SalesCrunch Poised to Disrupt Online Meeting Space With 70% Price Drop

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 14, 2012 -- New pricing makes powerful meeting platform more cost-effective for customers

NEW YORK (February 14, 2012) – SalesCrunch, a Silicon Alley technology firm helping clients “apply science to the art of selling,” has announced a significant price reduction for access to its next-generation, online meeting platform, CrunchConnect.

CrunchConnect revolutionizes conventional online meeting solutions with a simple yet powerful platform that is optimized for sales, measuring every aspect of the presentation: how long participants are paying attention versus emailing or browsing the web; amount of time salespeople are talking versus listening to clients; how much money meetings cost an organization each month. The platform goes so far as to track who opens the presenter’s follow-up deck, who they forward it to and even how much time recipients spend reading each page, down to the second.

As discussed in his blog post, CEO Sean Black believes SalesCrunch is well positioned to disrupt the online meetings market and explains the rationale behind the new pricing strategy. “We were humbled by how positively the market received our platform. We clearly hit a nerve and were solving a big problem. We were surprised when companies started telling us they wanted every employee to have their own personal online meeting room, not just their sales team. They wanted pricing that could scale to hundreds and thousands of users and $59 per person per month just wasn’t cutting it,” Black said.

CrunchConnect enables presenters to quickly initiate a meeting without requiring clients to download any software – unlike competing solutions. Each CrunchConnect customer receives their own complimentary and unique meeting room URL, e.g. crunchconnect.com/brad-pitt, which they share with participants.

While access to CrunchConnect for online meetings between two participants (presenter and attendee) remains free-of-charge, monthly rates for premium accounts have been slashed by up to 70 percent. Clients requiring more participants will appreciate monthly rates as low as $9/month, a whopping 80 percent less than Citrix Systems’ GoToMeeting. Further, neither GoToMeeting nor Cisco’s WebEx offer any of the tracking and measurement or Salesforce.com integration offered by CrunchConnect.

“We never intended to get into the online meeting market,” Black added. “Creating the CrunchConnect platform was the only way we could think of to measure each component of the sales presentation. An online meetings solution that outperforms the 800-pound gorillas, WebEx and GoToMeeting, was simply a byproduct.”

About SalesCrunch

Backed by Accel Partners, First Round Capital, Nextview Ventures and AOL Ventures, SalesCrunch is a Social Selling Platform that takes selling from a fuzzy art to a repeatable process by capturing, measuring, training and tracking sales across a company and its customers. The company’s smart and social presentation and training solutions, CrunchConnect, CrunchTrainer and SalesSchool, make selling transparent and empower organizations to collaboratively meet the demands of a new generation of buyers to power profits. For more information, visit www.salescrunch.com.

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