Customer relationship management (CRM) consulting firm Customer Connect Associates (www.customer-connect.com), has been selected by the Stevie Awards as a finalist in its “Selling Power Sales Excellence Awards” in the category of Demand Generation Program of the Year.  Customer Connect is being recognized for the Microsoft “Deminar” it held in April of this year, at which it showcased several new Microsoft products, including Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. 

“This is a tremendous honor,” says Customer Connect President Geoff Ables.  “Being a finalist means that a panel of judges has deemed our Deminar worthy of international recognition.”

The Sales Excellence Awards are jointly presented by Selling Power magazine, the leading sales management publication with 145,000 subscribers in 67 countries, and The Stevie® Awards, which have been hailed as “the business world’s own Oscars” by the New York Post (April 27, 2005).  Winners will be announced during a gala banquet on Thursday, December 6 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.  Nominated sales executives from around the world are expected to attend.  

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.  Customer Connect Associates is a Microsoft Certified partner and a member of the 2007 Program Advisory Committee for the National Center For Database Marketing Conference.  For more information, please visit www.customer-connect.com