Washington, D.C. — December 27, 2007 -

• SalesBlade Inc., an independent sales technology company, was launched today to provide new, automated call prospecting solutions for sales organizations and sales professionals.

  SalesBlade’s patented processes and technologies were built upon 10 years of research and successful real-world field-testing - incorporating Lean and Six Sigma principles into the sales process for quality management reporting and continuous call metric improvements.

• Developed by sales professionals for sales professionals, SalesBlade solutions help increase sales call volume -consistently achieving a 70% contact success rate.

Today’s Challenging B2B Sales Environment

Enterprise selling is extremely difficult. Today, B2B sales evaluation committees are larger than ever. In some cases the sales cycle for complex products has extended from 18-to-48 months. In addition, consider the following:

• 100 calls – this is what it takes the average sales professional to set up just one appointment
• 85% of sales calls go directly into voicemail
• 80% of a sales persons’ time is spent in meetings, between meetings or in route to meetings.

How To Win the Complex Sale

To win in this tough sales environment, professionals need a rigorous, disciplined approach to call prospecting and lead generation follow-up, utilizing advanced automated processes and integrated technologies. They also need to have a multi-touch contact strategy to help uncover pains and initiatives as prospects move into the evaluation mode.

New Selling Solutions for Sales Professionals

SalesBlade’s new automated call prospecting solutions helps sales professionals to:

• Connect with more new prospects faster
• Stay connected with current clients more frequently
• Drive more quantitative next steps 

For Sales Management

SalesBlade’s solutions help sales management:

• Optimize lead generation programs
• Increase sales effectiveness with Lean Six Sigma sales principles by providing rules-based correlation of real-time data, measured against engineered prospecting data for sales prospecting productivity gains
• Attain real-time, sales prospecting call results for monitoring and actionable intervention

Software as a Service 

SalesBlade’s solutions are offered in a SaaS (software as a service) pricing model. No additional software or hardware is needed to use SalesBlade solutions.

For more information, view the two-minute SalesBlade demo.

About SalesBlade

SalesBlade helps sales organizations connect faster and stay connected longer with patented processes and technologies. Developed by sales professionals for sales professionals, SalesBlade solutions incorporate Lean and Six Sigma principles into the sales process for quality management reporting and continuous call metric improvements. For the past 10 years, SalesBlade processes have proven successful for industry leaders, including EDS, CAP GEMINI, CSC, Cincom and Accenture.