Customers

Who Uses ShareMethods?
If you are a VP of Sales or Marketing, manage partners or resellers, or responsible for IT, you have a lot to gain from these advanced, yet easy to use communication and collaboration tools. Small, medium, and large companies worldwide can implement ShareMethods in two ways:

• Standalone Product: For use as a self-contained document management solution for sales, marketing or partner portal support.
• Integrated with Salesforce.com: For companies that use hosted CRM provider salesforce.com.

Who Sees The Benefits?
Whatever your role in the process, you will see tremendous value from ShareMethods.

Sales Teams

• Sales people use the latest marketing material to support sales activities
• Sales materials are always available and will not get lost in a deluge of emails
• The CRM integration powers a direct linkage to sales activities
• Sales people have access to marketing information, such as product roadmap info, competitive analysis, sourcing and supply, advertising and promotions, etc.
• Sales teams can provide critical competitor, customer, and market feedback to marketers in order to improve products and services delivered to customers
• Sales portal can improve information access to increase revenues and close deals
• Sales teams can create sales quotes, proposals, and contracts on-demand
• Anywhere, anytime access for sales teams at the office or on the road

• Faster and more efficient distribution of marketing materials to the sales force and partners with a "marketing portal"
• Simplified process of getting feedback from sales or partners back to marketing
• Allows marketers to know which marketing materials are most effective
• Incorporates feature requests in new product development
• Incorporates additional value or unexpected benefits in collateral
• Provides information on the competition's strengths and weaknesses
• Identifies market trends and potential opportunities
• Ensure sales teams have the latest collateral (spec sheets, price lists, etc.)
• Marketing and sales materials reuse reduces cost and speeds time to market
• Communications between marketing and sales increases revenue and close rates

Partners and Resellers

• Partner portal or extranet that provides the latest sales and marketing material to support sales activities of partners and resellers
• Manage and distribute product or service information to a broad array of partners, so partners only see information that is relevant to them
• Partners can provide critical competitor, customer, and market feedback to marketers in order to improve products and services delivered to customers
• A central location for new partners to submit information required by a partner program
• Improved information access can increase revenues and closed deals

IT

• No additional infrastructure to implement and support sales and marketing or users outside the firewall
• Provides a "sales and marketing portal" out-of-the-box with secure access
• Robust security architecture based on state-of-the-art SAS 70 Type II data centers
• Lower cost than competitive solutions or extranets and less work required
• All administration via a simple HTML interface; no customization required
• Provides powerful CRM integration capabilities
• Based on open industry standards to support integration