Entries for September 2007

 Customer Connect Associates has hired Matt Wittemann as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Consultant.  Matt holds 3 CRM certifications from Microsoft and has been designated by Microsoft as an MVP with their Customer Relationship Management solution.  He is one of only a very few Microsoft MVPs who focuses on CRM.  Matt maintains a CRM blog visited by over 30,000 people per year, which can be found at www.dynamics-crm.com.

Wittemann comes to Customer Connect from gTECHserv, where he founded and led the company’s Microsoft CRM consultancy service.  Previous to gTECHserv, Wittemann worked at J.A. Jones and as a freelance writer.  He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte in 2000. 

Founded in 2000, Customer Connect Associates helps companies get customers faster and keep them longer by using their unique LUCK™ process for creating more profitable relationships. Clients include Travelocity, SAS, LandAmerica, AMF, BB&T, MedImpact, Jacobsen, AAA, Cardinal Health, Covelight Systems, Realty One and Huber Engineered Woods.  For more information, please visit www.customer-connect.com

CORNELIUS – Geoff Ables, President of Customer Connect Associates (www.customer-connect.com), will be a featured speaker at the National Center for Database Marketing (NCDM) annual conference in Las Vegas.  Along with Edward Cullen of Hewlett-Packard and Larry Tilson of Morehead Associates, Ables will present “Accelerating Performance Through Integrated B2B Sales and Marketing”on the first day of the three-day conference.

The 2007 NCDM annual conference will take place December 10-12, 2007 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino.  Ables’ session will take place from 1:45 pm – 4:30 pm on Monday, December 10.  For more information, please contact Michelle Gort, Events Coordinator for NCDM, at mgort@the-dma.org.

About the Speaker:  Geoff Ables has been the featured guest speaker at numerous national conferences and regional and local meetings  including the Direct Marketing Association Annual Conference and Exhibition, the world’s largest gathering of Direct and Interactive Marketers, American Marketing Association, National Center for Database Marketing Conference & Exhibition,  APICS – The Educational Society for Resource Management, the North Carolina Public Relations Society Annual Conference, Carolina Professional Saleswomen and Entrepreneurs, Direct Marketing to Business Conference and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation Emerging Trends Conference.

Founded in 2000, Customer Connect Associates helps companies get customers faster and keep them longer by using their unique LUCK™ process for creating more profitable relationships. Clients include Travelocity, SAS, LandAmerica, AMF, BB&T, MedImpact, Jacobsen, AAA, Cardinal Health, Covelight Systems, Realty One and Huber Engineered Woods.  For more information, please visit www.customer-connect.com

NCDM) annual conference in Las Vegas.