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Deal Radar
Deal Radar 2010: LeadForce1 California, Michigan
Through its marketing automation 2.0 approach, LeadForce1 aims to provide the missing link between Web analytics and customer relationship management (CRM systems), thus enabling B2B sales and marketing teams to uncover previously hidden leads, new prospect opportunities, and critical business intelligence within existing accounts. LeadForce1’s SaaS product deploys a patent-pending intent determination algorithm that spots sales opportunities among website visitors and moves those opportunities through successive stages in the sales pipeline. >>>
Deal Radar 2010: HyperQuality ,Seattle, Washington
When you make a customer service call and hear, “This call may be recorded for quality assurance,” that may be HyperQuality. The company listens to customer service calls and digs for patterns, trends, red flags, and important business intelligence that can affect company performance. It also specializes in working with clients who have outsourced to determine whether the decision has hurt or helped sales and retention, and to improve service if necessary. >>>
Deal Radar 2010: Preparis ,Atlanta, Georgia
On September 11, 2001, Armistead Whitney was an executive in midtown Manhattan. As news of the attack on the World Trade Center broke, he was quickly inundated attempting to locate and assure the safety of his more than 200 employees. Cell towers were overwhelmed, news sources were offering conflicting information, and there was no guidance from the government. Whitney determined that a new way was needed to prepare companies to secure employees in a changing world. >>>
Deal Radar 2010: EthicsPoint,Oswego, Oregon
EthicsPoint helps clients to mitigate and manage compliance and organizational risk. The company offers integrated telephone and Web-based reporting hotlines and case management services that clients can use to identify, report, investigate, and resolve issues and events that may not be in line with their codes of conduct or governance policies. >>>
Deal Radar 2010: InHouse Inc ,Santa Ana, California
Among the allegations of misdeeds and unfair practices in the mortgage industry during and after the housing market implosion was New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s 2007 lawsuit of appraisal firm First American eAppraiseIT for collusion with Washington Mutual (WaMu). Cuomo claimed that First American eAppraiseIT allowed WaMu to pressure it to use appraisers who inflated home prices by giving artificially high appraisals. In 2009, to bring more transparency to the appraisal process, Fannie Mae reached an agreement with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the New York Attorney General’s office to adopt the Home Valuation Code of Conduct (HVCC) regulating relationships between lenders and appraisers. Another measure, the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Mortgagee Letter 09-28 Appraiser Independence (ML 09-28), stresses the importance of lenders, mortgage brokers, and real estate agents remaining independent of the appraisal process. >>>
Deal Radar 2010: WaterFilters.NET, Minneapolis, Minnesota
It’s safe to assume that for decades, many Americans did not give much thought to safe drinking water. Access to clean water was a given in a wealthy, developed country. But the nation’s water treatment systems often fail to adhere to provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act, according to the New York Times’s Toxic Waters series. People are growing increasingly concerned about the water they use for drinking and washing and are turning to filter systems as they lose trust in municipal water supplies. WaterFilters.NET is one company that has benefited both from this trend and the move toward Web 3.0. WaterFilters.NET makes it easy to research, find, and purchase all types of water filters. The company provides a broad selection of of water filter types (reverse osmosis, water softeners, refrigerator filters, undersink water filters, shower filters, commercial water filters, and so forth) and sells all major water filter brands. >>>
Deal Radar 2010: Krawler
Krawler delivers Deskera, an on-demand enterprise application suite that is designed to offer a full suite of products – customer relationship management (CRM), project management, accounting, human resource management system (HRMS), learning management system; and leave and absence management – on the same platform at a low monthly price suitable for small and medium businesses. >>>
Deal Radar 2010: CampusBookRentals.com, Utah
CampusBookRentals.com (CBR), which describes itself as being like Netflix for textbooks, rents textbooks to college students for prices that can be more than 50% off the purchase price. The company is an early entrant in the burgeoning market of textbook rental, where students pay to keep books for a certain period of time. >>>