CRM Idol Finals - Vote Now!

Wow, these six months flew by fast. Paul Greenberg, widely recognized as Godfather of CRM launched his ambitious project, CRM Idol in April. Companies with revenues under $12M were allowed to enter, and the contents has proven very popular, the 40 Americas and 20 EMEA slots filled up fast. Paul estimates the total value of donated awards around a million dollars, but perhaps the real award for all contestants, not just winners is the extra exposure they have gained in the process.

Contestant were given clear guidelines and offered hands-on mentoring, after which they presented live (via GoToMeeting) to the Primary Judges, who found competition so intense, they decided to include another round for the semi-finalists: 12 companies from the Americas and 6 from EMEA.

Finally, the Magnificient Seven (Finalists) are here: 4 from the Americas and 3 from EMEA – each region will have one winner, selected by public vote and a Panel of Extended Judges. I feel extremely privileged and humbled to be among such an illustrious list of Analysts, Media, and Industry Executives. The Judges will determine 50% of the votes – the other 50% is the public vote – that is YOU. With that, I hand over to Paul, who introduces the Finalist videos below:

The Voting

I’ve posted all seven videos here. Please review them. Spend time with each. Then if you care to go further go to the links that I’ve posted underneath each of the videos and take a look at the supporting materials on the CRM Idol website. If you don’t want to do that, no problem. Then vote. The voting form has a link at the bottom of the page. Just simply pick your Americas and EMEA winner. There are some additional questions we’re asking to get a bit of profile of who is voting though the responses will remain anonymous. NP for not answering the additional questions. But PLEASE vote. You truly have the chance to impact a company’s future.