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In This Issue
How Nielsen-Sessions Used Web Self-Service to Grow, Expand Markets and Profit
W.M. Berg Shortens Sales Cycles by Simplifying Product Selection From 1,000's of Choices
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is as Easy as   1-2-3
New Customer: Astrodyne Launches Interactive eCatalog; New Partner: Catalog Data Solutions (CDS)
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i-MARK Insights is a bi-monthly eNewsletter keeping industrial manufacturers informed on B2B eBusiness trends in eMarketing, eCommerce and sales automation.

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Greetings!
 
Let's focus on momentum. We're already into Q2 2008 and now is prime time to build sales momentum from new and repeat business.  Take a look at this month's customer features. In today's marketplace, complex-engineered components and assemblies are highly sought after, compared and purchased via the web. Nielsen-Sessions and W.M. Berg proved they can overcome commodity pricing, increase orders and enter new markets by offering robust web self-service capabilities to their customers.
 

The common thread within all of our manufacturing customers is how i-MARK has enabled them to increase market share and strengthen customer loyalty. We also promised them that our services would simultaneously reduce sales and marketing expense and improve their ROI. In this issue, learn how we helped them do just that. We look forward to speaking with you to discuss how i-MARK can help your business grow profitably and delight your customers for less cost and measurable ROI.

 
Del Merenda
 
President & CEO
i-MARK, Inc.
 
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Customer Success:
 
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How Interactive Web Self-Service Enabled Nielsen-Sessions' to Reach into New Markets; Increasing Sales Revenues and Profitability 
 

Nielsen-Sessions is a manufacturer and designer of handles, catches, latches and other hardware. Nielsen had been very focused on their standard product lines which were experiencing flat sales and declining market share. In order to achieve growth, Nielsen planned to aggressively pursue the custom solutions market and also more effectively promote their standard lines.

 

Nielsen chose i-MARK to address the following objectives: to help enhance standard product information delivery and streamline sales; and to help facilitate custom solutions orders to meet their growth objectives. Learn about how an intuitive online product discovery and purchase capability helped Nielsen attract large customers looking for custom solutions, extended their sales channel worldwide and had a direct impact on their sales figures reaching double digit annual growth.  Read Full Story.

 

View Nielsen's Live eCatalog

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Solution Snapshot:
 
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W.M. Berg - Shortening Sales Cycles and Reducing Operations Costs For Their Broad-and-Deep Mechanical Components' Lines
 

W.M. Berg is a leading international provider of miniature precision mechanical components, part of Rexnord Industries. Now a two-year i-MARK customer, W.M. Berg continues to share their positive customer feedback since implementing i-MARK's 24/7 BUSINESS™ interactive eCatalog application. The application enables a wide range of web self-service capability to help B2B specifiers and buyers best engage with vendors of interest.

 

Berg had literally tens of thousands of components with corresponding technical data residing in countless product families. Without the right tool, sorting though their information is overwhelming and unproductive for time constrained specifiers and buyers. W.M. Berg's goal was to make it easy for customers to do business with them and to decrease the incidence of potential prospects turning to competitor web sites to find what they need.

 

Since implementing i-MARK's 24/7 BUSINESS™ web self-service application, Berg has seen a marked increase in customer satisfaction, repeat web site visitors and ultimately repeat business.  Engineers and buyers now have an efficient and effective way to quickly find what they want and get back to work.  Berg's customer service team also became more productive as the number of low value repetitive and incidental calls was greatly reduced due to web self-service capability. This has significantly impacted Berg's operating costs and sales volume over the last two years.

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Industry Highlights:
 

SaaS is as Easy as 1-2-3, A-B-C.


Small and midsize companies are slowly but surely turning their heads -- and business -- to software-as-a-service (SaaS).

 

 Full Story

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Spotlight: 

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Astrodyne, Leading Manufacturer and Designer of Power Supplies, Chooses i-MARK to Provide Interactive eCatalog -  View Astrodyne's Live eCatalogPress Release.

 
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i-MARK and Catalog Data Solutions Announce Partnership to Integrate CAD Download Solution into i-MARK's 24/7 BUSINESS™ Web Self-Service Software Platform - Press Release.
 

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Coming May 15th! - Look for an Announcement of 24/7 BUSINESS™ Software Release 5.0. New features, New pricing options - you choose.
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