assignment of the different areas of the RFP to different people. This article presents an example of an Office Business Application built on the Office platform that supports collaborative creation of an RFP response document.
Organize An Offline Class With Skillshare The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Skillshare Quick Pitch: Skillshare turns cities into classrooms and all of their residents into potential teachers.