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New custom CRM software for trucking industry helps optimize business development and customer relationship efforts


PITTSBURGH, PA & BURLINGTON, MA - July 13, 2010 - Landslide Technologies, Inc. and ThoughtDrivers today announced their partnership to introduce customized, web-based sales CRM software to the Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) and Truckload (TL) industries.

Less-than-truckload and truckload carriers have unique needs. Fleet performance excels when management teams successfully blend people, information, processes and equipment into a design that accelerates business development and operating leverage. By partnering together, ThoughtDrivers and Landslide Technologies bring a powerful and much needed sales tool to the industry, allowing trucking companies to effectively manage and optimize their business development and customer relationship efforts.

Sam Liberto, ThoughtDrivers' chief executive and innovation development leader is passionate about leveraging the power of technology to meet the needs of today's highly competitive trucking industry. "No one in our industry does what we can do across such a wide range of the operational spectrum," said Liberto. "By partnering with Landslide CRM, we are now even better positioned to deliver game-changing enhancements to customers' business performance."

"We focus on helping TL and LTL fleets to leveraging business intelligence to help their entire organization work better together," added Dave Ward, partner, Motor Carrier Solutions at ThoughtDrivers. "Adding Landslide CRM to our toolbox helps us to enhance our unique quality-assessment tools, helping our clients to determine what they need in order to excel."

"Dave, Sam and the rest of the ThoughtDrivers team have a very clear vision on how to help LTL and LT carriers improve sales," added Rick Faulk, president and chief executive officer of Landslide Technologies. "Landslide's unique capabilities enable their vision to become a reality by providing a CRM that ensures sales professionals will benefit daily from the carrier's best practices. There is a direct alignment for what carriers need and how ThoughtDrivers and Landslide can help them."

Together, ThoughtDrivers' extensive industry expertise integrated with Landslide CRM's unique capability and value offer the industry the first sales CRM that actually helps sales professionals to consistently close more deals and improve overall business development.

About ThoughtDrivers
ThoughtDrivers delivers proven solutions to commercial trucking fleets that yield positive results and drive competitive advantage. Working together with senior management teams, ThoughtDrivers gains a deeper understanding of their business' current conditions and then works with them to design and implement improved capabilities in support of stronger results.

ThoughtDrivers' capabilities include strategic visioning and planning, holistic business development system assessment, designs and implementations, operating efficiency and customer profitability improvement systems, company viability assessments for leaders, investors, and boards of directors. To learn more, visit www.thoughtdrivers.com.

About Landslide Technologies, Inc.
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 www.landslide.com.

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