Category Archives: Business: Executives

News for Business Executives, current, trending, fresh , Press Releases about whats currently happening in the Business Place for executives.

Major Tom moves two top executives to Toronto to facilitate 400% planned growth


Major Tom's Mitchell Fawcett and Lauren Pybus sitting with a whiskey in hand.

Mitchell Fawcett, VP of Operations, East and Lauren Pybus, VP Business Development

Lauren Pybus and Mitchell Fawcett, key parts of Major Tom’s senior leadership team, are tasked with a mandate to quadruple revenue by 2022, and double the team to fill out the agency’s new 35-person space in the Fashion District. With Eastern seaboard-based clients like Orkin Canada, Facebook IQ, Maison Birks, and NYU, Major Tom has a solid foothold in the East on which to build further client growth.

Their move is the next stage of Major Tom’s expansion plan, the first part of which was an intensive, boots-on-the-ground strategic planning by Co-Founder, Chris Breikss.

“As an agency, we place a large focus on understanding and valuing both strategy and tactics,” said Major Tom President, Miles Sellyn. “While we apply that methodology to our clients’ challenges, we also think about our own growth through that lens. Chris spent his time in Toronto determining a clear strategy for what we need to hit our goals in the East. A central pillar of that strategy is to have sales and operations leadership on the ground there, so we’ve moved Lauren and Mitchell, two of our best people in those areas, to expedite the process.”

Lauren Pybus, Partner & VP Business Development

With more than 12 years of experience as a part of the Major Tom team, Lauren has driven strategic partnerships and growth for the agency in Vancouver and New York over the course of her career. With a keen eye for previously unseen opportunities and an unshakeable commitment to forging strong client relationships, Lauren has been an integral part of successful engagements with some of Major Tom’s most well-known brands such as Holt Renfrew and Westbank

“When you need something ramped up, you task Lauren with it – she’s the rocket fuel in our spaceship,” said Sellyn.

“I work closely with our clients to identify areas of collaboration, drive innovation, and unlock shared value,” said Pybus. “We’ve been able to gain a ton of traction so far, and I’m looking forward to seeing what we can do when I’m able to spend some time with our clients in person, get into their offices, and really understand what makes them tick.”

Mitchell Fawcett, VP Operations, East

Mitchell joined the agency in 2017 after Major Tom acquired his boutique social media agency. After laying the foundation for the agency’s growth in that service area, he transitioned into a Client Services role, where he quickly transformed the processes related to service delivery and client engagement while delivering strategic work for clients like the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Colliers International.

“My focus is to continue to evolve the way in which we think about and deliver projects,” said Fawcett. “More and more, we’re seeing our clients come to us with challenges that are completely unique, and require agility and flexibility from our full-service team. I want to make sure that Major Tom has the best people and processes in place to thrive in those types of conceptual projects.”

About Major Tom

Major Tom is the next iteration of digital marketing — a full-service agency that’s been purpose-built to help organizations thrive in an increasingly complex landscape. With offices in New York, Toronto, and Vancouver, Major Tom has a team of 70 specialists covering the full spectrum of strategy, marketing, development, and creative.

Share article on social media or email:

Increased Demand On Unified Communications Infrastructure Stresses Under COVID-19


TeleMate.Net Software’s unified communication and collaboration analytics products and services provide critical insight helping organizations successfully execute plans to protect their employees and combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As government travel advisories are being updated regularly, many organizations have chosen to limit or in some cases ban employee travel for the foreseeable future. Furthermore, organizations are rapidly developing and implementing strict policies that encourage employees to work from home in the event they or a family member are feeling ill.

Efforts to continue productive business interactions while limiting activities that can contribute to the pandemic spread, have led to an exponential increase in the use of video conferencing and other real-time virtual meeting solutions that reside in the unified communications & collaborations portfolio. Major unified communications manufactures like Cisco System, Microsoft and Zoom respectively are offering their WebEx, Teams and Video collaboration tools at no charge to help during these unprecedented times.

Organizations are scrambling to ensure that they are prepared to meet the increased demand for their chosen unified communications and collaboration services. Prior to the current pandemic, many organizations introduced these unified communications and collaboration services to a fraction of their overall workforce. This essentially means that critical elements like concurrent user licensing, capacity and bandwidth availability have all been fine-tuned to normal business as usual adoption. Today each of those critical elements, which points to overall user experience, must be monitored and recalibrated to accommodate the COVID-19 pandemic driven increases.

As organizations rapidly shift from face to face in person interactions to virtual methods, the quality of that virtual experience will play a large role in the overall quality of interaction which can directly impact business outcomes. This heavier than normal burden on IT resources means that IT has to find ways to be proactive in an effort to reduce the negative impact of poor service quality and speed time to remedy so that users have the level of reliability required to execute in this new environment.

TeleMate.Net Software’s Predictive UC Analytics and Agile Monitoring platform is giving organizations the needed edge required to successfully enable the flood of new users with the communication tools to navigate this fluid environment. Functions like executive dashboards to help C-levels prioritize business value with environmental changes and proactive trouble shooting that enables IT to manage quality of experience.

“During a crisis, real-time information makes all the difference” said Steve Tabaska, TeleMate’s CEO. “At this time, uninterrupted collaboration between organizations is important and more specifically, uninterrupted collaboration between pharmaceutical companies, medical facilities and government agencies is paramount to eradicating the COVID-19 virus.”

ABOUT TELEMATE:

The leader in unified communications & collaboration analytics and service monitoring for organizations with large populations of knowledge workers who depend on the availability and quality of communications, collaboration and meeting platforms to positively impact business outcome.

To learn more about TeleMate.Net, visit us at http://www.TeleMate.Net, or contact us at info@TeleMate.Net, or call us at 1-855-790-3369.

Share article on social media or email:

Churchill Stateside Group Promotes Origination Officer to Senior Vice President and, National Director of Originations and Acquisitions.


News Image

“We are extremely pleased to announce this promotion. Since coming to work for Churchill, Dan has performed at a very high level with every task and responsibility directed his way.”

Churchill Stateside Group, LLC (CSG), a real estate and renewable energy financial services company, is pleased to announce the inter-company promotion of origination team member to Senior Vice President and, National Director of Originations and Acquisitions.

Daniel Duda – Senior Vice President, National Director of Originations and Acquisitions: Dan, based in Clearwater, FL, has been promoted as our Senior Vice President and, National Director of Originations and Acquisitions. Dan is responsible for overseeing debt and equity origination for both affordable and market rate properties across the United States. With Dan’s promotion, he now becomes part of CSG’s senior management team responsible for making contributions to the growth and success of the company.

Throughout his career at CSG excelling at previous roles, Dan has been responsible for originating loan and equity transactions totaling more than $500M. Dan sits on the Board of the Council for Affordable and Rural Housing (CARH) and is a frequent speaker at many industry events across the country.

“We are extremely pleased to announce this promotion. Since coming to work for Churchill, Dan has performed at a very high level with every task and responsibility directed his way,” said Keith Gloeckl, CEO of Churchill Stateside Group. “As head of production for the Southeast region, he excelled and I trust taking on the new responsibility as National Director he will continue to achieve in a stellar fashion and provide great service to all of those that he works with. Congratulations Dan.”

About Churchill Stateside Group

Churchill Stateside Group and its wholly owned affiliates (CSG) serve the affordable housing and renewable energy industries. CSG sponsors tax credit equity investment funds for institutional investors and provides a variety of construction, permanent, and bond financing solutions. With over $1 Billion of assets under management, CSG has long-standing and successful investment relationships with numerous corporate investors and pension funds. The company’s investor and developer clients benefit from our experienced staff, prominent and proactive senior leadership, and attractive debt and equity platforms. The company, through its subsidiary Churchill Mortgage Investment LLC, is an approved USDA Rural Development and HUD/FHA MAP and LEAN lender and Ginnie Mae Issuer.

For more information, please visit http://www.CSGfirst.com.

Share article on social media or email:

Teooh Virtual Events To Launch Free Service Through Month Of April As A Response To The Coronavirus (COVID-19)


The Future of Events in Virtual Reality

Socialize and network with avatar attendees just like in real life

“With our Virtual Reality technology, you can be at an event, without actually having to be at the event. Watch a speaker, raise your hand to ask a question, chit chat with the person sitting next to you, or introduce yourself to a colleague at a virtual cocktail party.”

Teooh, Inc., a global virtual events technology platform, is launching after two years in development and, as a response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19), will make its platform free to use through the end of April.

“Businesses are canceling travel… conferences are getting postponed… the world is now discovering that it’s more than convenience driving the rapid adoption of remote events,” stated Don Stein, founder and CEO of Teooh Virtual Events.

Teooh is a place where communities can come together inside a comfortable, virtual reality-like digital venue from anywhere in the world. The Teooh Virtual Events platform differs from other remote conferencing in that it uses the principles of virtual reality to allow for actual group interaction, something missing in the “view only” webcasting experience of today.

“Everyone in webcasting has taken a ‘view only’ approach… really a one-to-many approach. But that’s not the way we interact at a real event… at a real event, I’m whispering to the person next to me… or I’m scanning the crowd to see who’s there and then I try to move closer to someone so I can talk to them… that kind of thing can ONLY happen in a many-to-many approach… and Teooh is the only company that can do that because we use virtual reality.”

“With our technology, you can be at an event, without actually having to be at the event,” added Stein. “Watch a speaker, raise your hand to ask a question, chit chat with the person sitting next to you, or introduce yourself to a colleague at a virtual cocktail party. Things you do in real life you can do in a Teooh virtual event, too.”

A variety of industry luminaries have already hosted Teooh virtual events, including noted venture capitalist Tim Draper and super analyst Gene Munster. StartupGrind, which boasts two million members, is also currently hosting Teooh Virtual Events for founders from their community as well.

For more information about using the Teooh Virtual Events platform for free through April, please visit http://www.Teooh.com.

About Teooh Virtual Events: Teooh, Inc. is a global, virtual events company, using scalable, virtual reality-like technology to create life-like remote events. Teooh is the next best thing to being there.

CONTACT:

Teooh, Inc.

Margaux Woelnner

+1 248-410-3005

Press@Teooh.com

Share article on social media or email:

Selling Power’s New Listing Recognizes the Power of AI Technology for Sales Teams


Selling Power is pleased to announce it has released its 2020 list of the Top AI Solutions for Sales. This is the second year Selling Power has produced and published this list.

The number of applications for AI in sales continues to grow and has powerful implications for improving sales growth, increasing sales performance, and empowering sales teams to become more efficient and effective at generating leads.

Business Leaders Have Faith in AI for Sales

A Boston Consulting Group and MIT Sloan Management Review study, Reshaping Business With Artificial Intelligence, showed the faith many B2B sales leaders have placed in sales technology powered by AI. Among those surveyed, 83% said AI is a strategic priority, 84% believe AI will offer a competitive advantage, and 75% say AI will allow them to grow into new markets.

Key Ways AI Sales Technology Helps B2B Sales Teams

Increase Leads

According to Harvard Business Review, companies using AI for sales were able to increase their leads by more than 50%, reduce call time by 60-70%, and realize cost reductions of 40-60%.

Save on Administrative Time

CSO Insights has found that up to 36% of a salesperson’s work week is spent in meetings and accomplishing administrative tasks. Gartner says AI, if deployed correctly, can automate almost half of the administrative tasks to which salespeople devote time each week.

Create More Accurate Sales Forecasts

The CSO Insights 2017 World-Class Sales Practices Study showed that the win rate of forecasted deals is 46.9% (less than half). And, according to Aberdeen Group, companies that have accurate sales forecasts are 10% more likely to grow their revenue year-over-year and 7% more likely to achieve their sales quotas. Sales technology tools enabled by AI help sales teams solve many of the conventional problems that typically lead to inaccurate sales forecasts.

Selling Power magazine founder and publisher Gerhard Gschwandtner says the explosion of AI tools for sales teams will be a game changer for B2B teams that are early to adopt.

“AI for sales has powerful potential to solve some of the most persistent challenges that have dogged B2B selling for years,” says Gschwandtner. “We created this list to help sales leaders identify the right tool to onboard so they can start creating highly efficient and much more competitive sales organizations.”

To see the solutions featured on the Selling Power Top AI Solutions for Sales in 2020, visit https://bit.ly/38sj69l.

About Selling Power

In addition to Selling Power, the leading digital magazine for sales managers and sales VPs since 1981, Personal Selling Power, Inc., produces the Sales Management Digest and Daily Boost of Positivity online newsletters (https://www.sellingpower.com/newsletters), as well as a series of five-minute videos featuring interviews with top executives. Selling Power is a regular media sponsor of the Sales 3.0 Conference (http://www.sales30conf.com), which is attended by more than 1,000 sales leaders each year.

About Gerhard Gschwandtner

Gerhard Gschwandtner is the founder and CEO of Selling Power, a multi-channel media company that produces the award-winning Selling Power magazine and Selling Power TV, a daily video interview series on sales success. He is the author of 17 books on the subjects of sales, management, and motivation and has been featured in more than 500 video interviews with sales and marketing leaders. Most recently, he has collaborated with world-renowned coaches and psychologists to create the Peak Performance Mindset workshop (http://www.mindsetscience.com) to help salespeople become high achievers personally and professionally.

Share article on social media or email:

Watch for Counterfeit Goods and Start Managing Risks Around Coronavirus


Daniel Stanton speaking at South Dakota Mines in 2019.

Any time that there are shortages of legitimate products in the marketplace, it creates an opportunity for counterfeiters.

The run on toilet paper, hand sanitizer and face masks at retail outlets around the nation is one example of the kind of supply chain disruption businesses need to prepare for as the coronavirus outbreak evolves.

The public fear around the coronavirus is coupled with the closing of factories and ports at major manufacturing centers around the world. The resulting supply chain disruptions have sent a shock wave through markets. All of this is leading to significant uncertainty for investors, managers and owners.

Daniel Stanton, author of the book Supply Chain Management For Dummies, is an entrepreneur in residence at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. He says it’s never too late to start managing risks.

“Right now, every manufacturer, distributor, retailer and logistics company should have a rapid response team in place that is monitoring the news and keeping track of their supply chain. These folks need to connect the dots quickly to identify how the coronavirus is evolving and respond in ways that minimize the impact to your supply chain,” he says.

Stanton says business owners and managers should strive to get one step ahead of the evolving situation.

“I think too many leaders are taking a ‘wait and see’ approach, instead of responding proactively. Yes, there are a lot of unanswered questions. But there are also a lot of things that we’re pretty sure about, such as how the disease is being spread. We also know it is going to get worse before it gets better,” says Stanton. “The good news is that most companies have a lot more inventory in their supply chains than they realize, and this acts as a shock absorber when there’s a short disruption. But the longer that the coronavirus outbreak goes, the more likely we are to start seeing shortages of all kinds of products. Small companies in particular are going to run into financial difficulties if their cashflow is disrupted for a long time.”

Stanton is the company president and cofounder of SecureMarking, Inc. His business provides a powerful new tool for manufacturers, distributors and their customers to combat the growing threat of counterfeit, black market and grey market products in global supply chains. The technology behind SecureMarking Inc. was developed at South Dakota Mines.

Stanton says the supply chain disruption opens the door for more counterfeit goods. This doesn’t just mean brand name items. It could also threaten important safety components inside the electronic goods we use every day.

“Any time that there are shortages of legitimate products in the marketplace, it creates an opportunity for counterfeiters,” says Stanton. “Companies become desperate to fill orders and may “relax” their procurement rules and quality standards. That creates the risk of contaminating the entire supply chain with fake and low-quality materials, which can do even more damage than the original disruption.”

For average consumers, this also means uncertainty. Stanton says the public often takes supply chains for granted.

“People don’t realize where the things we buy come from, and how many people are involved in the process,” says Stanton. “When there’s a disruption that prevents people from coming to work, sooner or later that gets felt by their customers — the folks downstream in the supply chain. But it also gets felt by their suppliers — the folks upstream in the supply chain. Because if your customer isn’t making and selling their own products, then they aren’t going to buy materials from you, either.”

Stanton, PMP, CSCP, SCPro, MCSE, MCP, MBA, M Eng, is a global executive with expertise in supply chain management and project leadership. He has worked with Caterpillar, the U.S. Navy, APICS (now ASCM), MHI and several smaller firms. He is an alumnus of South Dakota Mines and has also been a professor at Bradley University, Jack Welch Management Institute and National American University. Stanton is recognized as a LinkedIn Learning Insider, a “Pro to Know” for Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine and a Supply Chain Futurist for IBM Sterling Supply Chain.

Share article on social media or email:

SmartTouch® Interactive CEO, Robert Cowes Launches New Book, All Lines In


All Lines In

All Lines In Book Cover

It is truly a pleasure to share the important insights our organization has gained over more than 15 years working to help home builders and real estate developers optimize their sales and marketing programs.

SmartTouch® Interactive, an award-winning interactive real estate marketing agency, real estate marketing automation and lead nurturing CRM solution company today announced the SmartTouch® President and CEO, Robert Cowes III has published a new sales and marketing book, All Lines In: Find More Buyers, Sell More Homes for home builder and real estate developers. This book is Cowes’ second book following the publication of the co-authored, Million Dollar Mistakes in New Home Marketing in 2016.

All Lines In is a Sales and Marketing Strategy Playbook for residential new home builders and real estate developers. The book effectively maps out today’s digital home buyer journey, and how builders and developers can build a sales and marketing machine that generates sales and aligns with their ROI goals. Neatly tied together with a fun fishing metaphor, All Lines In is all about how to catch the big fish (homebuyer). As an expert fishing guide, Cowes demonstrates the most effective and innovative ways to help home builders and real estate developers find more buyers and sell more homes. The book explores the latest sales and marketing tactics, including hot topics like geofencing, SEO, video, CRM, and marketing automation. It provides step by step instructions on the why, when, and how home builders and real estate developers should leverage each. The insightful book has quickly become an industry must-read as showcased at the recent NAHB International Builders’ Show® in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“Robert Cowes is a foremost expert in developing sales and marketing strategies that yield results,” commented Erika Ramon, Director of Marketing, Crown Community Development. “I have worked with Robert and the SmartTouch Interactive team for more than six years. During which time, they have helped me successfully market more than 20 communities, driving more than 1,000 new homes sales with expertly integrated sales and marketing programs supported by their SmartTouch NexGen CRM and Marketing Automation platform. We have been beyond pleased with the results-driven team that Robert has assembled and the expertise they provide in helping us execute a plan to achieve our goals consistently.”

“It is truly a pleasure to share the important insights our organization has gained over more than 15 years working to help home builders and real estate developers optimize their sales and marketing programs,” added Cowes. “Homebuilder sales and marketing has dramatically changed in the last decade, and we’ve witnessed first-hand the benefit an All Lines In approach that leverages technology, all aspects of digital marketing, and traditional marketing has. Those that embrace this along with the knowledge that they are in the home selling business, not just the home building business, are seeing the real results.”

The book is available for purchase on Amazon.

About SmartTouch® Interactive

SmartTouch® Interactive is the only marketing agency focused on real estate to offer: proven marketing and lead generation programs; a superior lead nurturing CRM and Marketing Automation platform, SmartTouch® NexGen; and a cutting-edge homebuyer geofencing solution, SmartTouch® Geo, all driven by an award-winning team of innovative marketing professionals. http://www.smarttouchinteractive.com

Share article on social media or email:

Turtle & Hughes Welcomes Beverly Jennings to its Board of Directors


Beverly Jennings, Member, Board of Directors, Turtle & Hughes

Bev Jennings’ passion for the community, talent in collaborative leadership, and expertise in diversity, supply chain and procurement, will all combine to enhance our board as we set our course for the next 100 years.– Turtle & Hughes Chairman and Co-CEO Jayne Millard

Visionary, strategist and retired senior Johnson & Johnson supplier diversity and inclusion executive Beverly Jennings has joined the Turtle & Hughes Board of Directors. Over a 30-year career at the pharmaceutical giant, Jennings focused on driving growth to benefit inclusion-focused and diversity-forward enterprises. Turtle & Hughes is a diversity business; the addition of Jennings brings parity to its Board of Directors.

“As a fourth-generation, woman-owned business, we are thrilled to welcome Bev to our Board,” said Jayne Millard, Chairman and Co-CEO. “Her passion for the community, talent in collaborative leadership, and expertise in diversity, supply chain and procurement, will all combine to enhance our board as we set our course for the next 100 years.”

Millard continued, “Bev has been a friend and partner for a more than a decade. She knows our organization inside out and brings the strength of a first-rate career at the world’s largest and most respected healthcare company. Her resume is rich with experience and she is highly sought-after by many corporate boards. We are grateful for her commitment and service.”

Jennings spent most of her career at Johnson & Johnson. She retired in 2019 as Head of Global Supplier Diversity & Inclusion, a position she held for seven years. During that time, she led delivery of results of over $1.7 billion with diverse suppliers and near $3 billion with small businesses annually, achieving benchmark levels of performance.

Jennings also served as a key contributor to Johnson & Johnson’s selection as the first healthcare company to become a member of the elite Billion Dollar Roundtable. Established in 2001, the non-profit is comprised of companies committed to spending $1 billion or more annually with Tier 1 diversity suppliers.

She was also instrumental in Johnson & Johnson being recognized as a Top Corporation by the Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE); National Minority Supplier Development Council recognition for Supplier Development, Innovation, and Global Programs; and a DiversityInc Top Company for Supplier Diversity. She also co-chaired Johnson & Johnson’s African American Leadership Council National Employee Resource Group with 35 chapters and 1500 members. Previously, Jennings served as Johnson & Johnson Vice President, Worldwide Process Excellence, Consumer Group, after holding several procurement and supply chain roles.

A seasoned member of several corporate boards, Jennings is currently Vice Chair and Executive Committee member of the Board of Directors of the Billion Dollar Roundtable. The executive committee is charged with strategic planning and oversight of governance, policy, and execution of priority initiatives for its member corporations. She personally leads the Triad Initiative, the Capital Connector for Growth Committee, which connects corporations, diversity businesses and capital providers. Jennings previously served as a board member to the Healthcare Supplier Diversity Alliance, the Women Presidents’ Education Organization (WPEO), Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), Community First Credit Union, and the Girl Scouts of Gateway Council.

She has been recognized with several awards, including Johnson & Johnson’s Top 25 People of the Year. In addition, she was awarded Diverse Manufacturing Supply Chain Alliance (DMSCA) Legacy Award, named to the WBE Hall of Fame, and was a 2018 Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneur (LWE) in New Jersey. She also received the WBENC Applause Award, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Masked Award, and was a Gateway Girl Scouts Woman of Distinction.

A resident of Jacksonville, Florida, her education includes a BS degree in Management from the University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL; an MBA in Industrial Management from the University of Dallas, Irving, TX; she is a Certified Master Business Coach from Fowler School of Business, San Diego, CA; and completed Life Mastery from Anthony Robbins.

About Turtle & Hughes

Turtle & Hughes has close to 100 years of market experience and ranks among the top 20 electrical distribution companies nationwide. It is an independent, woman-owned business that services the industrial, construction, commercial, electrical contracting, export and utility markets. Turtle & Hughes Integrated Supply division (THIS), services Fortune 100 companies operating nationwide, and in Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico.

https://www.turtle.com/

For further information, please contact Julie Wyckoff, julie@turtle.com 203.520.8711

Share article on social media or email:

Nexus Launches an Enhanced Online Supplier Platform


Nexus, a leader in procure-to-pay software for the real estate industry, has launched an enhanced online supplier platform, NexusConnect, making it easier for fully vetted suppliers to transact electronically and securely with their connected buyers.

Using the NexusConnect platform, suppliers can submit invoices to Nexus customers, manage insurance documentation and purchase orders, as well as track their payments from buyers who use NexusPayments – all with just a few clicks.

Buyers, meanwhile, gain peace of mind knowing that suppliers are fully vetted – and are who they say they are – before they are allowed to connect and transact through the platform.

“We built the enhanced NexusConnect platform with feedback from both our buyers and suppliers, keeping everything they liked, while improving overall usability and increasing security and vetting,” said Jennifer Coolidge, President and Chief Innovation Officer at Nexus. “More features and functionality are coming shortly, too.”

Unlike other industries, real estate companies often receive thousands of invoices each month. They also do business with anywhere from 2,500 to 28,000 suppliers, ranging in size from one-person landscaping firms to Fortune 500 companies, according to Nexus data. For this reason, the NexusConnect platform was upgraded to include multiple security enhancements, including automatic identity verification checks.

NexusConnect automatically validates a supplier’s company name, TIN, address, and contact information before they are allowed to connect with buyers and send them invoices. Should a supplier’s information not match up, a warning message pops up on the screen.

Suppliers’ information is also automatically checked against the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list to verify that suppliers aren’t on a terrorist watch list.

“Thanks to 20 years of focusing on the real-estate space, we understand exactly what real-estate buyers and suppliers need to transact easily,” Coolidge said. “In fact, we have built an extensive and intelligent database that matches real-estate related suppliers with buyers. With this artificial intelligence and connectivity, we’ll be able to offer even more types of frictionless transactions.”

NexusConnect is integrated with NexusPayables, a highly configurable software application that allows buyers to purchase goods and services from approved suppliers, view the budgeted amounts for those selected purchases, convert their purchase orders to invoices, and then submit the invoices for approvals and payment – all electronically.

The platform also enables NexusPayments, an automated payment solution wherein Nexus pays suppliers using virtual cards, ACH, or checks.

Nexus’s Chief Product & Technology Officer, Julio Palacio, remarked “we not only wanted a secure platform with an intuitive and clean interface, we also wanted it to leverage the best and most scalable technology stack available.” NexusConnect is built on AWS and Kubernetes, the foundational technology in Nexus’s Cloud-Native Architecture. It has built-in health checks, retry, circuit-breakers, and auto-scaling capabilities that improve system resilience. It also utilizes AWS availability zones, auto-scaling groups, and load balancer to strengthen availability and recoverability. Lastly, the platform’s Microservices application architecture allows different teams to work on different parts of the system concurrently without affecting one another, allowing Nexus’s systems to evolve in lock step with business growth.

About Nexus

With Nexus Procure-to-Pay software, real estate companies can manage every aspect of the accounts payable process – from purchase through payments – with just a few clicks. The web-based platform automates manual AP tasks and provides complete visibility into suppliers, budgets, and spend. No more paper, wasted time, nor guesswork. Nexus makes it easy to maintain and expand the supplier relationships at the heart of the real estate business. Visit http://www.Nexussystems.com.

Share article on social media or email:

Tech PR Agency ARPR Adds Senior Demand Gen Director to Support Expanding Client Roster


News Image

Cowles brings two decades of deep digital marketing experience to ARPR, representing clients like Comcast and UnitedHealthcare during his tenure with global agencies Digitas and Ogilvy.

ARPR, an award-winning tech PR agency at the epicenter of the future of PR, today announced the rapid growth of its digital marketing portfolio, highlighted by more than 55% of its clients now using inbound marketing and lead generation service offerings. To continue guiding client success and portfolio growth, Ben Cowles was hired to serve as the agency’s first senior demand generation director.

In 2016, ARPR became the first tech PR firm to integrate demand generation into its core capabilities. Since then, the agency has successfully planned, implemented and monitored numerous inbound marketing, marketing automation and digital advertising initiatives that have resulted in above-average conversions and triggered sales. This success has lead to an expanding client base in the first quarter of 2020, including:

  • geothinQ is a pioneer of cloud-based geographic land mapping and data visualization. ARPR first supported geothinQ in 2017 with messaging and website development. Now that the brand has expanded nationwide, it has partnered with ARPR again to drive leads via search, social and display ads and SEO.
  • Existing client Rimidi, the leading cloud-based software provider for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, heart failure, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and obesity, expanded its relationship with ARPR at the beginning of 2020 to include inbound marketing and digital ads.
  • Current clients Dematic, an intralogistics innovator powering the future of commerce, and Quickbase, the leading provider in low-code application development, both also recently enlisted ARPR to drive their social media strategies.

These four software companies, among others, chose ARPR for its understanding of the inbound marketing landscape and the agency’s Panorama Approach, which tightly integrates traditional public relations, social media, content marketing and lead generation to drive measurable results.

“Tech companies are demanding tighter alignment between PR, marketing and sales, and our growth proves that ARPR has a unique advantage in meeting this need and measuring success,” said Renee Spurlin, ARPR’s senior vice president of digital marketing and analytics. “Adding Ben to the team helps us fuel that advantage even further.”

Cowles brings two decades of deep digital marketing experience to ARPR, representing clients like Comcast and UnitedHealthcare during his tenure with global agencies Digitas and Ogilvy. His work with Comcast included the launch of Xfinity Mobile, where he led customer acquisition direct marketing and collaborated with client teams in every major region. He has a passion for strategic storytelling, email marketing and coaching his kids’ soccer teams.

“As the media landscape keeps evolving, it’s crucial to deliver relevant content to audiences when they’re ready to engage. ARPR delivers on its commitment to drive client success through multi-channel storytelling and I’m excited to add my lead gen expertise,” said Cowles.

To learn more about ARPR’s Panorama Approach, visit arpr.com.

About ARPR

ARPR is an award-winning tech PR agency at the epicenter of the future of PR. Headquartered in Atlanta, ARPR helps its clients’ reputations thrive and their sales pipelines prosper through highly-integrated marketing strategies that push the limits of what a public relations firm can achieve. Since 2012, ARPR has twice been named Small Agency of the Year, dubbed a Best Place to Work six times, was honored as the 2016 Technology Agency of the Year and the 2018 Agency that Gets Results. For more information on ARPR clients and services, visit http://www.arpr.com and follow @AR_ _PR on Twitter and Instagram.

Share article on social media or email: