Landslide CRM chosen as Top CRM Solution

Next-generation software beats out major industry competitors

Burlington, MA & Pittsburgh, PA - December 17, 2010 - Landslide CRM has been named the Top CRM Solution by Top Sales Awards at the recent online awards event held on Dec. 16. The inaugural awards ceremony, hosted by Jonathan Farrington and Gerhard Gschwandtner, recognized the best industry experts, sales tools, and companies in the sales industry.

"Top Sales Awards recognizes that the growing segment of small to medium sized businesses are actively looking for the same powerful tools as used by their larger competitors, but that they need to be simple, powerful, and deliver results," said Rick Faulk, CEO of Landslide Technologies. "These new technologies give today's salespeople the powerful edge they need to succeed. We're honored to have our work recognized in this context."

The winners of each category were judged equally using an online public poll hosted by Top Sales Awards and a separate panel of three industry experts in each category.

Dan Waldschmidt, CEO of IntroMojo and one of the expert judges in the category said he based his criteria on six components: Being "sales-centric", the ability to make accurate predictions, ease of use, having a mobile solution, having a "wow" factor, and having the ability to accurately predict future revenues.

"I think [Landslide CRM] is one of the next generation sales tools," Waldschmidt said.

"If you were to say which is the most successful CRM solution in the world, we know it's Salesforce.com," said Jonathan Farrington, one of the hosts to the Top Sales Awards ceremony. "But this isn't necessarily about the most used — it's not even about the most popular — it's about what users think, the usability and what our judges think," Farrington emphasized.

The Top Sales Awards event showcases sales excellence in 11 separate categories in the sales industry including sales tools, software solutions, books, articles, and blogs.

In addition, several industry thought leaders — and contributors to EyesOnSales.com, a sales advice blog owned and operated by Landslide — received awards in other categories:

Sales author Paul McCord won 1^st place for Top Sales Article and 3^rd place for Top Sales Blog
Jill Konrath won 1^st place for Top Sales Personality, 2^nd place for both Top Sales Book and Top Sales Blog
Art Sobczak won 1^st place for Top Sales Book
Contributors Keith Rosen, Bill Brooks, Linda Richardson and Tony Alessandra were also chosen for Top Sales Awards' Top Sales Hall of Fame, a list also announced at the ceremony

About Landslide Technologies
Landslide Technologies is the provider of Landslide CRM, the next generation in customer relationship management solutions. Landslide incorporates a process-driven approach that allows sales professionals not simply to track sales, but actually close business faster and more effectively.

Landslide CRM is the first system to combine sales process consistency with sales performance technology and live, personal assistant services to transform individual performers into a world-class team of consistent producers. To learn more visit landslide.com.