UPDATE: Your March Madness 'Elevator Pitch' final 4 are:
Congratulations to the 4 finalists. Now it's all up to the judges. Stay tuned as we will announce the 1st through 4th place standings next week. Thanks to all who participated and made this contest such a success.
Welcome to the 3rd Round of the Elevator Pitch Contest Final 16! In this round, the victors from Rounds 1 & 2 go head-to-head.
This will be the last round of reader voting. You will decide the final 4.
You can see the brackets here. So let's get to it. Please vote for the pitches that you think are most effective.
Round 3: Match 1
Roger Llamas of Central Desktop
Central Desktop delivers a Web Based Collaboration software (Saas) for progressive business teams to interact, share and manage their daily work activities from anywhere at any time. It's also been designed to serve as a Company Intranet and Project Management tool as well.
Caroline Margozzi of Market2Lead
Market2Lead helps marketers at BtoB companies to increase revenue while decreasing the sales cycle by: * automating relevant marketing messages & campaigns to a targeted audience * scoring leads according to your business rules * routing 'sales ready' leads to sales in real-time * assess results and effectiveness improving future sales & marketing performance.
Cast your vote in Match 1
Round 3: Match 2
Jonathan Morse of Tripleseat Software
Tripleseat helps restaurants capture and book more private dining business. We connect Restaurants private dining space to the Internet with Tripleseat's Booking Maitre' D. This powerful connection enables restaurants to take real-time booking inquires from their own website 24/7 and close business faster. Now restaurants can book more business in less time with automated web private dining inquires.
Dan Harding of ConnectAndSell
If you are a B2B sales rep and have experienced the frustration of trying to get to a decision maker on the phone. Now there is a solution for you. It's a technology that can help get the right people on the phone time and time again. In fact you can speak with as many prospects in one hour on the ConnectAndSell service as you would in an entire day of manual dialing. The system is simple to deploy, integrates with most CRM tools, and provides a strong ROI that your organization will benefit from on day one of using the service.
Cast your vote in Match 2
Round 3: Match 3
Sean Gildea of PTC
PTC specializes in product development and can enable your business to develop products 50% faster, collaborate 90% more effectively, and increase time-to-market by 75%.
Dominic Serafini of Brafton Custom News
Brafton Custom News helps companies increase their visibility online by publishing unique content to their websites, purpose-built to be relevant, engaging for their target audiences, and then helping to drive those visitors to online revenue streams. Brafton helps websites stay fresh & updated, with interesting news content that is found nowhere else online, so it is incredibly attractive to search engines & online visitors alike.
Cast your vote in Match 3
Round 3: Match 4
Lon Orenstein of pinpointtools
GetLoaded will move ALL of your ACT! data into Microsoft Dynamics CRM with the least cost, the fewest clicks, and the least hassles of any process available.
Phil Bernstein of Clear Channel Radio & Online
I'm in the attention-rental business. If you want to deliver your sales message to thousands of prospects at once, I can help you rent their attention -- 30 or 60 seconds at a time.
Polling with remain open for 48 hours. Please feel free to share your thoughts on the entries in the comments.
