Announcements

Imagine not having to rely someone else for “up to the minute” attendance figures?  Imagine not having your salespeople linger around the registration asking if ’so and so is here yet’?   Done and Done!

Event Insight Mobile , a browser based mobile friendly reporting platform, is in beta use and being customer tested at events now.   Event Insight Mobile enables Event Producers and Event Services staff to monitor event attendance in real-time from events leveraging Validar’s OnSite Connector and Registration Manager without a computer or having to be physically in the registration area.   You don’t even half to be in the venue.

Event Insight Mobile is a secure mobile formatted site which enables:

• Real Time Attendance Tracking
• Attendee Search
• Check-in Alerts

The Mobile site version will enable any event manager to empower other stakeholders with secure access to the information.    Event Insight Mobile will be available for general release later this summer.   If you are interested in being a beta tester,  just drop us an note or message us on twitter.

Event Insight, Validar’s newest web application tool for managing event results is now available for your next event or event series.  Years of customer feedback and evaluation have gone in to making Attendee Insight an easy to use web based reporting application. Features include:

• Real Time Dash board of Attendence reporting
• Aggregate Exhibitor,  Session Attendence
• Integrated Feedback Reporting
• Attendee Insight - an actionable view of what an individual did at an event.

Dashboard Screenshots: Attendee  Insight Search Screen Shot: In our next release, we will be supporting mobile phone.  iPhone , Android, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry versions of the dashboard and Attendee Insight Search

Validar Schedule Builder is out of beta and available for general use.  Schedule Builder is a web-based application for managing printed  personal agendas and the details of activities within an event or series.

Organizations using Schedule Builder have saved tens of thousands of dollars on printing costs  for each event.

Users also  have full control over fonts with the Print Preview:

Learn more on our product page.
Contact us for a demo today!

Validar CEO, Victor Kippes is up for nomination for the Sales and Lead Management Association 50 most influential in the Lead Management industry.

Visit the Sales and Lead Management Association Website

EXCERPT:

Please Vote For the Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management in 2010
We’ll be running through the ballots looking for duplicate submissions - we’ll only count your first ballot and only your first 3 candidates.
Members and non-members may vote for up to three people. Duplicate votes will not count. We ask for your name and email to verify that you have voted once for each person (your email address and name will never be used for any other purpose). The top 50 nominees receiving votes will be listed on the SLMA site on December 6. Winners will get a certificate, be listed and linked on SLMA site, and receive a special logo to display as they see fit on their own web sites and will be interviewed throughout the year. The Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management will be listed on the SLMA site in order of the highest votes received. Regardless of who wins, everyone nominated is a prominent individual in the circle of people who create wealth for their companies and clients through the better management of sales inquiries.

For advanced campaign tracking, we’ve added the ability to assign responses from questions to multiple campaigns. As a result, a lead or contact record can be assigned to more than once campaign, as well as updating their campaign member status.

Let us know if you find this feature useful.

Are your customers looking for you to put lead data into Salesforce CRM?

Look no further.  Validar has launched it’s Lead Import reseller program.   Now your application/solution can push leads into Salesforce CRM  leveraging the Validar import method.   Validar has helped a number of companies streamline their lead management proc

BUY vs Build:  Why choose Validar?

Time to market.

No custom development or engineering work required

Validar has been on the Salesforce AppExchange for more than 4 years

Salesforce CRM experts on staff

Our customers love our application!   Check out the reviews.

More information available on our Partner page.  Contact us today to learn how you can provide your customers with “Salesforce CRM Integration”.

Lead Import for AppExchange with AnySource,  has been updated in the Validar Portal 3.9 release  with some new features and usablity enhancements.  This release is currently in final testing and will be available in the upcoming weeks.  

New Features:

 

• SalesforceID Matching - When importing from a known list, Validar Lead Import will ensure the IDs are the first thing matched within Leads and Contacts

 

Match on SalesforceID

 

• Record Type Matching -   If Lead or Contact Record Type is present, then it can be mapped or assigned according to your buiness needs.

 

Usability Enhancements:

 

• Add Description to the Lead Source -  Makes identifying which lead source to clone much easier. 
• Lead Source Name on Every Page - No more confusion around which lead source you are working on

Navigation at the Top of Wizard and Lead Source Name on Every Page

• Wizard Navigation appears at the top of  the page  - Saves time, - no more excessive scrolling
• Save Button gives confirmation
• Default Pick Values will be set to “Unmapped” instead of “Select Value”  - Save time in mapping large picklists. 

Pick List Values are now Unmapped instead of

  If you are interested in learning more about the upcoming features, contact Validar today.

From the Sales and Lead Management Association Web Site:   http://www.salesleadmgmtassn.com/news/2009_Top50_SalesLeadManagement.htm In September of 2009, the Sales Lead Management Association opened the nomination process to find the 50 most influential people in Sales Lead Management for the year.  When nominations closed six weeks later, we had 65 nominees.  Voting was opened to members and non-members and each person could vote for up to five people.  Duplicates (a person voting more than once or voting for more than five) were deleted.  A total of 1604 people cast 3051 votes.  The final public opinion list of the most influential people in sales lead management in 2009 follows, in the order of most votes received.    Each person on the list will receive a logo to display on their site, a certificate of recognition, and an SLMA interview invitation to discuss the future of sales lead management.  The results of these interviews will be published in the SLMA newsletter or blog throughout 2010.  The SLMA 2010 “50 Most Influential” nomination process will begin at the start of National Sales Lead Management Week, on October 11, 2010.   The SLMA served as the independent tabulator of votes and does not deny the value or endorse the services of those listed. We are greatly encouraged that 1604 people recognize the contributions of those on the 50 Most influential People in Sales Lead Management in 2009.

 

    They are listed in order of number of votes received.   Jay  Hidalgo  The Annuitas Group  Carlos  Hidalgo  The Annuitas Group  Steven  Woods  Eloqua  Joe  Lethert  Performark Inc  Lisa  Cramer  LeadLife Solutions  Joel  Book  ExactTarget  Scott  Dorsey  ExactTarget  Jill  Konrath  Selling to Big Companies  Marc  Benioff  SalesForce.com  Patrick  Cahill  Rally Point Webinars  Mary   Dedrick  Performark Inc  Trish  Bertuzzi  The Bridge Group Inc  Brian   Carroll  InTouch  Margery  Murphy  Acadia Lead Management Services  Russell  Kern  The Kern Organization  M.H. “Mac”  McIntosh  Mac McIntosh Inc.  Phil  Fernandez  Marketo  Andrew  Gaffney  Demand Gen Report & G3 Communications  Gerhard  Gschwandtner  Selling Power  Ruth  Stevens  eMarketing Strategy  Dan  McDade  PointClear  Jim  Steele  salesforce.com  Victor  Kippes  Validar, Inc.  Dan  Rogers  SmartLead by the AdTrack Corporation  John  Coe  B2B Marketing  John   Foley  Interlink One  Ellis  Booker  BtoB Magazine  James  Wong  Avidian Technologies  Larry    Augustin   SugarCRM   Richard   Erschik  Leads to Sales, Inc.  Howard J.  Sewell  Connect Direct  Fred  Yee  ActiveConversion  John  Doerr  Wellesly Hills Group  Mack  Manning  PST Sales and Marketing  Frank  van Veenendaal  salesforce.com  Michael A.  Brown  Business to Business by Phone  Eric   Edwards  Rubicon Marketing Group  Bob  Fernekees  CRM Magazine  Susan  Friedmann  The Trade Show Coach  Laura  McGuire  SmartTracks, Inc.  Patty  Azzarello   Azzarello Group  Gil  Cargill  Cargill Consulting Group  Bob  Felsenthal  Crain Communications  James  Cecil  Nurture Institute  James  Lenskold  Lenskold Group  Bill  Rice  Kaleidico  Dick  Damrow  Contract Marketing Resources  Tom  Judge  Direct Marketing Partners  Rick  Kean  Business Marketing Institute  Tom  Quinn  Mailing and Fulfillment Services Organization

Read the full post at Cobin Ball’s site:   #4  Audience response technology gets cheaper and more diversified.